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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Strawson"”.
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Con (y contra) Strawson: sobre la posibilidad de un mundo con actitudes reactivas y sin responsabilidad moral
… acción, a saber, aquella que desarrolla Peter F. Strawson en su célebre texto Libertad y Resentimiento. Intermedia porque, hasta cierto punto es una aceptación de mucho de lo que dice este reconocido filósofo (por ello el “con” del título) y, hasta cierto punto, es una crítica de su propuesta (de …
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Strawson's concept of a person and its implications for psychology
ln this work I Shall introduce Strawson concept of a person and elucidate its ontological and epistemological aspects, I shall then examine criticism of Strawson's work, and deal with Strawson general approach, the origins and development of his work and., finally the implications of his concept of …
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Problems for Introspection as a Basis for Reasoning about the Self
… our experience of selfhood. In particular, Galen Strawson views phenomenology as particularly useful for reasoning about the self. He expresses this in what he calls the Equivalence Thesis, which states that there are selves if and only if there is something that has properties attributed to the …
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… to license the particular logical inference (Strawson-Downward Entailment) that von Fintel argues is necessary for NPI licensing. However the target data this paper focuses on seem to present counterevidence to this prediction, as they exhibit NPI licensing by the superlative within what …
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
… can be found in the writings of Moore, Russell, Strawson, Sellars, McDowell and Brandom. One objective of this text is to explicate the manner in which these Analytic Philosophers either reject or borrow from German Idealism. </p><p> A second objective of this text is to answer the following …
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Core Conceptual Scheme: A Search for the Common Aspects of Human Thought
… to the question of concepts, the works of Peter Strawson are crucially important to any attempted understanding of the nature and structure of human thought. Building out from Strawson’s works, however, this thesis also argues that the current status quo focuses excessively on atomising questions …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… to the challenge to narrativity posed by Galen Strawson in “Against Narrativity,” where he claims that not everyone is Narrative by nature and that there is no reason to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking over time that is an inherent …
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Embodying Topeng: Gender, Training and Intercultural Encounters
This research centres on the Balinese performance tradition known as topeng which translates as Balinese masked dance-drama. In Bali this genre is performed traditionally in spaces reserved for religious ceremonies. The research questions the extent to which, and how, it may be possible for a …
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Ice core methane and carbon monoxide as tracers of the terrestrial biosphere since the pre-industrial
Ice core trace gas records have defined our understanding of carbon cycle feedbacks over the last 800,000 years. Yet, due to the slow process by which snow transforms into ice, few Antarctic ice core records have been able to capture highly resolved atmospheric information over the most recent …
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Rational Capacities and the Practice of Blame: A Skeptical Argument
… the main party line (often associated with P.F. Strawson), that blame is not a requirement for significant and meaningful interpersonal relationships, nor is it a necessary component of morality.
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A study of the conditions required for a stable interface between phases in two phase flow
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1957.
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Morality in the Meat Machine
… the excusing and exempting conditions in Strawsonian accounts of moral responsibility. More specifically, it notes some concerns for Strawsonian accounts with regards to exempting individuals on the basis of psychological abnormalities, namely that the excusing/exempting distinction is …
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Love, self-constitution, and practical necessity
… to a moral insult or offense. According to Peter Strawson and Stephen Darwall, second-personal moral reactive attitudes (such as resentment) always have third-personal analogues (such as indignation). In contrast, I argue that the type of hurt feelings associated with love is a second-personal …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of self-deception and explores the assessment of its consequences in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on …