PHI 3398 Chapter : Notes on Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man
4 Dec 2013
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Notes on philosophy and the scientific image of man. We know how to use words like truth, without any deep philosophical reflection at all. ), but in others we seem to be quite different: capable of awareness, deliberation and purposive action as opposed to mere. Behaviour; subject to social norms, and responsible for our actions, with a concept of ourselves (and of others). A mere image can be objective so long as there are social norms that govern how it is described, i. e. so long as it is shared. But we cannot mistake this sharing for the mere factual possession of similar. This odd, reflexive status appears also in the case of conceptual thinking, where the status of concepts is dependent on their relations to a conceptual system. Outside the norms that link concepts together into a system, there is nothing recognizably conceptual (kant: concepts as rules guiding the activity of thinking).
