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Thrasymachus, who in Plato’s Republic defines »justice« as »whatever is in the interests of the stronger« – but it has become more popular since, especially among postmodernists, deconstructionists, and critical theorists of various kinds. 4 It is alien to Mill’s philosophical outlook, however, and so
Thrasymachus, who in Plato’s Republic defines »justice« as »whatever is in the interests of the stronger« – but it has become more popular since, especially among postmodernists, deconstructionists, and critical theorists of various kinds. 4 It is alien to Mill’s philosophical outlook, however, and so
of the soul. Interpreting the myth of Er‹, in: G. R. F. Ferrari (Hg.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2007, 445–473. Hanson, Norwood Russell, Patterns of discovery. An inquiry into the conceptual foundations of science. Cambridge: Cambridge
physiognomic theory, it should be conceded that, as mentioned above, there is some ambi- guity in Plato’s theory. It is not certain whether Plato’s idea of ›participating‹ in the Form of beauty implies that material objects contain some of that true beauty or whether the fact that being a particularised
not only ideas or contents, but also – and above all – the actions of the mind are an “object” of its contemplation. Locke’s understanding of reflection has a long hermeneutical history going back to Plato’s conception of the epistḗmē heautḗs ( ἐπιστήµη ἑαυτῆς ), 69 namely the knowledge that
proper names and with names for natural kinds. Since Frege and Russell, proper names have been held, like any singular term, to be substitutable via a description, for instance, »Aristotle« via »Alexander the Great’s teacher« or »Plato’s most famous student«.22 As is well known, Russell took up this
the Philosophy of Mind, Oxford 1994, 185–193. Rey, Georges: Concepts, in: Craig, Edward (Hrsg.): Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Band II, London 1998, 505–517. Rips, Lance J.: The Current Status of Research on Concept Combination, in: Mind and Language 10, 1995, 72–104. Robinson, Richard: Plato’s
) Why Thought Experiments Transcend Empiricism, in C. Hitchcock (ed.) Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, 23–43. Oxford: Blackwell. Brown, J.R. (2004b) »Peeking Into Plato’s Heaven«, Philosophy of Science 71, pp. 1126– 1138. Chalmers, D. (1996) The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental
distinction between reference and predication. For if we fail to make such a distinction, we would, in attempting to attribute “flying” to Theaetetus, have to attribute it to the flying Theaetetus, and Plato would not yet have made his case. In other words Plato’s discovery is that the predicate does not
language to the task of “carving (nature/the world) at its joints” (297–299; Plato’s metaphor). Ted Sider poses as the main defendant of Ontologese. Thomasson’s countercriticism of Ontologese problematizes the relation between any lan- guage and the world. In her view Ontologese is more affected by these