By Polina Sandler, Published on 10/27/17
By Aaron Weddle, Published on 10/27/17
By Kirsten Donato, Published on 10/27/17
By Michael Bevan, Published on 10/27/17
By Julian D. Jacobs, Published on 10/27/17
The article looks to set the record straight about the function of Wittgenstein’s private language argument. The topic is the role the private language argument plays within/for the later Wittgenstein’s thinking. The author begins by arguing that private language is not amenable to language games, the notion of natural expression, or the logic of reference. He then traces the...
This paper’s goal is to defend Kant’s version of freedom, in spite of the confusing metaphysical issues that surround Kant’s rational being (who belongs both to the world of phenomena and the world of noumena). Contrary to a certain line of criticism, the author argues for how Kant’s agent manages to be free—how the noumenal agent can affect action in the sensible world. Kant...
Kuhn can be used to describe shifts in science other than just the Copernican Revolution. This paper argues that Newton’s theory of mechanics, especially the notion of gravitational force, only appears to be responding to “deficiencies” in Descartes’ corpuscularism. In reality, Newton’s theory represents a paradigm shift. To make his case, the author first supplies useful...
Contrary to believing in scientific realism, the author provides a defense of scientific phenomenalism, which holds that only things that we can perceive can be counted as things that exist. The author agrees with W. T. Stace, who holds that science does not explain but merely describes and predicts. Such an understanding suggests that scientists go beyond their bounds when they...
What is Nietzsche doing with Apollo and Dionysus in The Birth of Tragedy? The author believes that Allan Megill’s interpretation is way off the mark. Nietzsche is not committed to a realm of inaccessible reality; his two Greek symbols are not epistemological poles. Although Megill’s attention to “immediate” and “mediation” correctly identifies the separate powers that Nietzsche...
By Tomoya Imaizumi, Published on 10/27/17
By Cameron Davis, Published on 10/27/17
By Elek Lane, Published on 10/27/17
Europe in 17th century was shocked by the appearance of the Discourse on Method, published by R. Descartes anonymously and in French. This allowed an extension of the philosophical audience, and led to a broad exchange of letters with nonacademic public, like Queen Christina of Sweden and Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia, which draws attention to the role of women in the...
In the seventeenth century, called by Whitehead Century of Genius, Spinoza shines by himself and many point to him as the head of movements known as the Radical Enlightenment between 1650-1750. Spinoza met all the classic expectations of what should be a philosopher because he tried, and responded to almost all metaphysical, moral, political epistemological important issues...
Ananalysis of the work of Newton's early followers is essentialto a better understanding of some particular aspects of Newtonianism and its differences from Cartesianism. This is so because Newtonian physics was largely transmitted through the manuals of Newtons followers such as John Keill, JT Desaguliers, Wm. J. 'sGravesande, William Whiston, or Henry Pemberton. These works...
This work investigates a particular type of image: the image that happens in those artistic artifices that are called "video art", and what it seeks to elucidate is how these images are installed in the world and are part of the world, as well as the type of phenomenological elaboration to which they oblige. For this, we start from the idea that these peculiar images are more...
This article provides a short history of the importance of the body in contemporary culture. The aim is to analyse the movement from the centrality of flesh, blood and the abject in the 1990s to the contemporary mutation of bodies and individuals into data and profiles. In order to do that, the article focuses on different forms of spectralizing new bodies. The consequence of...
The notions of certainty of the own body in L. Wittgenstein, localized consciousness of J. Searle and use of the intuition of G. Simmel, offer some presuppositions for a conception of the perceptual experience of the own body, of the other minds and of the environment like a unified fragmentation by present conscious states that do not require identity and difference to achieve...
The importance of the body is recognized today in all the aspects of life, but sometimes there is an extreme pendulous effect and the emancipation of the corporeity becomes in its contrary. The paper describes two kinds of reductionism that attack the integrity of the human condition: one of them animalizes the subject, according to the philosophies of desire, the neurosciences...
Life is life and death is death. At first glance such a claim seems to be either a basic exercise of Parmenidean logic, devoid, admittedly, of certain relevant meaning, even if at least were short of any contradiction or, rather the contrary, it be just one which were in search of the Cynic parrhesia, i. e., frankness in speech by naming things by its name. At any rate, the very...