...experience of my own, and having experienced psychological states and perceived those of others. Furthermore, it is quite clear that the physical and psychological interact in such a way that a world without Psychology seems rather absurd, to say the least. In my estimation, Jackson, in support of a priori Physicalism heads in the direction of clarity. Loar, in distinguishing concepts from properties, makes argument supporting physicalism wherein Phenomenal concepts are not reducible, and as such are neither implied by a priori nor are they necessitated by way of function. In his account it is possible to reconcile the irreducibility of phenomenal qualities with evidently physically-functional properties as we understand them. “It is my view that we can have it both ways. We may take the phenomenological intuition at face value, accepting introspective concepts and their conceptual irreducibility, and at the same time take phenomenal qualities to be identical with physical-functional properties of the sort envisaged by contemporary brain science. As I see it, there is no persuasive philosophically articulated argument to the contrary.” (Loar) Jackson, in his retraction, argues through representationalism, suggesting that the distinction be made between her sensory experience which he views as being altogether false, as, indeed, it is understood by most contemporary philosophers to be, or at the very least limited or fragmentary with respect to the whole of physical reality. Instead...
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...Meghan Loar 1/23/12 Assignment 1 Six event elements Italian Heritage Festival The purpose of the Italian heritage festival convention is to help familiarize the group of 50 meeting planners with our festival and how things are done. The festival is held every year as a huge festival that really serves as a family reunion. Traditions, parades, food, and stories are what draw most of the crowd to this event. The anticipation for this event is always exciting! We send out brochures, cards, letters, and emails to our out of town friends and relatives to make them aware of the upcoming annual festival. The same is also sent to our past entertainers to invite them back with the option of entertaining us again. Although, we completely understand if they do not wish to do so again, but encourage them to come back and enjoy the festival anyways. We of course always keep out website up to date with pictures, next year’s date, a chance to design a brochure cover art and some activities to get our “family” ready for the upcoming action! Reservations and such are planned way in advance. So for the 50 meeting planners, and other guests, their hotel and travel accommodations’ are already planned before they arrive. For the particular group of 50 coming, we have planned to show them our top spots and hotels for the formal dinners and Galas we have planned for this festival. In our city, we only have a few select hotels and banquet rooms that could accommodate our size for...
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...TUI UNIVERSITY Michael Jackson SLP: Moral problems in the U.S. Army ETH501: Business Ethics Dr. Kimberley Loar 8 July 2009 Introduction The Company that I have chosen is the one that I have been employed in since November 1985. That Company is the United States Army. The Army has changed a lot since my 24 years. The biggest change I see these days is the quality of soldier that we are allowing to join the Army. When I took the test to come in the Army the Recruiter did not have the quotas that they have these days. The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits. The Army recruited 80,635 soldiers, roughly 7,000 more than last year. Of those, about 70,000 were first-time recruits who had never served before. The moral problem is allowing soldiers to enlist, that under any other situation besides the war on terror would not be allowed to join the Army. Utilitarian considerations The recruiters have a job and obligation to put bodies in the Army and that they are doing. The Moral worth is meeting and exceeding the Army goal of 80,000 recruits. Deontological Ethics The Army has decided to give out Moral waivers that allow new recruits to enter the U.S. Army by lowering the standards that were set in place to recruit quality Soldiers. Recruiters are all about quantity over quality recruits because of the need for more soldiers due to the...
