Search results for "Contemporary Philosophy"
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Deep Interpretive Disagreements and Theory of Legal Interpretation
2016
This paper deals with deep interpretive disagreements (DID): very profound divergences that may occur in legal interpretation (on single cases, or on similar cases) among judges and jurists. These divergences involve alternative interpretations of certain expressions or phrases (for instance, “human person”, “dignity”, “personal autonomy”, “life”, “health”) and may lead, under certain conditions, to incompatible interpretations of the legal sentences that incorporate these expressions. The most important examples of this kind of legal sentences are constitutional provisions that express principles asserting legal rights. The main thesis of this paper is that DID represent genuine, faultless…
Beyond Scientific Objectivity : Knowing about Right and Wrong
2007
Our way of seeing things depends upon the state of our minds. We can look at the world through the lenses of love, hate or indifference. What remains largely unquestioned about science is its essence. Scientific objectivity is not free from subjectivity. I argue that objective, scientific knowledge is a partial knowledge based on indifference, the state of mind that constitutes the scientific attitude. Hate does not produce knowledge at all, but reinforces our prejudices. However, love gives the possibility of knowing someone or something fully, and not only as an object. Once we accept that our experiences, thoughts, and feelings are not incommunicable, we can arrive at inter-subjective an…
Introduction: Situatedness and Place
2018
Over the last two or three decades, the spatio-temporal contingency of human life has become an important topic of research in a broad range of different disciplines including the social sciences, the cultural sciences, the cognitive sciences, and philosophy. Significantly, however, this research topic is referred to in quite different ways: While some researchers refer to it in terms of the “situatedness” of human experience and action, others refer to it in terms of “place”, emphasizing the “power of place” and advocating a “topological” or “topographical turn” in the context of a larger “spatial turn”. In this chapter, we will first give a short introduction to place and situatedness as …
How not to Resist the Natural Kind Talk in Biology
2019
Abstract: After the dawn of the traditional, essentialist view of natural kinds in contemporary philosophy (exacerbated in philosophy of biology by “population thinking”), non-essentialist cluster conceptions of natural kinds have been extensively supported and applied to numerous biological categories. However, salient philosophers have put forward two challenging arguments against cluster kind theories. I argue that, in both cases, discontent with a cluster conception of natural kinds is motivated by tacit and previous assumptions that can be challenged. I conclude that the concerns expressed in the objections do not make good reasons to resist natural kinds talk in biology unless one is …
The Bachelardian Tradition in the Philosophy of Science
2005
To present either Bachelard's epistemology or philosophy of science means, in some ways, to undertake the characterization of an original philosophical approach, one that perhaps begins with August...
A Hermeneutical Analysis of the InternalistApproachin the Philosophy of Sport
2015
Abstract In this paper, we make a hermeneutical analysis of internalism, the dominant tradition in the philosophy of sports. In order to accomplish this, we identify the prejudices that guide the internalist view of sports, namely the Platonic-Analytic prejudice introduced by Suits, one of the forefathers of internalism. Then, we critically analyze four consequences of following such a prejudice: a) its reductive nature, b) the production of a unrealistic view of sports, c) the vagueness of the idea of excellence; and d) the leap from the descriptive analysis of the sporting phenomenon to the setting of normative requirements for the practice of sports.
La circolazione culturale Nord-Sud. Il caso del rapporto tra filosofia italiana e tedesca
2018
Italy and Germany have a long tradition of mutual influence and cultural exchange, both culturally and philosophically. "Philosophia Transalpina" shows transnational lines of reception in case studies and on the basis of selected philosophers and illustrates how useful an exchange of ideas between national philosophical cultures can be
Subjectivity as a Non-Textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology
2008
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently mo mentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychol ogy. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution in relying on our intuitions regarding subjectivity due to the historically contingent charac terizations it has attained in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the face of these condi tions, our paper raises a question of what we call non-textual…
La filosofía política del transnacionalismo en la migración: Una respuesta al debate entre el liberalismo y el comunitarismo
2019
Uno de los problemas a los cuales se ha enfrentado la filosofía contemporánea, es lograr materializar sus postulados; de allí, que el presente artículo muestra un análisis crítico del liberalismo y el comunitarismo a partir del análisis de sus conceptos y principios rectores como modelos políticos filosóficos. Al finalizar, el trabajo formula una respuesta material al fenómeno propuesto, a través de la construcción de un modelo integrador que toma en consideración, los diferentes contrastes de la realidad actual que tienen las sociedades.
A hermeneutical genealogy of the poeticization of signs in Nietzsche’s philosophy of body
2016
The main objective of this article is to show that Nietzsche’s genealogy reveals the semiotic and hermeneutical character of all human activities and that its origin is rooted in the body of the imaginative animal, especially in the poeticizing power of its imagination. Thus is revealed the great signifi cance of Nietzsche’s philosophy of body, which provides a more complete approach for transforming contemporary philosophy, and can also help us to move past current neurophilosophy.