What follows is a much-needed appraisal of the current state scientificity and progressiveness in study international politics. Imre Lakatos’ Methodology Scientific Research Programs will provide epistemological grounds. Three broad claims be made supported: (i) Waltz’s neorealism not an isolated theory politics, but proper scientific research program; (ii) Mearsheimer’s offensive realism too t...

Our philosophical understanding of mental illness is being shaped by neuroscience. However, it has the paradoxical effect igniting two radically opposed groups views. On one side, skepticism and denialism assume that, lacking clear biological mechanisms etiologies for most illnesses, we should infer they are constructions best explained means social factors. This strongly associated with medica...

The argument from disagreement is among the most important that has been directed against moral realism.1 Yet, in recent years it has been widely rejected – so widely, in fact, that even those who are sympathetic with irrealism have often found it unconvincing. One reason for this has to do with the fact that newer, more sophisticated versions of moral realism have recently emerged. Some of the...

Subversive Anachronisms in Art History– The Case of Magical “Socialist” Realist Painting –
 By using the term „subversive anachronism” I mean to invoke Georges Didi-Huberman’s concept „sovereign anachronism”, which is itself product a montage theories. Following Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, Didi-Huberman constructs phenomenon intellectual historical sense, frees anachronism from its ne...

Realism is described as objective evaluations and judgments about the world; however, some research indicates that judgments made by "normal" people include a self-favored, positive bias in the perception of reality. Additionally, some studies report that compared to normal people, such cognitive distortions are less likely among depressive people. These findings gave rise to the depressive rea...

Don Cupitt’s version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years. I argue that there is another strand in Cupitt’s thinking, his biological naturalism, that supports a different version of religious non-realism and that he failed t...

The article by Labonté, Schram, and Ruckert is a significant and timely analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) policy and the severe threats to public health that it implies for 12 Pacific Rim populations from the Americas and Asia (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam). With careful and analytic precision t...