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...LOS PARADIGMAS CUALITATIVO Y CUANTITATIVO. Aravena M, Kimelman E, Micheli b, Torrealba R, Zúñiga J, Investigación educativa I. Recuperado de noviembre de 2009, de: jrvargas.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/investigacion-educativa.pdf. El texto tiene como finalidad apoyar a los estudiantes ya que precisa en los puntos principales del debate filosófico entre los paradigmas cuantitativo y cualitativo; describe características y limitaciones de éstos así como las técnicas y procedimientos adecuados para cada enfoque para el desarrollo de la investigación. En el primer capítulo los autores desarrollan los conceptos básicos de los enfoques metodológicos (cualitativo y cuantitativo) y del investigador en el proceso de investigación, para que en los capítulos siguientes desarrollándolos de forma separada, didáctica y analítica, también presenta un esquema que resume las principales características y diferencias entre el enfoque cualitativo y cuantitativo. Enfoque Cuantitativo Enfoque Cualitativo Investigación centrada en la descripción y explicación La investigación centrada en la comprensión e interpretación. Estudios bien definidos, estrechos. Estudios tanto estrechos como totales (perspectiva holística) No obstante, está dirigida por teorías e hipótesis expresadas explícitamente. La atención de los investigadores está menos localizada y se permite fluctuar más ampliamente. La investigación se concentra en la generalización y en la abstracción Los investigadores...
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...Vasileana Grace Maniu Feb 3, 2017 Eng 202 C. Loar Nature vs. Natural: A Story of Two Families In King Lear by William Shakespeare, there is a circular relationship between the characters’ behavior and Nature. That is, the destruction of the two families results from human behavior breaking accepted natural laws of Nature, and the disturbances in Nature, result from the disruption of human behavior. Nature is portrayed throughout the play from the poet's use of Nature in the natural world, representing ideas of heavenly bodies and natural roles of each character, to ideas of Nature in harmonious and orderly ways, representing ideas of human reason and ethics which all come into play when talking about both families in the tragedy. The ideas...
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...Critical Factors The major players in this case are George, Paul, and the company management. The case reveals three critical issues, two of them are organizational issues and the third one is related to human character and integrity. The critical issues are as follows: a) the company had lack of quality control system, b) the company had lack of inventory control and management system, and c) Paul showed unethical behavior and influenced George to follow the same. Detailed analyses of each of the critical issues are discussed below with appropriate references. Quality Control The company did not seem to have an effective quality control system in place. The night shift employees were asked to complete the job without putting any emphasis on the quality of the product. The management was happy as long as the assigned job was completed within the period of night shift. The company provided no training to the employees (as evidenced by the instant hiring and putting George at work immediately with no training) on how to establish, monitor, and assure the quality of the product that they produced. The night-shift employees had no idea about the harmful effects of the polluted product on the consumers and the possible consequences the company would have to face for it. Not to mention that if the consumers get sick due to their poor milk product, the company could be sued and might even go bankrupt. The night shift employees could not see the big picture and were...
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...Prevention of Breast Cancer Abstract Background Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American women according to the National Cancer Institute. Breast cancer research has found no cure and treatments vary in effectiveness. Objectives This paper will review some of the various conventional and natural prevention methods of breast cancer and evaluate the effectiveness and risks of each. Methods/Design Published studies on early detection , non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical activity and diet were reviewed. Opposing studies and risks of each were also sought and reviewed. Major Findings All methods were found to have a positive effect on reducing the risk of breast cancer except for early detection. All methods were also found to have a negative effect on breast cancer risk or have risks of other health problems except for physical activity and thermography. Conclusion Studies show that early detection does not prevent breast cancer and moderate physical activity can reduce the risk of breast cancer. All other methods have conflicting studies . Early Detection: Early detection is the most recommend method for the prevention of breast cancer, however it does not prevent breast cancer but studies show it can reduce the death rate of breast cancer. Mammography the most used and accurate form of non-evasive early detection will be examined in this paper as well as thermography, a new alternative to mammogram screenings. ...
