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Towards A Classification Of Continuity And On The Emergence Of Generality, Daniel Rosiak
Towards A Classification Of Continuity And On The Emergence Of Generality, Daniel Rosiak
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation has for its primary task the investigation, articulation, and comparison of a variety of concepts of continuity, as developed throughout the history of philosophy and a part of mathematics. It also motivates and aims to better understand some of the conceptual and historical connections between characterizations of the continuous, on the one hand, and ideas and commitments about what makes for generality (and universality), on the other. Many thinkers of the past have acknowledged the need for advanced science and philosophy to pass through the “labyrinth of the continuum” and to develop a sufficiently rich and precise model …
Obscurity And Involvement On The Unconscious Of Thought In Leibniz, Spinoza, And Hume, Gilbert Morejon
Obscurity And Involvement On The Unconscious Of Thought In Leibniz, Spinoza, And Hume, Gilbert Morejon
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation I argue for the central metaphysical importance of unconscious dimensions of thought in philosophical systems of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, and analyze how these unconscious dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust accounts of unconscious perceptions, beliefs, desires, and habits of thinking, all of which participate significantly in shaping the processes by which we consciously make decisions. I claim that attention to this aspect of their philosophies, which has often been neglected, sheds important light on their reflections concerning whether and how individual freedom is possible. I show that, …