VOLUME 12 • 2013
THE PARADIGM OF COMPLEXITY IN HUMAN PERSONALITY
ABSTRACT. This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to the complex, interactive biological processes that influence personality, the development and ongoing function of cognitive processes and brain systems involved in intelligence, the distinction between impulse and restraint..
MENTAL TYPES: THE BASIC ARGUMENTS
ABSTRACT. The central argument for nonreductive physicalism is the argument from multiple realizability. J. Kim subjected this argument to a forceful critique and defended a form of type-physicalism. I revisit these fundamental arguments here, reconstructing both the argument and the counterargument..
THE BEST ESSAY EVER: THE FALLACY OF WISHFUL THINKING
ABSTRACT. It is argued that wishful thinking is an informal logical fallacy and is distinguished from self-deception and delusion. Wishful thinking is unique in that a human desire is the starting point, which remains unfulfilled because of insufficient, no evidence, or ignorance, despite the agent’..
NEW YORK IS JUST NEW YORK: AN ACCOUNT OF GENUINE PROPER NAMES IN FICTION
ABSTRACT. The problem of genuine names occurring in fictions has garnered much less attention than its more glamorous cousin—viz. the problem of vacuous or empty names—but perhaps a careful examination of the former may shed some light on the latter, as well as on aesthetics more generally. In this ..
AN ONTOLOGICAL NOTION OF LEARNING INSPIRED BY THE PHILOSOPHY OF HANNAH ARENDT: THE MIRACLE OF NATALITY
ABSTRACT. From an ontological perspective, there is something valuable that we can learn about learning from Arendt’s formal philosophy of education, on the one hand, and her ontological-phenomenological elucidation of “action” and the “space of appearance” on the other. Since Arendt establishes the..
ON NECESSARY BUT EXTERNAL RELATIONS
ABSTRACT. Here, I argue that the fundamental dogma that all necessary relations are internal is ungrounded. To motivate my argument, I analyze Moore’s classic ideas on internal relations and take them as an illustration of the common form of reasoning that can mislead us to conclude that all necessa..
KARL MARX AND THE CONCEPT OF ENTFREMDUNG
ABSTRACT. It is a widespread cliche that there is no relationship between Marxian theory of estrangement (Entfremdung) exposed in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the theory of value present in Marxian scientific works like Das Kapital and Grundrisse. In this essay I will try to ..
IMAGINATION MAY BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE: THE EIGHT TYPES OF IMAGINATION WE USE
ABSTRACT. This article considers the concept of imagination and the role it plays in constructing our reality. The author postulates that there are eight types of imagination, being effectuative imagination, intellectual imagination, imaginative fantasy, empathy, strategic imagination, emotional ima..
SARRAUTE’S LITERARY PHILOSOPHY
ABSTRACT. This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to Sarraute’s notion of a subterranean reality enlivened by ambiguous, fluctuating tropistic effluvia, the primordial importance Sarraute accords to tropistic movements as the basic factor of the human organism, and the nature..
PETERS ON THE NEW ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. Peters focuses on the development of the knowledge, learning and digital economies, the culture-bound nature of symbolic functions, and the ethic of participation, collaboration and file-sharing characterizing the rise of social media. Peters’s analysis complements the growing literature o..
PHILOSOPHY, GLOBALIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN SHARON RIDER AND MICHAEL A. PETERS
ABSTRACT. Sharon Rider is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University. She is currently Vice Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Director for Higher Education Studies at the Center for Science and Technology Studies. She studied Philosophy at Pennsylvania St..
BOOK REVIEWS
About Europe: Philosophical HypothesesDenis Guénoun (Paris Sorbonne University)Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013, 324 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7385-0 The Themes of Quine’s PhilosophyEdward Becker (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 314 pp. ISBN 978-1-..