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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"empiricist"”.
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Art and imagination, a study in the philosophy of mind
My intention is to show that, starting from an empiricist philosophy of mind, it is possible to give a systematic account of aesthetic experience. I argue that empiricism involves a certain theory of meaning and truth; one problem is to show how this theory is compatible with the activity of …
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Rethinking cognitive style in psychology
… value pluralism theory. It argues that these (empiricist) accounts have been bedeviled by a tension between theoretical universalism and political critique, and have fostered the view that cognitive traits are stable, general, and pervasive properties of individual psychology. Chapter 2 focuses …
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Incommensurability and scientific progress : an essay concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories
… of the conceptual development of the Logical Empiricist and Popperian conceptions of scientific progress is presented. The major criticism made against them is that, contrary to fact, they require that successive scientific theories either contain or explicitly negate parts of each other.In …
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Constructive skepticism and the philosophy of science of Gassendi and Locke (Pierre Gassendi, John Locke)
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, empiricists such as Pierre Gassendi and John Locke accounted for the human capacity to know about the world by emphasizing sensory access to information. These philosophers entertained skepticist doubts concerning reasoned knowledge and concluded that sure …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… theoretical background for LMC by describing its empiricist and naturalistic motivations, its historical background, and its modern variants. I argue that modern versions of LMC are able to respond to the Quinean and Kripean challenges that faced the theory’s positivist predecessors. The middle …
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Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
… theoretical background for LMC by describing its empiricist and naturalistic motivations, its historical background, and its modern variants. I argue that modern versions of LMC are able to respond to the Quinean and Kripean challenges that faced the theory’s positivist predecessors. The middle …
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The materialist interpretation of John Millar's philosophical history: towards a critical appraisal
… sources, it is suggested that Millar applied an empiricist method to the principles of jurisprudence. Millar shared this method with Hume and Smith. Implicit within the method was the abstraction of an ideal observer or spectator. This abstraction was derived from the use of an empiricist method …
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A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics
… skeptics, many of whom identify with the logical empiricist tradition. Finally, I offer some suggestions as to how metaphysics as a discipline can progress by examining the methodology of metaphysics and arguing how empirical work can potentially move metaphysics forward.</p>
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A critique of aspects of Louis Althusser's epistemology as employed by Manuel Castells
… both as a theoretical basis for a critique of empiricist urban sociology, and in the establishment of a Marxist scientific alternative. To this end, Castells employed the Althusserian conception of the social totality, which was characterized by a complex structured unity of relatively …
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Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
… a suspicion stemming from Kant's critique of empiricist metaphysics and Husserl's critique of psychologism and objectivism. By contrast, I suggest that only with a robust theory of sensation can the integrity of the body and its relations be fully captured. I therefore develop--contra Kant and …
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Speech, Law and Civil Society: Liberal Thought Against Democratic Politics
… model of participatory democracy and an empiricist research program that takes the identification of democracy with representative institutions for granted. This project does not attempt to relitigate this dispute, but rather to widen its stakes. Political representation is only one facet …
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Mirroring God's world: a critique of John Hick's speculative theology
… in its own right and as exemplary of a dominant empiricist tendency in academic religious thought. This dissertation seeks to display that tendency by exploring the possibility of reading Rick's work as Christian theology. To this end it examines Rick's reflections on six themes: religion, …
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ESTUDOS VISANDO A SÍNTESE DE DIAMINAS DERIVADAS DE PINENOS COM POTENCIAIS ATIVIDADES NOS RECEPTORES NICOTÍNICOS DO SISTEMA NERVOSO CENTRAL
… was evaluated by molecular modeling in way half-empiricist AM1 method. The ketones 2a,b had been prepared from (+)-nopinone in a synthetic sequence starting the aldol condensation reaction with aldehydes 6 and 7, followed by a stereoselective reduction to the corresponding ketones 1a,b. Later …
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Developing a Philosophical Profile of the Individual for Complex Problem-Solving Through Agent-Based Modeling
… dimension considers whether an individual is an Empiricist or a Rationalist, the ontology dimension consists of the Substantive and Process predispositions, and the teleology dimension represents whether the individual is goal-oriented or not. By using these three dimensions, researchers may …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… dominated the relevant criticism. Informed by empiricist, associationist, and evolutionary theories of the mind, the portrayals of subject-formation in this study highlight the radical changes occurring in the human environment in nineteenth-century, which catalyzed the conception of a …
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Empiricism versus apriorism in macroeconomic research : is the current research paradigm of economics inherently incapable of predicting recessions
… tendancy to over-aggregate is inherent in the empiricist methodology that currently enjoys a near-exclusive monopoly in the discipline. An alternative methodology, the causal-realist approach of the Austrian school of economic will then be outlined. This methodology allows for a more in-depth …
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Voluntarism, values and community : an intersubjective reading of Bas C. van Fraassen's The empirical stance
… say, I recognise and commit to the values of the empiricist community. In turn, this community recognises my commitment and acknowledges me as an empiricist, as an adherent of the empirical stance. In Brandom's model, then, we find an account of stance choice as a community matter rather than …
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The Concept of Learning and Education
… science, accounts of learning inspired by the empiricist ways of thinking have become the accepted thing. Charles Taylor (The Explanation of Behaviour, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964: p. 143) has noted that stimulus - response (S - R) theory can be construed as "a mechanistic …
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Princeton Theory's Problematics
… situated itself as both a logical positivist or empiricist discourse, wherein musical experience plays a foundational role, and a formalist, conceptual, discourse, complicating the claim that Princeton Theorists were unconcerned with music hearing as such. Because musical experience seems to be …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
… promulgation of a British-derived rationalist-empiricist worldview among Indian élites led to the rise of the novel, accompanied by élite scorn for the romance as an unpalatably fantastic and frivolous genre. This view was developed by the great twentieth-century romance critics into a …
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