Empiricism

The goal of this paper is to examine the positive account of casual interaction given by David Hume in his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. My aim is to explain the way that one’s ideas about a particular cause are related to an idea of a particular effect, such that the first event actually caused the second event. This will require an understanding of the technical philosophical language used by Hume as well as a deep look into the logic he used to build his theory. In the later part…

The ‘problem of induction’ has proven to be one of the most enduring problems of epistemology. Since it was first conceived by David Hume in the eighteenth century, numerous philosophers have grappled with the challenge laid before them by Hume, resulting in a splendid amount of attempts to solve or dissolve the problem.The basic problem of induction can be summarized as follows: suppose that we observe a large number of objects with characteristic “A”,noting that all of them also possess…

Memory and personal identity are an integral part of our lives. These characteristics and traits assist us in the way we make decisions and approach situations. Memory in relation to personal identity is a topic that has been studied by several Philosophers. The question of whether or not memory presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its…

As children, we are raised to believe that everyday objects we perceive are existent, for the simple fact that we can see them. However, as one gets older, it is only natural for topics such as these to be brought into question. The inquiry of whether physical objects exist is not a new topic of discussion. Philosophers have been tussling with this argument of reality V.S appearance for centuries. One of the most notable was Bertrand Russell’s argument on this topic. The Problems of Philosophy…

Note: Here, we briefly summarize results of the first-stage regressions focusing on the effects of our instrumental variables. The results show that the coefficient of distance to major roadways is positively associated with changes in overall job accessibility, but the coefficient of distance to subcenter is negatively associated with the variable. The latter makes sense because as mentioned above, jobs are generally clustered into subcenters for agglomeration economies. However, the former is…

SEMINAR PAPER-2 1) INTRODUCTION: Corruption is not a new phenomenon in India and has been prevalent since time immemorial. However, in recent times it’s in the public eye due to its cancerous spread across the length and breadth of the nation. Both the public and the private sectors are infected with corruption, making it an eminent threat to the prosperity of the nation (Bardhan, 1997), as it hampers economic growth, results in political instability, social capital and legitimacy, increases…

Numerous would along these lines contend, that from our assessment, it is important to thusly move far from cognitivism and its attention on ethical quality as a basically certain certainty. Because of the way that G.E.Moore 's reaction to naturalism comes up short by its own particular guidelines, does this not propose that moral dialect is non-psychological and hostile to realist? Firstly, we have to consider the domain of emotivism and fundamentally A.J. Ayer– the methodology that most…

Nowadays, it’s difficult to describe or pinpoint political behavior that promotes nationalism. That’s because none of us know what nationalism really is. What does it mean to be nationalistic? Is it blind obedience to the State and its laws that bind? Is it the freedom to be loyal to a certain set of ideals? Filipino nationalism was first introduced as a weapon against colonialism. For many Filipinos under Spanish rule, the love for country was the overarching reason behind wanting independence…

Among the central themes of The Last Superstition is that final causality – teleology, purpose, or goal-directedness – is as objective a feature of the natural world as mass or electric charge, and that the arguments to the contrary given by various early modern philosophers are worthless. One thinker I did not discuss in TLS is Spinoza, who puts forward a critique of final causes in the Appendix to Book I of the Ethics. Spinoza’s metaphysics is notoriously idiosyncratic and has had few…

Critique of Jennifer L. Boyer’s Research Paper on Mental Health Courts Jennifer assesses the effectiveness of mental health courts by reviewing some of the recent empirical studies on this topic. Overall, I think Jennifer did a good job finding important research studies and using them in examining the effectiveness of the mental health courts. In the following, I am going to critique Jennifer’s paper based on the guideline document provided by Dr. Lee. I will use the same topics which are laid…