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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Analytic philosophy"”.
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… Of all the myriad formulations of idealism, Analytic Philosophers have consistently singled out German Idealism to either reject or misappropriate for its own ends. The most significant and provocative occurrences of this trend can be found in the writings of Moore, Russell, Strawson, …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
… Deleuze can offer valuable input to the three philosophy of mind debates: folk psychology, personal identity and free will. Prior to this I attempt to show that analytic philosophy in general might benefit from accepting ‘process’ philosophy as an already existing but neglected part of its rich …
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The Ontology of Mental Events: Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Categories of the Self and the Ontological Derivation of Qualia
… in particular, it seems that contemporary analytic philosophy of mind, such as the theories of Chalmers and Nagel, do not provide a sufficient framework within which to define a subjective, qualitative realm of experience and an objective, quantitative realm. Furthermore, there are …
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God and Time: A Neo-Bergsonian Perspective
The thesis uses key insights from the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) to propose a new model of God’s relation to time. Chapter 1 is an introduction to Bergson’s philosophy against the background of Russell’s “The Philosophy of Bergson.” It provides an exposition of two key themes from …
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Reconsidering The Theoretical/Practical Divide: The Philosophy Of Nishida Kitarō
Over the years professional philosophy has undergone a number of significant changes. One of these changes corresponds to an increased emphasis on objectivity among philosophers. In light of new discoveries in logic and science, contemporary analytic philosophy seeks to establish the most objective …
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Practical Identity and Meaninglessness
… in life is becoming increasingly popular in analytic philosophy, there is still a dearth of literature on the topic of meaninglessness. This is surprising, given that a better understanding of the nature of meaninglessness may help to illuminate features of meaningfulness previously …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… is subject to can be solved by invoking the philosophy of nature (and specifically, the idea of 'natural-history') which we can find in the thought of the Frankfurt School critical theorist Theodor Adorno. Adorno is, I argue, able to secure the appropriate connection between reason and …
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On What We Confront in Perceptual Experience: Old School Ontologies for New School Realists
… similar views, have a prominent role in early analytic philosophy. Though endorsement of these views has been systematically de-emphasized in historical work on the period, Ernst Mach, William James, and Bertrand Russell are among philosophers who endorse such views in their work. Their views …
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Perceptual Expectation
… and about the relationship between contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and the behavioral and brain sciences.</p>
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… science, scientific moral psychology, and analytic philosophy of mind. Contrary to proposals that seek a harmonious integration of "religion and science" this dissertation argues that contemporary bio-psychological sciences give one ample reason to be skeptical of many of the metaphysical …
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Partitioned listening: sonic methodology and the archive after 1947
… (feminist) oral history, political anthropology, analytic philosophy, fictive and testimonial outputs and assessments of colonial and archival knowledge production, my methodological framework – titled “partitioned listening” – is centred on the development of a creative audio research practice, …
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… of depiction-as-metaphor, which contributes to analytic philosophy as well as metaphor studies. In the fourth and fifth chapters, I argue that common nonpictorial drawing devices including speech balloons and motion lines operate as reifications of cognitive construal operations. Applications of …
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Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein on existence and negative existentials
… (1889–1951), three of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. As to Frege and Russell, I challenge the common historical narrative according to which they developed and defended what is usually called the second-order theory of existence. This theory says, in short, that existence is a …
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Social Construction and the Possibility of Emancipation
… social construction amounts to in contemporary analytic philosophy. Research on the social construction of social categories has done some work to delineate and clarify varieties of social constructionist projects, as well as varieties of social phenomena. However, little research has been done …
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Temporality, authorial intentions, and truth in video game fiction
… has been treated extensively in the field of philosophy of fiction, primarily in relation to literature and, to a certain extent, film, but video games have been far too neglected. Truth in game fiction has been discussed by game scholars, and one prevalent view is that fictional truth in …
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Il progetto e la sorpresa. Giuseppe Pontiggia critico e saggista tra metodo, verifica e retorica
… narratological tools, and— crucially—analytic philosophical scrutiny. Pontiggia’s essays and aphoristic pronouncements often present themselves as if their validity were self-evident; yet they routinely imply claims about truth, justification, and rational persuasion. The work …
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Patternhood, Correlation, and Generality: Foundations of a Peircean Theory of Patterns
… a general theory of patterns on the basis of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. The main questions with which this thesis is concerned are: what is the ontological status of patterns? In what does their reality consist in? Why does exhibiting patternhood seem to be a necessary condition for the …
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Purpose and Design in Organisms and Artifacts: The Search for a Unified Philosophical Theory of Function
… approaches to function theory in contemporary analytic philosophy are examined in turn: etiological, systemic effects, and contributions. In addition a novel properties approach is proposed. It is seen that while the etiological approach promises to preserve an account of strongly teleological …
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Racionalidade filosófica, racionalidade científica e os limites da tradição analítica: uma contribuição à teoria das tradições de pesquisa racional de Alasdair MacIntyre
… that resembles some canonical approaches in the philosophy of science, but in such a way as to avoid as much as possible the problems relating to the understanding of theoretic progress as the restrictions proper to relativist and perspectivist positions, so that it allows, on the one hand, a …
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A new model of illocutionary force
… the pre-eminence habitually granted to it by philosophy, really just one among several capacities and that, more generally, language endows its users with the tool to perform certain kinds of acts, called illocutionary acts or, later, speech acts . Speaking, Austin argued, was really a form of …
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