Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes | Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics

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• Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes | Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics

  Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics

• Kant’s Ethics – Summary | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

  –       As we shall find, Kant argues that morality is deontological. ‘Deon’ is Greek for duty. This states that we do moral acts because they are good-in-themselves – not because they cause good con...

• Kant’s Moral Argument for God | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

  (This summary was produced for my classes)   ©Peter Sjöstedt-H   –       Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) – the ‘Godfather’ of modern philosophy – is generally revered for his three critical books: The Criti...

• Logical Positivism – Summary | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

  Logical Positivism, A. J. Ayer – Summary ©Peter Sjöstedt-H   –       Logical Positivism, also known as Logical Empiricism, is a philosophy developed in the early 20th Century, notably by Moritz Schlic...

• Kant on Self-Consciousness | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

  first class Master’s Dissertation on Kant and Schelling – full thesis here)     ‘That which determines the inner sense is the understanding and its original faculty of combining the manifold of intuit...

• Schopenhauer and the Philosophy of Mind | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

  (Lecture delivered in the ‘2011 Towards a Science of Consciousness’ conference in Stockholm University, organised by the University of Arizona) Schopenhauer and the Philosophy of Mind – Peter Sjöstedt...