...SIX BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY Adrienne Byrd AIU Introduction to Philosophy: PHIL201 - 1404A – 12 Jerry Nwonye February 21, 2015 Abstract The term Logic begins from two Greek words Philos and Sophia which means Adoration for Knowledge or Quest for Learning. Theory is deciphered in a wide range of routes by various savants. Plato is a widely acclaimed scholar known for his numerous philosophical studies says that, "reasoning is the securing of learning." While an alternate celebrated logician by the name of Karl Marx's states that, "logic is an understanding of the world to change." In fundamental terms rationality is the investigation of information and it is separated into six limbs known as transcendentalism, epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, political theory, and social theory. These extensions solicit the confusing inquiries from the world. Today we will talk about these distinctive limbs and what they intend to the world. SIX BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY Metaphysics is the investigation of what's genuine and it doubts our presence and reason in life. It is thought to be the establishment of logic and without it we would be left with no clarification in respect to how we ought to manage reality. Metaphysics ask the "What is" inquiries of the world. Case in point: "Do you have a spirit?" or "Do you trust in God?" It is my conviction that we live in both a physical and otherworldly world and I say...
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...[pic] |Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 | |Student Course Guide | |Prerequisite: None | |Quarter |Fall 2010 | |Meeting Days/Time |Wednesday 6pm-10pm | |Instructor |Karmetria Burton | |Instructor Phone |678 362 0842 | |Instructor E-mail |Karmetria.burton@strayer.edu | |Instructor Office Hours/Location |5-6 pm Wednesdays or by appointment | |Academic Office Phone Number | | |INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL - Required ...
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...in 1981. While studying the effects of epilepsy, Sperry discovered that cutting the corpus collosum (the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain) could reduce or eliminate seizures. However, Sperry also discovered that after the two parts were no longer connected, the patients could no longer name objects that were processed by the right side of the brain, but were able to name objects that were processed by the left-side of the brain. Based on this information, Sperry suggested that the left side of the brain is used to process certain information such as language. When researching the different sides of the brain, it has been noted that each side is capable of leaning the same things just in a different way. The right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. The right side of the brain processes information such as: • Recognizing faces • Expressing emotions • Music • Reading emotions • Color • Images • Intuition • Creativity The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language and analytical thinking. The left side of the brain processes information such as: • Language • Logic • Critical thinking • Numbers •...
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... | |Name |Employee Recognition Framework | |Description |Design, develop and implement the employee recognition framework | |Sponsor | | |Project Manager | | |Project Team Resources | |Communications, Policy, Healthy Workplace Advisory group, | | | |Attraction & Retention working group | |2.0 Business reasons for project | |Improve government’s ability to attract and recruit high quality candidates and to compete more effectively (with the private sector and other levels of| |government for candidates) | |Respond to the level of employee engagement and employee perceptions relayed though...
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...reader’s perception of, well…success. In the book, he shifts the reader’s prior basic understanding of success and focuses instead on all the hidden, underlying biases and correlations of success. He proposed the notion that the month one was born in can separate the great athletes from the average, that how high your IQ is may not actually matter as much as many people are lead to believe it does, and that a number can be put on the amount of time one would need to practice in order to become proficient in a particular skill. Yet another example to add to the previously mentioned list of unfair advantages in the road to success, it has been found in numerous studies that even one's name can affect things ranging from your salary to how others can perceive you in general. When going after a job or promotion in any professional American setting, not only would one have to fulfill the asked of requirements, one must look the part and even sound the part. According to a study conducted by TheLadders, an online job matching site, every extra letter in a person’s first name may lead to a reduction in that person’s annual salary by $3,600. In the grand scheme of things, that’s a lot of lost money just for having a few extra letters in one's name. By this logic, there’s no wonder why many people in the business field opt to go by nicknames such as a William to a Bill or even just from a...
