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- Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies.Peter K.Moran &Geoffrey Samuel -1995 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 115 (3):506.
- The transparency of intention.Sarah K. Paul -2015 -Philosophical Studies 172 (6):1529-1548.The attitude of intention is not usually the primary focus in philosophical work on self-knowledge. A recent exception is the so-called “Transparency” theory of self-knowledge, which attempts to explain how we know our own minds by appeal to reflection on non-mental facts. Transparency theories are attractive in light of their relative psychological economy compared to views that must posit a dedicated mechanism of ‘inner sense’. However, it is argued here, focusing on proposals by RichardMoran and Alex Byrne, that (...) the Transparency approach to explaining knowledge of our intentions fails. Considerations of economy therefore recommend an alternative approach: the Rylean Theory Theory. The particular view defended here is that one way of coming to know what we intend is to self-ascribe an intention on the basis of making a conscious decision about what to do. This view requires that there are such things as conscious decisions, and so the existence of conscious decisions is defended against skeptical worries raised byPeter Carruthers. The conclusion is that we know of our intentions by theorizing about ourselves, but that this knowledge can still be first-personally privileged, authoritative, and non-alienated. (shrink)
- Identity, Consciousness, and Value.Peter K. Unger -1990 - New York: Oxford University Press.The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion,Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from (...) his discussion of our identity itself, Unger produces a novel but commonsensical theory of the relations between identity and some of our deepest concerns. In a conservative but flexible spirit, he explores the implications of his theory for questions of value and of the good life. (shrink)
- Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism.Peter K. Unger -1975 - Oxford [Eng.]: Oxford University Press.In these challenging pages, Unger argues for the extreme skeptical view that, not only can nothing ever be known, but no one can ever have any reason at all for anything. A consequence of this is that we cannot ever have any emotions about anything: no one can ever be happy or sad about anything. Finally, in this reduction to absurdity of virtually all our supposed thought, he argues that no one can ever believe, or even say, that anything is (...) the case. (shrink)
- I do not exist.Peter K. Unger -1979 - In A. J. Ayer & Graham Macdonald,Perception and identity: essays presented to A. J. Ayer, with his replies. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
- Living high and letting die: our illusion of innocence.Peter K. Unger -1996 - New York: Oxford University Press.By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. What is the (...) source of this lenient assessment? In this contentious new book, one of our leading philosophers argues that our intuitions about ethical cases are generated not by basic moral values, but by certain distracting psychological dispositions that all too often prevent us from reacting in accord with our commitments. Through a detailed look at how these tendencies operate, Unger shows that, on the good morality that we already accept, the fatally unhelpful behavior is monstrously wrong. By uncovering the eminently sensible ethics that we've already embraced fully, and by confronting us with empirical facts and with easily followed instructions for lessening serious suffering appropriately and effectively, Unger's book points the way to a compassionate new moral philosophy. (shrink)
- Neuroscience, learning and the return to behaviorism.Peter K. Machamer -2009 - In John Bickle,The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 166--178.
- An Interpretation of Hsi Kʿang's Eighteen Poems Presented to Hsi Hsi on His Entry into the Army.Peter Rushton,Hsi Kʿang &Hsi Kang -1979 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 99 (2):175.No categories
- Philosophical relativity.Peter K. Unger -1984 - New York: Oxford University Press.In this short but meaty book,Peter Unger questions the objective answers that have been given to central problems in philosophy. As Unger hypothesizes, many of these problems are unanswerable, including the problems of knowledge and scepticism, the problems of free will, and problems of causation and explanation. In each case, he argues, we arrive at one answer only relative to an assumption about the meaning of key terms, terms like "know" and like "cause," even while we arrive at (...) an opposite answer relative to quite different assumptions, but equally arbitrary assumptions, about what the key terms mean. (shrink)
- All the power in the world.Peter K. Unger -2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.This bold and original work of philosophy presents an exciting new picture of concrete reality.Peter Unger provocatively breaks with what he terms the conservatism of present-day philosophy, and returns to central themes from Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Russell. Wiping the slate clean, Unger works, from the ground up, to formulate a new metaphysic capable of accommodating our distinctly human perspective. He proposes a world with inherently powerful particulars of two basic sorts: one mental but not physical, the (...) other physical but not mental. Whether of one sort or the other, each individual possesses powers for determining his or her own course, as well as powers for interaction with other individuals. It is only a purely mental particular--an immaterial soul, like yourself--that is ever fit for real choosing, or for conscious experiencing. Rigorously reasoning that the only satisfactory metaphysic is one that situates the physical alongside the non-physical, Unger carefully explains the genesis of, and continual interaction of, the two sides of our deeply dualistic world. Written in an accessible and entertaining style, while advancing philosophical scholarship, All the Power in the World takes readers on a philosophical journey into the nature of reality. In this riveting intellectual adventure, Unger reveals the need for an entirely novel approach to the nature of physical reality--and shows how this approach can lead to wholly unexpected possibilities, including disembodied human existence for billions of years. All the Power in the World returns philosophy to its most ambitious roots in its fearless attempt to answer profoundly difficult human questions about ourselves and our world. (shrink)
- Thirteen Loose Sheets of Varying Size: On Part II of Bemerkungen über Frazer’s “The Golden Bough”.Peter K. Westergaard -2016 - In Aidan Seery, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt & Lars Albinus,Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer: The Text and the Matter. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 291-310.
