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Author | : Dominik Perler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199935270 |
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We often explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. But what are faculties? How do they work? And how can they be individuated? This book discusses these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind.
Author | : Dominik Perler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190273313 |
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It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind. They show that faculties were referred to in different theoretical contexts, but analyzed in radically different ways. Some philosophers, especially Aristotelians, made them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological theories, taking them to be basic powers of living beings. Others took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities, while still others provided a purely functional explanation. The chapters focus on various models, taking into account Greek, Arabic, Latin, French, German and Anglo-American debates. They analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology, but also the attack that was often launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real features of living beings. The short "Reflections" inserted between the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed in literature, science and medicine.
Author | : Brendan Halpin |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 150400969X |
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In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it’s the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers. It’s also a rarely-seen, all-access view of both suburban and urban education, including the ugly truth behind the mythology at a much-hyped charter school.
Author | : Immanuel Kant |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2019-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780469558649 |
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Author | : Claudius Galen |
Publisher | : Dalcassian Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-12-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1078749973 |
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Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher. The most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed greatly to the understanding of numerous scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then current theory of humorism, as advanced by many ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. His theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. Medical students continued to study Galen's writings until well into the 19th century. Galen conducted many nerve ligation experiments that supported the theory, which is still accepted today that the brain controls all the motions of the muscles by means of the cranial and peripheral nervous systems.
Author | : Gilles Deleuze |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826432069 |
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Author | : Georgetown University |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : James Rennie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : Birds |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Antonino Falduto |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2014-04-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110351145 |
Download The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling in Kant’s Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the "other" Kant has been discovered, i.e. the one of the doctrine of virtue and the anthropology. Through the rediscovery of Kant's investigations into the empirical and sensuous aspects of knowledge, our understanding of Kant's philosophy has been enriched by an important element that has allowed researchers to correct supposed deficiencies in Kant's work. In addition, further questions concerning the nature of Kant's philosophy itself have been formulated: the more the "other" Kant comes to the fore, the stronger the question concerning the connection between pure philosophy and empirical investigation becomes. The aim of this study is to show that the psychological and anthropological interpretations of Kant's pure philosophy are not convincing and at the same time to illustrate some connections between his critical and anthropological investigations by means of an analysis of the theory of the faculties. Against both a "transcendental psychological" and an "anthropological" reading, the book presents Kant's theory of the faculties as a constitutive part of his critical philosophy and shows that there is a close connection between Kant's pure philosophy and his moral aesthetic.
Author | : Théodore Simon JOUFFROY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Download Essays on the Scepticism of the present age, the Faculties of the human Soul ... and on Philosophy and Common Sense ... Translated from the French by G. Ripley Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle