... certain perspective, the house would not be posited as an autonomous being Thus the positing of one single object, inthe full sense, demands the compositive bringing into being of all these ... everything upside down; on the third day ofthe experiment, when things are beginning to regain their upright position, he is lled with the strange impression of looking at the re out ofthe back of ... unaccustomed position ofthe ngers makes the synthesis of their perceptions impossible: the right side ofthe middle nger and the left side ofthe index not ordinarily work together, and if both...
... to an inquiring and inventive mind Sometimes we shall be naming nothing, but often one succeeds in formulating the idea of a kind of thing that is retained in successive elaborations of theory ... swarm of bees is made up of bees, but nothing is made up of lines of force There is a definite number of bees in a swarm and of electrons in a bottle, but there is no definite number of lines of ... express the ideas ofthe old theory inthe language ofthe new one A new theory is a new language There is literally no way of finding a theory-neutral language in which to express, and then compare...
... nothing novel inthe idea that theologians might make use ofthe latest in philosophical thinking to help them express the great things ofthe Gospel in a contemporary idiom Theologians in every ... each ofthe diVerent ‘traditions’ by its own standards and then to bring the best in all of them into dialogue with one another The analytic ambition of going to the sources and working out a single ... understanding of them The theologians don’t seem to be doing the work in question I therefore hope I will not be accused of interdisciplinary chauvinism if I point out that the best work in philosophical...
... the account of what goes into the performer's interpretation ofthe work, and adding a discussion of what is involved in extracting the composer's work-determinative instructions from the notation ... others.19 Some of Cage's performances of 0' 0" consisted in his preparing and slicing vegetables, putting them in an electric blender, and then drinking the juice, with the sounds of these various ... available) In fact, the richer the substance ofthe work, the more varied and interesting are the interpretative opportunities it presents to the performer In consequence, the thickening of works...
... for the business of living An understanding ofthe distinction between the analytic and the synthetic, of conditionals, of their role inthe analysis of causation, ofthe relation between intention ... patterns such as rubbing the bodily part injured, flexing the muscles, digging the nails into the palms, and screaming have the function of reducing the intensity of a pain felt In any event, it is ... fit neither of these ends, but they may all the same have at least the function of mitigating the sensation of pain There is experimental evidence indicating that, if the stimulation of other receptors...
... ofthe matter, the philosophy ofmind is the philosophical study of minded things just insofar as they are minded The things in question will include people, but may well also include non-human ... themind is some sort of thing which is somehow related to the body or some part ofthe body, such as the brain We are invited to consider, thus, whether themind is identical with the brain, ... problems concerning the ‘content’ of intentional states of mind, such as the question of whether content can be assigned to mental states independently ofthe wider physical environments of the...
... such a conception is one ofthe principal tasks of metaphysics.3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either inthe philosophy ofmind or in empirical psychology ... categories of things or could exist The philosophy ofmind is involved with metaphysics because it has to say something about the ontological status of subjects of experience and their place within the ... consistent with the other METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OFMINDThe philosophy ofmind is not only concerned with the philosophical analysis of mental or psychological concepts, how2 It is inthe Philosophical...
... certain patterns of bodily behaviour, rather as a computer utilises messages in binary code inthe course of generating certain patterns of activity in its printer or on its video screen In calling ... his in uential paper, The Meaning of ‘‘Meaning’’ ’, in K Gunderson (ed.), Language, Mind and Knowledge: Minnesota Studies inthe Philosophy of Science, Volume (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota ... of some ofthe points raised here may be found in Gregory McCulloch, TheMind and its World (London: Routledge, 1995), pp 211–16 88 An introduction to the philosophy ofmind drinkable and, in...
... An introduction to the philosophy ofmind suitable pattern of causal relationships, as may the states of a bundle of human neurones, or the states of a piece of computing machinery, or even the ... regarding it more as an account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory ofthe nature of mental states themselves 52 An introduction to the philosophy ofmind ing an adequate account of ... involved inthe case of a single person inthe intrapersonal case Another possible response for the functionalist is to argue that, when we look into the details ofthe hypothetical case of interpersonal...
... ofthe house, the intervening ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ingredients ofthe perceived ... are indeed seeing things inthe ‘blind’ regions of their visual fields? After all, they themselves strongly deny that they can see anything there If the answer is given that they must be seeing ... ‘Seeing What is Not There’, Philosophical Review 98 (1989), pp 189–214 156 An introduction to the philosophy ofmind ‘blindsight’, in which subjects suffering from certain kinds of lesion in their...
