Is Putnam's 'brain in a VAT' hypothesis self-refuting? [PDF]
In this paper, I provide a detailed analysis of Putnam's conclusion (derived from the externalist interpretation of meaning and mental content) that the skeptical hypothesis, according to which we have always been brains in vats, is self-refuting.
Lazović Živan
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Assertion and transparent self-knowledge [PDF]
We argue that honesty in assertion requires non-empirical knowledge that what one asserts is what one believes. Our argument proceeds from the thought that to assert honestly, one must follow and not merely conform to the norm ‘Assert that p only if you ...
Marcus, Eric, Schwenkler, John
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This work examines some of the epistemological and ontological conditions of the deep self-knowledge that is demanded by the Delphic motto gnothi seauton (know thyself!). The guiding questions are: what is the 'self' that deep self-knowledge is of? What are we such that we can ask deep and puzzling questions about our life-plans, our self-conceptions ...
Isabela Gasparini +3 more
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The Role of Self-Attitude in the Personal and Professional Development of High School Students
Introduction. The instability of the modern world with its rapidly changing social and economic realities requires the readiness of a person for self-change. For this reason, along with vocational education, higher education has to include the programmes
Zh. G. Garanina +2 more
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Transparência, reflexão e vicissitude
Este artigo discute a noção de condição de transparência proposta por Richard Moran em Authority and Estrangement (2001) segundoo qual a pergunta de primeira pessoa no tempo presente acerca da própria crença ("Eu acredito que p?") é respondida em ...
Waldomiro J. Silva Filho
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“NOT A SINGLE SYLLOGISM FROM BEGINNING TO END”: ON FRAGMENTARINESS AND THE CRITIQUE OF THE NOVEL IN HENRY MACKENZIE’S THE MAN OF FEELING* [PDF]
Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) is known to be particularly striking for its high level of formal and narrative fragmentariness. Formlessness and fragmentariness have long been discussed as key features of the early British novel (see Hunter ...
Alexandra BACALU
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A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend
My goal in what follows is to argue that Astell endorses what I call the admonisher conception of a friend. For I will argue that, according to Astell, a sufficient condition for whether someone is our friend is that they admonish us in her technical ...
Jen Nguyen
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Formation of Gnostic Skills in Future Social Teachers in The Process of Media Education
Gnostic skills are a little-studied topic both for Kazakhstan and for the world scientific community as a whole. Therefore, it is necessary to study this problem in as much detail as possible in order to modernize the teaching process and successfully ...
Makulbek Tavassarov +2 more
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Problem ciała i przyszłość ludzkości, czyli na co komu dwudziestowieczna filozofia? (The Problem of the Body and the Future of a Mankind. What is the Contemporary Philosophy for?) [PDF]
A philosophy teacher should constantly raise the question about the form of philosophical education. Following this need I undertook the problem “what is the philosophizing” once again. The results of this reflection are the following paper presented. It
Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady
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The Role of Memory in Agential Self-Knowledge [PDF]
Agentialism about self-knowledge is the view that key to understanding our capacity for self-knowledge is appreciating the connection between that capacity and our identities as rational agents—as creatures for whom believing, intending, desiring, and so
Sorgiovanni, Ben
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