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Faculty Neville
Dr. Neville teaches graduate courses in metaphysics, American philosophy, continentalrationalism, philosophy of religion, and in various topics of theology
http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/neville.html

Extractions: rneville@bu.edu (PhD, Yale University); Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Theology, Ethics, Political Theory, American Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy. Robert Neville has taught at Yale University, Fordham University, The State University of New York College at Purchase, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of: Dr. Neville has published many articles and critical reviews in philosophy and religious studies. Professor Neville has been president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and the American Academy of Religion, and has served on the boards of these and other professional societies in philosophy and religion. Dr. Neville teaches graduate courses in metaphysics, American philosophy, continental rationalism, philosophy of religion, and in various topics of theology, especially comparative (Chinese-Christian) theology.
Peter Suber, Links For "Rationalism & Empiricism"
rationalism Empiricism CourseRelated Links Peter Suber, PhilosophyDepartment, Earlham College. Since 1996 I've made link pages
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/courses/re/relinks.htm

Extractions: Course-Related Links Peter Suber Philosophy Department Earlham College Since 1996 I've made link pages like this one for each of my courses. In the meantime, the size of the web and the power of search engines have both leaped forward. The growth of the web has made representative or comprehensive link pages more difficult to produce, and the improvement of search engines has made them less necessary. Link pages can still be very useful, but to make them more useful than the best search engines takes more work than they are usually worth. So I won't be updating this link page (from the previous iteration of the course) but I leave it online in case it has any remaining utility. When I know of specific web pages helpful for a class discussion, then I'll mail out the URLs to the class email list during the semester (and I encourage you to do the same). For general online research on the many topics of the course, I recommend Google Our Six Philosophers Descartes Descartes as a mathematician . From W.W. Rouse Ball's History of Mathematics. The Descartes Project Discourse on Method . Scanned by librarians, but they didn't think to tell us which English translation they used.
>UC Davis Philosophy 175 (Mattey) Lecture Notes, Leibnizian Rationalism
Previous Lecture. Critique of Pure Reason. Lecture Notes, January 11, 1995 LeibnizianRationalism. GJ Mattey. Next Lecture. Leibniz. philosophy 175 Home Page.
http://www-philosophy.ucdavis.edu/kant/LEIBLEC2.HTM

Extractions: G. J. Mattey The realm of possible worlds is in the mind of God; only the actual world has any existence on its own, according to Leibniz. Creation is the result of God's decree, and this decree flows from God's nature. God is free in this respect: that the other worlds are options which were available for God to choose. The constituents of each possible world are distinct from those of any other world. In contemporary terms, there is no "cross-world" or "trans-world" identity. Although different worlds could contain an individual meeting the description "the first man," only one world, ours, contains Adam. In the other worlds, the first man is someone else. What makes an individual possible is that its concept contains no contradiction. For Leibniz, an individual is fully described by an individual concept; anyone grasping the concept in its entirety would know everything there is to know about that individual, save whether it exists. To put it another way, the representation of the individual is "given" through its individual concept. A contradiction is harbored by a concept just in case the analysis of that concept yields a property and its negation. For example, the concept of a square circle contains the concepts "having angles" and "not having angles," A and not-A. Thus a contradictory concept C is one which upon analysis can be found to have a property and the absence of that property. There is no guarantee that a concept is not contradictory, unless it can be analyzed into its simplest components.
Popper's Critical Rationalism
Critical rationalism (CR) is the name given to a strand of philosophythat considers the nature of problems and their solutions.
http://www.wiseword.demon.co.uk/popper/

Extractions: Criticise I hold that orthodoxy is the death of knowledge, since the growth of knowledge depends entirely on the existence of disagreement. Admittedly, disagreement may lead to strife, and even to violence. And this, I think, is very bad indeed, for I abhor violence. Yet disagreement may also lead to discussion, to argument and to mutual criticism. And these, I think, are of paramount importance, I suggest that the greatest step towards a better and more peaceful world was taken when the war of swords was first supported, and later sometimes even replaced, by a war of words. This is why my topic is of some practical significance. - Karl Popper
Triumbrate.UCC.Philosophy 224.Article Review Pancritical
Triumbrate.UCC.philosophy 224.Article Review Pancritical RationalismAn Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress. by Max More
http://triumbrate.basepair.org/phil224.extrophil.html
Evonymos Ecological Library
features thousands of annotated links and text resources for students and teachersin the field of Ecology, Environmental Science and Environmental philosophy.
http://demos.neuron.gr/evonymos/english/db/alldetailb.asp?EN_Infos=Software
Glossary Of Terms: Em
knowledge. This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer thecritique of rationalism and fell into scepticism. Experience
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/m.htm

Extractions: MIA Encyclopedia of Marxism : Glossary of Terms Empiricism Doctrine that sense experience is the sole source of knowledge. Empiricism originated in England in the seventeenth century with Bacon Hobbes and Locke , when it was a materialist Rationalist critique of Empiricism, and particularly the idealist critique of Berkeley forced empiricism to the scepticism of Hume : experience was the only source of knowledge, but could not give us "certain knowledge". For example, we may know that the Sun has always risen in the East, and this may be good enough for practical purposes, but Hume explained that we cannot know for certain that the Sun will rise in the East tommorow. Empiricism is characterised, on the one hand, by an uncritical attitude towards the categories through which Experience is grasped, and on the other by rejection of the significance of Reason in acquiring knowledge. This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of Rationalism and fell into scepticism . Experience does not by itself give necessary and universal knowledge. Experience must be supplemented by the activity of Reason. The chief defect of Empiricism is that it views experience passively , whereas in order to retain a consistent materialist understanding of experience it is necessary to recognise that it is the practical activity of people changing the world which is the condition and source of knowledge. Further, knowledge only arises in and through definite social relations, through which people produce the forms of activity under which experience can be grasped; but for Empricism, experience is not a social activity, but simply a passive, sensual process.
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