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Before Popper, Kant had proposed a solution to Hume’s problem that also called for knowledge that relates to the world of observations while preceding those observations. The difference is that, for Kant, this knowledge is a priori truths, which puts … Read More
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Sfetcu, Nicolae (2022). Biopolitics and Geopolitics, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35747.73767, in Telework: https://www.telework.ro/en/biopolitics-and-geopolitics/ Abstract Biopower refers to the practice of modern nation-states through an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations. … Read More
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Spinoza It is in proposition 11 of the first part of the Ethics that Spinoza proposes a proof of the existence of God by the essentialist approach. The statement of this proposition is: “God, that is, a substance consisting of … Read More
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Critical rationalism, stemming from the Kantian enterprise, can be characterized by three traits: The renunciation of its dogmatic and metaphysical pretensions. The integration of experience within an experimental dialectic. Recognition by reason itself of its limits and its historicity. Kantian … Read More
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The multiple meanings of being “Being” is said in multiple senses, says Aristotle at the beginning of the fourth book of his Metaphysics, he enumerates in this same passage, a list of concepts each of which receives the name of … Read More
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Among the attempts to dismantle the first horn of Hume’s fork, Henderson mentions Kant’s approach discussed later and that of Bayes. Bayesian logic is not ampliative: it does not provide more information than that contained in the premises and observations. … Read More
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Appearance of heavy elements in the Universe Heavy elements 98% of visible matter is made up of hydrogen and helium. All the other elements (heavy elements: carbon, iron, oxygen in particular which are the constituents of organic matter and therefore … Read More
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Neo-pragmatism The pragmatism of Richard Rorty Pragmatism, which established itself in the United States as the dominant current before the Second World War, suffered a long eclipse due to the dominance of the analytical style, but is experiencing a revival, … Read More
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(Bertrand Russell in 1957. Credit: Anefo, Wikipedia) The tenets of idealism have been questioned time and time again since its emergence, and the criticisms leveled at it are as varied as are the different forms of idealism. In England, the … Read More
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Since David Wiggins and his article of 1967, the reflection on personal identity, one of the most difficult and disturbing in the philosophy of mind, has often relied on the “argument from fission” to challenge our most ingrained beliefs about … Read More
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