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Coherence as a Test for Truth
This paper sets out to demonstrate that a contrast can be drawn between coherentism as an account of the structure of justification, and coherentism as a method of inquiry.
Whereas the former position aims to offer an answer to the ‘regress of justification’ problem, the latter position claims that coherence plays a vital and indispensable role as a criterion of truth, given the fallibility of cognitive methods such as perception and
memory. It is argued that ‘early’ coherentists like Bradley and Blanshard were coherentists of the latter kind, and that this sort of coherentism is not open to certain sorts of standard objection that can be raised against justificatory coherentism
Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’? And Did Kant Think It Does?
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it is argued that while the principle of ‘ought
implies can’ is certainly plausible in some form, it is tempting to misconstrue it, and that
this has happened in the way it has been taken up in some of the current literature.
Second, Kant’s understanding of the principle is considered. Here it is argued that these
problematic conceptions put the principle to work in a way that Kant does not, so that
there is an important divergence here which can easily be overlooked
Going Beyond the Kantian Philosophy: On McDowell's Hegelian Critique of Kant
The Kant-Hegel relation has a continuing fascination for commentators on Hegel, and understandbly so: for, taking this route into the Hegelian jungle can promise many advantages. First, it can set Hegel's thought against a background with which we are fairly familiar, and in a way that makes its relevance clearly apparent; second, it can help us locate Hegel in the broader philisophical tradition, making us see that the traditional "analytic jump from Kant to Frege leaves out a crucial period in post-Kantian thought, third, it can show Hegel in a progressive light, as attempting to take that tradition further forward; fourth, it can help us locate familiar philisophical issues in Hegelian thought that other-wise can appear whooly sui generis; and finally, and perhaps most importantly of all, focusing on this relation can help raise and crystalise some of the fascinating ambiguties concerning Hegel's outlook, regarding whether Hegel's response to Kant shows him to have been a reactionary, Romantic, pre-critical thinker, who sought to turn the philosophical clock back to a time before Kant had written, or a modernist, Enlightented and essentially critical one, who remained true to the spirit if not the letter of Kant's philosophy
Is the galactic corona produced by galactic flares?
The effect of the differential rotation of the disk of the Galaxy on magnetic field which penetrates the disk is considered. The magnetic field will be progressively distorted from a potential (current-free) form and will at some stage become unstable. It is expected that an MHD instability, a resistive instability, or a combination of the two, will result in the release of the excess magnetic energy and that part of the released energy will be converted into heat. By estimating the energy release and the rate at which this process will occur and by assuming that this energy input is balanced by radiation, estimates were obtained of the parameters of the resulting plasma. It appears that this process alone can heat a galactic corona to temperatures of order 10 to the 6th power K
Statistical Filtering of Space Navigation Measurements
Statistical filtering of space navigation measurement
Terminal sterilization process calculation for spacecraft
Mathematical model for calculating terminal sterilization process for interplanetary spacecraf
Determination of Terminal Sterilization Process Parameters
Time, temperature, and microbial effects on terminal heat sterilization of spacecraf
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