- (1 other version)Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre's Early Philosophy.Peter K. McInerney -1998 -Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 58 (4):983-986.No categories
- Motion and Time, Space and Matter.Peter K. Machamer &Robert G. Turnbull (eds.) -1976 - Ohio State University Press.
- Studies in Perception.Peter K. Machamer &Robert G. Turnbull -1979 -Philosophy of Science 46 (4):657-659.
- Semiotics and Contextualized Knowledge.Peter K. Storkerson -2010 -Semiotics:110-120.No categories
- Psa 1986 Proceedings of the 1986 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.Peter K. Fine &Peter Machamer -1986No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - To see or not to see (again): Dealbreakers and dealmakers in relation to social inclusion.Peter K. Jonason,Kaitlyn P. White,Abigail H. Lowder &Laith Al-Shawaf -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.In this study, we replicated what is known about the relative importance of dealbreakers and dealmakers in romantic and sexual relationships and extended it to an examination of self-reports of mate value, self-esteem, and loneliness. In two experiments we manipulated the information people were told about potential partners and asked them about their intentions to have sex again with or go on a second date with opposite sex targets. People were less interested in partners after learning dealbreakers, effects which operated (...) more strongly in the long-term than short-term context, but similarly in men and women. People who reported less self-esteem or more loneliness were more receptive to people with dealbreakers. People who thought they had more mate value, more self-esteem, or less loneliness were more receptive to dealmakers. Results are discussed using sociometer, prospect, and sexual strategies theories. (shrink)
- Dispositional Fear and Political Attitudes.Peter K. Hatemi &Rose McDermott -2020 -Human Nature 31 (4):387-405.Previous work proposes that dispositional fear exists predominantly among political conservatives, generating the appearance that fears align strictly along party lines. This view obscures evolutionary dynamics because fear evolved to protect against myriad threats, not merely those in the political realm. We suggest prior work in this area has been biased by selection on the dependent variable, resulting from an examination of exclusively politically oriented fears that privilege conservative values. Because the adaptation regulating fear should be based upon both universal (...) and ancestral-specific selection pressures combined with developmental and individual differences, the elicitation of it should prove variable across the ideological continuum dependent upon specific combinations of fear and value domains. In a sample of ~ 1,600 Australians assessed with a subset of the Fear Survey Schedule II, we find fears not infused with political content are differentially influential across the political spectrum. Specifically, those who are more fearful of sharp objects, graveyards, and urinating in public are more socially conservative and less supportive of gay rights. Those who are more fearful of death are more supportive of gay rights. Those who are more fearful of suffocating and swimming alone are more concerned about emissions controls and immigration, while those who are more fearful of thunderstorms are also more anti-immigration. Contrary to existing research, both liberals and conservatives are more fearful of different circumstances, and the role of dispositional fears are attitude-specific. (shrink)No categories
- Theorie normativer Vernunft bei Karl Marx.Peter K. Schneider -1976 - München: Raith.
