Sentences with phrase «of philosophy of mind»

About Blog Bernardo Kastrup's exploratory journeys through the thoughtscapes of philosophy of mind, ontology, neuroscience of consciousness, psychology, foundations of physics, hermeneutics and philosophy of life.

In this new age of technology the examination of the philosophy of mind / body dualism takes on entire new dimensions.

While I was taking the engineering degree at NYU, I used to moonlight a bit and take philosophy and psychology courses, and I began to be much more interested in the whole area of the philosophy of mind and the way in which psychology tried to explain some of our cognitions and related behaviors.

We now should be aware of how important questions of the philosophy of mind are for our understanding of creativity.

In an article first published in 1982, wonderfully titled «How Moral Agents Became Ghosts, or, Why the History of Ethics Diverged from That of the Philosophy of Mind,» MacIntyre writes, «At the beginning of modern moral philosophy — which I date in the 1780s — the moral agent as traditionally understood almost, if not quite, disappeared from view.

Not exact matches

For Trent Porter, certified financial planner and owner of Priority Financial Partners, the question of investment philosophy brings to mind the active - versus - passive debate.

Dr. Weil's philosophy of health addresses mind, body, and spirit, and focuses on achieving optimal health.

He also has a master's in philosophy, with a focus on biology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind.

«As technology continues to change education in remarkable ways, and hundreds of entrepreneurs, teachers, and investors put their minds to harnessing its promise, it's still worth reading Sal Khan's description of his serendipitous entry, unpretentious philosophy, and profound impact on the world of education.

There is no doubt in my mind that their pro-entrepreneur philosophy is part of a grander vision.

We as a people, have to be open minded and try to understand what is the true philosophy of people.

The Mind and the Brain is his attempt to unseat that philosophy and substitute a dualist conception of mind (according to which mind and brain are ontologically distinMind and the Brain is his attempt to unseat that philosophy and substitute a dualist conception of mind (according to which mind and brain are ontologically distinmind (according to which mind and brain are ontologically distinmind and brain are ontologically distinct).

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Along the way, Kass cites this from the introduction to The Phenomenon of Life: «A philosophy of life comprises the philosophy of the organism and the philosophy of mind.

In all his masterful displaying of the ideas, philosophies, and artistic representations of reality that have captured minds and souls over these five hundred years, where does Jacques Barzun stand?

«It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.»

I simply believe that many of you have made up your minds based upon what I referred to in my post to Dal as the «matter - energy / chance» philosophy.

Perhaps materialism was a liberating philosophy when the need was to escape from dogmas of religion, but today materialism itself is the dogma from which the mind needs to escape.

SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has been writing for years and years on the quandaries of the brain - mind - consciousness connections.

For graduate students, the situation is little better, as they tend to be forced into narrow niche disciplines (philosophy of mind, philosophy of action).

«They allege, finally, that our perennial philosophy is only a philosophy of immutable essences, while the contemporary mind must look to the existence of things and to life, which is ever in flux.»

Like Polanyi, Fr Holloway sees that «the paradox of all these totalitarian philosophies is that they emanate from the minds of individuals, and their intrinsic certainty does not therefore transcend the individual and limited minds from which they proceed.»

He calls it «the philosophy of Scientific Positivism» (M & M) and says that it stands for «the government of life by the principles and factual findings of the human mind.»

Such a mentality, ignorant of sociology, of economics, of psychology, of physics, of biology, is intolerable to young and virile minds trained in the tradition of the modern sciences, and the philosophies of existentialism that derive from them.

When however to the legacy of criticisms ancient and near - modern there is added the firm acceptance of evolutionary philosophies of materialism or idealism contradictory in trend to Christian teaching, then every new difficulty, every fresh confusion of unabsorbed knowledge, every apparent retreat of conscious mind before reflex conditioned action, is taken as a new refutation of traditional Christian belief.

One of the most interesting areas of modern philosophy is the philosophy of the mind.

But he went much further, arguing that Christian philosophy, like that of Aristotle, should be empirical: it should proceed from what can be grasped by the senses — and not, as the Augustinian tradition held, by what can be grasped purely by the Mind.

2 For a detailed discussion of this argument see Edward Feser, Philosophy of Mind (Oxford: OneWorld, 2005), 29 - 38.

With the philosophy of Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), the nature of reality was no longer seen as writ large over the universe only to be discovered by the exercise of reason but rather was what the human mind perceived, interpreted, made it to be («Cogito, ergo sum.

Further, process is the philosophy of organism — matter and mind are related holistically.

In «Experience, Mind and the Concept,» The Journal of Philosophy 21/21 (Oct., 1924)(reprinted in Hepler, ed., Seeking A Faith for a New Age: Essays on the Interdependence of Religion, Science and Philosophy, Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

Which yields the — to my mind — gratifying conclusion that, to be both a «lover of wisdom» and an accomplished humorist, one must almost certainly be a Christian; or, rather, that only a Christian philosophy can be truly «comic.»

Here I introduce that exploration with a brief characterization of the metaphysical position especially as it is stated by Alfred North Whitehead; Whitehead's is the seminal mind which provided the main structure of thought which is process philosophy.47 Whitehead has a close affinity to the classical metaphysical tradition.

In his essay, The Gospel and Culture, Voegelin explains that this deculturation doesn't manifest itself as an ideology, or as a «post-Christian» or «postmodern» age proudly positing a «new» system or a unique differentiation of myth, philosophy, or revelation that will «save» man, but rather it is a psychopathology, a disease of the mind, that reveals itself in second realities, egophanic revolt, and a host of similar disorders.

There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.

Suffice it to say that much interesting work could be done in connecting Whitehead's concepts to more current topics of discussion in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

«Whitehead's Philosophy and Some General Notions of Physics and Biology,» in John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin, eds., Mind in Nature.

Here is the cosmological emphasis that is so predominant in process philosophy; furthermore, here is a philosophy of mind in which — unlike Husserl and very much like Whitehead — the conscious ego is not the initial datum, but just a higher unity of more basic intentional acts.

This philosophical direction of my mind led me into philosophy of religion and later into philosophical theology.

Paradoxically, it is the manifestation of this European mind, set in an African context, which dramatizes that his philosophy of civilization is pro-Western.

This correlation of the respective «subjects» of phenomenology and process philosophy must be kept in mind throughout the remainder of this analysis.

This impulse which in our time is so irresistibly attracting all open minds towards a philosophy that comprises at once a theoretical system, a rule of action, a religion and a presentiment, heralds and denotes, in my view, the effective, physical fulfillment of all living beings.

MN — David Ray Griffin, «Whitehead's Philosophy and Some General Notions of Physics and Biology,» Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, edited by John B. Cobb, Jr., and David Ray Griffin.

Does the epitaph about «Barabbas» come to mind when considering the arms of Muslim theological philosophies in this days» eras?

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizens.

He agrees with all three that philosophy's first task is to describe the operations of the human mind based on direct introspection of these operations and the ideas that are their contents.

Long before Bacon, Jaki has written, Christian philosophy had steadily inculcated «the conviction... that since the world was rational it could be comprehended by the human mind, but as the product of the Creator it could not be derived from the mind of man, a creature.»