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...IRWIN PHILOSOPHY/POP CULTURE S E R I E S R Can drugs take us down the rabbit-hole? R Is Alice a feminist icon? curiouser To learn more about the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, visit www.andphilosophy.com and WILLIAM IRWIN is a professor of philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles, including Batman and Philosophy, House and Philosophy, and Watchmen and Philosophy. curiouser RICHARD BRIAN DAVIS is an associate professor of philosophy at Tyndale University College and the coeditor of 24 and Philosophy. R I C H A R D B R I A N D AV I S AND PHILOSOPHY Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as a blue caterpillar who smokes a hookah, a cat whose grin remains after its head has faded away, and a White Queen who lives backward and remembers forward? Is it all just nonsense? Was Carroll under the influence? This book probes the deeper underlying meaning in the Alice books and reveals a world rich with philosophical life lessons. Tapping into some of the greatest philosophical minds that ever lived— Aristotle, Hume, Hobbes, and Nietzsche—Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy explores life’s ultimate questions through the eyes of perhaps the most endearing ...
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...Introduction to Philosophy Φιλοσοφια BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, Ethics * Epistemology - Studies how human beings acquire knowledge Proponents: John Locke: we came into this world naked both physically and intellectually Empiricism – All knowledge comes from experience which is made possible through sense perceptions Example: I have an idea of an apple because I see an apple Immanuel Kant: proposed that categories in the mind exists; contradicts empiricism and believes in innate ideas Example: ideas pertaining to mathematics e.g. The idea of “1” exist in the mind; all else outside of the mind are merely manifestations of “1” in the mind. * Metaphysics - Attempts to study the whole of reality by identifying the fundamental properties of being: Essence and Existence * Essence is that something which endures and allows us to recognize a being as it is * Existence is the fundamental property of being which all of us share. * Logic - The science of correct reasoning Example: * “Practice makes perfect, but no one is perfect. Why practice?” * “A ruler is 12 inches long. Queen Elizabeth is a ruler. Therefore, Queen Elizabeth is 12 inches long.” * Ethics - The science of the morality of the human conduct and of the good life. * Concerned with what is good and what is evil * However, these qualities (good & evil) do not apply to all beings. It only applies to rational beings ...
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...judges, we have to be cognizant of our personal biases (e.g. religious, moral, ethical values; ethnic customs and values, cultural bias and prejudice; values based on personal experiences, etc.); we must be able to think beyond the limits of our own “tribe” -so, be aware of our personal belief systems (egocentrism and ethnocentrism) -“Teams” can help prevent some of these personal biases Ethics In Engineering -Engineers must ensure the health, safety and welfare of the public -Do businesses in general operate according to this general principle of ethics? -Whistleblowers may be necessary to take a stand against organizational corruption Critical Thinking -see table 10.2 on page 242 -Argument skills: informal logic helps students support beliefs they already hold (??????????) -“We believe that students who are taught to apply creative problem solving will learn critical thinking skills and progress to higher stages in the Perry model.” P 243 -Critical thinking needs a more broadly defined concept that includes playing with ideas and creatively developing analogies and metaphors, not...
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...should doubt because he does not have certainty of its existence. If seeing a table is assumed to be based on sense-data, it would mean that the table cloth used to cover it should be suspended on air and by a miracle leaving enough space that was initially thought to be covered by the table. This means that for the cloth to exist, a table should exist as well. However, Descartes can refute this claim by Russell to be based on sense-data and dreams. Nevertheless, the problem would be explaining how each person who sees the table and the cloth can only be assumed to be dreaming. It would also be required that Descartes explains how each person seeing the two objects gives them the names table and cloth. It is to imply that the two exist otherwise people would not have the same dreams at the same time and name the objects using the same...
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...CLASS ASSIGNMENT For PAPER 2, SECTION 2: WESTERN METAPHYSICS On WILLIAM OF OCKHAM SUBMITTED BY: HARISH S PEDPAROLU MA PART 1 WEEKDAY BATCH ABSTRACT This write-up seeks to take stock of the philosophy of William of Occam , in the context of his position in the history of medieval philosophy and with reference to not just his ‘razor ‘ but also of his views on ethics, politics and epistemology as well. It begins with an account of medieval philosophy and its chronology followed by a brief survey of the problems central to medieval musings. The problem of universals and particulars is then brought in and is discussed with reference to the raging conflict between the realists, on one hand , and the nominalists on the other . The views of Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus ,in reaction to whom , much of the philosophy of William of Occam took shape , are related . What follows is an account of Occam’s razor, its being rooted in Occam’s position on the problem of universals and the distinction he draws between the knowledge capable of being reasoned and the understanding based solely on faith. His ethical and political views are touched and a few comments are made about the impact and relevance of his views in the Middle Ages. The beginnings of what has come to be classified as the ‘Medieval period ‘ in the historical discourse...
