Scientific consequences are dependent on premisses that are logical propositions of the phenomena concerned. Propositions are verbal and linguistic statements, and at the initial philosophical thinking stage they all include vaguneness and imprecision. As more scientific evidence becomes available either rationally or empirically proposition validity degree increases at the cost of vagueness. I...

The purpose of this essay is to analyze Arendt's reflections on the activity thinking. This essential understand our present and reconciling ourselves with contingency human fragility. Unlike philosophical tradition that has vindicated contemplative thinking, Arendt recovers lost treasure reflective thinking through portraits thinkers, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Walter Benjamin, Socrates...

Heidegger’s treatment of ‘machination’ in the Beiträge zur Philosophie begins the critique of technological thinking that would centrally characterize his later work. Unlike later discussions of technology, the critique of machination in Beiträge connects its arising to the predominance of ‘lived-experience’ (Erlebnis) as the concealed basis for the possibility of a pre-delineated, rule-based m...

The focus of this paper will be on techniques for getting the most from case studies intended to introduce critical thinking skills in ethics courses. The main point is that incorporating case studies is an essential element in teaching ethics, since the primary goal of this endeavor is to inculcate critical thinking skills and cases are an undervalued tool for developing analytical capacities ...

The processual relation of thinking and perceiving shall be examined from a historical perspective as well as on the basis of methodically conducted first-person observation. Historically, these two psychological aspects of human knowledge and corresponding philosophical positions have predominant alternating phases. At certain historical points, thinking and perceiving tend to converge, while ...

The idea of a 'good death' is one which has been central to the palliative care movement but which in fact predates it. A number of recent articles have grappled with the concept. It is a subject which is difficult to quantify scientifically and this article explores the territory using a number of philosophical, theological, historical and literary sources. The changing meaning of the concept ...

Mathematics have played since Plato’s Timaos a prominent role in philosophical thinking due to the simple fact that the search for very abstract and cognitively appealing principles in mathematics fits the basic philosophical motivation of unveiling the deepest enigmas in nature and man. There exists, therefore, a basic brotherand sistership between mathematics and philosophy. Nevertheless, it ...

The development of critical discourse and experimental practices in computer art of the 1960s and 1970s was informed by new forms of collaboration between artists, scientists and institutions. This paper acknowledges the debt owed by modern visualization practice to developments of this period but suggests that much of the artistic and philosophical legacy has been largely ignored in this area....

Martin Paleček and Mark Risjord have recently put forward a critical evaluation of the ontological turn in anthropological theory. According to this philosophically informed theory of ethnographic practice, certain insights of twentieth-century analytic philosophy should play a part in the methodological debates concerning anthropological fieldwork: most importantly, the denial of representatio...