Beyond Representation and Signification: Toward a Sonic Materialism

[Neurocosmetics, transhumanism and eliminative materialism: toward new ways of eugenics].

In this paper I present similarities and connections between Transhumanism and Eliminative Materialism. Concretely, I study the arguments with which in both positions it is defended a merely instrumental idea of human body and, because of that, one infinitely mouldable. First, I show the social relevance of this idea and its projections in phenomena as medicalization of human condition and, esp...

Toward and beyond lysosomes.

Imagination: Universality and Signification

In Petry's edition of the Encyclopedia, it appears from the table of contents that Imagination is subdivided into (a) Reproductive Imagination, (b) Associative Imagination, and (c) Phantasy, which is then itself subdivided into (i) Symbol, (ii) Sign, and (iii) Language. But this division seems to be Boumann's, not Hegel's, for if attention is paid to the architectonic mentioned in the main para...

Scientific Representation , Materialism and New Facts A response to David Hodgson

I would like to thank David Hodgson (2008) for his intriguing reply to my paper on the Knowledge Argument (Schier, 2008). I have four general points I would like to make in response. The first point is simply to agree that scientific representations may be integrated. I drew the somewhat vague distinction between ‘fragmented’ and ‘integrated’ representations in order to capture the ways in whic...

Virtuality and Reality—Toward a Representation Ontology

Based on a brief overview of the history of ontology and on some philosophical problems of virtual reality, a new approach to virtuality is proposed. To characterize the representational (information, cognitive, cultural, communication) technologies in the Internet age, I suggest that Aristotle’s dualistic ontological system (which distinguishes between actual and potential being) be complement...