Argues that the humanities do not need a replication drive like that being pushed for in the sciences.

Argues that the humanities do not need a replication drive like that being pushed for in the sciences.

Free will is an interesting topic, but it can be a difficult one to wrap one’s mind around. Sometimes taking an esoteric idea like free will, and connecting it to something mundane, can help provide insight into the matter. In this rough draft, I suggest using an analogy between our decision making and the decision making process of characters in…[Read more]

On scholarly traditions, quantitative assessments and academic malpractices in Italy, and how these factors affect Italian scholarship in the history of science.

Subject of the study are intentional communities with a strong emphasis on sustainable development. The study explores ecovillages and other socio-ecological communities in their role as lifestyle avant-gardes and as pioneers of sustainable development. Main interest is both the sustainability and the innovation potential of such communities.…[Read more]

Which is the real version (final cut) of Blade Runner? The greatness of Blade Runner is that it has looked audiences in the eye over the years and offered the real empathy test – simply by testing our loyalties and sympathies.

Is it worst to be killed by a crazed mob wielding machetes or to die via conveyor belt and filing system? The Better Angels of Our Nature keeps falling victim to the halo effect, creating an aura around reason itself. The question, then, is whether the book should be viewed as a jewel in reason’s crown or as among its costume jewellery.

Book review of the book by Marco Leonardi (“Renaissance Quarterly,” Volume 71, n. 4, 2018, pp. 1489-1491).

‘Dharma’ (Rightousness)1 sometimes takes the shape of ‘Adharma’ (unrighteousness ).”2 The Mahābhārata gives a subtle message through the stories. Sage Viśhwamitra justifies stealing of a piece of dog’s flesh to save his life during famine. (Śāntiparvan). Blind adherence of the sage Kauśika to his vow of speaking truth led to the killing of the vi…[Read more]

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Sobre las aproximaciones a la filosofía moral de Kant desde la antropología

por José M. García Gómez del Valle

Laguna: Revista de Filosofía,
ISSN 1132-8177,
Nº 15, 2004, págs. 210-212

Brian Jacobs y Patrick Kain (eds.): Essays on Kant’s Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, ix + 265 págs.

Patrick R. Frierson:…[Read more]

Recensión / Book Review / Buchbesprechung:

Dieter Schönecker/Thomas Zwenger (eds.). Kant Verstehen /Understanding Kant. Über die Interpretation philosophischer Texte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001, 344 pp. ISBN: 3-534-15207-7.

IN=DAGA. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES. Foro de Investigaciones So…[Read more]

The foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]

The foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]

The idea of a critical theory has colonized the social consciousness of academia, and become an integral part of the pursuit of higher knowledge. Competing ideas have thereby become standard bearers in that critical theory acts as a measure of true understanding . The only problem, however, is that many of the distinct theories similarly answering…[Read more]

The Line of Control arbitrarily bifurcates Neelum valley, Kashmir into Pakistan and India. While the border attempts to constrain and categorize, the daily movements and flows of human and more-than-human bodies via “unofficial” routes and routines generate an understanding of Kashmir that is not dependent on geopolitics. Neelum as sculpted and…[Read more]

Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

This essay is an attempt to think about melancholy as a shared creative endeavor, as a trans-corporeal blue (and blues) ecology that would bind humans, nonhumans, and stormy weather together in what Tim Ingold has called a meshwork. In this enmeshment of the “strange strangers” of Timothy Morton’s dark ecology, “[t]he only way out is down” a…[Read more]

This presentation presents a case study in philosophy and science policy surrounding Plan S and argues that we need new ways of evaluating such approaches to research.