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...Metaethics Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theoryfocus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, for example, physician-assisted suicide, while nonetheless agreeing at the more abstract level of a general normative theory such as Utilitarianism, so too may people who disagree at the level of a general normative theory nonetheless agree about the fundamental existence and status of morality itself, or vice versa. In this way, metaethics may be thought of as a highly abstract way of thinking philosophically about morality. For this reason, metaethics is also occasionally referred to as “second-order” moral theorizing, to distinguish it from the “first-order” level of normative theory. Metaethical positions may be divided according to how they respond to questions such as the following: * Ÿ What exactly are people doing when they use moral words such as “good” and “right”? * Ÿ What precisely is a moral value in the first place, and are such values similar to other familiar sorts of entities, such as objects and properties? * Ÿ Where do moral values come from—what is their source and foundation? * Ÿ Are some things morally right or wrong for all people at all times, or does morality instead vary from person to person, context to context...
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...communicate with each other.[5] Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors: subfields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. AI research is also divided by several technical issues. There are subfields which are focussed on the solution of specific problems, on one of several possible approaches, on the use of widely differing tools and towards the accomplishment of particular applications. The central problems of AI include such traits as reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.[6] General intelligence (or "strong AI") is still among the field's long term goals.[7] Currently popular approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence and traditional symbolic AI. There are an enormous number of tools used in AI, including versions of search and mathematical optimization, logic, methods based on probability and economics, and many others. The field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens—can be so precisely described...
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...Integration Paper Thiago DeSouza Psychology and the Bible Liberty University Abstract Integration for many years has been a topic of discussion between psychologists and Christian leaders. The debate between the two disciplines has been whether or not the two can coexist together or if the two disciplines should never merge. Epistemology, cosmology, and philosophical anthropology lays down the foundation for integration. Both disciplines seek to understand human behavior and both seek to fix what appears to be broken within humanity. Both disciplines seek for truth. Psychology seeks for truth through science and what has been observed, whereas the source for truth for Christianity is found in God through His Words and His Works. The two may not contradict. There are several models of integration and they look to explain what the relationship between psychology and Christianity ought to be. The Allies model, which is discussed in more depth, holds the view that truth is found in God’s Words and Works and that God is sovereign over all things. Integration Paper The integration of psychology and Christianity has been a topic of discussion for many years and will be for many more years to come. It is important that this discussion is not put aside but rather be openly discussed among members from both disciplines. There are many models within integration and they all offer their own perspectives on the relationship between psychology and Christianity. One is not necessarily...
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...six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you: 1. Discuss how Joe could address the importance of understanding how people form perceptions and make attributions about others with his employees. 2. Evaluate which learning theory (either operant conditioning, social learning theory, or the learning theory you researched in Week 3) would be most appropriate for Joe to apply in this situation and explain why. 3. Discuss ways that Joe could apply the learning theory you selected to improve employees’ performance. 4. Determine how Joe could leverage an understanding of the value of self-efficacy to ensure he hires the most successful salespeople. 5. Include three (3) external peer-reviewed sources to support your position. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: • Identify the key factors that contribute to individual perceptions. • Review learning theories and their relationship to organizational performance. • Use technology and information resources...
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...What is ”Corporate Image” and “Corporate Identity” – and why do people talk so much about it? Dominique Bouchet Professor, Department of Marketing University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark www.bouchet.dk – dom@sam.sdu.dk – Fax: + (45) 65 33 19 13 Image, identity and culture are concepts occupying the minds of companies and organizations of our time, because things must be connected in a world where every institution’s or person’s role and place are renegotiated almost everyday. Companies’ increasing concern about their image, identity and culture must be seen in relation to a number of changes that influence their roles and opportunities. Today, the information we receive is no longer scarce; actually the amount of information is drowning us. This abundance has created much confusion. Demand and supply for information are disoriented and, thus, become increasingly dependent on the guidelines and criteria for sorting information in order to reduce confusion. Orientation is less and less a matter of gathering information and more and more a matter of sorting and connecting. The company’s consumers, stakeholders and employees are all influenced by this development. Further, more and more people are now concerned about things other than material goods. For example, what we eat and how we should handle waste have become central issues for consumers and employees. The ecological concern and political consumption make the...
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