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...What is Functionalism? Functionalism is one of the major proposals that have been offered as solutions to the mind/body problem. Solutions to the mind/body problem usually try to answer questions such as: What is the ultimate nature of the mental? At the most general level, what makes a mental state mental? Or more specifically, What do thoughts have in common in virtue of which they are thoughts? That is, what makes a thought a thought? What makes a pain a pain? Cartesian Dualism said the ultimate nature of the mental was to be found in a special mental substance. Behaviorism identified mental states with behavioral dispositions; physicalism in its most influential version identifies mental states with brain states. Functionalism says that mental states are constituted by their causal relations to one another and to sensory inputs and behavioral outputs. Functionalism is one of the major theoretical developments of Twentieth Century analytic philosophy, and provides the conceptual underpinnings of much work in cognitive science. Functionalism has three distinct sources. First, Putnam and Fodor saw mental states in terms of an empirical computational theory of the mind. Second, Smart’s "topic neutral" analyses led Armstrong and Lewis to a functionalist analysis of mental concepts. Third, Wittgenstein’s idea of meaning as use led to a version of functionalism as a theory of meaning, further developed by Sellars and later Harman. One motivation behind functionalism can be...
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...Consciousness and its Place in Nature David J. Chalmers 1 Introduction1 Consciousness fits uneasily into our conception of the natural world. On the most common conception of nature, the natural world is the physical world. But on the most common conception of consciousness, it is not easy to see how it could be part of the physical world. So it seems that to find a place for consciousness within the natural order, we must either revise our conception of consciousness, or revise our conception of nature. In twentieth-century philosophy, this dilemma is posed most acutely in C. D. Broad’s The Mind and its Place in Nature (Broad 1925). The phenomena of mind, for Broad, are the phenomena of consciousness. The central problem is that of locating mind with respect to the physical world. Broad’s exhaustive discussion of the problem culminates in a taxonomy of seventeen different views of the mental-physical relation.2 On Broad’s taxonomy, a view might see the mental as nonexistent (“delusive”), as reducible, as emergent, or as a basic property of a substance (a “differentiating” attribute). The physical might be seen in one of the same four ways. So a fourby-four matrix of views results. (The seventeenth entry arises from Broad’s division of the substance/substance view according to whether one substance or two is involved.) At the end, three views are left standing: those on which mentality is an emergent characteristic of either a physical substance or a neutral substance,...
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...A Cybernetic Defense of Type Physicalism Abstract In this paper, I examine the tenability of type physicalism within the context of a second-order cybernetic analysis of phenomenality. I begin by describing the philosophical problem type physicalism attempts to resolve and follow up with an examination of arguments against type physicalism. I then describe how arguments against type physicalism tend to rely on the ontological distinction between system and observer. Next, I show that this distinction is purely conceptual and dissolves when phenomenality is analyzed from a second-order cybernetic perspective. Within this context, type physicalism remains a tenable solution to the mind-body problem so long as an isomorphic mapping between physical and psychological processes is possible. Introduction The motivation for type physicalism stems from empirical evidence of pervasive and systematic psychoneural correlations, that is, correlations between mental phenomena and brain processes. These correlations are systematic enough to allow scientists to successfully sense, transmit, analyze, and apply the language of neurons using an assortment of sophisticated imaging techniques and brain-computer interfaces. For instance, in 2003, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, associate professor of neurobiology at the Duke University Medical Center, used a brain-computer interface system to successfully filter and utilize motor command impulses from the electrical activity of a primate brain to operate...
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...De Johnson a Jackson Juan Paulo Lepe Ríos Universidad ARCIS Título: Intérprete en Guitarra Eléctrica DEDICATORIA AGRADECIMIENTOS RESUMEN El proyecto de título que aquí presento nace a partir de la inquietud por investigar las distintas facetas del Blues y cómo este fue evolucionando a través de la historia. Una vez presentada la interrogante es posible definir los objetivos principales que fundamentalmente consisten en que el músico logre obtener las herramientas para desarrollar el sonido y lenguaje del Blues y saber aplicar los conocimientos obtenidos para transformar un tema de cualquier estilo en un Blues. La forma de trabajo consiste en realizar escuchas de exponentes del estilo para luego transcribirlas y analizarlas. Luego, se procederá a realizar ejercicios de frases y técnica para finalmente llevar a cabo la modificación de un tema pop, rock, jazz o folclórico en un Blues. ÍNDICE DEDICATORIA AGRADECIMIENTOS RESUMEN I- INTRODUCCIÓN II- BLUES, LA MÚSICA DEL DIABLO 2.1 Estilo y Estructura 2.2 Etimología III- ANTECEDENTES QUE DESENCADENARON EN EL BLUES 3.1 Tiempos de Esclavitud 3.2 Cantos de trabajo y Hollers 3.3 Inserción de una nueva religión 3.4 Llega la libertad IV- DIFERENCIACIÓN...
