the effective and efficient understanding of the past, which is useful for present time, will transform the history into a dynamic science when it becomes an essential concern for historians. history, as a science, is the result of historian’s insights and perceptions; and philosophical hermeneutics with emphasizing on ontology of understanding and especially on importance of interpretation, ha...

A remarkable theorem by Clifton, Bub and Halvorson (2003) (CBH) characterizes quantum theory in terms of information–theoretic principles. According to Bub (2004, 2005) the philosophical significance of the theorem is that quantum theory should be regarded as a “principle” theory about (quantum) information rather than a “constructive” theory about the dynamics of quantum systems. Here we criti...

Abstract Philosophical treatments of natural kinds are embedded in two distinct projects. I call these the philosophy science approach and language approach. Each is characterized by its own set philosophical questions, concerns, assumptions. The studied projectible categories that can ground inductive inferences scientific explanation. referential objects a special linguistic category—natural ...

2 " The decisive movement in the conjuring trick has been made, and it was the very one we thought quite innocent "-Philosophical Investigations, § 308

What is the aim of philosophy? There may be too many philosophical branches, traditions, practices, and programs to admit of a single overarching aim. Here, I focus on a fairly traditional philosophical project that has recently received increasingly sophisticated articulation, especially by Frank Jackson (1998) and David Chalmers (2012). In Section 1, I present the project and suggest that it ...

Book review focuses on two books by Gunther Neumann, dedicated to the thought of Heidegger and Leibniz. If one deals specifically with understanding freedom in both philosophers, then other more Heidegger’s three approaches Leibniz’s thought: (1) Interpretation Leibniz context making fundamental ontology Being Time, as well reading after Time; (2) during transition Ereignis thought; (3) Interpe...

Interpretation of artificial intelligence on the base of the philosophical fictionalism allowed discussing the educational technologies in the context of conditions for strengthening of discursive power of pupils’ thought. The artificial intelligence received broad interpretation as an embodiment of a literary image, which did not have unambiguous link with the area of logical formalisms and ma...

principality of existence, which is one of the most fundamental issues in primary philosophy, is one of the main branches of ṣadr al-muti’allihīn's philosophy and nearly all discourses of transcendental philosophy are considered to be based on it, to the extent that the transcendence of mullā ṣadrā’s philosophy is considered due to the transcendence of existence and the “existence” as his first...