Russian organicism: philosophy and a public project

How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy

 Carlo Cellucci has rightly pointed out that contemporary professional academic philosophy has a serious problem of irrelevance. Performance philosophy and public philosophy are two recent attempts to solve that problem and radically transform professional academic philosophy into what I call real philosophy. Nevertheless, performance philosophy and public philosophy have some prima facie probl...

The Russian Microcredit Project

The reason for choosing microfinance for the poorest proceeds from a great need for financial and educational support of the poorest in Russia. During the last ten years, numerous programs have been elaborated and implemented in order to support small business in particular. Nevertheless, the poorest, as a less appealing sector for investing money in comparison to small business, still remains ...

The Death of Nature and the Rebirth of Gaia: Organicism, the Mechanical Philosophy, and Feminized Nature

The Nature and Possibility of Public Philosophy

The article argues that there is a central problem with the concept of public philosophy, in that philosophy is partly defined by questioning reflection on its own sense, while public or popular culture characteristically relies unreflectively on its ultimate givens, and these are mutually exclusive modes of thought. The article proposes, however, that because of philosophy’s reflection on and ...

Environmental Aesthetics and Public Environmental Philosophy

We argue that environmental aesthetics, and specifically the concept of aesthetic integrity, should play a central role in a public environmental philosophy designed to communicate about environmental problems in an effective manner. After developing the concept of the ‘‘aesthetic integrity’’ of the environment, we appeal to empirical research to show that it contributes significantly to people...