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Philosophy
H. R. **a
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How the Pañcakośa Model of Experience Fits the Understanding of Śūnya and Helps Explain Quantum Reality?
The Vedic system explains the structure of human subjectivity through the idea that human experience is based on various properties and levels of the mind with separate abilities and roles to play in the human...
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Sufficient Reason and Human Freedom in the Confessio Philosophi
This paper is concerned with certain features of what is perhaps one of the most important and interesting works of the young Leibniz. The work in question is a dialogue which he wrote during the early months ...
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Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: In Praise of Conservative Induction
The principles which constituted the triumph of the preceding stages of the science, may appear to be subverted and ejected by the later discoveries, but in fact they are (so far as they were true)...
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Humanistic Education: Some Philosophical Considerations
In this chapter, I propose to discuss some of the ideas contained in Richard Rorty’s recent book.1 The book has been widely praised, and not without reason. The author goes for big issues, such as the nature of t...
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Spinoza’s philosophy of mind
1. Although the term ‘philosophy of mind’ has no rigid definition, one may take it to include philosophical discussions of the problem of mind-matter relations, and of the nature of thinking, perce...
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Novel Predictions as a Criterion of Merit
Any contribution to a volume in honour of Imre Lakatos should, I suppose, be polemical. I have selected the question of novel predictions as a criterion of merit of theories because it brings out a difference ...
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Hegel’s Concept of Freedom
The concept of freedom is one which Hegel thought of very great importance; indeed, he believed that it is the central concept in human history. ‘Mind is free’, he wrote, ‘and to actualise this, its essence — to ...
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Hume’s Place in Philosophy
The place that Hume occupies in the thought of our time offers a paradox, and is not easily understood. At no previous period in the history of philosophy has there been such insistence as there is now on exact a...
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Hume’s Theory of the Passions
There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none which can be decided with any certainty; before we become acquainted with that science.
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Hume on Causation
Hume’s examination of the ideas of cause and effect in his Treatise of Human Nature is lengthy and elaborate, and justly celebrated. It is, of course, very far from complete; and one may wish that Hume had shown ...
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Hume on Religion
Hume died on 25 August 1776, and his burial took place four days later. In the words of his biographer, E. C. Mossner: ‘A large crowd had gathered in St. David Street to watch the coffin being carried out. One of...
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Hume’s Empiricism and Modern Empiricism
In the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding Hume said:
If we take in our hands any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics for instance; let us ask: Does it contain any abstract reasoning conce...
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Hume on Personal Identity
A person is sometimes said to have no strong sense of his own identity. What that usually means is that he lacks some of the things that give inner stability and continuity to a human life: for instance, he may b...
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Hume on Moral Judgement
Some philosophers talk about morality in an elevated tone; and they seem to be entirely sincere, finding virtue a sublime and noble subject, the pursuit of virtue an inspiring life’s work. So it is, for instance,...
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Hume as a Historian
David hume was the greatest of British philosophers. He was also an important figure in the development of the social sciences. We do not often think of him as a historian. Yet when he died, in 1776, he was bette...
