Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

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Pascal's argument for believing in god is described, namely that the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages.

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I then argue that (6) for certain things A, you cannot get A from non-A and that (7) consciousness is one of those things. The visible appearance of a dagger is exactly the same to Macbeth as if he were seeing a real dagger before him.

But it's not clear, at all, how they would help the Cornell realist with accounting for what's special about normative ways of thinking -- which, I take it, is Blackburn's main concern in relation to the Cornell view. Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the reader a self-contained guide through the problems that the philosophers have studied. The (More) Compleat Humean") is happy to operate with this kind of division, but argues that the way in which Blackburn (1998) maps this distinction onto a distinction between 'Apollonian' cognition and 'Dionysian' passion is misguided. Let's assume that someone who thinks that she ought to perform an action, φ, will, if she is rational, also intend to φ.

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A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible. You are swept between Locke's scientific realism, Berkely's subjective idealism, and Kant's transcendental idealism and by the end of the chapter, you find yourself utterly flummoxed. What would have been nice, and neutral, is a substantial section in which Simon exposes the flaws of the most common atheistic arguments AGAINST the existence of God.MacDonald doesn't offer any kind of characterization of the projectivist view that she attributes to Blackburn, but I'll note that -- keeping in mind Dreier's and Jenkins's claims, above -- an analogical 'primitivist' account of normative properties might be quite compatible with an expressivist, quasi-realist view about normativity. Dreier's chapter ("Another World: The Metaethics and Metametaethics of Reasons Fundamentalism") provides a fruitful starting point. The issue of god - being all-caring - not being compatible with a world full of suffering is raised. The message is that there is a limit to the extent to which we can "get outside" fundamental forms of thought, including logical, mathematical, scientific, and ethical thought. Dreier's and Railton's papers nicely bring out the fact that quasi-realists and the self-proclaimed realists agree on a lot.