Renewed Philosophical Practices and Philosophically-Oriented Biographical Analysis

Is Experimental Philosophy Philosophically Significant ? ( Forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology )

Experimental philosophy has emerged as a very specific kind of response to an equally specific way of thinking about philosophy, one typically associated with philosophical analysis and according to which philosophical claims are measured, at least in part, by our intuitions. Since experimental philosophy has emerged as a response to this way of thinking about philosophy, its philosophical sign...

Discussing the Principles of Philosophical and Artist-oriented Criticism in Masnavi

     Discussions about art criticism, philosophy of arts and esthetics are most often present in the works of non-Iranian thinkers and scholars. In some ancient Iranian texts and sources, one can find articles and discussions about the work of art, the artist and the audience. One of these sources is the spiritual Masnavi of Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi. In this book, there are scattered ...

Law, Psychiatry, and Philosophical Analysis

PROGENIE: Biographical Descriptions for Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence analysts face the need for immediate, up-to-date information about individuals of interest. While biographies can be written and stored in text databases, we argue that they can get quickly obsolete for living persons. We present here the architecture of ProGenIE, a biographical description generator currently under construction, focusing on the requirements of the task and its imp...

Altruism – A Philosophical Analysis

Altruism is a malleable notion that is understood differently in various disciplines. The common denominator of most definitions of altruism is the idea of unidirectional helping behaviour. However, a closer examination reveals that the term altruism sometimes refers to the outcomes of a helping behaviour for the agent and its neighbours – that is, reproductive altruism – and sometimes to what ...