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1 An Introduction to Philosophy W. Ru
1
An Introduction to Philosophy
W. Russ Payne
Bellevue College
Copyright (cc by nc 4.0)
2015 W. Russ Payne
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document with attribution under the
terms of Creative Commons: Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 International or any later version of
this license. A copy of the license is found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
2
Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………. 3
Chapter 1: What Philosophy Is ………………………….. 5
Chapter 2: How to do Philosophy ………………….……. 11
Chapter 3: Ancient Philosophy ………………….………. 23
Chapter 4: Rationalism ………….………………….……. 38
Chapter 5: Empiricism …………………………………… 50
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Science ………………….…..… 58
Chapter 7: Philosophy of Mind …………………….……. 72
Chapter 8: Love and Happiness …………………….……. 79
Chapter 9: Meta Ethics …………………………………… 94
Chapter 10: Right Action ……………………...…………. 108
Chapter 11: Social Justice …………………………...…… 120
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historical roots of philosophy to a few of the diverse areas of inquiry that continue to make
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As an undergraduate philosophy major, one of my favorite professors once told me that
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difference in the world. Then he completed his thought, “it only takes about 300 years.” Over the
course of my teaching career, it has struck me that the opinions many of my students come to
class with have jus ...
1 An Introduction to Philosophy W. Ru
1
An Introduction to Philosophy
W. Russ Payne
Bellevue College
Copyright (cc by nc 4.0)
2015 W. Russ Payne
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document with attribution under the
terms of Creative Commons: Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 International or any later version of
this license. A copy of the license is found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
2
Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………. 3
Chapter 1: What Philosophy Is ………………………….. 5
Chapter 2: How to do Philosophy ………………….……. 11
Chapter 3: Ancient Philosophy ………………….………. 23
Chapter 4: Rationalism ………….………………….……. 38
Chapter 5: Empiricism …………………………………… 50
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Science ………………….…..… 58
Chapter 7: Philosophy of Mind …………………….……. 72
Chapter 8: Love and Happiness …………………….……. 79
Chapter 9: Meta Ethics …………………………………… 94
Chapter 10: Right Action ……………………...…………. 108
Chapter 11: Social Justice …………………………...…… 120
3
Introduction
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----------
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--------------
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1 An Introduction to Philosophy W. Ru
1
An Introduction to Philosophy
W. Russ Payne
Bellevue College
Copyright (cc by nc 4.0)
2015 W. Russ Payne
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document with attribution under the
terms of Creative Commons: Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 International or any later version of
this license. A copy of the license is found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
2
Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………. 3
Chapter 1: What Philosophy Is ………………………….. 5
Chapter 2: How to do Philosophy ………………….……. 11
Chapter 3: Ancient Philosophy ………………….………. 23
Chapter 4: Rationalism ………….………………….……. 38
Chapter 5: Empiricism …………………………………… 50
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Science ………………….…..… 58
Chapter 7: Philosophy of Mind …………………….……. 72
Chapter 8: Love and Happiness …………………….……. 79
Chapter 9: Meta Ethics …………………………………… 94
Chapter 10: Right Action ……………………...…………. 108
Chapter 11: Social Justice …………………………...…… 120
3
Introduction
The goal of this text is to present philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline with historical
roots. While a few early chapters are historically organized, my goal in the historical chapters is
to trace a developmental progression of thought that introduces basic philosophical methods and
frames issues that remain relevant today. Later chapters are topically organized. These include
philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic
recent progress.
This text concludes with four chapters on ethics, broadly construed. I cover traditional theories of
right action in the third of these. Students are first invited first to think about what is good for
themselves and their relationships in a chapter of love and happiness. Next a few meta-ethical
issues are considered; namely, whether they are moral truths and if so what makes them so. The
end of the ethics sequence addresses social justice, what it is for one’s community to be good.
Our sphere of concern expands progressively through these chapters. Our inquiry recapitulates
the course of development into moral maturity.
Over the course of the text I’ve tried to outline the continuity of thought that leads from the
historical roots of philosophy to a few of the diverse areas of inquiry that continue to make
significant contributions to our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.
As an undergraduate philosophy major, one of my favorite professors once told me that
philosophers really do have an influence on how people think. I was pleased to hear that the kind
of inquiry I found interesting and rewarding might also be relevant to people’s lives and make a
difference in the world. Then he completed his thought, “it only takes about 300 years.” Over the
course of my teaching career, it has struck me that the opinions many of my students come to
class with have jus ...
