Representationalism and Antirepresentationalism - Kant, Davidson and Rorty (1) ABSTRACT: The notions of representationalism and antirepresentationalism are introduced and used in contemporary philosophical discussions by Richard Rorty to describe his and the neopragmatists' attitude toward traditional problems of epistemology. Rorty means that the history of philosophy shows that there are no final answers to the traditional questions about knowledge, truth, and representation; consequently, they
Are we free? This is the question that has plagued us since the beginning of mankind. While many different answers have arisen, many more problems have cropped up. Immanuel Kant, famous German philosopher, is known for his outside the box thinking on the subject. Kant theorized that the world is separated into two realms: the phenomenal and noumenal. The phenomenal realm, according to Kant, includes all our experiences and appearances of the world as we know it, whereas the noumenal realm consists
interconnectedness, and interdependence of nature that is to be valued. A move beyond the “self” is a move towards the system, the biotic community. However, I also want to examine the potential challenges posed to the idea of ecosystemic ethics by Leopold’s noumenon. Rolston’s argument has three parts: first, that ecosystems are the “fundamental unit[s] of survival,” second, that given this, “all value is generated within the geosystemic and ecosystemic pyramid,” and third, that this generated value is neither
perception of sense data depends on a priori intuitions, which include conception of space and time and categories of judgment. For Kant, "transcendental" refers to conditions necessary for the possibility of experience, while "transcendent" refers to a noumenon, in the philosophical system of Immanuel Kant, a "thing-in-itself"; it is opposed to phenomenon, the thing that appears to us. Noumena are the basic realities behind all sensory experience. Now looking at Thoreau according to The Columbia Electronic
I-Introduction There is a very crucial point in the social sciences which make the events and phenomenons more clear. Therefore we as the students of these areas can have the chance seeing the backgrounds of what happens in the world and noumenon of the events. Another important aspect of social sciences is its holistic structure which interconnects different disciplines and they move together helping each other in the area. The purpose of the social sciences is to set up an available and strong
The concept of liberty was reestablished around the 17th century in the line of Modern Philosophy with John Locke as the father of such thinking. With “Natural Law” and the “Social Contract” as the foundation that expound individual rights, the extent of power and purpose of the government, the rule of law and the separation of powers, etc., he establishes the basis for early classical theory on liberty thinking. In the history of Western philosophy, some thinkers are just as crucial as Locke. Rousseau
as a probable consequence of the gradual interest in humanism. With time, body image was dissected particularly by feminists regarding the function and implications of some erotic photographs mainly of women nudes. The fascination with the body as noumenon can be attested to have taken true momentum with new technologies, particularly in the field of genetics and medicine which resulted in the epiphanic hype that humans themselves had the capacity of altering human bodies. Moreover the range of photographic
Quest for Eternity in the Poetry of Dickinson Over the past few decades, a considerable number of comments have been made on the idea of eternity in Emily Dickinson's poetry. The following are several examples: Robert Weisbuch's Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1975), Jane Donahue Eberwein's Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation (1985), Dorothy Huff Oberhaus' Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning (1995), and James McIntosh's Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown (2000). However
Alain Badiou’s entire philosophical project rests on reclaiming the centrality of truth in philosophy, and he does so through a detailed working through of subjectivity, truth, and the event. Badiou makes it clear that in his systematic philosophy he wants to do without any reference to a subject who has and constructs its experiences, and the phenomenological structures of conscious life are not his focus. Although Badiou calls the method he uses in Logics of Worlds a phenomenology - it is, in his
Music, Truth, Profundity PART I 1. Theme One of my long-standing philosophical ‘worries’ is what I describe as a ‘cognitive dilemma’ in relation to musical communication. How can an art form which lacks a discursive element and addresses itself primarily and indeed immediately to the auditory sense, be discerned as conveying ‘truth’ or ‘profundity’? The power is amply attested — so much so that alone among the arts music occasionally figures as a ‘surrogate religion’. The pieces of this
The Western Subjectivity Thought Since modern times subjectivity thought has been one of the fundamental contents and the significant achievements of western philosophy. It is faced with many difficulties in its development process and has been declared to "have died", but I think that it indeed still has bright prospects of development. 1. Historical Development of Western Subjectivity Thought The word "subject" comes from the Latin word " subjectum ", which means something in front,
The Final Stage of Mankind’s Education — From Nihilism to Kingdom Come ABSTRACT: I give reasons to believe that our present situation is not as bleak as some would have it. I show how the historical process can be understood in terms of a Premodernity (Aquinas), Modernity (Hegel), and Postmodernity (Nietzsche) division of human history. I argue that both Hegel and Nietzsche were fully aware that Modernity was over and that a negative Postmodern condition was to necessarily precede a consummatory