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Complementarity in Science, Life, and Knowledge
We separate the knower in the functional realm from the known in the physical (for physics), or from other functional categories (e.g., action). We...
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Methodological Individualism/Sociology of Knowledge/Cognitive Sociology
Fillieule offers a historical and theoretical account of the field of sociology of knowledge from the viewpoint of methodological individualism. His...
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Michel de Montaigne and the Vanity of Reason
Some early modern philosophers embraced an outward view of courage centred on men’s self-interests and “moral affections” for country and God. Others...
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The insignificance of philosophical skepticism
The Cartesian arguments for external world skepticism are usually considered to be significant for at least two reasons: they seem to present genuine...
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An Ontology of Non-Discriminatory Love: The Resurrection of the Triune Self in Ueda Shizuteru’s Appropriation and Critique of Meister Eckhart
In The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the True Self: The Religious Philosophy of the Kyoto School and Christianity, Fritz Buri critiques Ueda’s account...
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Back by popular demand, ontology
In this paper we analyze relations between ontology in anthropology and philosophy beyond simple homonymy or synonymy and show how this diagnosis...
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Behaviourism and Human Separateness
This chapter provides a brief overview of behaviourism in post-war philosophy of mind, focusing on its roots in verificationist and ordinary language...
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Straightening the ‘value-laden turn’: minimising the influence of extra-scientific values in science
Straightening the current ‘value-laden turn’ (VLT) in the philosophical literature on values in science, and reviving the legacy of the value-free...
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Energy Sovereignty: A Values-Based Conceptual Analysis
Achieving energy sovereignty is increasingly gaining prominence as a goal in energy politics. The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual...
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Epistemology and Methodology
This chapter studies epistemology and methodology under No-Self Physicalism. There are three objectives. The first is to propose a physicalistic...
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Liars, Skeptics, Cheerleaders: Human Rights Implications of Post-Truth Disinformation from State Officials and Politicians
The purpose of this paper is to philosophically examine how disinformation from state officials and politicians affects the right to access to...
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Teaching Sri Aurobindo: The Descent of Consciousness
Sri Aurobindo broke away from the shackles of the colonial mindset, using his knowledge of Western philosophy combined with Yogic insight to subvert...
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Psychedelics: Recent Philosophical Discussions
“Classic,” serotonergic psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin are the objects of renewed attention in science and psychiatry. A recent spate...
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Knowledge and Temperance in Plato’s Charmides
Toward the end of the Charmides, Socrates declares the search for temperance a ‘complete failure’ (175b2-3). Despite this, commentators have...
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Beyond Coronavirus: the metamorphosis as the essence of the phenomenon
This paper is an insight on a front-line doctor’s experience of Coronavirus in Italy, in an Internal Medicine ward transformed to a COVID-19 ward....
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African Endogenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Evolving an African Agrarian Philosophy
In Africa, the human person is the supreme force, the most powerful and dominant among all created beings. While this decreed power makes the lower...
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Maitreyī of India मैत्रेयी Circa 1100–500 BCE
Maitreyī has been renown since antiquity for her contributions to philosophy. In this chapter, her views as a proponent of Advaita (Monism) are...
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Mencius and Wang Yangming
In this chapter, after telling a concise history of the reception of Mencius’s philosophy before Wang Yangming, I compare Wang Yangming’s thought...
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Relevant Knowledge Use During Collaborative Explanation Activities: Investigation by Laboratory Experiment and Computer Simulation Using ACT-R
This study investigated the nature of knowledge use during collaborative explanation activities through a laboratory experiment and a computer...
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Personal Leadership: How to Change What Cannot Be Changed: A Response to Wesley Wildman’s Out with the Old, In with the New?
In agreement with Wildman’s statement about the structural failures in human functioning caused by individualism and cognitive errors, a new concept...