A few years ago (while researching embodied cognition) I focused for some time on disorders of experience, which affect representation or beliefs regarding one’s own body. One of the most fascinating and dramatic disorders was somatoparaphrenia (sometimes also astomatognosia) (Feinberg 2002). This disorder is when the patient believes that, for example, his hand is his aunt’s or wife’s hand. Or...

How to treat others is a key topic in Laozi’s thought. Laozi not only advocates “non-action” (wuwei 無爲), or interfering with others, but also hopes that actors will take some positive responsibilities for others. He expects can implement the instructions of Dao 道 and fulfill role “assisting achieve their self-so-ness daring interfere” (chapter 64). believes “one person become more abundant when...

A doctor has a duty to give his patient what he believes to be the best treatment. An ethical prerequisite of recommending her to enter a randomised clinical trial (RCT), in which his patient will be randomly allotted to one of two or more treatments, is, as Michael Baum in his chapter stresses, that he is ignorant about their relative efficacy and, hence, justifiably indifferent as to which sh...

Abstract Daniel Kehlmann’s novel Mahlers Zeit questions the role of time as a fundamental tool through which humans access world. While novel’s protagonist believes that he can debunk linearity time, narration text remains ambiguous about whether or not is right. As oscillates between different conceptions time—each presented plausible only to be denied again—it develops an image world inscruta...

that time not given the credit that they now receive. Garrod was an individual who was far ahead of his time. He owed much to fellow scientists such as Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, whom he had known at Guy's Hospital before he went to Cambridge. There was also a close affinity between his own ideas and those of J. B. S. Haldane. On a personal level it is not surprising that in later life he b...

According to contemporary representationalism, phenomenal qualia—of specifically sensory experiences—supervene on representational content. Most arguments for representationalism share a common, phenomenological premise: the so-called ‘‘transparency thesis.’’ According to the transparency thesis, it is difficult—if not impossible—to distinguish the quality or character of experiencing an object...

The signatures which appear below verify the fact that all required changes have been incorporated and that the thesis/dissertation has received iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It has always been my dream to discover the unknown, understand the truth beneath the phenomena, and apply what I have learned to benefit us human beings. I was born in a traditional Taiwanese family in which education is always of ...

Who Believes in Belief? William Pooley (bio) modernity, belief, alief, doubt, Jason Josephson Storm, Michael Saler, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Nils Bubandt The "disenchantment of the world" remains a guiding metanarrative for many histories last four hundred years Europe. There are those who continue to argue what Keith Thomas called general "decline magic," even if they disagree about chronologies a...

Nevertheless, he argues that the evidence for a compositional truth-theoretic semantics is pretty glib, because one can give a correct model of language understanding and productivity without assuming a compositional truth-theoretic semantics. In the seventh chapter of the book he suggests a counterexample to the compositional view about language understanding. He describes a possible world in ...