Recent Philosophy Notes PDF

**(Sept 11,2024)** Incorrigible Truth- truth that you and you alone can know. Ancient Modern Recent - **(Sept 18,2024)** 1. - Eg: Phenomenolgy, Existentialism Rational Orientation Humanistic- concerned about human experience eg:consciousness, anxiety, death and being. Individuali...

**(Sept 11,2024)** Incorrigible Truth- truth that you and you alone can know. Ancient Modern Recent - **(Sept 18,2024)** 1. - Eg: Phenomenolgy, Existentialism Rational Orientation Humanistic- concerned about human experience eg:consciousness, anxiety, death and being. Individualistic - 2. Traditions: - - One of the overall sim of developing a logical analysis of language was to show how metaphysical statements could be proven to be meaningful, by the nature of their logical form. - mathematics and logic Hegel, Frege, Moore and Russell used such concepts to derive the theoretical perspective of Logical Analysis. 3. - -Lingusitic Philosophy has three basic functions: 1. 2. 3. **(Sept 25, 2024)** Theory of Descriptions ( Philosopher - Russ) - - Objectives: - - **(Oct 9, 2024)** **Logical Positivism** - - **Proponents (influence the Vienna Circle)** **Vienna Circle** - - - ( They denied that any principle or claim was synthetic a priori.) -Kant **Influences of Logical Positivism** - - - - - **Hume's Fork** - 1. 2. - 1. - **(Oct 23, 2024)** **TOPIC:Phenomenology** - - - - **(Oct 30, 2024)** **A phenomena is external to the psyche.** **TOPIC: PRAGMATISM** **-Truth** Is there anything that is absolute? **Heraclitus ( "NO MAN CAN STEP IN THE SAME RIVER TWICE" )** Everything in *flux*- the world is being created anew each instant. **Parmenides** Only that which is *unchanging* is real. So reality must be composed of an eternal unchanging substance. WHAT IS TRUTH?