VOLUME 15 • 2016
THE FORMATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS IN BENEDETTO CROCE’S EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE LIGHT OF THE IDEALIZATIONAL CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE
ABSTRACT. During the first half of the 20th century Italian philosophy was dominated by the neo-idealist currents of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile and, as it is well known, these two Italian philosophers used to conceive philosophy as the queen of sciences, a kind of philosophia prima of Aris..
AN AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY OF VEGAN PRAXIS AND ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MEAT-EATING CYBORG
ABSTRACT. This paper is an experimental auto-ethnography based on an explication of my personal journey and vegan praxis as an academic, poet and writer. Through narrative, poetry and short stories it explores the cultural phenomena of institutionalized forms of animal use in late-stage capitalism. ..
BUREAUCRATIC REPUTATION MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on processes that generate the responsibility related to a significant reputation, the constraints and likelihoods of reputation management in the public sphere, the advantages of possessing a high reputation in a pu..
BEAUVOIR’S FEMINIST REALISM
ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I focus on Beauvoir’s investigation of women’s oppression, her observations on young women’s sexuality, her analysis of female subjectivity, and her debate of the normative masculine imaginary. The results of the current study converge with prior research on Beauvoir’..
THE ECO-UNIVERSITY IN THE GREEN AGE
ABSTRACT. This essay begins by tracing the conceptual ancestry of the term “eco” as the same root for both “ecology” and “economics:” where ecology concerns the logos of oikos; economics concerns the nomos of oikos. This set of observations on “eco” is used to introduce Heidegger’s musing on “dwelli..
A PLEA FOR THE PLURALITY OF FUNCTION
ABSTRACT. In this paper I defend a pluralistic approach in understanding function, both in biological and other contexts. Talks about function are ubiquitous and crucial in biology, and it might be the key to bridge the “manifest image” and the “scientific image” identified by Sellars (1962). Howeve..
ZOLTAN ISTVAN’S “TELEOLOGICAL EGOCENTRIC FUNCTIONALISM:” A LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR “TRANSHUMANIST” POLITICS
ABSTRACT. The current foundation phase of “Transhumanist” politics deserves a critical discussion of the philosophical principles that implicitly underlie its new political organization. As part of the effort towards a self-critical evaluation of political transhumanism, which is undoubtedly still i..
NON-PRIORITY OF THE FREEDOM PRINCIPLES: NON-FRUSTRATION, NON-INTERFERENCE, NON-DOMINATION
ABSTRACT. In reference to three competing negative principles of freedom (non-frustration, non-interference, and non-domination), Philip Pettit recently presented an argument in favor of the absolute prioritization of non-domination. I refute the absolute priority claim on both analytical and contex..
PROCESSES UNDERLYING AUDIENCES’ INTERACTIONS WITH ORGANIZATIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
ABSTRACT. This research makes conceptual and methodological contributions to the varying arrangements of communication capacity within social media settings, the character of the link between public relations and social media, the intricacy of public relations experience in emerging media, and the s..
SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT. The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of sustainable advancement in organizations, the determinants impacting firms to carry out sustainability practices, the function implicit social norms have in construing organizational values as regards organizational sustainability, and ..
NARRATIVE FEATURES OF MARGUERITE DURAS’S FICTION, DRAMA, AND CINEMA
ABSTRACT. In this paper I am particularly interested in exploring the political nature of Duras’s films, plays, and fiction, the exotic space of her characters, the flexibility of the fictional view in her literary narratives, and the relevance in her cinema of the viewer’s function as dynamic creat..
DIGITAL READING: FROM THE REFLECTIVE SELF TO SOCIAL MACHINE
ABSTRACT. Using the form of dialogue, this paper analyzes reading in the digital age. The paper reveals the history of reading from Augustine to Wittgenstein as a changing and evolving set of practices such as the cultural invention of silent reading, mass reading, and rise of specialized reading pu..