Philosophy

The keyword Philosophy is tagged in the following 9 articles.

Weber and Nagel on Values in the Social and Natural Sciences

March 27, 2012 - 1611 words | Philosophy » Philosophy Of Science

Due to their different subject matter, the way in which social and natural science inquiries are conducted differs. For some, this difference is constituted in a greater reliance upon values in the social sciences than in the natural. This essay, on the other hand,... Read Article »

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Weber Nagel Values Philosophy Of Science

John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and the Difference Principle: Finding Common Ground

April 12, 2011 - 2118 words | Philosophy » Political Philosophy

A large portion of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, The State and Utopia is dedicated to refuting the theories of John Rawls. Specifically, Nozick takes issue with Rawls’ conception of distributive justice as it pertains to economic inequalities. Rawls wrote that... Read Article »

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Political Philosophy Economics Inequality Distributive Justice Difference Principle John Rawls Robert Nozick

John Dewey & The Ethics of Democracy

March 9, 2011 - 2066 words | Philosophy » Political Theory

John Dewey was an ingenious and significant figure whose criticisms spanned a wide range of disciplines, including Philosophy, education, politics, aesthetics, and ethics. The late American philosopher Richard Rorty, in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, was quoted... Read Article »

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Democracy Political Theory Politics American Philosophy Social Contract Theory

Emile Durkheim and Methodological Individualism

January 21, 2011 - 1680 words | Sociology » Emile Durkheim

Throughout Émile Durkheim’s Social Facts, he provides an account of what he deems to be the correct nature of social facts. This essay explores his account in order to assess its relation to both methodological holism and methodological individualism in... Read Article »

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Emile Durkheim Philosophy Of Social Science Individualism Methodological Individualism Watkins

Qi (Chi) in James Cameron's Avatar

October 12, 2010 - 1885 words | Film and Cinema » Avatar

A nine-foot-tall, royal blue giant creeps low to the ground, brushing by exotic foliage. He holds a proportionally large bow and arrow in hand. In an instant he pauses, keeping entirely still, before loading an arrow into his weapon. He pulls back steadily, locking... Read Article »

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Avatar Qi Chi Chinese Philosophy Neo-confucianism James Cameron

Property Dualism & Physicalism: Unclenching the Soldier's Fist

August 31, 2010 - 2411 words | Philosophy » Dualism

From the time of the ancient Greek philosophers to modern contemporaries, the mind-body problem has been perpetually debated. With neuroscientific evidence in mind, traditional Cartesian dualism, which establishes that mental and physical substances are fundamentally... Read Article »

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Dualism Property Dualism Physicalism Philosophy Of Mind

The Lockean Memory Theory of Personal Identity: Definition, Objection, Response

August 9, 2010 - 1934 words | Philosophy » John Locke

For centuries philosophers have struggled to define personal identity. In his 1690 work An Essay on Human Understanding, John Locke proposes that one's personal identity extends only so far as their own consciousness. The connection between consciousness and memory... Read Article »

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Philosophy Memory Theory Bundle Theory John Locke Philosophy Of Mind Cognitive Science

Pragmatic Nationalism and Confucianism: The New Ideology of the CCP

April 13, 2010 - 8503 words | International Affairs » China

Confucianism was one of the dominant political philosophies of Imperial China. Confucianism’s influence declined throughout the 19th century coinciding with the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Some Chinese intellectuals, like Lu Xun, attacked Confucianism believing... Read Article »

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Chinese Communist Party People's Republic Of China China Political Science Confucianism Nationalism Political Philosophy Prc Ccp Pragmatic Nationalism

John Locke On Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception

December 2, 2009 - 3334 words | Political Science » John Locke

Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke, was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He espoused the natural rights of man, namely the right to life, liberty and property, and he articulated that every government’s... Read Article »

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Political Philosophy John Locke Religion Toleration Atheist Exception Locke Locke Philosophy Political Theory Political Science Locke Equality