- Worlds and times: NS and the master argument.Peter K. Schotch &Gillman Payette -2011 -Synthese 181 (2):295-315.In the fourteenth century, Duns Scotus suggested that the proper analysis of modality required not just moments of time but also “moments of nature”. In making this suggestion, he broke with an influential view first presented by Diodorus in the early Hellenistic period, and might even be said to have been the inventor of “possible worlds”. In this essay we take Scotus’ suggestion seriously devising first a double-index logic and then introducing the temporal order. Finally, using the temporal order, we (...) define a modal order. This allows us to present modal logic without the usual interpretive questions arising concerning the relation called variously ‘accessibility’, ‘alternativeness’, and, ‘relative possibility.’ The system in which this analysis is done is one of those which have come to be called a hybrid logic. (shrink)
- Knowing causes: Descartes on the world of matter.Peter K. Machamer,James E. McGuire &Justin Sytsma -2005 -Philosophica 76 (2).In this essay, we discuss how Descartes arrives at his mature view of material causation. Descartes position changes over time in some very radical ways. The last section spells out his final position as to how causation works in the world of material objects. When considering Descartes causal theories, it is useful to distinguish between vertical and horizontal causation. The vertical perspective addresses Gods relation to creation. God is essential being, and every being other than God depends upon God in (...) order to exist and to continue in existence.Thus, from the vertical perspective, the act of creating and fact of coming into existence are co-extensive notions. This metaphysical/theological framework is the basis of Descartes commitment to three interrelated notions: that genuine causes and effects occur simultaneously; that causing is appropriately the case only when the cause is acting; and the view that God is the efficient, total, and continuous cause of everything that exists and every action that occurs. So from the vertical perspective, things are nothing without Gods continuous creation, and there is a problem in articulating how they are said to have independent being and causal efficacy. It is in terms of these commitments that Descartes views on horizontal, or material, causation must be approached. We will make apparent the radical extent to which his account of intra-worldly causation abandons his earlier and more traditional views about material causation. To this end we discuss Descartes journey to his mature position by emphasizing the growing epistemic limitations of his philosophy, which culminate in what we call his epistemic stance. (shrink)
- Review. Hygin. Fables. J-Y Boriaud [ed].Peter K. Marshall -1999 -The Classical Review 49 (2):410-412.
- Conceptions of persons and persons through time.Peter K. McInerney -2000 -American Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2):121-134.
- Persons and psychological systems.Peter K. McInerney -1998 -American Philosophical Quarterly 35 (2):179-193.
- Person-stages and unity of consciousness.Peter K. McInerney -1985 -American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3):197-209.
- The Nature of a Person-Stage.Peter K. McInerney -1991 -American Philosophical Quarterly 28 (3):227 - 235.
- The beautiful and the sublime in natural science.Peter K. Walhout -2009 -Zygon 44 (4):757-776.The various aesthetic phenomena found repeatedly in the scientific enterprise stem from the role of God as artist. If the Creator is an artist, how and why natural scientists study the divine art work can be understood using theological aesthetics and the philosophy of art. The aesthetic phenomena considered here are as follows. First, science reveals beauty and the sublime in natural phenomena. Second, science discovers beauty and the sublime in the theories that are developed to explain natural phenomena. Third, (...) the search for beauty often guides scientists in their work. Fourth, where beauty is perceived, feelings of the sublime often also follow upon further contemplation. This linkage of beauty in science with truth and the sublime runs counter to most aesthetic theory since Kant. Scholarship in theological aesthetics has recently argued that the modern and postmodern elevation of the sublime over beauty is merely a preference that reveals a bias against transcendence—against God. If doing and understanding science can show this sundering of the sublime from the beautiful to be in error, science also gives evidence of transcendence. (shrink)
- Preface.Peter K. McInerney -1999 -Philosophical Studies 95 (1-2):1-1.
- Arnold B. Come: Trendelenburg's Influence on Kierkegaard's Modal Categories (anmeldelse).Peter K. Westergaard -1993 -Kierkegaardiana 16:135-137.Export citation Bookmark
- Nietzsche and Cognitive Science.Peter K. Mcinerney -1997 -International Studies in Philosophy 29 (3):3-11.
- Caritas in Veritate.Peter K. A. Turkson -2012 -Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 15 (3):90-108.
- Die wissenschaftsbegründende Funktion der Transzendentalphilosophie.Peter K. Schneider -1965 - Freiburg,: K. Alber.
- Die Wissenschaftsbegründende Funktion der Transzendentalphilosophie.Peter K. Schneider -1965 -Les Etudes Philosophiques 22 (4):497-498.Export citation Bookmark
- Sartre.Peter K. Mclnerney -1981 -Philosophical Review 90 (4):610.
