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Don't Stare, Compare! Lotze on Attention
Abstract Nineteenth century treatments of attention often argued that analysis (attention singles out an object) and synthesis (attention unifies some objects) are inseparable aspects of this activity. Subsequent philosophical work on attention concentrated on the analytic aspect and exploited William James's characterisation of attention as focussing ...
Mark Textor
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Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) es un filósofo poco conocido en el ámbito de lengua española. Formado en la epistemología kantiana, era especialista en historia del pensamiento, sobre todo en el periodo de la Ilustración, y puede considerarse el iniciador de una filosofía de la cultura de corte antropológico o, con otras palabras, de una antropología en la ...
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Worship and Love. Semantic and Metatheological Considerations
Abstract This article examines the attitude of worship by drawing on insights from the contemporary debate about the attitude of love. This seems justified because a certain kind of love appears to be an integral part of worship. Furthermore, the debate about love is much more developed and nuanced than the debate about worship.
Jacob Hesse
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Revisão de um itinerário filosófico: da ideia de cultura ao conceito de forma simbólica
O conteúdo deste texto tem como eixos estruturantes a noção de “cultura” legada pela Aufklärung e a concepção de “forma simbólica” presente na obra de Ernst Cassirer.
Joaquim Braga
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A partir de duas Teorias do Conhecimento, baseadas em Aristóteles (Segundos Analíticos) e Ernst Cassirer (Ensaio sobre o homem), o presente texto explora as noções de conhecimento científico e conhecimento simbólico, respectivamente.
Clevisson Junior Pereira
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The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form
ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog with two accounts of broadly “cultural” accounts of the relativized a priori in the history of philosophy: Ernst Cassirer's account of ...
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
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ABSTRACT In the Middle Ages, the divine order was considered the standard of law. Natural law was thus derived from the divine order. In the Enlightenment, the problem of determining the content of natural law unambiguously, i.e., independently of personal viewpoints, was well known.
Christoph Schmitt‐Maass
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Ernst Cassirer and the Symbolic Foundation of Institutions
Abstract In this Counterpoint, we introduce a conceptualization of the symbol that constructively contrasts the ideas presented by Phillips and Moser. We do not see the need to mobilize ideas and vocabularies from evolutionary biology, as they do, but instead propose to return to cultural approaches to the symbol that resonate more deeply and ...
Renate E. Meyer +4 more
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Symbol formation is a term used to unify the view on the interdependencies in the research of the Hamburg University before 1933: the Philosophical Institute (William Stern, Ernst Cassirer), the Psychological Institute (Stern) with its laboratory (Heinz ...
Cornelius Steckner
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