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“Overcoming Modernity,” Capital, and Life System: Divergence of “Nothing” in the 1970s and 1980s
This paper delves into the dispute surrounding “overcoming modernity” in Japanese philosophy, which arose before and during Japan’s Pacific War (the...
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Instrumental divergence
The thesis of instrumental convergence holds that a wide range of ends have common means: for instance, self preservation, desire preservation, self...
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Hermeneutics in the Mencius: Methods, Context, Divergence
This chapter discusses the salient features of the hermeneutics in Mencius. Mencius was a great hermeneutic philosopher who invented two operational...
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Conscious Capitalism and Islam: Convergence and Divergence
During modern times there are two major competing economic systems: Capitalism and Socialism. Although by the middle of the twentieth century...
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Innovating for Good in Opportunistic Contexts: The Case for Firms’ Environmental Divergence
Opportunistic behaviors are considered ethically and strategically troublesome since they disrupt otherwise mutually beneficial relationships....
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Agential Patterns in Development and Evolution: Towards an Anti-entropic Approach to the Divergence of Altricial and Precocial Mammals
The problems of organismal agency and phenotypic plasticity present significant interest for modern developmental and evolutionary biology, as well...
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Convergence and Divergence of Nyāya and Tattvavāda (Dvaita) Theories of Logic
Indian epistemology has delved deep into the analysis of logic as a component of cognition. It is considered as an essential constituent or, rather,...
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A Principled Approach to Expectation Maximisation and Latent Dirichlet Allocation Using Jeffrey’s Update Rule
Expectation Maximisation (EM) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are two frequently used inference algorithms, for finding an appropriate mixture...
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Pragmatic encroachment and justified group belief
The theory of pragmatic encroachment states that the risks associated with being wrong, or the practical stakes, can make a difference to whether...
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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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Transcendental Phenomenology as Human Possibility Husserl and Fink on the Phenomenologizing Subject
This book focuses on Edmund Husserl’s philosophical collaboration with Eugen Fink which took place in the early 1930s, and shows how their...
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Locating uncertainty in stochastic evolutionary models: divergence time estimation
Philosophers of biology have worked extensively on how we ought best to interpret the probabilities which arise throughout evolutionary theory. In...
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The Transcendental Logic of Dasein
In the chapter I delve into the transcendental framework of fundamental ontology, highlighting its radical departure from the perspectives of Kant...
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Radical Pooling and Imprecise Probabilities
This paper focuses on radical pooling, or the question of how to aggregate credences when there is a fundamental disagreement about which is the...
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Women, Violence, and Social Activism: From Aba Women’s Protest to #EndSARS Protests
Nigeria has a rich history of struggles for self-determination and social change. As a patriarchal and male-dominated society, women in Nigeria...
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Approaching probabilistic laws
In the general problem of verisimilitude, we try to define the distance of a statement from a target, which is an informative truth about some domain...
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L’Ordine Nuovo
Inspired by that, L’Ordine Nuovo started being published in May 1919, with the subtitle “Review of Socialist Culture”, to “indicate that the vehicle...
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How Easy is it to Feed Everyone? Economic Alternatives to Eliminate Human Nutrition Deficits
One of the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030. This goal will be missed....
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On the Principles That Serve as Guides to the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics
Is the ontology of non-relativistic quantum mechanics three dimensional (3N) or high dimensional (3ND)? This paper discusses two principles, proposed...
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Quantum Bose–Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language
We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a ‘number concept’ plus a ‘substantive concept’, such as ‘eleven animals’, the identity...
