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Michael Marder in Dump Philosophy claims that that there has been so much dumping with modern civilization that we now live in a dump, with those parts of our environment not contaminated by dumping ... earlier works largely explain the ethical and political orientation of Dump Philosophy. There is a focus on people interpreting their immediate situations, and a lack of interest in efforts to replace
; Vitalism; Binding activity Introduction I would like to take up some threads of Gilles Deleuze’s engagement with biology, as an example of a precise relationship between philosophy and the sciences ... all of his works, namely, the need to situate the discourse of philosophy on the terrains of scientific research. Ruyer has theorised this need in terms of a “philosophy-science” or a “philosophy united
gratification. There is very brief mention by Sebeok of the semiotics of political economy. Indeed, the semiotics of money appear not to have advanced much beyond Georg Simmel’s classic The Philosophy of Money ... theory since the early 1970s, inspiring Jean Baudrillard’s deliberations on the postmodern ‘autonomy of the signifier’ and the ‘political economy of the sign’ (Baudrillard, [1972] 1981, [1976] 1993
commentary embraces the challenge Kull presents (that beauty is a semiotic problem). Offering an alternate view on beauty, as a matter, and product, of cognition, I suggest reflecting on the philosophy of ... reflecting on the philosophy of Alexander von Baumgarten, who coined the term “aesthetics”, offers rich insight that could extend and enrich the definition of beauty Kull presents. Beauty; Umwelt; Semiotic
, hiddenness, and partial inconceivability” (2020, p. 35), such otherness derives in a myriad of iconographies, literatures, arts, moral and political positions, and insights about the conception of the human ... a way into an interdisciplinary engagement with the sciences that unites literature, and philosophy with the communications and agencies and activities —including cultural behaviors— of other
remarkable in their evolutionary story of the emergence of consciousness, with UAL as the crux, the authors do not incorporate much of the good work in philosophy of mind suggesting that different types of ... consciousness or intentionality (sensus phenomenology, not analytic philosophy) can occur (according to, say, varieties of neutral monism). Consciousness may well be far more diverse than we give credit
of cognition.” Kant’s philosophy of Transcendental Idealism has been discussed since the appearance of the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason (Kant, 1781) . For example, Stjernfelt (2007 ... & Jochemsen, 2022) . Kant tries to demarcate natural philosophy (i.e., the precursor of modern natural science) from metaphysical belief. In Critique of Judgement he heuristically distinguishes normative
theoretical synthesis, I argue that this brings a semiotic contribution to philosophy of mind broadly. Also, it contributes to overcoming the polemic in linguistics between, loosely put, cognitive universalism ... environment. Adopting Kant’s use of the term, cognitive linguistics and its entailed philosophy of embodiment refer to these patterns as schemata. Johnson (1987: 29) describes schema as “a continuous structure
Antoni Kępiński remains an often read and quoted author even 40 years after his premature death. Usually he is read in the context of his times and his connections with contemporary philosophy. This ... from his extensive clinical experience. Philosophy of psychiatry; philosophy of medicine; Antoni Kępiński - This paper is not the paper I set out to write. My original idea was to use my reading of
The natural-law doctrine drawing its roots from the political philosophy of modern authors such as Locke and Hobbes, undeniably affected the two great revolutions of the Eighteenth century, and also
The term ‘information’ is used extensively in biology, cognitive science and the philosophy of consciousness in relation to the concepts of ‘meaning’ and ‘causation’. While ‘information’ is a term ... This stance has greatly influenced thinking in the fields of biology, cognitive science and philosophy of consciousness. I am broadly in agreement with Levy (2011) whose ‘fiction-based’ explanation
In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...
The article discusses the latest book by Bohdan Dziemidok titled Philosophy and the art of life. Bohdan Dziemidok is a leading representative of Polish aesthetics, author of ten books, over one ... tone of reflection provides a closer contact with the author than it is usually possible. In the case of this book, one can talk about practicing philosophy as a kind of intentional self-therapy. The
possibility of artificial agents . In A. Christian , D. Hommen , N. Retzlaff & G. Schurz (Eds.), Philosophy of science. Between the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities (pp. 65 - 93 ). Cham ... philosophy of biology (pp. 357 - 378 ). Oxford. Meincke , A. S. ( 2019 ). Autopoiesis, biological autonomy and the process view of life . European Journal for Philosophy of Science , 9 , 5. https://doi.org
to the philosophy of modern natural science, declared repeatedly and emphatically that it is impossible to describe a real experiment without using colloquial language and the notions of naïve realism ... , every human experiences a world as it is painted by the model of naïve realism. Historically, the virtually irresistible power of such models had placed philosophy in a leading position to define the
, political, religious and leisure activities. There are beautiful buildings, a school and shops for traders and merchants. In the Effects of Good Government in the countryside peasants enter the city gates ... Renaissance and beyond. The city is the location of political, economic, social and cultural life, while the country is the culturised place of nature and land subjugated to the city, providing food for the
, which has been highly influential for educational philosophy and is a cornerstone of Stables’ theory, too, construes learning as situated. Consciousness As expected from a biosemiotic perspective ... important insights to many disciplines concerned with learning, from general philosophy to phenomenology, sociology and education studies. Having previously identified consciousness with subjective
of the highest good practically, i.e., as the maxim of our rational behavior, is for Kant the wisdom doctrine; in scientific reflection it is philosophy. Schelling agrees with that; for him, too
that animal mimicry, as well as phenomena of the human Lifeworld comparable to it, are in a sense the opposite of signs. It has often been observed, not only within speech act philosophy, but also by the ... within speech act philosophy, but also by the semiotician Luis Prieto, that as sign can only function as such once it is recognized to be a sign. Animal mimicry, camouflage, and the like, in contrast, only
1 Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , Netherlands Human music and language are two systems of communication and expression that, while historically considered to ... dominating rather than complimentary or in partnership. Compare with McGilchrist (2009) and Eisler & Fry (2019) . 5 This reiterates the perennial opposition in western thought between philosophy (discourse
