【Philosophy】African philosophy cannot be a thing
This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments enco... [more]
【Philosophy】Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or fusion, philosophy. I make two related claim... [more]
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This paper critiques a conception of intelligence central in AI, and a related concept of reason central in moral philosophy, from an ecological feminist perspective. I argue that ecofeminist critique of human/nature dualisms offers insight into the durab
Thomas Reid and the problem of induction: from common experience to common sense
By the middle of the eighteenth century the new science had challenged the intellectual primacy of common experience in favor of recondite, expert and even counter-intuitive knowledge increasingly mediated by specialized instruments. Meanwhile modem philo
Learning to communicate: The emergence of signaling in spatialized arrays of neural nets
We work with a large spatialized array of individuals in an environment of drifting food sources and predators. The behavior of each individual is generated by its simple neural net; individuals are capable of making one of two sounds and are capable of r
Two concepts of medical ethics and their implications for medical ethics education
People who discuss medical ethics or bioethics come to very different conclusions about the levels of agreement in the field and the implications of consensus among health care professionals. In this paper I argue that these disagreements turn on a confus
Heidegger and 'the concept of time'
This article explores the extent to which Heidegger promises a novel understanding of the concept of time. Heidegger believes that the tradition of philosophy was mistaken in interpreting time as a moveable image of eternity. We are told that this definit
Trust, moral responsibility, the self, and well-ordered societies: The importance of basic philosoph
Although the work of clinical ethics is intensely practical, it employs and presumes philosophical concepts from the central branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. This essay introduces this issue in
Aspects of a systemic philosophy of knowledge: from social facts to data, information and knowledge
Considers from a cybernetic point of view, a number of philosophical problems raised by the design and utilization of information systems and knowledge management Discusses the transformation from facts in social systems, via data and information into kno
Excavating geography's hidden spaces
This paper considers alternative ways to approach teaching and researching the history and philosophy of geography. While exploring the geography department as a previously marginalized space in accounts of disciplinary change, three different types of so
Comparisons of concrete-encased composite column strength provisions of ACI code and AISC specificat
In the ACI-318 code (1999) and AISC-LRFD specification (1993), different approaches are used for the design of concrete-encased composite columns. The calculated member strengths based on these two design provisions may show significant difference in some
Is science neurotic? (Aims of inquiry, rationality, values)
Neurosis can be interpreted as a methodological condition from which any aim-pursuing entity can suffer. If such an entity pursues a problematic aim B but represents to itself that it is pursuing a different aim C and, as a result, fails to solve the prob
The state of nature: The political philosophy of primitivism and the culture of contamination
The 'state of nature' could be understood in two senses; both in terms of its nature's current (sorry) condition and of that unmediated and pre-contractual relation between humanity and the environment posited by political philosophers like Locke and R
Marketing - A critical realist approach
The debate in marketing about the philosophy of science that would be most appropriate for the discipline ended in the early 1990s with realism as the apparent victor. However, there are many variations within the realist camp. One particular version - cr
Treatment aims and philosophy in the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa in Europe
This study describes the range of service provision and explores differences in treatment approaches and therapeutic aims, in the 12 countries participating in the European Union collaborative COST B6 Adolescent Project into the treatment of adolescent an
Philosophy, engineering, biology, and history: a vindication of Turing's views about the distin
Alan Turing draws a firm line between the mental and the physical, between the cognitive and physical sciences. For Turing, following a tradition that went back to D'Arcy Thompson, if not Geoffroy and Lucretius, throws out talk of function, intentionalit
Synthetic neuroethology
Computation and philosophy intersect three times in this essay. computation is considered as an object, as a method, and as a model used in a certain line of philosophical inquiry concerning the relation of mind to matter. As object, the question consider