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Abstract Computer models and simulations have provided enormous benefits to researchers in the natural and social sciences, as well as many areas of philosophy. However, to date, there has been little attempt to use comp...

In this article I intend to show that certain aspects of A.N. Whitehead's philosophy of organism and especially his epochal theory of time, as mainly exposed in his well-known work Process and Reality, can serve in clari...

One of Leibniz’s fundamental philosophical commitments is the principle of sufficient reason (PSR). Yet Leibniz’s precise understanding of this principle is elusive.  Leibniz provides several seemingly different for...

COMO geógrafo, o autor propõe-se a focalizar na obra prima Grande sertão: veredas de João Guimarães Rosa, sondando a veracidade espacial (geográfica) na descrição das paisagens e no uso da toponímia, constatando...

Abstract Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence....

Abstract In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which Theism, the claim that there is a God, can provide a true fundamental explanation for the existence of certain entities within the layered structure of reali...

The article presents the conception of freedom in Nietzsche's thought in the three periods of his writings. In the first period Nietzsche believe that freedom is connected with estethical-tragic contempletion in the G...

ABSTRACT In this paper, I answer the question of what time is. First, however, I consider why one might ask this question and what exactly it is asking. The latter consideration reveals that in order to answer the questi...