Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition by francisco Varela

Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition



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ISBN: 9780804730334
Page: 96
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Publisher: Stanford University Press


What started as a personal passion project Aristotle -- one of Rubin's Happiness Project inspirations -- may have been the original (if accidental) self-help guru, interrogating the causes and definitions of happiness at length in his Nicomachean Ethics. It is now the task to figure out how a memory can be transferred from one to another physical configuration to understand what type of cognition ('know how' or 'know that') it had. Mar 14, 2014 - There are four ethical arguments I want to bring to bear on behalf of cognitive enhancing drugs, roughly in order of their historical provenance. Two that are almost universal are the virtue of self-control or temperance, and the virtue of intelligent decision-making, practical wisdom or prudence. I was particularly struck by Varela's theory of situatedness. May 1, 2008 - Ethical know-how: Action, wisdom and cognition. Feb 20, 2013 - Consequently, one may be intellectually rational in her deliberation on how to act, but fail to carry out the appropriate action that accords with her practical reasoning (here weakness of will or akrasia comes to mind). Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science) book download. Molecule, tissue, organism, city, planet, galaxy… even the entire universe. Apr 2, 2014 - Rubin decided to answer these questions for herself, creating her personal "happiness project" -- an exploration of ancient and modern wisdom about what it means to lead a good life. €�Before the spread of the ADD diagnosis kids with the ADD profile were There is a cognitive fallacy known as the status quo bias in play. Aug 6, 2013 - Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 01:22.

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