This view is usually based on and motivated by embodied and enactive approaches in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
In a further recent development disjunctive theories of perception have inspired similar disjunctive approaches in the philosophy of action concerning both the ontology of action and a subject's reasons for performing actions.
Such a position was approached in the philosophies of the 2nd-century North African theologian Tertullian, the medieval English scholar William of Ockham, the 17th-century French philosopher Pierre Bayle, and more recently in the works of the 18th-century German philosopher Johann Georg Hamann and the 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Crimmins's thesis forms a promising framework within which to approach such issues in the philosophy of mind as tacit belief (do you believe that pencils do not eat?), criteria for having concepts (do blind persons have the concept of red?), and restrictions of acquaintance on objects of thought (can you believe something about the first person born in the next century?).
(Ranke makes this point explicitly (1881).) A recurring current in this approach to the philosophy of history falls in the area of theodicy or eschatology: religiously inspired attempts to find meaning and structure in history by relating the past and present to some specific, divinely ordained plan.
Another important strand in this approach to the philosophy of history is a clear theoretical preference for the historicist rather than the universalist position on the status of human nature—Herder rather than Vico.
The relation between the CODAM model of consciousness and modern approaches to consciousness in the philosophy of mind is then briefly described.
In 1990 the philosopher Noël Carroll, a staunch critic of the psychoanalytic approach, published "The Philosophy of Horror," in which he proposed that the pleasure of horror movies is due not to whatever psychic substratum the monster represents, but rather to the peculiar curiosity it inspires.
To provide a theoretical framework that accommodates the need to forecast product appeal for various age groups and contexts this paper compares and combines the dual use of scenarios from scenario based design and scenario planning with the approach of technical mediation in the philosophy of technology.
The unified approach to the philosophy of science provides a systematization of the basic assumptions of scientific knowledge and revises the role of values in science.
