Analytic philosophy

Experimental Philosophy In his article 'Experimental Philosophy', Joshua Knobe (2007) gives an overview of the field of experimental philosophy and the ongoing disagreement concerning how work coming out of this relatively new endeavour should be understood in relation to analytic philosophy. Knobe asserts that people's intuitions have often played a significant role in philosophical debates within analytic philosophy (Knobe 2007: 81), particularly when dealing with moral questions. Indeed,…

Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Religion, Metaphilosophy, Pg. 39-58.
 A. Religion has always played a vital role between humans and society, especially in terms of what is good and proper. In modern world, people have become increasingly dissociated from religion and spirituality. In the article, The Problem of Relevance and the Future of Philosophy of Religion. Thomas Carroll emphasizes the importance of the study of itself. What exactly is the study of this philosophy? This…

3. A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE DECISION MAKING TOOLS USED Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty (34), is designed to solve complex multi-criteria decision problems. AHP decomposes the complex decisions in a hierarchical structure and makes it easy to manage the complex decisions in this way. So the decision maker can determine the trade-offs among objectives related to all criteria, sub-criteria and their pairwise comparisons. The output of AHP is a prioritized ranking…

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician who made huge contributions to the field of mathematics, and more specifically calculus. Riemann was born on September 17, 1826 in Breselenz, Germany. His father, Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, was a poor pastor, and his mother, Charlotte Ebell, died before her children had reached adulthood. Growing up, Riemann showed exceptional skill with mathematics, such as his abilities in calculation. In fact, in 1840, Riemann went to live with his…

writings are actually Socrates thoughts, Socrates was the main philosopher behind Plato’s philosophies. The philosophies were structured around, thinking your own mind/obtaining knowledge, living the good life, and the immortal soul. Kant’s philosophies can be looked at as branches from Plato’s knowledge and thought because of the gap in their lifetimes though they are independent and unrelated. Kant’s philosophies are centred around our reality of what ‘reality’ is, the categorial imperative, a…

The argument against cognitivism is dubbed non-cognitivism, which is a form of expressivisim, that comes in many forms including emotivism, prescriptivism, norm expressivism, quasi-realism, and assertoric descriptivism. Cognitivism is the idea that an ethical question has a right or wrong answer simply in being, so thus in non-cognitivism one is going against this idea of black and white, or that moral absolutes does not exist. Each of the types of expressivism is unique in its approach. For…

over-arching theory that tied together all aspects and fields of philosophy. He elaborates a logic that is designed to describe what exists in the world. Ancient commentators regarded logic as a widely applicable method for careful thinking. They grouped Aristotles six logical treatises into a sort of manual they called the Organon (Greek for “tool””). The Organon included the categories, On Interpretation, the Prior Analytics, the Posterior Analytics, the Topics, and On Sophistical…

Starting out, George Berkeley begins with having a clear understanding and characterization of common sense. He says that there are two principles by which we characterize “commonsense realism”. George Berkeley says the two principles are, “1. Things exist independently of our perceiving that they do. 2. Things have the qualities they seem to have: The rose we see is really red, the sugar on our tongue is really sweet, and the fire we approach is really hot” (Melchert 382). Previously, Galileo,…

Philosophy seems to me to break down the world, ridding it of its mundane features and delving beneath to tackle the problems, which, although extremely complex and intricate, are those most fundamental at the heart of our existence. From my wider reading, it is evident that some philosophical discussions change and evolve with time, whilst others do not currently, and may never, find themselves satisfied solely with scientific discoveries and theories. It the philosopher’s role to analyse the…

When the term modern philosophy is brought up, one would think of findings in the field from the 1900’s and onward. But upon looking into the subject one would find that modern philosophy starts a few hundred years back. In the 1600’s modern and western philosophy started taking root with the ideas of a great philosopher of the time, Rene Descartes. Often known as the father of modern philosophy, Descartes’, ideas and findings are greatly influential to many different fields of study today. On…