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• Repost-Roger Scruton on Kant: A Response To Hume?

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 124
  “It is a common empiricist assumption that I can know my experience simply by observing it. But this is not so. I do not observe my experience, but only its object. Any knowledge of experience must therefore involve knowledge of its object. But I can have knowledge of the object only if I can identify it as ...
  7 hours ago

• The Eighth Meditation, Philosophos – The Inescapable Philosophy of Philosophy

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 129
  Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom~ Our meeting today, my dear reader, is not one of coincidence, luck or blind chance. That we have met today means that we were meant to meet and our meeting could not have happened in any other way. It is inevitable that the past must be as it has been before [...]
  4 days ago

• Kant with Sade

  
  (Mis)readings — Authority: 109
  Is Marquis de Sade, as the reputation that precedes him intimate, the sexually transgressive aristocrat par excellence? This element seems to be missing in the two short stories published by Hesperus Press in the thin volume Betrayal : “The Magistrate Mocked” and “Emilie de Tourville.” As John Burnside ...
  6 days ago

• Koda’s aide arrested in hawala scam

  
  The India Post — Authority: 147
  6 Nov : A close aide of former Jharkhand chief Minister Madhu Koda became the first person to be arrested on Friday in the Rs.2,000 crore illegal assets case as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) prepared to arrest Koda who is likely to be discharged from hospital on Saturday. Vikas Sinha, brother of Binod Sinha who is ...
  1 week ago

• On the Universality of Art

  
  Precious Bodily Fluids — Authority: 122
  That unfortunately lofty title implies that there’s a lot more below it than there can reasonably or realistically be. However, after hundreds of consecutive posts of particular films (interspersed with little news items or trailers and the occasional comparative study), larger concerns keep getting caught in the ...
  1 week ago

• REPORT: Tata may let other automakers build Nano

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Budget , Plants/Manufacturing , Tata Tata Nano - Click above for high-res image gallery The Tata Nano has been in production since July, and during that time, Tata Motors has reportedly sold over 7,500 copies of its $2,500 car. The Indian automaker has plenty of potential customers for ...
  1 week ago

• Kant and Biocentrism

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (Hardcover)~ Robert Lanza (Author), Bob Berman This book has been traveling in comments, and I sat down and went through it again: it is actually very close to Kant indeed, almost a rediscovery, but on its own terms, ...
  1 week ago

• Bryan Magee on Kant

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  We were asked yesterday for an introduction to Kant. I cited a link to Amazon for Korner’s short Kant, a classic you can get second hand for almost nothing there.The problem with Kant is that you will be driven to try and sit down and do The Critique Of Pure Reason straight on. In fact, [...]
  1 week ago

• More on space-time issue in Kant

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  More on space-time issue in KantStephen P. Smith said,November 3, 2009 at 6:28 pm ·Here is a re-write of the above, and my take on space-time as represented by geometry.An approach that offers interesting results is the method of construction as professed by intuitionist mathematics (e.g., Brouwer`s mathematics). ...
  1 week ago

• Schaffer and Golinski on Enlightenment and Genius

  
  Ether Wave Propaganda — Authority: 111
  This post looks at two articles by Simon Schaffer: “States of Mind: Enlightenment and Natural Philosophy,” in The Languages of Psyche: Mind and Body in Enlightenment Thought , ed. G. S. Rousseau, 1990, pp. 233-290. “Genius in Romantic Natural Philosophy,” in Romanticism and the Sciences , ed. Andrew ...
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• Ten injured as police baton charge agitating employees in Patna

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Patna, Nov 4 (ANI): Ten persons were injured as police resorted to baton charge and used water cannons to disperse agitating employees of state administered fair price dealer shops in Patna, capital of Bihar state, on Wednesday.Hundreds of franchise of fair price shops from across the state and the workers and ...
  1 week ago

• Space, time and idealism vs realism

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  Comment on 3 silly beliefs held by critics of silly XtiansYour perplexity is absolutely to the point and represents one of the major philosophical debates in the last two centuries. Let me note that while Kant went out of his way to reconcile his views with ordinary realism, admitting the real existence of space and ...
  1 week ago

• New (Kant) Book: Force and Freedom

  
  Perverse Egalitarianism — Authority: 492
  During the morning life agenda setting meeting, Shahar mentioned this book to me and an accompanying review by Allen Wood: Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy , Harvard UP, 2009, 399pp., $49.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780674035065. Reviewed by Allen Wood, Stanford University One sunny ...
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• Brain, phenomenon and noumenon

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  Comment on ’silly beliefs…”Stephen P. Smith said,November 1, 2009 at 1:22 pm ·Kant would note that the brain is only an appearance, and that there is hint of the thing-in-itself that is beyond. Therefore, to attach selfness to the appearance of brain matter is to miss Kant`s point.The same is true for our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morality, Justice, Ethics and Adoption

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 430
  Michael Sandel is a Rhode Scholar who did his graduate work at Oxford and teaches a class on Justice at Harvard, putting morality ethics and justice in very human and everyday terms: Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kant, design, and biology

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  Comments on ID and KantFrom the web13 Design and autonomyKant’s critique of teleological judgment in the second half of the Critique of Judgment has an even more complicated agenda than his aesthetic theory. The work has roots in both eighteenth-century biology - which began the debate, lasting until the twentieth ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of Mice and Mutts: Why Behavioral Science Is Failing Our Dogs

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of Mice and Mutts: How Behavioral Science Is Failing Our Dogs

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of Mice and Mutts: Is Behavioral Science Failing Our Dogs?

  
  My Puppy, My Self — Authority: 92
  Theres a growing trend in this country of moving away from using behavioral science methods in education and child-rearing, and trying a more loving and playful approach. Popular author and lecturer Alfie Kohn sums up the operant conditioning approach as, "Do this and youll get that ." In a September, 2009 New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crazy ideas

  
  Darwiniana — Authority: 155
  Where do people get those crazy ideas about religion and the supernatural?fThis is a perfectly good question, but we should tit for tat at once with, Where do scientists get those crazy ideas about reductionist Darwinism? In general Kant is the best on this one: we are confronted with the frustration and inevitability ...
  2 weeks ago

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