In this paper I discuss G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy, arguing that the immanent, self-determining and dialectical movement of his ‘speculative thinking’ offers insights into contemporary aesthetics, the knowledge of reality, and of meaning in the transitoriness of the digital image. I relate speculative thinking as ontology to the ontology and temporality of the digital image, and focus my discuss...

Recent work in philosophy could benefit from paying greater attention to empirical results from cognitive science involving judgments about the nature of our ordinary experience. This paper describes the way that experimental and theoretical results about the nature of ordinary judgments could—and should—inform certain sorts of enquiries in contemporary philosophy, using metaphysics as an exemp...

Recent work in philosophy could benefit from paying greater attention to empirical results from cognitive science involving judgments about the nature of our ordinary experience. This paper describes the way that experimental and theoretical results about the nature of ordinary judgments could—and should—inform certain sorts of enquiries in contemporary philosophy, using metaphysics as an exemp...

“Mr. Turnbull had predicted evil consequences, . . . and was now doing the best in his power to bring about the verification of his own prophecies.” ANTHONY TROLLOPE _____________________________ A lecture given at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in Summer 1953, as part of a course on Developments and trends in contemporary British philosophy, organized by the British Council; originally published under...

1.Puzzle According to a standard view in contemporary metaphysics, there are no necessary connections between distinct properties. But according to a standard view in philosophy of mind there are necessary connections between distinct properties. In short, we have a puzzle: standard metaphysics inconsistent with standard philosophy of mind. By ‘a standard view in contemporary metaphysics’ I mea...

martyr sayyed mostafa khomeini is one of the contemporary philosophers who has grown in transcendent philosophy and has new doctrines in islamic philosophy. his only remained book, commentaries on the transcendent philosophy, contains his theories. but you can also find his special philosophical theories in his 29 volume books about fiqh, assets of fiqh, and interpretation. his big philosophica...

radhakrishnan is one of the prominent indian contemporary thinkers. he is under the influence of the vedanta cult; yet there are certain elements of hegelian idealism, whitehead and schleiermacher’s philosophy in his views. vedanta school is the most perfect and most traditional school of philosophy in india that majority of contemporary indian thinkers such as vivekananda, aurobindo, and rabin...

Aristotle begins his famous discussion of time in Book Δ of The Physics by asking whether time belongs to “the things that exist.” In this paper I argue that Aristotle’s apparently ambiguous answer to this question holds one of the keys to clarifying contemporary philosophy of time. First, I argue that the metaphysical and metaphilosophical presuppositions underlying most philosophy of time are...

........................................................................................... 315 Introduction ...................................................................................... 317 I. Law and Contemporary Attitudes Toward African Homosexuality ....................................................................... 323 II. Liberal Philosophy and Liberal Legal Frameworks .........