- Technology and the Kingdom: An Approach to Evangelism in a Hungry World.Peter K. Chow -1987 -Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 4 (2):16-20.No categories
- Science, Values, and Objectivity.Peter K. Machamer &Gereon Wolters (eds.) -2004 - University of Pittsburgh Press.Few people, if any, still argue that science in all its aspects is a value-free endeavor. At the very least, values affect decisions about the choice of research problems to investigate and the uses to which the results of research are applied. But what about the actual doing of science? -/- As Science, Values, and Objectivity reveals, the connections and interactions between values and science are quite complex. The essays in this volume identify the crucial values that play a role (...) in science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used for value identification, and elaborate the conditions for warranting certain values as necessary or central to the very activity of scientific research. -/- Recently, social constructivists have taken the presence of values within the scientific model to question the basis of objectivity. However, the contributors to <I>Science, Values, and Objectivity</I> recognize that such acknowledgment of the role of values does not negate the fact that objects exist in the world. Objects have the power to constrain our actions and thoughts, though the norms for these thoughts lie in the public, social world. -/- Values may be decried or defended, praised or blamed, but in a world that strives for a modicum of reason, values, too, must be reasoned. Critical assessment of the values that play a role in scientific research is as much a part of doing good science as interpreting data. (shrink)
- The Blackwell guide to the philosophy of science.Peter K. Machamer &Michael Silberstein (eds.) -2002 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.This volume presentsa definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of science.
- Sociology As a Strict Science.Peter K. Schneider -1981 -Idealistic Studies 11 (1):72-83.The idea that sociology has the status of a strict science—that is, that sociology, like mathematics, has at its disposal a well-founded, deductive system of propositions—is nowadays rejected even more by its pragmatic advocates than by its skeptical practitioners; it is refuted both by the arbitrary manipulation of sociology’s internally constitutive, theoretical interconnections at the hands of practical interests and technocratic utility, and by the resultant increasing relativization of its findings. However, as we shall see, the arbitrariness of the treatment (...) of sociology does not correspond with any arbitrariness in its object. On the contrary, with all empirical relativity a structural constancy persists in the agency constructing, comparing, and evaluating the experience of the everyday world, as well as scientific experience. This was precisely Kant’s discovery, that the conditions making possible our primary experience of objects must be, at the same time, the constitutive structure of the objects themselves, and also the framework for the scientifically systematic treatment of them, because otherwise there could be no knowledge in the sense of the structural identification of object, experience, and reflection. This Kantian principle guarantees, then, that sociology is indeed possible as a strict science; that is, it is completely possible as an integral, deductive aspect of theory, as long as we reconstruct, by means of axioms and postulates, the constitution of the object of theory out of the structure of our direct interpersonal experience. In this vein, Rene König, a pioneer in modern German social science, states. (shrink)
- Discipleship Dissonance: Toward a Theology of Imperfection Amidst the Pursuit of Holiness.Peter K. Nelson -2011 -Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 4 (1):63-92.No categories
- Emotions and Motivations.Peter K. McInerney -1979 -Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 1:43-50.
- Philosophical abstracts.Peter K. Mcinerney -1985 -American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (3).No categories
- Misrepresentation Conspires against Potential Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy.Peter K. Law -1995 -IRB: Ethics & Human Research 17 (2):4.
- Studies in Perception: Interrelations in the History of Philosophy and Science.Peter K. Machamer &Robert G. Turnbull -1978Wahrnehmung / Philosophie / Wissenschaft / Geschichte.
- On experience and the development of the understanding.Peter K. Unger -1966 -American Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1):48-56.
- Art and morality.Peter K. Machamer &George W. Roberts -1968 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 26 (4):515-519.
- Recent work on perception.Peter K. Machamer -1970 -American Philosophical Quarterly 7 (1):1-22.
- Semiotic Ethnographic Research.Peter K. Manning -1991 -American Journal of Semiotics 8 (1-2):27-45.No categories
- HarperCollins College Outline Introduction to Philosophy.Peter K. McInerney -1992 - Harper Collins.The HarperCollins College Outline series summarizes an area of study in a format that assures easy comprehension for students as well as the general reader. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY covers areas ranging from the Nature of God to Theories of Personal Identity Through Time to Feminism and Purposes of Government.No categories
- Preface.Peter K. McInerney -1991 -Philosophical Studies 61 (1-2):1-2.
- Med blæk eller blod! – Om at læse Nietzsche med Bataille.Peter K. Westergaard -2023 -Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 58 (1):31-45.No categories
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