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One of the most famous and difficult problems in ethics! The issue that killed moral noncognitivism – The Frege-Geach Problem! Want More Ethics? Should We Support the Troops? http://tinyurl.com/pbswdfa Feminism and Kant http://tinyurl.com/n6fkjyz Don't Look at Leaked Nudes! http://tinyurl.com/op3tgmf Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=thephilosophytube Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophyTube?ref=hl Twitter: @PhilosophyTube Email: ollysphilosophychannel@gmail.com Google+: google.com/+thephilosophytube Suggested Reading: Peter Geach, “Assertion,” in Philosophical Review Sponsors! Rich Clarke D.j. Aaron Priestes Jim Groth David Stewart Eric Driussi Jason Cherry Juho Laitalainen If you or your organisation would like to financially support Philosophy Tube in distributing philosophical knowledge to those who might not otherwise have access to it in exchange for credits on the show, please get in touch! Music: 'Show your Moves,' 'Pamgea' and ‘Summon the Rawk’ by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Any copyrighted material should fall under fair use for educational purposes or commentary, but if you are a copyright holder and believe your material has been used unfairly please get in touch with us and we will be happy to discuss it.
Peter Thomas Geach (29 March 1916 - 21 December 2013)
Oxford philosophers P F Strawson and Gareth Evans talk about Truth, in 1973.
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Dr Neil Sinclair explains The Frege-Geach problem in under 60 seconds
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http://trinities.org/blog/archives/6989 “I’ve heard of John and Peter, and James – but who is this Cephas?” A more informed Bible reader will tell him that Cephas is Peter. The point is not that Cephas is like Peter, or similar to Peter, but rather that Cephas just is Peter – they are the same man. They are numerically the same man. In the sort of logic which is standardly taught in introductory courses, one analyzes the claim “Cephas and Peter are the same man” as a conjunction of three claims: Cephas is a man, and Peter is a man, and Cephas just is Peter. Standardly, then, relative identity statements are understood in terms of absolute, or non-relative identity statements. But not all philosophers agree. The famous logician Peter Geach (1916-2013) thought that absolute statements are meaningless – that it makes no sense to ask whether or not Cephas and Peter are the same (full stop). We can, however, ask whether or not they’re the same man, apostle, brother, animal, citizen, etc. So for Peter Geach, relative identity statements are basic, and can’t be broken down into the three components we just explained, because, he thought, the third component was meaningless. This opens up the question whether or not some a and b could be the same F, but different Gs. Could, for instance, Cephas and Peter be the same man, but different apostles, or different husbands, or different citizens? It would seem not. In fact, there has been no uncontroversial case of some a and b being the same something, but different somethings elses. While various metaphysical puzzles have moved a few philosophers to posit such cases, in each case a majority of philosophers thinks that the puzzle in question has a better solution. Still, the matter remains controversial, and in today’s episode, you’ll hear an accomplished philosopher suggest another non-theological case of being the same F but different Gs – one having to do with air travel. The most important puzzle-case motivating this non-standard view relative identity is that of the Trinity. Peter Geach thought that the traditional Trinity claims will only be self-consistent if relative identity is basic, not analyzable as above. Here, the Father and Son will be the same God, but different divine Persons. And since the threefold analysis of relative identity statements is rejected, it won’t follow that the Father just is the Son. In today’s episode, we hear a presentation from the 2014 SCP meeting at Niagara University, in Niagara New York. This conference was dedicated to the work of distinguished Christian philosopher Dr. Peter van Inwagen, of the University of Notre Dame. Our presenter is Dr. Harriet Baber, a professor of phil at the University of San Diego. Her presentation is “Relative Identity Redux.” In it, she criticizes some work on this topic by Dr. Michael C. Rea. This episode includes the discussion period, in which she fields some interesting questions from Dr. van Inwagen and others.
