In search of common, information-processing, agency-based framework for anthropogenic, biogenic, and abiotic cognition and intelligence by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

“…Learning from contemporary natural, formal, and social sciences, especially from current biology, as well as from humanities, particularly contemporary philosophy of nature, requires updates of our old definitions of cognition and intelligence. …”
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Towards a theory of presuppositions: Kuyperian contributions by R. Coletto

“…One of the most important themes of contemporary philosophy of science was the discovery of presuppositional beliefs and frameworks as factors influencing scientific research. …”
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Aristotle, Kant and Weber - Preliminary Philosophical for Journalism Ethics by José Manuel Chillón

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Prejudice and Presupposition in Offensive Language by Carlo Penco

“…In this paper I give a short introduction to the standard way to treat offensive language in contemporary philosophy of language, without giving details on the very rich contemporary literature on the problem. …”
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Process Metaphysics of Consciousness by Prentner Robert

“…Furthermore, this line of reasoning is shown to be continuous with philosophical projects from the early 20th century that preceded the contemporary philosophy of mind. Specifically, we investigate the relationship of parts and wholes, and translate metaphysical problems of consciousness into mereological language. …”
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Materialismo percettivo. Da Democrito a Lenin, da Hobbes a Kim by Michele Gardini

“…After giving a survey of authors like Democritus, Hobbes, De Sade, Lenin, the final appendix, devoted to the concept of “supervenience” and its treatment in Davidson and Kim, aims at summarizing the whole problem through the categories of the contemporary philosophy of mind. The conclusion is that a pure materialistic approach is incapable to give reason to some of the fundamental characteristics of perception, that make it one of the basic moods of “being-in-the-world”.…”
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«All the principles of being and becoming»: Schelling’s ontogenetic hypothesis by Iain Hamilton Grant

“…To this end, I draw on the worldmaking and abundance postulates of Goodman and Feyerabend, respectively, to demonstrate the persistence of Schellingian ontogenetic pathways for remodelling process metaphysics for contemporary philosophy. Finally, the paper argues that the logical form of the hypothesis (antecedent and consequent) is itself consequent upon the ontogeny it hypothesises.…”
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Contemporary Knowledge and Musical Creation: Ethic and Paradigms by Ilza Nogueira

“…In this essay, the author reflects upon musical knowledge of the last thirty five years under the light of contemporary philosophy (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guatarri and Sílvio Gallo), demonstrating, through music analysis, how the evolution of compositional thought from 1980 to 2010 accompanies ethical and paradigmatic concepts which apply to the broad intellectual thought of the time-period. …”
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Forget Meillassoux! A critique of speculative materialism by Mario Aguiriano Benéitez

“…Quentin Meillassoux´s philosophical project aims at challenging some of the most fundamental assumptions of contemporary philosophy. His polemic against “correlationism”, which he understands as the main paradigm of philosophy from Kant onwards, is grounded in a vindication of a materialism of absolute contingency that he deems “speculative”. …”
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Wittgenstein and Folk Psychology by Yi Jiang

“…However, his critical attitude towards folk psychology has been less influential in the development of contemporary philosophy, and is in opposition to the philosophy of psychology and folk psychology as practiced today. …”
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Philosophy between Power and Powerlessness: A Homage to Karl Jaspers by Yvanka B. Raynova

“…Yet, by analizing the evolution of his views about the complex relation between philosophy and politics, the autor claims that Jaspers' philosophy is an emblematic illustration of a tension, inherent in contemporary philosophy, namely that between the faith in Reason and the scepticism about its potentialities to achieve a substantial changement of human nature and society.   …”
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الأنطولوجيا: النشأة والتطور والنضج by محمد فرحة

“…We will try to prove this by an interpretive survey of the history of ontology, depending on the original texts of the philosophers themselves, starting from the Greek philosophy, passing through Medieval and Modern philosophy and ending at the Contemporary philosophy. …”
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Proust e os limiares by Jonnefer Barbosa

“…With the questions it raises, the paper establishes a specific dialogue with the readings of Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett and Giorgio Agamben, in order to analyze the concept of threshold in its temporal implications, such a characterization being understood to be crucial to some important developments of contemporary philosophy around art and politics.…”
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Philosophy between Power and Powerlessness: A Homage to Karl Jaspers by Yvanka B. Raynova

“…Yet, by analizing the evolution of his views about the complex relation between philosophy and politics, the autor claims that Jaspers' philosophy is an emblematic illustration of a tension, inherent in contemporary philosophy, namely that between the faith in Reason and the scepticism about its potentialities to achieve a substantial changement of human nature and society.   …”
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الأنطولوجيا: النشأة والتطور والنضج by محمد فرحة

“…We will try to prove this by an interpretive survey of the history of ontology, depending on the original texts of the philosophers themselves, starting from the Greek philosophy, passing through Medieval and Modern philosophy and ending at the Contemporary philosophy. …”
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Inaugurating Philosophy of Film Without Theory by Craig Fox, Britt Harrison

“…We also draw attention to the range of philosophical practices and pursuits that distinguish philosophy (in general) without theory and contemporary philosophy (in general) with its near ubiquitous theoretical presumption.  …”
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Perception and reflection by Gomes, A

“…I set out a dilemma for the use of transcendental arguments in the philosophy of perception, one which turns on a comparison of the transcendental method with the first-personal method of early analytic philosophy, and with the empirical methods of much contemporary philosophy of mind. The transcendental method can avoid this dilemma only if it commits to our possessing a capacity for imaginative reflection, one which is capable of identifying certain formal properties of experience. …”

Humanistic ethics in the age of globality / by Dierksmeier, Claus

The learner-centred paradigm of education: its features and philosophical basis by Olifer Olena

“…Secondly, it is essential to know what concepts are topical in contemporary philosophy, and if they coincide with the learner-centred paradigm. …”
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Middle range theories, scientific practice and structuralist metatheory by Cláudio Abreu

“…The present work is immersed in the context of the contemporary philosophy of science, especially of the semanticist philosophy of the structuralist metatheory. …”
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