Divine Evolution: Empedocles’ Anthropology

Seeking the divine in evolution: implicit parallelism and Nietzsche

The most fascinating claim of the genetic algorithm is that apportionment of credit to schemata is accomplished implicitly, with no information explicitly revealed about which schemata are being favored or disfavored. From a philosophical perspective, this idea makes a claim about what is knowable or rather unknowable about evolution, especially in terms of what is good and bad within us.

Empedocles: Neurophilosophy and Neurosciences- Prophecy and Reality

Neurosciences are extended into a broad field, where the scientific observation and research join harmoniously the imagination, the intuition, the philosophy, the critic analysis, the enthusiasm and the skepticism, opening new horizons in the theoretic perspectives and offering new motivations for research, on the bases of an advanced multi-dimensional intellectuality. From the Era of Pre-Socra...

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Virtual anthropology: the digital evolution in anthropological sciences.

The discovery and explanation of differences among organisms is a major concern for evolutionary and systematic biologists. In physical anthropology, the discrimination of taxa and the qualitative and quantitative description of ontogenetic or evolutionary change require, of course, the analysis of morphological features. Since the 1960s, a remarkable amount of fossil material was excavated, so...

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...