Enlightenment philosophy and scepticism
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Cabanis. Enlightenment and medical philosophy in the French Revolution
incredible diversity of explanatory systems (some heuristic, others theoretic) dauntingly facing the young medical thinker or natural philosopher in the mid-eighteenth century. Thus Hutton opted for belief in five chemical principles (for Hutton principles were ad hoc labellings rather than ultimate constituents of Nature): salt, water, sulfur, earth, and air. It was as good a classification as...
متن کاملBeyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment
The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieni...
متن کاملExperts, truth and scepticism
We scientists have a dilemma. We are experts in our area of research, but our job demands that we constantly remain sceptical of our latest results even when we deeply believe we have unfolded new layers of truth. This is the world of science and, for the most part, we accept its contradictions. For those on the outside, however, this creates a problem of whom to believe. When a scientist is ca...
متن کاملScepticism and Justification
The study of scepticism might be said to define epistemology. As the enquiry into the nature and sources of knowledge, epistemology's two fold concern is to identify and explicate the conditions whose satisfaction will amount to knowledge. Familiarly, one of these crucial conditions is justification. The problems facing the justification of knowledge-claims can best and most powerfully be descr...
متن کاملPhilosophical ‘Intuitions’ and Scepticism about Judgement
1. What are called ‘intuitions’ in philosophy are just applications of our ordinary capacities for judgement. We think of them as intuitions when a special kind of scepticism about those capacities is salient. 2. Like scepticism about perception, scepticism about judgement pressures us into conceiving our evidence as facts about our internal psychological states: here, facts about our conscious...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Humaniora. Czasopismo Internetowe
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2353-3145
DOI: 10.14746/h.2020.1.6