Reforming Philosophy

Snyder, Laura J.

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“…Mill seemed to be engaged in "a Manichean struggle between two schools of thought" (Scarre 1989, 204). For a recent account of Mill's opposition to intuitionism, and specifically to his contemporary Whewell, see Snyder (2006). and rejected the hypothesis that mental phenomena are "generated through the intervention of material mechanisms" (Mill [1843] 1882, 590).…”

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Hermann von Helmholtz's Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered: Construction and Constitution in Helmholtz's Psychology of the Object

Kock¹

2014

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ArgumentThis paper aims at contributing to the ongoing efforts to get a firmer grasp of the systematic significance of the entanglement of idealism and empiricism in Helmholtz's work. Contrary to existing analyses, however, the focal point of the present exposition is Helmholtz's attempt to articulate a psychological account of objectification. Helmholtz's motive, as well as his solution to the problem of the object are outlined, and interpreted against the background of his scientific practice on the one hand, and that of empiricist and (transcendental) idealist analyses of experience on the other. The specifically psychological angle taken, not only prompts us to consider figures who have hitherto been treated as having only minor import for Helmholtz interpretation (most importantly J.S. Mill and J.G. Fichte), it furthermore sheds new light on some central tenets of the latter's psychological stance that have hitherto remained underappreciated. For one thing, this analysis reveals an explicit voluntarist tendency in Helmholtz's psychological theory. In conclusion, it is argued that the systematic significance of Helmholtz's empirico-transcendentalism with respect to questions of the mind is best understood as an attempt to found his empirical theory of perception in a second order, normative account of epistemic subjectivity.

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Hermann von Helmholtz's Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered: Construction and Constitution in Helmholtz's Psychology of the Object

Kock¹

2014

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“…We will include disorder-specific interventions developed for treatment of PTSD or associated family difficulties (Riggs 2009). We will also consider generic therapies for relationship discord that are delivered in the context of family members diagnosed with PTSD (Snyder 2006). For the purpose of this review, it is required that interventions will be delivered by psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, nurses or other health professionals with specialist training in family therapy (including students under supervision).…”

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“…Second are therapies based on psychodynamic and attachment theory perspectives (e.g., insight oriented marital therapy) (Snyder 1989), that are characterised by a broad focus on developing awareness and expression of unknown feelings, thoughts and needs that may underlie interpersonal patterns (Baucom 1998). Other generic therapies are also available (although considered less often in clinical trials) (Snyder 2006), and can include cognitive strategies for changing ways of thinking about behaviours and relationships, as well as techniques for enhancing emotional acceptance. Another general class of interventions may include 'systemic' therapies (Coulter 2013), potentially including structural and strategic family therapies that focus on changing patterns of family interaction and organisation (Madanes 1981;Minuchin 1974).…”

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Couple and family therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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“…Secular ethics were, ultimately, utilitarian. Influential utilitarian theorists Jeremy Bentham and James and John Stuart Mill conceived of a world of individuals equally capable of improvement through the proper application of rational legislation and reformed governing institutions (Snyder 2006;Pitts 2005;Zastoupil 1994;Mehta 1989). This system appealed to the freethinkers because it offered an empirical method for assessing goodness.…”

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“…Mill sought a social and moral science that could be used to build further facts upon facts, resulting in the accumulation of general principles. Applied to utilitarianism, this meant inductively establishing a hierarchy of pleasures to which one could appeal in order to infer right actions (Ryan 1970;Ryan 1979;Snyder 2006): "human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness which does not include their gratification … It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognize the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. It would be absurd that while, in estimating all other things, quality is considered as well as quantity, the estimation of pleasures should be supposed to depend on quantity alone" (Mill 1861, 210-211).…”

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Grounding Non-Theological Morality: The Victorian Secularist Movement, Secular Ethics, and Human Progress

Corbeil¹

2019

Secularism and Nonreligion

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This article examines the formation of British Secularist ethics in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The Secularist movement, initiated by George Jacob Holyoake in 1851, was a primarily artisan working-class social movement that sought to ground social ethics upon a rational, scientific, and nontheological foundation. This article examines how the quest for a science of morals informed Secularist expectations and judgements. In this article, I trace how the idea of a rational science of ethics was integrated into the secularist movement. I begin by briefly situating the Secularist movement within the wider moral and epistemological debates of the mid-Victorian period. I address the implications that atheism had on the development of Secularism, and on its contemporary reputation and respectability. I then examine how Holyoake sought to establish the non-theological grounds of morality and the tensions that arose from debates between Secularists regarding the necessity of atheism to Secularism. Finally, I argue that despite significant fissures within the movement created by the question of the necessity of atheism, Secularism nevertheless evinced a high degree of conceptual unity concerning the nature and grounds of morality. Corbeil: Grounding Non-Theological Morality Art. 4, page 2 of 11 nevertheless evinced a high degree of conceptual unity concerning the nature and grounds of morality. Religion, Science, and Duty Victorian moral thinking was marked by flux, experimentation, and controversy. The fecundity of nineteenthcentury experimentation in moral philosophy occurred amid prominent fears that the transition to a modern, industrial and urban society had resulted in the loss of the vital foundations of ethics. These moral anxieties were intimately related to the problem of progress and coincided with a widely-shared belief among theorists, ranging from the utilitarian and liberal John Stuart Mill to Tory intuitionists like William Whewell, that scientific systems of knowledge would lead to ascertaining the true grounds of morality, unleashing dramatic human progress (Snyder 2006). The blending of scientism and ethics was thus not only the terrain of secular or non-theological moralists. Grounding ethics in science was urgent for all those individuals convinced, either optimistically or pessimistically, that Christianity faced terminal decline in Britain. To situate Secularist moral ideas accurately, we must address some of the more important issues that faced leading nineteenth-century moralists, and expose the connections between faith, knowledge, and obligation that formed the dominant contours of Victorian ethical discussions. Stefan Collini (1991) has productively characterized Victorian ethical thought between 1850 and the 1890s as a culture of altruism. Altruism, a term coined by Auguste Comte and introduced into English by G. H. Lewes in 1852, was constructed as a scientific triumph over Christian moral pessimism (Hilton 1992). Against what he saw as the Christian emphasis on humanity's in...

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Reforming Philosophy

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Hermann von Helmholtz's Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered: Construction and Constitution in Helmholtz's Psychology of the Object

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Couple and family therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Grounding Non-Theological Morality: The Victorian Secularist Movement, Secular Ethics, and Human Progress

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