Sentences with phrase «epistemological theories»

The issue of the structure of experience is often discussed as a choice between two epistemological theories: «realism» (in which «the known creates the knower» or the noetic pole depends on the ontic) and «idealism» (in which «the knower creates the known» or the ontic pole depends on the noetic).

It must be stressed that we do not first recognize finite existents when we have understood the epistemological theory that explains how we recognize them as such.

Externalism may be a defensible epistemological theory but it seems inconsistent with Whitehead's subjectivism.11

Marshall counters that no epistemological theory provides a conceptual equivalent to truth.

I. Introduction The present paper promotes a basic thesis: Locke, as he presents his main epistemological theory in his celebrated An Essay on Human Understanding, is transformed into a metaphysician by Whitehead in his Process and Reality.

Both realized that while in practice we must assume a real world objective to us, the current epistemological theory provided no basis for this practice.

Joseph Kosuth appropriated images to engage with philosophy and epistemological theory.

Wikipedia: Fideism is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths (see natural theology).

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Scientists who invent new theories usually reject certain epistemological presuppositions which were once regarded as absolute axioms.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

The theory of abstraction is elaborated precisely in order to bridge the gap between an ontological world of subsisting individuals and the epistemological world of universals.

I have been concerned to show, elsewhere, 6 that the same set of epistemological limitations encountered at the transition to the life sciences and cognitive psychology are evident at the level of chemical theory and its dependence upon the quantum theory relevant to nucleic and electronic constituents.

For Kant, this theory did not imply the end of an epistemological objectivity; on the contrary, it functioned as its guarantee.

Because of the epistemological assumptions in these traditions, world - system theory has paid little attention specifically to the role of religious beliefs or religious institutions.

The epistemological consequences of Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference are much more far reaching and revolutionary than his protestations of its commonplaceness would suggest.

(6) Both Locke and Whitehead dismiss epistemological skepticism: the causes of events can be known, in theory if not always (according to Locke, hardly ever) in practice.

All grand unification theories are modeled by the metaphor, literature's prime means of clarification and the epistemological foundation of Whitehead's «concrete outlook of humanity.»

In my judgment the grouping together of Whitehead's Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (PNK) and The Concept of Nature (CN) by such scholars as Victor Lowe and Nathaniel Lawrence, coupled with the dramatic impact of Whitehead's attack on theories of the bifurcation of nature in the later of the two books, has almost completely obscured the epistemological subtlety that is to be found in the Enquiry, by one year the earlier of the two books.

Just two years prior to the Roe decision, the philosopher John Rawls had deployed a concept in his A Theory of Justice called «reflective equilibrium,» which largely has to do with the epistemological dynamics of arriving at a new, more «considered» belief in light of beliefs already held.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Informed by contemporary theories of the history and sociology of science and medicine, the book considers the conflict between Cameron and Pauling, on the one hand, and their critics, Charles Moertel and the Mayo Clinic researchers, on the other, as a symptom of a broader epistemological, socioeconomic and ideological struggle.

Perhaps your Great Intellect meant that you spent so much time on the epistemological aspects, the informal logic and the fallacy theory that you actually forgot the main point?