The main division of opinion regarding the nature of the connection between moral judgment and motivation is between those philosophers who accept and those who reject a thesis known as motivational judgment internalism.
In the span of four years Google has tested, and for the moment shockingly rejected, a thesis that an entire community of corporations and nations has relied on in part to justify doing business with China for decades: that engagement will liberalize China and that the citizens of an increasingly prosperous and globally integrated China will one day rise up and slip loose the bonds of tyranny.
Philosophers generally describe their views as 'externalist' if they reject any thesis they consider to involve an interesting and controversial dependence of reasons on facts about motivation; it is most likely not fruitful to try here to adjudicate which theses these are.
The following year, against Descartes' advice, Regius published the Fundamenta Physices, in which he rejected a number of Descartes' metaphysical theses and thereby incurred the wrath of his former mentor.
In fact, all cognitive accounts are united in rejecting the thesis that the very properties of mind or mentality already presuppose phenomenal consciousness, as proposed by Searle (1992 , 1997 for example.
Rejecting the thesis that VP directly influences substrates underlying memory consolidation and retrieval, the Sahgal et al. viewpoint, the VP central arousal theory proposes instead that the behavioral effects of the peptide are best explained by its ability to increase the baseline arousal level.
Unable to keep an insult in his quiver, Brock gleefully announces that the Catholic theologian Michael Novak had his thesis rejected at Harvard and that the political scientist Abigail Thernstrom did not get academic tenure, factoids that are either irrelevant (anyone familiar with the academy knows what thesis committees can be like) or wrong (Thernstrom rejected a full-time academic career).
"Mainstream cloud physicists will reject this thesis," e-mails Ramesh Srivastava, an atmospheric scientist who studies cloud dynamics at the University of Chicago in Illinois.
In his own analysis of change, which resulted in the matter-form doctrine, Aristotle explicitly rejected the thesis of Democritus that in a chemical reaction the component parts retain their identity.
Of Glory rejects the thesis that glory is preeminently a military virtue and, consequently, that it can only be acquired by men.
Though it contains the correspondence theory as one ingredient, alethic pluralism is nevertheless a genuine competitor, for it rejects the thesis that truth is correspondence to reality.
