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In this paper, I show how a theory’s overall virtue is shaped by its ideological parsimony -- parsimony with respect to the terminology employed in stating the theory. I distinguish between a theory’s truth and its fidelity ('joint-carvingness') and the corresponding epistemic and fidelic virtues.
Mar 1, 2021 · DOI: 10.1111/papq.12349. Authors: Peter Finocchiaro. Wuhan University. Citations (5) References (37) Abstract. Many metaphysicians utilize the virtue‐driven methodology. According to this...
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High-Fidelity Metaphysics. Peter Finocchiaro. December 16, 2019. Abstract. When metaphysicians debate which among rival theories is most worthy of endorsement, they often utilize the virtue-driven methodology.
High-Fidelity Metaphysics. P. Finocchiaro. Published 2019. Philosophy. When metaphysicians debate which among rival theories is most worthy of endorsement, they often utilize the virtue-driven methodology.
- Preface
- 8 Human rationality and arti®cial intelligence
- 9 Action, intention and will
- 10 Personal identity and self-knowledge
- Introduction
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- 1 I say more about the notion of a `subject of experience' in my book of that title, Subjects of Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996): see espe-cially chs. 1 and 2.
- The philosophy of mind is not only concerned with the philo-sophical analysis of mental or psychological concepts, how-
Introduction Empirical psychology and philosophical analysis Metaphysics and the philosophy of mind A brief guide to the rest of this book Minds, bodies and people Cartesian dualism The conceivability argument The divisibility argument Non-Cartesian dualism Are persons simple substances? Conceptual objections to dualistic interaction Empirical obje...
Rationality and reasoning The Wason selection task The base rate fallacy Mental logic versus mental models Two kinds of rationality Arti®cial intelligence and the Turing test Searle's `Chinese room' thought-experiment The Frame Problem Connectionism and the mind Conclusions
Agents, actions and events Intentionality The individuation of actions Intentionality again Trying and willing Volitionism versus its rivals Freedom of the will Motives, reasons and causes Conclusions
The ®rst person Persons and criteria of identity Personal memory Memory and causation Animalism Knowing one's own mind Moore's paradox and the nature of conscious belief Externalism and self-knowledge Self-deception Conclusions
What is the philosophy of mind? One might be tempted to answer that it is the study of philosophical questions concerning the mind and its properties ± questions such as whether the mind is distinct from the body or some part of it, such as the brain, and whether the mind has properties, such as consciousness, which are unique to it. But such an an...
be minded. More speculatively, the things in question might even include disembodied spirits, such as angels and God, if such things do or could exist. Is there some single general term which embraces all minded things, actual and possible? Not, I think, in everyday language, but we can suggest one. My suggestion is that we use the term `subject' f...
ing how either ordinary people or empirical psychologists use the word `see'. Of course, we cannot completely ignore every-day usage in trying to analyse such a concept, but we must be ready to criticise and re®ne that usage where it is confused or vague. The philosophical study of any subject matter is above all a critical and re ̄ective exercise ...
2 It is in the Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe, 2nd edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), § 124, that Ludwig Wittgenstein famously says that `Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language . . . [i]t leaves everything as it is'. As will be gathered, I strongly disagree with this doctrine, which has, in my view, h...
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This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reflect on metaphysical problems.
High-fidelity experiments would be those one-off experiments where an agent’s behavior provides strong evidence against the possession of a virtue, whereas low-fidelity experiments would be those in which this was not the case.
