Art and Emotion It is widely thought that the capacity of artworks to arouse emotions in audiences is a perfectly natural and unproblemmatic fact. It just seems obvious that we can feel sadness or pity for fictional characters, fear at the view of threatening monsters on the movie screen, and joy upon listening to upbeat, happy songs. This may be why so many of us

Filosofia dell'antica Grecia da Talete, che è spesso considerato il primo filosofo occidentale, agli stoici e agli scettici, La filosofia dell'antica Grecia aprì le porte a un particolare modo di pensare che fornì le radici alla tradizione intellettuale occidentale. Qui, c'è spesso una preferenza esplicita per la vita della ragione e del pensiero razionale. Troviamo spiegazioni protoscientifiche del mondo naturale nel Milesiano

Mind and the Causal Exclusion Problem The causal exclusion problem is an objection to nonreductive physicalist models of mental causation. Mental causation occurs when behavioural effects have mental causes: Jennie eats a peach because she wants one; Marvin goes to Harvard because he chose to, eccetera. Nonreductive physicalists typically supplement adherence to mental causation with the view that behavioural effects have distinct sufficient physical causes

The Classical Theory of Concepts The classical theory of concepts is one of the five primary theories of concepts, the other four being prototype or exemplar theories, atomistic theories, theory-theories, and neoclassical theories. The classical theory implies that every complex concept has a classical analysis, where a classical analysis of a concept is a proposition giving metaphysically necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for being in