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Mediation and Transcendence: Balancing Postphenomenological Theory of Technological Mediation with Karl Jaspers’s Metaphysics of Ciphers
The purpose of the present article is to contribute to the postphenomenological theory of technological mediation by introducing a new type of...
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The Mediation of Touch
The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating...
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Material Engagement and Mediation: Two Necessary Concepts
In this paper, I will claim that we need two distinct concepts to understand how bodies and things interact. Such concepts are “material engagement”...
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Technological Mediation Theory and the Moral Suspension Problem
Technological mediation theorists (such as Don Ihde and Verbeek) believe that human beings’ moral actions can be transformed through technological...
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Working Hypotheses, Mathematical Representation, and the Logic of Theory-Mediation
We examine the contrast between the “Newtonian style” and the Cartesian, hypothetico-deductive method in order to expand on George Smith's account of...
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How Do Technologies Affect How We See and Treat Animals? Extending Technological Mediation Theory to Human-animal Relations
Human practices in which animals are involved often include the application of technology: some farmed animals are for example milked robotically or...
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Mediation
Mediation is a process in which arbitration and intervention are used in a dispute to resolve it. Since it is a form of dispute resolution it...
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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective
This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the...
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How to Become Conscious of Consciousness: A Mediation-Focused Approach
Why is it difficult to understand what consciousness is? I will argue that this is because consciousness is not a straightforward, independent...
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Imaginative immersion, regulation, and doxastic mediation
This paper puts forward an account of imaginative immersion. Elaborating on Kendall Walton’s thesis that imagining aims at the fictional truth, it...
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Natural artificiality, niche construction, and the content-open mediation of human behavior
There are at least two senses in which human beings can be called “naturally artificial”: (1) being adapted for creation of and participation in...
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Mediation and the Process of Outer Expansion
How does our desire for mediation provide clues about the modes of expansion of the biological substratum? By facing such question, this chapter will...
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Against Mediation
The fifth chapter argues that previous attempts to situate Nietzsche’s religious thought in the context of Christian or Buddhist mystical traditions...
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The Impact of Islamic Spirituality on Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment: Exploring Mediation and Moderation Impact
Research into spirituality and its impact on the work environment has been bourgeoning. In an attempt to explore the role of Islamic spirituality in...
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“The Logic of Species”: A Translation of Tosaka Jun’s Commentary on Tanabe Hajime
In this translation of his 1936 essay, Tosaka Jun critically examines Tanabe Hajime’s “logic of species,” paying particular attention to its basis,...
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A History Cut Off from Germ Cells
If individuals who are different, as man and woman, are considered to be opposite, their relationship needs a mediation external to them and neutral...
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Back to the technologies themselves: phenomenological turn within postphenomenology
This paper revives phenomenological elements to have a better framework for addressing the implications of technologies on society. For this reason,...
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Exploring in Between Small and Big: On Algorithmic Mediation, the Importance of Relation, and the Terms of Debate
In this contribution I reply to Heather Wiltse and Róisín Lally’s commentaries. Both stress the importance of not only looking at gaps, but also...
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A mechanistic guide to reductive physicalism
Causal mediation mechanisms are well supported by available experimental evidence and provide a practicable way to reductive physicalism. According...
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PeerMediation Behind Bars: A Project for Violence Prevention and Constructive Conflict Management in the Juvenile Detention Centre Berlin
“Peer mediator behind bars” is a four to five month training for imprisoned young people and adolescents with the aim of implementing conflict...