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Essay on Human Reason: On the Principle of Identity and Difference

Author : Nikola Stojkoski
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622733797
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Essay on Human Reason: On the Principle of Identity and Difference written by Nikola Stojkoski and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of human reason is one of the thorniest of mysteries in philosophy. The reason appears in many specific forms within general areas such as cognition, thinking, experiencing beauty, and moral judgment. These forms are “perfectly” known in philosophy, yet an unknown pattern has been noticed which shows us that they are all a variation of the same theme: truth is an identity relation between the “thought” and “reality”; justice is an identity relation between the given and the deserved; beauty is an identity relation as rhyme is an identity relation between the final sounds of words; rhythm is an identity relation between time intervals; symmetry is an identity relation between two halves; proportion is an identity relation between two ratios; anaphora is an identity relation between the initial words. Particular things are identities in themselves and universals are identities between particulars. One idea associates another idea identical to it; an analogy is an identity between relations; induction is an identification between the known and unknown instances; and all the logic rests on the law of identity. What is common for all of them is the nature of reason itself.

Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512535
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis Skepticism and the Veil of Perception by : Michael Huemer

Download or read book Skepticism and the Veil of Perception written by Michael Huemer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In opposition to both skeptics and representationalists, Huemer (philosophy, U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents a theory of perceptual awareness, according to which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects and non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. He responds to the major arguments for skepticism, including the infinite regress argument, the problem of the criterion, the brain in the vat, and the impossibility of verification. c. Book News Inc.

Words and Images

Author : Christopher Gauker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199599467
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Words and Images written by Christopher Gauker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition occurs by means of mental imagery, without the help of concepts.

Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception

Author : Duane H. Davis
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459599
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception by : Duane H. Davis

Download or read book Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception written by Duane H. Davis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers and artists consider the relevance of Maurice Merleau-Pontys philosophy for understanding art and aesthetic experience. This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect. This widened scope offers important philosophical benefits, testing and providing evidence for the empirical applicability of Merleau-Pontys aesthetic writings. The central argument is that for Merleau-Ponty the account of perception is also an account of art and vice versa. In the philosophers writings, art and perception thus intertwine necessarily rather than contingently such that they can only be distinguished by abstraction. As a result, his account of perception and his account of art are organic, interdependent, and dynamic. The contributors examine various aspects of this intertwining across different artistic media, each ingeniously revealing an original perspective on this intertwining.

Action, Contemplation, and Happiness

Author : C. D. C. Reeve
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065476
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Action, Contemplation, and Happiness by : C. D. C. Reeve

Download or read book Action, Contemplation, and Happiness written by C. D. C. Reeve and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality. That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C. D. C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle's writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle's philosophy as a whole.

Why I Write

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Reasons for Realism

Author : Edward Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000734811
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reasons for Realism written by Edward Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative, controversial, often radical, and always profound. Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception, and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. This book, originally published in 1982, is a collection of the most important of Gibson’s essays on the psychology of perception. Drawing from the entire corpus of Gibson’s papers, the editors have selected over thirty works dealing with such diverse topics as ecological optics, event perception, pictorial representation, and the conceptual foundations of psychology. The editors’ goals in preparing the volume were twofold: first to provide easy access to Gibson’s most outstanding papers and talks, including some that were previously unpublished; and second, to provide an intellectual biography of Gibson by including essays from the different periods of his career.

The Primacy of Perception

Author : Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810101647
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Primacy of Perception by : Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Download or read book The Primacy of Perception written by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty published from 1947 to 1961.

Peirce on Perception and Reasoning

Author : Kathleen A. Hull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315444631
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Peirce on Perception and Reasoning written by Kathleen A. Hull and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, scholars examine the nature and significance of Peirce’s work on perception, iconicity, and diagrammatic thinking. Abjuring any strict dichotomy between presentational and representational mental activity, Peirce’s theories transform the Aristotelian, Humean, and Kantian paradigms that continue to hold sway today and forge a new path for understanding the centrality of visual thinking in science, education, art, and communication. This book is a key resource for scholars interested in Perice’s philosophy and its relation to contemporary issues in mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, semiotics, logic, visual thinking, and cognitive science.

Motivation and the Primacy of Perception

Author : Peter Antich
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821447246
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Motivation and the Primacy of Perception written by Peter Antich and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological notion of motivation advances a compelling alternative to the empiricist and rationalist assumptions that underpin modern epistemology. Arguing that knowledge is ultimately founded in perceptual experience, Peter Antich interprets and defends Merleau-Ponty’s thinking on motivation as the key to establishing a new form of epistemic grounding. Upending the classical dichotomy between reason and natural causality, justification and explanation, Antich shows how this epistemic ground enables Merleau-Ponty to offer a radically new account of knowledge and its relation to perception. In so doing, Antich demonstrates how and why Merleau-Ponty remains a vital resource for today’s epistemologists.

Origins of Objectivity

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199581401
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Origins of Objectivity written by Tyler Burge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Burge's study investigates the most primitive ways in which individuals represent the physical world. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, Burge outlines the constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, thus locating the origins of representational mind.

Species intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge

Author : Leen Spruit
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004247009
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Species intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge by : Leen Spruit

Download or read book Species intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge written by Leen Spruit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval discussions of mental representation were constrained in essential ways by Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of intelligible species. Aquinas' view of a formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge was not universally accepted. In particular, after his death, a long series of controversies developed about the necessity of intelligible species. (These were analyzed in the first volume of this study.) The first part of this book deals with Renaissance controversies, discussing Peripatetics, Neoplatonics, and a group of relatively independent authors. In the second part, developments of late Scholasticism, and the elimination of the intelligible species in modern non-Aristotelian philosophy are scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the possible roots of the seventeenth-century theories of ideas in traditional philosophy.

Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysicks, Ethicks, and Theology

Author : Asa Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysicks, Ethicks, and Theology written by Asa Burton and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perception

Author : Kim Harrington
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407130897
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Perception written by Kim Harrington and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For paranormal romance fans! Everybody knows about Clarity "Clare" Fern. She's the psychic girl in school, the one see hidden visions from the past. Only, Clare would rather not be a celebrity. Her gift is not a game to her. But then someone starts playing with her head and heart. Messages and gifts from a secret admirer crop up everywhere Clare turns. Could they be from Gabriel, the gorgeous boy who gets Clare's pulse racing? Or from Justin, Clare's hopeful ex-boyfriend who'd do anything to win her back? One thing is certain. Clare needs to solve this mystery, and soon. Because the messages are becoming sinister, and a girl in town has suddenly disappeared. Clare needs to see her way to the truth - before it's much too late.

The Perception of the Environment

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000504662
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Perception of the Environment written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers. This edition includes a new Preface by the author.

Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception

Author : Nadja El Kassar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311044562X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Theory of Epistemically Significant Perception written by Nadja El Kassar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does perceptual experience make us knowledgeable about the world? In this book Nadja El Kassar argues that an informed answer requires a novel theory of perception: perceptual experience involves conceptual capacities and consists in a relation between a perceiver and the world. Contemporary theories of perception disagree about the role of content and conceptual capacities in perceptual experience. In her analysis El Kassar scrutinizes the arguments of conceptualist and relationist theories, thereby exposing their limitations for explaining the epistemic role of perceptual experience. Against this background she develops her novel theory of epistemically significant perception. Her theory improves on current accounts by encompassing both the epistemic role of perceptual experiences and its perceptual character. Central claims of her theory receive additional support from work in vision science, making this book an original contribution to the philosophy of perception.