Excerpt How tall do you have to be to be tall? How much hair do you have to lose to be bald? How old do you have to be to be old?

This paper examines John Scottus Eriugena's account of material bodies. Some scholars have argued that Eriugena's account prefigures Berkeleyan idealism. The interpretation offered in the paper rejects the Berkeleyan interpretation on the grounds that Eriugena, ...

Traditional models of skill learning posit that skilled action unfolds in an automatic manner and that control will prove deleterious to movement and performance proficiency. These perspectives assume that automated processes are characterised by low ...

In a seminal article on the origin of philosophical idealism in the western philosophical tradition, Myles Burnyeat argued that idealism could not have come about prior to Descartes. According to Burnyeat, Descartes introduced a radical ...

Excerpt Introductory texts in the philosophy of science usually provide a general account of the traditional problems that constitute the core of the discipline: the distinction between science and pseudoscience, the degree of objective reasoning ...

Excerpt In ‘Idealism and Greek Philosophy: What Descartes Saw and Berkeley Missed’,1 Miles Burnyeat defends the following theses: Idealism, whether we mean by that Berkeley's own doctrine that esse est percipi or a more vaguely ...

The term “Idealism” has been used to characterize a variety of positions in the western philosophical tradition. Plato, the Neoplatonists, Leibniz, Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel, among others, have been interpreted as proponents of some version ...

Excerpt Thomas Duddy, a Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland-Galway, has produced one of the latest contributions to the growing number of commentaries on the impact of Irish thought within the western ...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two ...

The philosophical problem of evil amounts to the claim that the presence of evil or suffering in the world either (a) logically entails that an omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect God does not exist or ...

This lecture provided a brief description and critical assessment of each of the four dominant theories of truth within the western philosophical tradition: the correspondence, pragmatist, coherence, and deflationary theories. Hibbs also discussed the relevance ...

Is it possible for a person to survive the biological death of his or her body? If so, what sort of experiences would be possible for a disembodied person? This lecture provided a concise survey ...

This presentation included arguments for the following claims:Progressive political and social criticism is conceptually coherent only if an argument can be given showing why some states of affairs are preferable to others.In order to justify ...

I assess a revised version of Greenough’s account of vagueness as a form of epistemic tolerance. The revised definition aims to provide a neutral characterization of vagueness that all parties to the vagueness debate can ...

According to Robert Stern, Hegel's distinction between idealism and nonidealism amounts to a distinction between philosophy and non-philosophy. I argue that Hegel's account of legitimate philosophy, as interpreted by Stern, is too narrow since it ...