【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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Affective Atmospheres of Coloniality and the Decolonisation of Peace Education: Theoretical Insights
Two recent lines of inquiry that have emerged in educational philosophy and research are the turn to affect theory and the call for decolonising education. Although there have been some efforts to bring these two lines of inquiry together and inform educa
'Metaphysics of the Exodus': Debating Platonic Versus Christian Traces in St Thomas'
This paper critically analyzes the deconstructive tendency that some authors have shown against the so-called Metaphysics of Exodus, promoted by philosophers such as etienne Gilson. The most original notion in Thomas Aquinas's philosophy is that being (e
Tao is hidden and nameless: Exploring the mysticism path of Laozi and Zhuangzi
The contemporary interpretation of Lao-Zhuang's thought reveals a multidimensional dialogue between tradition and modernity, the local and the exotic, and East and West. The interaction between Lao-Zhuang's thoughts and Western religious philosophy can
God Himself Is Dead: Returning to Hegel's Doctrine of Incarnation
This essay presents a certain defense of Hegel's doctrine of Incarnation. For Hegel, the logic of the Incarnation constitutes not only the highest insight of religion and theology but, arguably, the key to philosophy itself, as the perfected self-knowled
AI: Anarchic Intelligence: On Epinoia
With a few notable exceptions, the word epinoia has not been heard with a philosophical ear since the time of Epicurus and the Stoics. In addition to the scarce mentions it had received in philosophy, epinoia was strewn across the plays of Euripides and A
Reconstructing Lakatos: a reassessment of Lakatos' epistemological project in the light of the
Based on the material in the Lakatos Archive, this paper reconstructs. and then re-assesses, Lakatos' epistemological project by placing it in the context of the debate on the role of reason in the history of science, and of the justification of rational
The complete Duhemian underdetermination argument: scientific language and practice
Current discussion of scientific realism and antirealism often cites Pierre Duhem's argument for the underdetermination of theory choice by evidence. Participants draw on an account of his underdetermination thesis that is familiar, but incomplete. The p
Posthumanism and Russian religious thought
I argue that one of the central aspects characterizing the philosophical horizon at the threshold of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is the erosion of the humanist idea, i.e. 'posthumanism'. Russian religious philosophy is pervaded by considera
Pragmatism and structuralism in occupational therapy: The long conversation
The history of occupational therapy may be understood as a continual transaction between two cultural discourses: pragmatism and structuralism. Pragmatism is a way of thinking that presupposes humans are agentic by nature and knowledge is tentative and cr
Nikolai Mikhailovskii and Konstantin Leont'ev. On the political implication of Herbert Spencer&
I present a fragment from the history of the Russian reception of Herbert Spencer's sociology. The discussion concerns two diametrically opposed but exceptionally important figures in the history of Russian thought, Nikolai Mikhajlovskij (1842-1904) and
Ontologically Interactive Painting: On Susan Rothenberg's Three Heads
In this article, I argue that paintings are transformations of the perceptual world, transformations that the world itself elicits but does not determine, thus undercutting the subjective-objective divide in art. First, I describe Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
Jane Addams and the Limits of Sympathy. Failures, Corrections, and Lessons to be Learned
Jane Addams takes sympathetic knowledge as a key concept for her moral and political philosophy. However, regarding the classical objections to sympathy as a foundation for morality and democracy, some theoretical remarks are still needed. In this article
Naturalizing Nous? Theophrastus on Nous, Nature, and Motion
There is prima facie evidence that Theophrastus naturalized nous to the extent that he spoke of it in naturalizing terms. But our evidence also suggests that Theophrastus accepted the reasons Aristotle had for excluding nous from the reach of natural phil
Getting tense about the atonement
This paper argues for the coherence of penal substitutionary theories of atonement (PSA) with presentism. After summarizing both the PSA and presentism, we address two major objections to the coherence of these two doctrines working together, namely that
Jaśkowski and the Jains
In 1948 Jaskowski introduced the first discussive logic. The main technical idea was to take what holds to be what is true at some possible world. Some 2,000 years earlier, Jain philosophers had advocated a similar idea, in their doctrine of syadvada. Of