【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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Colonial Vices Sketches of a General Consideration
In this article, Carlos Pereda introduces the concept of colonial reason and explores how philosophical practices and modes of thought are entwined with colonial political structures of exploitation, exclusion, and oppression. Pereda argues that philosoph
The Concept of the Cognitive Unconscious: Philosophical View
The article examines the concept of cognitive unconscious, which has become widespread in cognitive science. The author explores the origins of the concept, provides a detailed historical context for the emergence of the problem of the cognitive unconscio
Shifting the spotlight: What do we mean by 'religious language'?
There are mainly two types of questions asked about religious language: those about identity (e.g., what is a religious language?) and those about meaning (e.g., what do its sentences say?). Most philosophers focus on the latter because while they disagre
Different kinds of data: samples and the relational framework
This paper proposes an original definition of samples as a kind of data within the relational framework of data. The distinction between scientific objects (e.g., samples, data, models) often needs to be clarified in the philosophy of science to understan
Let's not get ahead of ourselves: we have no idea if moral reasoning causes moral progress
An important question about moral progress is what causes it. One of the most popular proposed mechanisms is moral reasoning: moral progress often happens because lots of people reason their way to improved moral beliefs. Authors who defend moral reasonin
Typicality First
Instances of the law of large numbers are used to model many different physical systems. In this paper, I argue for a particular interpretation, of those instances of that law, which appeals to typicality. As I argue, the content of that law, when used to
Speculative Cannibalism: Derrida and Viveiros de Castro on Eating-the-Other
Speculative cannibalism names here some kind of transcendental logic that only works through figuration, in the specific form of an analogical matrix. This article tracks these configurations in the philosophical works of Jacques Derrida and in the anthro
THE SPECTER OF REVEALED PREFERENCE THEORY
My aim in this paper is to argue that the recent philosophical defenses of revealed preference theory do not withstand scrutiny. Towards this aim, I will first outline revealed preference theory. I will then briefly present the two most common arguments t
Everettian quantum mechanics and the ghost of fission
Arguments from fission cases, most notably made by Parfit, have historically been utilized in discussions of Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) in an attempt to illuminate details of familiar accounts in which an agent 'splits'. Whilst such imagery is o
Comparison, Fusion, and Bricolage: How to Integrate Islamic Philosophy within Comparative Philosop
The launching of philosophical pursuits undertaken in an East-West trajectory at the first East-West Philosophers' Conference in 1939 represents a turning point in philosophy. However, as groundbreaking as this approach was, it left out all philosophical
PHILOSOPHy OF MIND AS A PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHy AND SCIENCE: REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WEST AND EAST
The purpose of the scientific article is a comparative analysis of the philosophy of consciousness in the context of Western and Eastern theory. In the process of the three stages of scientific research, the authors used general scientific and unique meth
Ibn Khaldfun's Method of History and Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
The historian Ibn Khald & uacute;n (d. 1406 ) is most often treated by historians of philosophy as part of the story of political philosophy in the Islamic world. While this is perfectly legitimate, it may be misleading when it comes to the question of th
Philosophy after Bucha: Current Discussions in the Context of Ukrainian Philosophy
This text analyzes the discussions that have arisen in the context of the RussiaUkraine war. The subject of the analysis is the debate taking place in the Ukrainian intellectual sphere and its polemic with certain tendencies in the West towards understand
Theoretical Linguistics and the philosophy of linguistics
In this article, I briefly explore how theoretical linguistics and philosophy are interconnected. I focus on three possibilities, and argue that the fields are most harmonious when utilised in critical reflection of a particular target, a format officiall
A View from the Periphery Commentary on Philip Kitcher's What's the Use of Philosophy
Comment on Philip Kitchers What is the Use of Philosophy, arguing that while Kitcher is right to insist on the practical relevance of philosophy one should be careful to distinguish this view from an instrumental understanding of philosophy. Maybe philoso