'Logical positivists' diaporamas de présentation

Philosophy 1010 Class #5 - 7/8/2010

Philosophy 1010 Class #5 - 7/8/2010. Title: Introduction to Philosophy Instructor: Paul Dickey E-mail Address: pdickey2@mccneb.edu. Discuss movie mini-essays on Human Nature. Good job, everybody!. Midterm Exam next Thursday - July 15 Chap 1-3 + Critical Thinking.

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Religious Language

Religious Language. Your A2 Topic Has Two Aspects:. Verification and Falsification. Some philosophers (particularly Logical Positivists) argue that religious language is meaningless because it cannot be verified or falsified (shown to be true or false).

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Religious Language

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Logical Empiricism

Logical Empiricism. From optimism to surrender. The logical part: First order logic. First order (quantified) logic combines the resources of truth functional propositional connectives, a simple subject-predicate analysis of sentences and (individual) variables and quantifiers.

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EPM : Ch II

EPM : Ch II. Pete Mandik Chairman, Department of Philosophy Coordinator, Cognitive Science Laboratory William Paterson University, New Jersey USA. Some Background: Mental States that are propositional attitudes vs. mental states that are not. Examples of propositional attitudes:

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Philosophy 1010 Class #7

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Philosophy 1010 Class #7

Philosophy 1010 Class #7. Title: Introduction to Philosophy Instructor: Paul Dickey E-mail Address: pdickey2@mccneb.edu. Today Turn In Video Quiz Discuss Class Essay Finish Chapter 3 Discussion Midterm Exam, Chapters 1-3 and Critical Thinking

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Philosophy 1010 Class #8

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Paradigm Shifts

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The Vienna Circle

The Vienna Circle. LO: I will know about the Verification principle and its implications for religious statements. Recap: Synthetic statements. Statements may be proved true or false by an empirical test

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Discuss the following statements. What issues arise for the logical positivists?

Discussion : Can one meaningfully talk of a transcendent metaphysical God acting ( creating sustaining, being loving ) in a physical empirical world?.

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