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Abstract We review Linnebo's Philosophy of Mathematics, briefly describing the content of the book.

John Dewey’s project on social philosophy has not been usually considered as an important piece of his thought. However, his writings about such topic constitute a remarkable effort to articulate several novel concepts...

This article explores reasons for theologising in dialogue with contemporary postmodern philosophy. Elaborating on a particular instance of a theological engagement with Jean-Francois Lyotard, I argue that theology is ca...

This article explores Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of the scientific method, focusing on the three main stages he proposes: epistemological rupture, knowledge construction, and empirical verification. We begin by analyz...

Este artigo parte dos conceitos de biopoder e de governamentalidade para analisar alguns documentos governamentais brasileiros recentes que concernem à introdução da Filosofia como disciplina no ensino médio. Durante...

O artigo aborda a principal questão da teoria política: a legitimidade. O tema é desenvolvido a partir dos conceitos básicos da filosofia política iluminista: individualismo, liberalismo e filosofia da história, co...

ABSTRACT This essay is an introduction to Time and Reality I, the first part of a special issue dedicated to the philosophy of time. Here I outline a number of new trends in philosophical theorizing about time, detailing...

Abstract Social decisions are often made under great uncertainty - in situations where political principles, and even standard subjective expected utility, do not apply smoothly. In the first section, we argue that the c...

When looking at the whole history of philosophy, from ancient philosophical traditions up to modern times, it is difficult to encounter an argument or approach which has been favored with general acceptance. Philosophy i...

The article discusses the attitudinal and philosophical premises of impressionism as a literary movement. The author explores the causes of difficulties associated with identifying literary works as impressionistic. The ...

ABSTRACT Although the issue of temporality has mainly been studied from Physics, this topic also exhibits diverse interesting aspects that could be addressed from a biological perspective. One possible way of approaching...

The biomedical sciences need philosophy on at least two levels. Firstly, we can find strong arguments that recognize the need for philosophy on a theoretical level, such as the development of scientific theories that in ...

This article examines Henri Bergson’s gradual approach to Christianity and his moral adherence to Catholicism in light of his philosophical development. It will argue that Bergson’s work and his spiritual evolution c...

Latin American Jewish philosophy requires us to rethink the categories of Philosophy and Judaism. In order to articulate these two dimensions it is necessary to understand that Jewish philosophy must start from the attri...

In this paper, I aim at relating passions to evil in Kant's philosophy. I begin by explaining the difference between affects and passions in the text Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Kant claims that both aff...

In his essays on general history, Patočka locates the thaumatical shake-up together with the beginning of philosophy, politics, and history in classical Greece, when man first stepped back from being and became able to ...

The Ido philosophy is a proposal to clarify the meaning of today’s warrior pathway. The author tries to answer the following questions: In what way should we understand epistemology? How do we describe the human being ...

The philosophy of neuroscience has been a dynamic field of research in the philosophy of science since the turn of the century. As a result of this activity, a new mechanistic philosophy has emerged as the dominant appro...

Philosophy and science come both from the same source: the need of mankind to comprehend the world. Greek philosophy, and all the civilization emerging from it, reveal the deep influence of a series of dualisms. At the b...

Abstract I discuss Paul Guyer’s contribution to the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant series. The author argues that Kant derives the fundamental principle and the object of morality from the fundamen...

The paper is a brief mapping of the situation in the field of didactics of philosophy in the Slovak Republic. We observe that, despite almost three decades of separation of official philosophy from the dominance of Marxi...

Abstract This paper argues that embryonic development is best understood through the lens of process philosophy rather than traditional substance metaphysics. Drawing on both contemporary developmental biology and proces...

Abstract From the outset of Western philosophy most occidental philosophers held that both existence and knowledge depended on stability - what is genuinely changing does not have a clear essence or identity and is thus ...

The 1910 debate between Vladimir Ern and Semyon Frank marks one of the most conceptually charged moments in Russian philosophy’s confrontation with modernity’s crisis of reason. At stake is not a national or cultural...