non-cognitivist

prescriptivists---moral lang issues commands

emotivists---language expresses emotions


two kinds of non-cognitivists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cognitivism

wow
against ethics of any kind

moral anti-realism

mysticism

lingo

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter20.html

virginia woolf on george moore, the novelist alas

channeling inner wittgenstein re facti-ness

lol

cognitivism
idea moral claims can be true or false
truth-apt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitivism_(psychology)
moral realism
earlier today with coventry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism

dispositive

moral sensitivity

wittgenstein is great today

despite the stuffy room and kevin hill's aversion to breaks of any kind!!!!  it becomes more distracting as a slow tickle of individuals filter in and out and then---well a break would be wonderful!!!

so glad to be here

empiricists this morn was amazing as usual on schedule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine

doctrine in quine

quant mech
non-bivalent logic

emp evidence
bivalence false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

ethics next
and meaningless

tractarian line
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/papers/wittethics.html

collision of george moore and schopenhauer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moore_(novelist) augustus---a different one, the irish moore

versus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore


teh ethical philosopher


all metaethics is a response to him

utilitarianism as a species of ethical naturalism

morally obligatory for the greatest happiness for the greatest number

metaethics
ethical naturalism

hung with russel and wittgenstein

bloomsbury circle
virginia woolf
lytton strachey and the bloomsbury group

facts as pictures of facts

experiential data

cantica

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8s200961&chunk.id=d0e15343&toc.id=d0e15343&brand=ucpress

my world
the world

subjectivity comes in a new linguistified way

atomic facts

picture theory of meaning
lynchpin of meaning

janus faced

facts in their own right

what makes a picture be a picture

truth tables

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Circle

rudolph carnap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Carnap

on heideggar

this is nonsense!!!!
derision, dismissiveness

about nothingness

infl. sartre of course

carnap ran with a wittgenstein idea and ran with it in a hume-ian way

extension of enlightenment anti-clerical

hume-ian spin
what does hume say

we should burn them
books that

fellow enlightenment anti-clerical
carnap invited wittgenstein to speak to vienna circle

they thought he would answer

he read poetry at them
rabindranath tagore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

does it contain matters of fact no
number
no
then lock it in a box
and fall on your nknees

then it must contain that which is beyond language


the unsayability doctrine

neokantian orthodoxy  replaced by hume
trichotomy
nonsense
theologians bamboozle and oppress


for witgenstein
they are the things that help us transcend


once he gets the logic out of the way he begins to say mysterious stuff---

class in rec center

a lot of time on some logic charts

synthetic a priori

understanding what is meant by
"tractarian view"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement

?

stipulative definitions
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaTull.htm

epistemic definitions

upshots!!!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/upshot

kantian terminology

http://books.google.com/books?id=8yDDmQY9tLgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=wittgenstein+tractatus&hl=en&ei=Zk_HTLmIDYG4sQPK9rTcDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

eating potato chips in class
is helping me have a pavlovian response

i am bonding

tonight prelaw meets SMU 298

and black and red cafe at 8pm has a letter writing party for political prisoners of animal rights movement

LA NLG helps housing demonstrations on wilshire

obsessed with julian assange
and reading
the girl who played with fire---pdf

ogden wittgenstein

http://books.google.com/books?id=8yDDmQY9tLgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ogden+wittgenstein&source=bl&ots=I2OCGrf3s7&sig=ZEkO9uvHoCFRzY1JziJ-MKXMuEg&hl=en&ei=Rnq3TPjwB4X0swPb0LCxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ogden%20wittgenstein&f=false

more notes

bolsano
formalism of calculus

meanings not grasped philosopher teaches us

flag metaissues

lecture

the idea
husserl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl

frege
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege

calculus
newtonians
leibnitzian
foucault

emergence of culpability
ian hacking

awesome link
culpability---legal
http://tcr.sagepub.com/content/4/1/5.refs?related-urls=yes&legid=sptcr;4/1/5

newton
that's silly

no essential concept of motion

rather geometrical concepts

formalism

http://books.google.com/books?id=cBtOFUg4tHAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=michael+friedman+kant+and+the+exact+sciences&source=bl&ots=2PC2yyD1OY&sig=iQsucB-lbxdy2C1YNBBevNZcjys&hl=en&ei=reC0TNDQJIX0tgPZtp2vCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

one person's modus tollens anothers modus ponens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_tollens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens

arithmetization of analysis
spacial magnitudes
temporal moments

whether yr an idealist in your metaphysics

geometrical concepts
meanings

dynamical

what if resist

not believing it nec.
theories are indispensible

schweitzer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

Reverence for Life

Albert Schweitzer, Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman.

The keynote of Schweitzer's personal philosophy (which he considered to be his greatest contribution to mankind) was the idea ofReverence for Life ("Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben"). He thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of (and respect for) life as its ethical foundation.

In the Preface to Civilization and Ethics (1923) he argued that Western philosophy from Descartes to Kant had set out to explain the objective world expecting that humanity would be found to have a special meaning within it. But no such meaning was found, and the rational, life-affirmating optimism of the Age of Enlightenment began to evaporate. A rift opened between this world-view, as material knowledge, and the life-view, understood as will, expressed in the pessimist philosophies from Schopenhauer onward. Scientific materialism (advanced by Spencer and Darwin) portrayed an objective world process devoid of ethics, entirely an expression of the will-to-live.

Schweitzer wrote: "True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness, and this may be formulated as follows: 'I am life which wills to live, and I exist in the midst of life which wills to live'."^[41] In nature one form of life must always prey upon another. However, human consciousness holds an awareness of, and sympathy for, the will of other beings to live. An ethical human strives to escape from this contradiction so far as possible.

Though we cannot perfect the endeavour we should strive for it: the will-to-live constantly renews itself, for it is both an evolutionary necessity and a spiritual phenomenon. Life and love are rooted in this same principle, in a personal spiritual relationship to the universe. Ethics themselves proceed from the need to respect the wish of other beings to exist as one does towards oneself. Even so, Schweitzer found many instances in world religions and philosophies in which the principle was denied, not least in the European Middle Ages, and in the Indian Brahminic philosophy.

For Schweitzer, Mankind had to accept that objective reality is ethically neutral. It could then affirm a new Enlightenment through spiritual rationalism, by giving priority tovolition or ethical will as the primary meaning of life. Mankind had to choose to create the moral structures of civilization: the world-view must derive from the life-view, not vice-versa. Respect for life, overcoming coarser impulses and hollow doctrines, leads the individual to live in the service of other people and of every living creature. In contemplation of the will-to-life, respect for the life of others becomes the highest principle and the defining purpose of humanity.^[42]

Such was the theory which Schweitzer sought to put into practice in his own life.

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wittgenstein!!!!!!!

class taught by pre-law advisor kevin hill.

great class!!!!!  very on topic, very classical, very dense.

helpful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

free will determinism
kant
last class entirely kant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
respective domains

schopenhauer
next

polarities
to take what we already think about the world as having authority

vs.  futuristic
recognize things and people were misthought in the past

salvage common sense

some
no regard for common sense
plato wants total change

aristotle stasis oriented
metaphysics should reconstruct how we talk about everyday objects

kant
both
rarified natural science
how to do things for the natural scientist
moral common sense

a descriptive metaphysician rather than a revisionary one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle

descriptive or revisionary