plato 1s doctrine of recollection is often identified witb innatism, and he is said to be an innatist. the present pape0 alongside j,vifh e:x:plaining this doctrine and other related doctrines in plato's epistemology, argues that the doctrine of recollection is not necessarily the same as innatism. it is a matter of fact that, in plato's epistemology1 perception and intellectual epist...

In Plato’s Meno the overarching question is whether virtue can be taught, and as Socrates and Meno explore this subject they are led to question the nature of teaching and learning in general. The following is a textual analysis into what Socrates believes to constitute teaching in the Meno, with the nature of learning also being tangentially addressed given the integral link between the two. A...

In his article "Animal Rights," [lJ Jan Narveson presents an alternative "rroral" theory to what he calls the "Singer-Regan position." This theory--"rational egoism"-­ \\Quld exclude non-human animals from rroral consideration and deny them all rights. His excuse for developing this "nasty doctrine" is that he is "not convinced that they [Sing­ er and Regan] are right" and that "there is much t...

according to common law rules of england, obligation by one party is enforceable when the other has provided a consideration or the contract has been put in a deed. in some common law jurisdictions, such as australia, canada and the united states, another doctrine, named reasonable reliance, has developed, which could act as surrogate for the doctrine of consideration. english courts, however, ...

The doctrine of divine simplicity, the doctrine that God has no physical or metaphysical complexity whatsoever, is not a doctrine designed to induce immediate philosophical acquiescence. There are severe questions about its coherence. And even if those questions can be answered satisfactorily in favour of the doctrine, there remains the question why anyone should accept it. Thomas V. Morris rai...

To better understand neural recollection processing, we induced interference in target recollection by presenting related lures before their respective targets and facilitated recollection rejection of lures by presenting targets before their related lures. Target recollection following interference recruited visual and prefrontal cortices, showing that these regions support recollection when r...

Recollection rejection or "recall-to-reject" is a mechanism that has been posited to help maintain accurate memory by preventing the occurrence of false memories. Recollection rejection occurs when the presentation of a new item during recognition triggers recall of an associated target, a mismatch in features between the new and old items is registered, and the lure is correctly rejected. Crit...