1 An Introduction to Philosophy W. Ru
1
An Introduction to Philosophy
W. Russ Payne
Bellevue College
Copyright (cc by nc 4.0)
2015 W. Russ Payne
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document with attribution under the
terms of Creative Commons: Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 International or any later version of
this license. A copy of the license is found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
2
Contents
Introduction ………………………………………………. 3
Chapter 1: What Philosophy Is ………………………….. 5
Chapter 2: How to do Philosophy ………………….……. 11
Chapter 3: Ancient Philosophy ………………….………. 23
Chapter 4: Rationalism ………….………………….……. 38
Chapter 5: Empiricism …………………………………… 50
Chapter 6: Philosophy of Science ………………….…..… 58
Chapter 7: Philosophy of Mind …………………….……. 72
Chapter 8: Love and Happiness …………………….……. 79
Chapter 9: Meta Ethics …………………………………… 94
Chapter 10: Right Action ……………………...…………. 108
Chapter 11: Social Justice …………………………...…… 120
3
Introduction
The goal of this text is to present philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline with historical
roots. While a few early chapters are historically organized, my goal in the historical chapters is
to trace a developmental progression of thought that introduces basic philosophical methods and
frames issues that remain relevant today. Later chapters are topically organized. These include
philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic
recent progress.
This text concludes with four chapters on ethics, broadly construed. I cover traditional theories of
right action in the third of these. Students are first invited first to think about what is good for
themselves and their relationships in a chapter of love and happiness. Next a few meta-ethical
issues are considered; namely, whether they are moral truths and if so what makes them so. The
end of the ethics sequence addresses social justice, what it is for one’s community to be good.
Our sphere of concern expands progressively through these chapters. Our inquiry recapitulates
the course of development into moral maturity.
Over the course of the text I’ve tried to outline the continuity of thought that leads from the
historical roots of philosophy to a few of the diverse areas of inquiry that continue to make
significant contributions to our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.
As an undergraduate philosophy major, one of my favorite professors once told me that
philosophers really do have an influence on how people think. I was pleased to hear that the kind
of inquiry I found interesting and rewarding might also be relevant to people’s lives and make a
difference in the world. Then he completed his thought, “it only takes about 300 years.” Over the
course of my teaching career, it has struck me that the opinions many of my students come to
class with have jus ...
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Abstract:
Biology is the science of life, yet Biology still has not achieved generally acceptable answers to its foundation questions, “What is life?”, “What does it mean to be living?”, What is the meaning of life?
Dr Hall first confronted these questions teaching biology courses in 1966. The search for comprehensive and scientifically justifiable answers has guided his work since then. His answers unify key ideas from a number of quite disparate disciplines. The keystone unifies Karl Popper’s 1972 and later works on evolutionary theory of knowledge with Maturana and Varela’s ideas from the 1970s on autopoiesis and cognition that set out a collection of traits that defined life. The unification shows that knowledge is solutions to problems. Life is impossible without knowledge. Knowledge is a product of living. The unification is supported by an understanding of the heritability of objective and subjective knowledge (genetic, cultural) and the theory of hierarchically dynamic systems developed by Herbert Simon, Arthur Koestler, Stanley Salthe, and others. The structure rests on foundation theories of emergent complexity including physical dynamics and thermodynamics, Stuart Kauffman’s ideas on the origins of order and his concept of the “adjacent possible” together with the nature of time in George Ellis’s “block-” or “crystallizing block universes”.
----------
Dr Hall started life as an amateur naturalist. He started college in 1957 in physics but dyslexia with numbers led to him starting over in zoology. He completed his Harvard University PhD at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1973 on a study of chromosome variation, evolution and speciation in lizards. As a University of Melbourne Research Fellow in Genetics from mid 1977 to mid 1979, he studied the theory of knowledge as it applied to comparative biology and evolution.
Back in Australia in 1981, Dr Hall found the rapidly evolving technology of personal computing. After an excursion into computer literacy journalism, he worked as a technical communicator and documentation specialist in a computer software house and the original Bank of Melbourne. From 1990 through mid 2007, he served Tenix Defence as a documentation and knowledge management systems analyst, retiring in 2007. From 2001 Bill has combined his diverse experiences into a unified theory of organization and organizational knowledge as presented in several academic papers and a draft book on the co-evolution of and revolutions in human cognition and humanity’s cognitive tools. This talk presents one of the
threads from his book and publications.
