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http://shcyhome.org/2015/01/chc-episode-4-developmental-thinking/ Episode 4 of CHILDHOOD: History & Critique offers a brief review essay of the 2008 book _A Historical Sociology of Childhood_ and an extended conversation with its author... more
È un libro di filosofia della conoscenza che si muove liberamente tra filosofia e letteratura. La luce, intesa come supporto della scrittura (si scrive nella luce, "incidendo" la luce) nonché come metafora della conoscenza stessa, è... more
« Notre héritage du scepticisme n’est précédé d’aucun testament. Par-delà les vicissitudes de l’épistémologie traditionnelle et de l’anti-scepticisme, le spectre du « scepticisme à visage humain » selon Thompson Morgan Clarke, entre... more
Three fundamental systems of communication are defined: information, explanation, and imagination. Information is based on analytic distinctions between objects in the world. Explanatory communication provides knowledge through discourse,... more
Postdisciplinarity makes claims on ontological, epistemic, and methodological levels, but it is inevitably a personal philosophical stance. This article represents an existentialist approach to the discourse on postdisciplinarity,... more
Introduction to a special issue of the International Journal of Zizek Studies on Zizek and Art. Four different introductions are presented, each revolving around articulating what we refer to as "arts-based philosophy". Each introduction... more
On November 4th, 2019, Hans-Georg Moeller delivered a presentation on systems theory at the Law School of the University of São Paulo and was interviewed about Niklas Luhmann’s theory of society, with emphasis on issues such as law,... more
Descartes arrives at his ‘Clearly and Distinctly’ rule in the Third Meditation, considering it to be a sufficient criterion of truth. However, in my opinion, this viewpoint has a number of flaws. In this essay I argue that ‘Clearly and... more
The Immanuel Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic is the science of the a priori principles of senses. The Transcendental Aesthetic shows the difference between the a priori and a posteriori representation and a priori and a posteriori... more
La seguente analisi, nata in contesto universitario, prende le mosse dalla celeberrima riflessione di Popper sulla televisione cercando di contestualizzarla all'interno della sua teorizzazione epistemologica e della torsione... more
Comment peut-on critiquer la vérité, toute vérité, sans par là même tomber dans sa propre critique ? En effet, dire qu’« il n’y a pas de vérité », ou dire que « la vérité est relative », cela fait que ces propositions elles-mêmes ne... more
This paper is a study on the project of ‘Islamization of Knowledge’ as articulated by the ‘International Institute of Islamic Thought’, its evolution and responses to it by some of the important Muslim scholars of our time. An attempt to... more
This volume continues the discussion initiated in Part 1 of "Logical Forms" and deals with issues of language, logic, proof, and knowledge. I list the chapter titles: 13. Language, meaning, and reference. 14. Syntax and semantics. 15... more
This article intends to describe the central themes of Millán-Puelles' thought. The fundamental intuitions of his youth remain over the course of his life and mark a line of creative and personal thinking between Phenomenology and... more
1. Realitate, fenomene și teorii științifice (20); 2. Aspecte inedite în cunoașterea științifică a lumii fizice (25); a. Ordine şi simetrii în Univers (25); b. Rațiunea omului și ordinea naturii (30); (i) Noduri în natură și în... more
The quest to provide a fundamental understanding and explanation of reality is an ambitious one. Perhaps it is too ambitious. The possible restrictions for such an enterprise to be successful must be inquired in order to determine the... more
Alain CONTAT, «Un’analisi del segno linguistico nella prospettiva di san Tommaso d’Aquino», in Alain CONTAT (ED.), Miscellanea in onore di Marco Arosio, [Ricerche di storia della filosofia e teologia medioevali, 6], If Press – Ateneo... more
This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of the philosophical excursus of Plato’s Seventh Letter and, in particular, to the conditions and assumptions that the author of the Letter considers necessary for the attainment of... more
This article is focused on answering the question to what extent one can be a sceptic. Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Scepticism serves as a guide. In section 1, it is investigated whether three logical laws have a certain foundation or... more
Autor u radu daje jedno moguće čitanje prvog određenja znanja u dijalogu Teetet, određenja znanja kao opažanja, zadržavajući se na Platonovoj kritici Protagorinog učenja sa ci-ljem da pokaže dve stvari. Prvo, da je kritika Protagorinog... more
La vision par ordinateur regroupe des techniques de traitement et de reconnaissance d'images, récemment popularisées par les succès de l'apprentissage profond. Ce travail est une enquête sur les conditions de possibilité de la formation... more
Il racconto autobiografico di Platone nell'Epistola 7 si coniuga in questo capitolo a una indagine in merito alle modalità di conoscenza filosofica. Il contesto dialogico viene inteso come dimensione essenziale per la generazione della... more
The epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of taste are always inscribed in conceptions of the social order that the discourse on taste simultaneously enacts and rationalizes, while veiling the logics of difference and power it thereby... more
This paper explores Pragmatism’s potential for transcending the antagonism between positivism and post-positivism, through the work of Morton Kaplan, who combines a Pragmatist theory of knowledge with a systems theory of world politics. A... more
The main work of the Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) is the book Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957). In this book, Lonergan presents his version of Aquinas' philosophy of knowing from a contemporary... more
Introduction to my dissertation 'Pars melior nostri. The Structure of Spinoza's Intellect', containing an overview of the topics that are to be scrutinized in the five subsequent chapters.
Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition presents a reading of Thomas Aquinas’ claim that “being” is the first object of the human intellect. Blending the insights of both the early Thomistic tradition (c.1380—1637AD) and... more
In light of recent discussions of cognitive and ethical dilemmas related to International Relations (IR) scholarship, this paper proposes to engage the “problem of values” in IR as a composite question whose cognitive treatment requires... more
This article discusses the articulation between faith and reason, the scientific nature of philosophy and theology, and their proper subject matter, as understood by Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas, and attempts to outline their agreements... more
Corijn van Mazijk, University of Groningen / KU Leuven - Please cite only from the original version. Abstract: This paper focuses on the contents of perception in Kant’s first Critique and Husserl’s later writings. Both Kant and Husserl... more