Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

88 J.J. Haldane There is a general point of some importance here. Reductionists often confuse formal nature and material composi ...

Atheism and Theism 89 seems natural to say that these parts and functions exist for the well-being of the animals, be they indiv ...

90 J.J. Haldane The Emergence of Life and the Origins of Reproduction Old-style vitalism, the dualistic idea that living things ...

Atheism and Theism 91 This ‘eliminativist’ conclusion is at odds with what is generally supposed to be the case, including the p ...

92 J.J. Haldane of contemporary evolutionary theory it is conceded that not every significant characteristic, organ or power is ...

Atheism and Theism 93 channels to which the various parties have access. The present worry is that any theory claiming that comm ...

94 J.J. Haldane Engaging as it is, I suggest that this proposal fails because of a fallacy of equivocation committed in the sent ...

Atheism and Theism 95 the failure of mechanistic evolutionary theory. However, to say that it does not leaves it unexplained how ...

96 J.J. Haldane about reality, and no one who takes scientific canons of enquiry seriously should be willing to suppose that the ...

Atheism and Theism 97 the grip of a false theory of human beings. All that really exists is bodily movement arising from neuroph ...

98 J.J. Haldane identity but composition. Actions are more than movements; persons are more than bodies. Eliminativists and othe ...

Atheism and Theism 99 Taking these in reverse order, the issue of whether the physicalist world- view is adequate is precisely w ...

100 J.J. Haldane Now, however, I want to go further and argue that there are grounds for not regarding action and psychological ...

Atheism and Theism 101 allowing that reality can be, as it seems to be, composed of various distinct sorts of things constituted ...

102 J.J. Haldane developed by physical processes from non-thinking species. Where do con- cepts come from? Traditionally there h ...

Atheism and Theism 103 through the learning of general terms. Alice is enabled to think catby being taught the word ‘cat’ (or an ...

104 J.J. Haldane wood... what is changing can’t be the very same thing that is causing the same change, can’t be changing itself ...

Atheism and Theism 105 of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every ...

106 J.J. Haldane me to elaborate my objection. What needs to be accounted for is a natural transition from the non-conceptual to ...

Atheism and Theism 107 possession of the one property necessitates possession of the other. Yet trian- gularity and trilateralit ...