Essays about: "philosophy of mind"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 45 essays containing the words philosophy of mind.
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16. Is Searle a Property Dualist?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : It has often been argued that John Searle’s theory of mind, biological naturalism, due to its commitment to mental irreducibility amounts to no more than disguised property dualism. I suggest that a thorough analysis of Searle’s somewhat unusual views on the nature of reduction reveals this irreducibility to be not a metaphysical relation between mental properties and physical but one concerned only with the semantics of the respective terms used to refer to these. READ MORE
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17. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. READ MORE
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18. Ancient Egyptian Philosophy : or a chimaera of the popular significance
University essay from Uppsala universitet/EgyptologiAbstract : The thesis investigates a continuously held assumption, within the field of Egyptology, that undertakes to derive classical Hellenic philosophy from a previous philosophical tradition, initiated centuries before in ancient Egypt. The study will proceed with an initial clarification of ancient Greek philosophy, and a brief outline of some topics from its main research fields: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind. READ MORE
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19. Knowledge transfer in IT-Service organizations : A qualitative case study researching a boundary object theory perspective on knowledge transfer through information systems, in an ITIL context
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Informatik; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : Knowledge management is seen as a hot topic in order for organizations to become effective and utilize the knowledge residing within the organization. The most important factor in knowledge management is believed to be the knowledge transfer, which is the process of transferring knowledge between two parties. READ MORE
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20. The Silencing of the Lamb : a critical conceptual study of subjectivity, right–holders, and human rights
University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheterAbstract : It is widespread human doxa that moral concern towards the animal is less important than what we direct towards our fellow human–beings. The animal is avowedly less rational, less susceptible to pleasure, and less capable of creating meaningful interactive relationships, or so widely accepted at least. READ MORE
