Postulates of Empirical Thought

1928 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Henry Bradford Smith
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Thought

Hume’s Attack on the “Impious Maxim” as the Hidden Spine of the Critique

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-160
Author(s):  
Abraham Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Idealism ◽  
Sufficient Reason ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Principle Of Sufficient Reason ◽  
Empirical Thought

Chapter 5 tests the proposal that it was Hume’s attack on the principle of sufficient reason that first interrupted Kant’s dogmatic slumber and set Kant on the path to the Critique by looking, in the Critique, for echoes of Enquiry 12.29 note (d). It finds such echoes in the Transcendental Ideal, the Postulates of Empirical Thought, the Analogies of Experience, and the Antinomy of Pure Reason. It seeks to explain how Enquiry 12.29 note (d) might have helped suggest the solution to the Antinomy, transcendental idealism. It discusses Boehm’s view that the Antinomy is a reply to Spinoza. Kant is indeed responding to Spinoza, but also to Clarke; his response to both is inspired by Hume.

Describing Sound

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Wallmark ◽  
Roger A. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Empirical Thought ◽  
Linguistic Account ◽  
Human Embodiment

Timbre exists at the confluence of the physical and the perceptual, and due to inconsistencies between these frames, it is notoriously hard to describe. This chapter examines the relationship between timbre and language, offering a critical review of theoretical and empirical thought on timbre semantics and providing a preliminary cognitive linguistic account of timbre description. It first traces the major conceptual and methodological advances in psychological timbre research since the 1970s with a focus on the mediating role of verbalization in previous paradigms. It then discusses the cognitive mechanisms underlying how listeners map timbral qualities onto verbal attributes. Applying a cognitive linguistic approach, the chapter concludes that timbre description may reflect certain fundamental aspects of human embodiment, which may help account for certain trans-historical and cross-cultural consistencies in descriptive practices.

Must Conceptually Informed Perceptual Experience Involve Non-Conceptual Content?

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Sedivy
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Experience ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Proper Part ◽  
Nonconceptual Content ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Empirical Thought ◽  
Mental Contents

The idea of nonconceptual contents proposes that there are mental contents at the level of the experiencing person that are individuated independently of ‘anything to do with the mind.’ Such contents are posited to meet a variety of theoretical and explanatory needs concerning concepts and conceptual mental contents which are individuated in terms having to do with the mind. So to examine the idea of nonconceptual content we need to examine whether we really need to posit such content and whether there is a coherent, viable way of doing so. I will examine the idea of nonconceptual contents by considering Christopher Peacocke's attempt, in his Study of Concepts, to posit such contents.Three principal kinds of considerations motivate positing non-conceptual content: epistemological, phenomenological, and explanatory-psychological. A theory of knowledge might posit nonconceptual content in order to show that our experience contains the justificatory base for empirical thought as its own proper part. Non-conceptual content might also be posited in order to account for the finely detailed or determinate phenomenological character of perceptual experience.

The Islamic Secular

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Humeira Iqtidar
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Empirical Thought

Professor Sherman A. Jackson, an authority on Islamic legal and intellectualhistory, has claimed in this article that a particular form of the secular is internalto Islam. For him, the secular is primarily a manifestation of the differentiationof spheres of human life. The Islamic secular, he argues, is revealedthrough a close reading of the boundaries that the Sharia self-imposes uponits jurisdiction and that implicitly operationalizes a type of differentiation. Hisargument rests upon a distinction between Sharia and the wider religion ofIslam. This allows him to claim that the Sharia’s self-limitation supported arecognition of other modes of reasoning and argumentation within Islam, andthat it is this space of non-Sharia reasoning that constitutes the space of thesecular within Islam. Arguing for such a relationship between Sharia and thesecular, then, leads him to point out that the distinction between the Islamicand the Western seculars lays not so much in the substance, but in their function.In other words, substantively both versions of the secular seem to supportrational, empirical thought; however, in the case of Islam, the function of thesecular is not to reduce of religion.

scholarly journals The concept of health in Collective Health: contributions from social and historical critique of scientific production

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo José de Souza e Silva ◽  
Lilia Blima Schraiber ◽  
André Mota
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Knowledge Area ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Empirical Thought

Abstract This study aimed to understand the concept of health within Collective Health. Our analysis starts from Marxism as a theoretical reference, both to define what is a “concept” and to understand the critical thinking of Collective Health. As empirical research the bibliographic production of the main journals that bring together Collective Health publications as a knowledge area was used, which resulted in 34 papers that somehow treated the concept of health, even if it was not the main object of the study. From this analysis we identified at least three different modalities of definitions, which varied both in the referential basis used to apprehend and analyze empirical realities concerning health, and in the conceptualization of social that could be in this analysis. We have also identified that the papers ranged between a production that was strictly descriptive of these empirical realities and strictly theoretical essays, rather than to produce a concrete (empirical) thought based on the elected definition of social. It was concluded that within Health Collective the concept of health has been taken, in general, either as a notion (a partial approximation of the object) or as a motto, from an ethical-political engagement that ends up relegating the theoretical-conceptual contribution to the background.

Mental Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianni Pirelli
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Clinical Disorders ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Empirical Thought

In this chapter, the authors provide a broad overview of diagnosable psychiatric disorders, their symptoms, and examples of current theoretical and empirical thought underlying these conditions. In providing a primer concerning mental health, they first review the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), with respect to how psychopathology is defined and the nature of the diagnostic system. They then shift to definitions, key examples, and example theories for (i) clinical disorders (e.g., depressive and anxiety disorders), (ii) personality disorders (with an emphasis on borderline and antisocial personality disorders), and (iii) substance use disorders. While this chapter draws heavily from the DSM-5, such is done primarily for educational and illustrative purposes within the broader context of discussing key issues related to the behavioral science of firearms.

Kant on Freedom of Empirical Thought

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Kohl
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Thought
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