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...itar ------------------------------------------------- Guitar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). Guitar | A classical guitar (nylon string) | String instrument | Classification | String instrument | Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 321.322 (Compositechordophone) | Playing range | (a standard tuned guitar) | Related instruments | * Bowed and plucked string instruments | The guitar is a popular musical instrument classified as a string instrument with anywhere from 4 to 18 strings, usually having 6. The sound is projected either acoustically or through electrical amplification (for an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar, respectively). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the right hand while fretting (or pressing against the fret) the strings with the left hand. The guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern, thevihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings'...
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...The Problem of Perception First published Tue Mar 8, 2005; substantive revision Fri Feb 4, 2011 Sense-perception—the awareness or apprehension of things by sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste—has long been a preoccupation of philosophers. One pervasive and traditional problem, sometimes called “the problem of perception”, is created by the phenomena of perceptual illusion and hallucination: if these kinds of error are possible, how can perception be what it intuitively seems to be, a direct and immediate access to reality? The present entry is about how these possibilities of error challenge the intelligibility of the phenomenon of perception, and how the major theories of perception in the last century are best understood as responses to this challenge. • 1. The Problem of Perception o 1.1 Introduction o 1.2 The Argument from Illusion o 1.3 The Argument from Hallucination • 2. The Sources of the Problem o 2.1 The Ordinary Conception of Perceptual Experience 2.1.1 The Objects of Experience 2.1.2 Perceptual Presence 2.1.3 The Transparency of Experience 2.1.4 Vision and the Other Senses o 2.2 Illusion and Hallucination • 3. Theories of Perception o 3.1 The Sense-Datum Theory 3.1.1 Indirect Realism and Phenomenalism 3.1.2 Objections to the Sense-Datum Theory o 3.2 The Adverbial Theory 3.2.1 The Adverbial Theory and Qualia 3.2.2 Objections to the Adverbial Theory o 3.3 The Intentionalist Theory 3.3.1 The Sources of the Intentionalist Theory ...
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...SECOND EDITION I/1ANAGEMEIVT AND POLICY James C.Van Horne \ STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRENTICE-HALL INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY F I NANCI AL M A N A G E M E N T A N D POLICY, 2nd EDITION James C. Van Horne © 1971, 1968 by PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEW O O D CLIFFS, N.J. All rights reserved. No part of this book m ay be reproduced in any form or by any m eans without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress C atalo g C ard No.: 71-140760 Printed in the United States of America Current Printing (last digit): 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 13-315309-6 PRENTICE-HALL, INTERNATIONAL, LONDON PRENTICE-HALL OF AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD., SYD NEY PRENTICE-HALL O F CAN AD A, LTD., TO RONTO PRENTICE-HALL OF INDIA PRIVATE LTD., NEW DELHI PRENTICE-HALL OF JAPAN, INC., TO KYO 1 To Mimi, D rew , Stuart, and Stephen Preface Though significant portions of Financial Management and Policy have been changed in this revision, its purpose remains: first, to develop an understanding of financial theory in an organized manner so that the reader may evaluate the firm’s investment, financing, and dividend deci sions in keeping with an objective of maximizing shareholder wealth; second, to become familiar with the application of analytical techniques to a number o f areas o f financial decision-making; and third, to expose the reader to the institutional material necessary to give him a feel for the environment in which financial...
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