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Tag Archives: Aristotle
Why fMRI scans explain not one human behavior
A therapist once tried to explain to me why people in states of extreme anger aren’t able to reason: if you monitor the brain of someone in such a state on an fMRI scan, you’ll see the frontal cortex — … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Roger Scruton
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Aristotle’s Bifocal View of the Passions
Early in book 1 of De Anima, Aristotle considers how to characterize the passions, and concludes, “τὰ πάθη λόγοι ἔνυλοί εἰσιν” (403a26). Passions are “reasons embedded in matter.” For example, he suggests that anger can appropriately be depicted a series of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, De Anima, Materialism, Passions, Philosophy of Mind, Space of Reasons
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McDowell, “Mind and World” — Reason and Nature
In “Reason and Nature,” the fourth lecture that composes Mind and World, McDowell proposes “to start uncovering the presumably deep mental block that produces this uncomfortable situation,” namely, the anxious oscillation between the Myth of the Given and a Space of … Continue reading
Ramanuja Against Shankara’s Intellectualism
In his commentary on the Vedanta Sutras, Shankara (8th-9th c.) insists, “That the knowledge of Brahman refers to something which is not a thing to be done, and therefore is not concerned either with the pursuit or the avoidance of any … Continue reading
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Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, epistemology, Hinduism, Plato, Ramanuja, Shankara, Virtue
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Hume’s Lockean misstep
A key step in Hume’s argument against the rationality of induction is the following: “It is agreed on all hands that there is no known connection between the sensible qualities and the secret powers,” “on which the influence of these … Continue reading