... uncertainty They were originally housed in binders, but by the time we saw them inthe last days ofthe Glynn Research Institute, they were almost all loose and mostly undated During the Glynn ... permission of Oxford University Press Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Prebble, John, 1944– Wandering inthe gardens ofthemind : Peter Mitchell and the making of Glynn / John ... Research Ltd and the Glynn Research Laboratories at Bodmin, Cornwall, England Beginning ofthe further evaluation ofthe chemiosmotic hypothesis 1966 The revised version ofthe chemiosmotic theory published...
... It is interesting to observethe fate ofthe Cartesianversion ofthe mind- body problem and the problem ofthe existence of other minds The mind- body problem can be posed sensibly only insofar as ... what happens in one mind and what happens in another Only through the medium ofthe public physical world can themindof one person make a difference to themindof another Themind is its own ... as the fonnula is to the thing, so is the part ofthe fonnula to the part ofthe thing, the questionis alreadybeing askedwhether the fonnula ofthe parts must be presentin the fonnula of the...
... since consciousness is what characterises themind There may be many kinds of mind, but none of these is a case where it is inherently indeterminate whether there is mind or not The concept of ... themindof an animal results from the combination ofthe mental properties ofthe matter ofthe brain, not from its material properties That is, it locates the origin ofmindin properties of ... file:///D| /The% 20Character%2 0of% 2 0Mind% 20-%20An%20Introduction%20to%2 0the% 20Philosophy%2 0of% 2 0Mind. htm THE CHARACTER OFMIND -i- [This page intentionally left blank.] -ii- THE CHARACTER OFMIND An Introduction...
... reduction in classical physics, and one with a more interesting form, was that of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics In outline, the values ofthe variables occurring inthe equations of thermodynamic ... confuse the maneuver of explaining an ibb by intentional instantiation with that of explaining it as an ips The essential difference is the re-interpretation—or, intuitively, the change in subject ... abilities of individual components to interact with certain neighboring components in specified ways Since intricate, interdependent organization is the hallmark of systems, the abilities demanded of individual...
... supposed to be the chief factor in knowledge, psychologists took a prime interest inthe organs that were the windows ofthe mind, and inthe details of their functioning; other things were accorded ... framed in these terms: What is actually given to themind ? What guarantees the truth of sense-data? What lies behind the observable order of phenomena? What is the relation ofthemind to the brain? ... it is the power of using symbols the power of speech—that makes him lord ofthe earth So our interest inthemind has shifted more and more from the acquisition of experience, the domain of sense,...
... within the minds of normal people is up to the task of discovering the truth here and our faculty of language up to the task of expressing it? Shouldn’t we humbly think that if there is a God, then ... have inmind when they use the term Do they mean anything at all by saying it? At least initially, it appears that they do, that there is a common and coherent concept of God that they have inmind ... were inthe habit of cheering themselves with these sorts of tales; you might not find them so bracing But you might nevertheless agree that the boy gained in power the moment he had the issue of...
... the proof ofthe final part of previous theorem the number M in formula (4.12) can be replaced by ν(ϕ) = inf ϕ − ψ C , where thein num is taken over all rational functions ψ The problem of linear ... (11.1) the Noether p(·) theorems are valid and its index inthe space Lρ (Γ) is equal to κ = κ (Gµ ), where κ is interpreted in accordance with (8.3) Inthe case V = the solutions of (11.1) inthe ... easily verified by means of Theorem 4.1 Then following the arguments inthe proof of part (I), we again obtain an analogous statement V Kokilashvili et al 63 Remark 8.3 Inthe case p(t) = p = const...
... Subjects The thesis focuses on the role ofthe Government inthe integration of economic growth with ecological environment protection 3.2 Scope ofthe Study The thesis clarifies the integration of ... methodology ofthe thesis 4.1 Theoretical basis The thesis bases on the theoretical basis of Marxism - Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s ideology and viewpoints, guidelines and policies ofthe Party and the ... organizing, building the team of professional staff that is in charge of performing the management of resources and environment Strengthening the government’s roles inthe management of resources...
... equivalent ofthe final officially approved version of my thesis No emendation of content has occurred and if there are any minor variations in formatting, they are the result ofthe conversion ... analysis The concentration of B accumulated in roots and shoots increased with the level of B in soils The level of B in VZ roots was greater than in shoots: the treatment of 180 mg B kg-1 resulted in ... shoots in VZ can be improved by the addition of chelating agents Chelating agents increase the mobility and bioavailability ofthe metal inthe soils and also increase its accumulation inthe upper...