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Women, small boys, and fish: October 2006
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Women, small boys, and fish. Thursday, October 05, 2006. Tute Presentation: The Relationship of Thought and its Subject Matter. Having finished scaring my friends with sentences from Dewey's "The Relationship of Thought and its Subject Matter", such as. We think about anything and everything". "Reflection busies itself alike with physical nature, the record of social achievement, and the endeavors of social aspiration." "we recognize a certain rhythm of direct practice and derived theory; of prim...Dewey...
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Women, small boys, and fish: September 2006
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Women, small boys, and fish. Tuesday, September 12, 2006. Picking at the carcass of lecture 7. There were just a couple of scraps from the last lecture that I wanted to think more about:. This is quite different to Peirce's idea of an intuition - for him, an intuition is a mental axiom - a starting place for reasoning, a thought that is not the product of any previous thoughts. I can't find a reference! This is conceivably true so let's assume it true for the sake of argument.). If this were to b...Anoth...
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Women, small boys, and fish: August 2006
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Women, small boys, and fish. Sunday, August 13, 2006. Free Will vs Fatalism with Pragmatism refereeing. This is just a quick followup from a quick discussion in the first lecture, where I suggested that free will and fatalism were the same, according to pragmatism. I then floundered a little when considering an individual in the system (it might make a difference whether you believe you have free will or not.) I'd like to straighten that out now. Is completely independent of what is. If the nature of the...
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Pragmablog: September 2006
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Blog project for PHIL3615 Pragmatism at the University of Sydney. Sunday, September 03, 2006. Pictures of consciousness-reality: Bergson's cone. Stef posted some very impressive graphic interpretations of James' position in "Does consciousness exist". Not to take anything away from the art brut. Charm of Carolyn's drawing). The first one, with the two intersecting lines, is a fairly direct representation of what James is describing here:. Bergson's image is that of an inverted cone:. So the point is pure...
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Philosophy 3615 : Pragmatism: August 2006
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Philosophy 3615 : Pragmatism. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Week five round up. This week in our discussion it seems that there is quite a bit of confusion about what exactly James' idea is. I think that this is probably due in part to how deeply embedded in us is the idea of the separation between the physical and the mental. But despite uncertainty over exactly what James is arguing in some parts, everyone seems to have a fairly positive opinion of the theory. But I don't think that relational ideas havin...
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Pragmablog: October 2006
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Blog project for PHIL3615 Pragmatism at the University of Sydney. Friday, October 13, 2006. Dewey v Russell: the poster-boys. Reading the Dewey-Russell exchange always brings up issues of communication-commensurability for me, sometimes quite painfully: it's both very fascinating and a little stressful to watch these two almost. Deliberately miss each others' point or seem to move forward to meet the other half way but argh! It's a trick, they just wanted to get close to use the knife! Now of course neit...
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Nick's Blog PLEASE CLICK "REFRESH": August 2006
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Nick's Blog PLEASE CLICK "REFRESH". Monday, August 28, 2006. James' genetic account of experience. I think james' genetic account of experience is interesting as a kind of early phenomenological account of how we come to understand the differences between mental representations and reality. Another point I'll make relates to consciousness in general. James suggests that consciousness. I'm not sure if this works, but the point i'm making is that although it seems plausible to view consciousness as a relat...
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Philosophy 3615 : Pragmatism: October 2006
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Philosophy 3615 : Pragmatism. Sunday, October 29, 2006. Peirce 'The Universal Categories'. I’ve decided to do question seven, on the topic of reality for my final paper. I’m going to focus on the James articles, but I thought I should quickly go over Peirce’s The Universal Categories. As a point of comparison. In this article Peirce adapts Hegel’s ‘particular categories’. Such as it is, utterly ignoring everything else. That which can’t be extracted the quality of the feeling or sense in itself. As a sid...