--------------
Reading: Hall, W.P. 2011. Physical basis for the emergence of autopoiesis, cognition and knowledge. Kororoit Institute Working Papers No. 2: 1-63 -
A presentation, progress draft and other products of “Application Holy Wars or a New Reformation: A Fugue on the Theory of Knowledge” can be accessed on http://tinyurl
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This document provides a learning guide for an introductory module that covers four main topics: an overview of the course, the nature of science, the Tragedy of the Commons concept, and the concept of Shifting Baselines. The module objectives are to introduce these concepts and discuss fundamental aspects of the nature of science. Learning outcomes include explaining the nature of science, comparing it to other ways of knowing, and articulating the Tragedy of the Commons and Shifting Baselines concepts. Students are instructed to complete readings, videos, and discussions on these topics to assess understanding.
Ocean320 Learning Guide
This document provides a learning guide for an introductory module that covers four main topics: an overview of the course, the nature of science, the Tragedy of the Commons concept, and the concept of Shifting Baselines. The module objectives are to introduce these concepts and discuss fundamental aspects of the nature of science. Learning outcomes include explaining the nature of science, comparing it to other ways of knowing, and articulating the Tragedy of the Commons and Shifting Baselines concepts. The guide outlines required readings, videos, and sessions to facilitate understanding of these topics in order to complete a quiz by the due date.
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The document discusses an exam on information literacy that contains multiple choice questions. It covers topics like citing sources in MLA format, academic integrity policies, and fair use exemptions to copyright law. It also includes a discussion question about reflecting on an academic integrity policy and how it relates to the reader.
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This document outlines the Flexible Instructional Delivery Plan (FIDP) for the core subject "Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person" at Santa Ana Academy of Barili, Inc. for grade 11 students in the first semester. The course will cover topics like the human experiences of embodiment, sociality, and mortality. Students will be assessed based on their participation in an exhibit organized by the Philosophia Organization where they will create a scrapbook presenting famous philosophers and their works. The FIDP further details the content, learning competencies, assessment strategies, and teaching approaches that will be used to teach the following topics over the semester: doing philosophy, methods of philosophizing, the human person as an embodied spirit, the
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The document discusses the key building blocks of successful doctoral students. It notes that 30-50% of doctoral students do not complete their programs depending on their discipline. Successful students must meet rigorous admission requirements including strong exam scores and foundational knowledge. They must also develop self-direction by transforming from acquiring knowledge to disseminating it. Developing academic relationships with peers, professors, and researchers through consulting is another characteristic of successful doctoral students. Self-reflection on how one's values and beliefs are influenced during the program allows students to assess if the socialization structure is conducive to their goals. Initiative in seeking help, rather than just academic skills, allows students to successfully complete their transition to becoming scholars.
The Pragmatic Approach
The document discusses the historical movements in education according to two Filipino scholars. It outlines 14 historical movements, beginning with Primitive Education and ending with The Disciplinary Conception of Education. Each movement corresponds to a historical epoch and had dominant characteristics, such as an emphasis on tradition for Oriental Education and individual development for Greek Education. The movements show the evolution of education philosophies and approaches over time.
Neuroethics: Two traditions at the intersection of mind, meaning, and morality
The Hastings Center
The World of Bioethics Seminar
Friday, December 4, 2009
Neuroethics: Two traditions at the intersection of mind, meaning and morality
Presented by: James Giordano
Since 2002, neuroethics has come to include two sorts of research: the first relating to the neurological basis of moral knowledge, sense and actions, and the second referring to the ethics of neuroscientific research and applications. This lecture will address both of these traditions and their relation to one another. It will ground neuroethics in the hard questions of neuroscience, and the problems that arise when we must rely on partial or contingent knowledge.
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This document summarizes the major philosophical perspectives in education. It discusses idealism, realism, naturalism, pragmatism, progressivism, existentialism, essentialism, perennialism, social reconstructionism, and critical theory. It provides an overview of each perspective, including a discussion of Plato's idealism and the influence of the Sophists. The purpose is to help readers classify, analyze, and apply these perspectives to examine their own philosophies of leadership and teaching.
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This document summarizes a philosophy mini-conference timetable and presentations. The first presentation by Drs. Brendan Larvor and John Lippitt discusses what kind of students universities want, focusing on sociable and curious students with virtues like teamwork, humility, and forgiveness. The second presentation by Dr. Craig Bourne considers whether it is permissible for parents to choose disabilities for their children, discussing two cases: 1) Amish parents limiting their children's education, and 2) parents choosing disabilities for their future children. The final presentation is on seeing one's own brain without surgery.
Philosophy, Dr. W.A. Kritsonis
Dr. William Allan Kritsonis earned his BA in 1969 from Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. In 1971, he earned his M.Ed. from Seattle Pacific University. In 1976, he earned his PhD from the University of Iowa. In 1981, he was a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and in 1987 was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
In June 2008, Dr. Kritsonis received the Doctor of Humane Letters, School of Graduate Studies from Southern Christian University. The ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana
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