Quantum mechanics has been utterly successful as a physical description of the sub-astronomic. It has led to unprecedented technological accomplishments, such as microprocessors, modern pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials. It has revealed compelling theoretical insights into nature, such as the reality of the atom and the understanding of its properties both isolated and as a part of compou...

How can an enterprise, such as Sloterdijk defines in his You Must Change Your Life and its satellite The Art of Philosophy, be “Enlightenment-conservative”? That is the question leading these reflections on key terms that contain both works nuce – practice course, but also perspective retrospective, transition, extension, explicitation, turn, return, quarter turn –, shed light Sloterdijk’s non-...

That the Western scientific and medical tradition is built on Greek foundations is well known: what is far less obvious is how and why Greek science arose and developed, and what distinguished it from its Egyptian and Babylonian contemporaries. In this'elegant book, Dr. Lloyd addresses himself to these difficult questions and points towards their solution. He examines again the role of magic an...

This special issue responds to the current discourse on cinema and education from a philosophical point of view. Considering fact that young people worldwide are watching films series via their smartphones or personal computers, we here explore educative aspects this popular activity. Does wide-ranging habit mis-educate next generation? Or does carry potential for ethical-political education, p...

Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists and social historians but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and...

The article is devoted to the analysis of research approaches legal understanding in Western philosophy, starting from ancient Greek period and ending with second half 20th century. aim work form a comprehensive historically changing types comprehending law (including, such areas as naturalism, moralism, traditionalism, normativism, positivism, sociologism, realism) revealed three aspects: form...