Anthropomorphism (applying to non-humans predicates appropriate only to human beings) may seem an ally of humanism: in fact it is its enemy. Anthropomorphic error takes five forms: biological, zoological, technological, institutional, and theological. Biological anthropomorphism applies to parts of human beings predicates that are applicable only to whole human beings: e.g. Neo-Darwinism. Again, the anthropomorphic fallacy is committed if we attribute to non-human animals the possession of concepts that can only be manifested by language-users. The attribution of human concepts and activities to computers is the currently most popular form of technological anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism can operate not only in the sub-human sphere, but also in the superhuman sphere. Predicates appropriate only to individual humans may be applied to social and political institutions. Again, religious believers apply to God many predicates applicable literally only to humans. The metaphorical nature of this attribution is widely accepted, but some mentalistic predicates are held to be literally true of God. PROF. SIR ANTHONY KENNY FBA is a former President of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy, a former Master of Balliol, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Oxford and Gifford Lecturer, among many other achievements. His interests lie principally in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism.
Join us at: http://www.inspiringphilosophy.org To help support this ministry click here: http://www.patreon.com/inspiringphilosophy This is a video introducing the argument behind the evolutionary argument against naturalism developed by Alvin Plantinga. It is a remake of an older video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QFsKevTXs Sources and Notes: - The Virtues by Peter Geach - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/ - http://www.uffl.org/vol12/moreland12.pdf - http://www.iep.utm.edu/naturali/ - Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett - http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/naturalism_defeated.pdf - Untruth and Consequence by Richard Rorty - Charles Darwin Letter to William Graham http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/entry-13230 - Straw Gods by John Gray - Moral Landscape by Sam Harris (Full quote: "For instance, it is just as true to say that our logical, mathematical, and physical intuitions have not been designed by natural selection to track truth. Does this mean that we must cease to be realists with respect to physical reality? We need not look far in science to find ideas and opinions that defy easy synthesis. There are many scientific frameworks (and levels of description) that resist integration and which divide our discourse into areas of specialization, even pitting Nobel laureates in the same discipline against one another. Does this mean that we can never hope to understand what is really going on in the world? No. It mans the conversation must continue.") I don't see how saying "the conversation must continue" avoids the implications of this argument presented in the video. The conversation we would have is not going to track truth to begin with so it doesn't escape the self-defeating circle. To be fair, this wasn't the topic of his book, but his admission in the 'Moral Landscape' is interesting and useful for the EAAN, none the least. - Journal of Philosophy (LXXXIV, Oct. 87) Patricia Churchland - Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct;=j&q;=&esrc;=s&source;=web&cd;=5&ved;=0CD8QFjAE&url;=http%3A%2F%2Fapollos.ws%2Fargument-from-reason%2FA%2520Defense%2520of%2520Alvin%2520Plantinga%2527s%2520Evolutionary%2520Argument%2520Against%2520Naturalism.pdf&ei;=ZUB1VJq5N-GDiwLa3oGICw&usg;=AFQjCNHl-pP-UQ9U-rrdokYJp--5zWwtlA&sig2;=6C9RLmXktpcZLrsu_-Az3A *If you are caught excessively commenting, being disrespectful, insulting, or derailing then your comments will be removed. If you do not like it you can watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0Hq-sy3Wg&feature;=plcp "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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PETER GEACH 1916-2014. Peter Geach was a formidable logician and happened to be married to one of the ...
Sydney Morning Herald 2014-01-17Peter Geach with his wife and fellow philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe in 1990 ... • Peter Thomas Geach, ...
The Guardian 2013-12-26Peter Thomas Geach, MA, FBA ( /ˈɡiːtʃ/; born 29 March 1916) is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, and the theory of identity.
Geach was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at Birmingham University (1951–1966) and from 1966 at the University of Leeds where he was Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy. Geach was given the title of Emeritus Professor of Logic on his retirement in 1981.
Geach was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1965.
He has been awarded the papal cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by the Holy See for his philosophical work.
His early work includes the classic texts Mental Acts and Reference and Generality, the latter defending an essentially modern conception of reference against medieval theories of supposition.
His Catholic perspective is integral to his philosophy. He is perhaps the founder of Analytical Thomism (though the current of thought running through his and Elizabeth Anscombe's work to the present day was only ostensibly so named forty years later by John Haldane), the aim of which is to synthesise Thomistic and Analytic approaches. He defends the Thomistic position that human beings are essentially rational animals, each one miraculously created. He dismisses Darwinistic attempts to regard reason as inessential to humanity, as "mere sophistry, laughable, or pitiable." He repudiates any capacity for language in animals as mere "association of manual signs with things or performances."