Top Research Papers on Philosophy

To begin with, could you explain to our readers the meaning of "the sixtieth anniversary of the reestablishment" of the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University—a rather odd name for a celebration?

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the resurgence of American pragmatism. The first collection of new work to appear since his death in 2007, these previously unseen papers advance novel views on metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, philosophical semantics and the social role of philosophy, critically engaging canonical and contemporary figures from Plato and Kant to Kripke and Brandom. This book's diverse offerings, which include technical essa...

The word"Philosophy"in the history of Western philosophy since Plato is almost synonymous with "Metaphysics" which suggests an absolute distinction between the sensible and the supersensible,and regards the latter as the highest reality.Platonism occupied a dominant position in traditional Western philosophy.The Christian metaphysics and Cartesian metaphysics were but varieties of Platonism.The history of traditional Western metaphysics was,however,accompanied by the development of criticisms of metaphysics.Plato's student Aristotle and modern philosophers,such as Hume,Kant and Hegel criticize...

Philosophy of value" is not a independent branch or school of thought in philosophy. From the theory of philosophy, we can find that philosophy is philosophy. So the difficulty of study of "philosophy of value", is not in rebuilding the value's philosophy, but in putting value's philosophy as the real theme of philosophy and making philosophy's value show its read significance. However, if we only follow the sample of theory of western value's philosophy or go behind the road of dividing the western philosophy in the modern time and present time, we still let the "value" be abstract, which los...

Presentation critique de l'ouvrage de J. Mansfeld intitule «Prolegomena: Questions to Be Settled Before the Study of an Autor, or a Text. Philosophia Antiqua» qui propose d'etudier la vie d'un philosophe en guise d'introduction a son oeuvre. L'A. met en evidence l'utilite des tables analytiques qui peuvent etre degagees de l'ouvrage, mais souligne leur insuffisance pour motiver l'etudiant a la lecture des oeuvres memes du philosophe

In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser’s project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser’s own ideas, and presents a synthesis of his sprawling and disparate philosophical and political writings. Nowhere else does Althusser push the distinction between philosophy and other discip...

The reason that philosophy falls into the plight lies in the way that we teach philosophy in a non-philosophical method . The main features of philosophy are meditation and analysis. Philosophy is a kind of thinking towards metaphysics, premise and life-world as well. Philosophy should contain its pursuit of the intelligence, the thinking people's value ,and the attention to their era, philosophical education should guide philosophy learners to grasp a kind of philosophical thinking method, then leads them to a new world of philosophical activities.

Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling: Unasked Questions, Open Answers offers a base for criticizing approaches to philosophical counseling that fail to be philosophical or relevant to the counselees' concerns. It analyses the impact of tacit, unexamined, philosophical assumptions and examines their influence on the search for solutions, while explaining how such assumptions may obstruct that search. Ora Gruengard argues that conversations in which the participants disagree with each other are the adequate context for calling tacit assumptions into question and exploring alternatives. Her res...

promise of ʻthe advent of a new law .̓ Caygill s̓ Walter Benjamin is not for the philosophically faint of heart, but it repays close attention. It is by some distance the most philosophically sophisticated work on Benjamin in English. Readers inclined to disagree with it will need strong grounds for doing so. Those who want their cultural theory without philosophy will have to stop reading Walter Benjamin. In the light of the present Brodersen and Caygill offer different ways to read Benjamin – the life and the work – as a whole. The remaining three books under review are concerned with more s...

With the recent wave of posthumous publications, conferences and edited volumes, the writings of Louis Althusser have been subject to a major critical re-appraisal. As a result, the clichés which once surrounded his work have been replaced by a narrative of epistemological breaks no less complex than that which the French philosopher attributed to Marx. If Althusser gave us several ‘Marxs’, there are now multiple ‘Althussers’ – including Althusser the aleatory materialist, the anti-foundationalist political thinker and even the young Hegelian student, to name but a few. Yet despite this renewe...

Two recent articles described two ways of writing the history of philosophy, one analytic, the other historical, as if the history of philosophy cannot be both analytically sharp and contextually informed at the same time. I recommend the practice of "Philosophical History of Philosophy," which combines the advantages of the analytic and historical methods.

Martin Puchner’s The Drama of Ideas (2010), Freddie Rokem’s Philosophers and Thespians (2010), and Simon Bayly’s The Pathognomy of Performance (2011) are only three recent publications that one could cite as evidence that the international field of Theatre and Performance Research is undergoing what we might call ‘a philosophical turn’: an intensification of its long-standing interest in and engagement with philosophy, as a source of diverse concepts, plural methods and multiple ontologies that can be productively explored in relation to performance. But what is at stake in this turn? What rel...

A bstract The objective of this paper is to re f lect on the proper way for Christians to do philosophy, in respect of which I have been inspired by a phrase attributed to Cardinal Newman: “We do not need Christian philosophy. We need Christians making good philosophy.” This sentence can appear controversial, but I believe it is not, if its content is made explicit in an appropriate way. To better develop what I understand Newman to be proposing here, I have added another category to his statement, with the consequence that my own text falls into three sections: 1) on Christian philosophy; 2) ...

L'A. porte son attention sur les courants philosophiques qui jouent un role majeur dans la vie culturelle de l'Allemagne nouvelle. Il montre que, dans l'ex-Allemagne de l'Est, le marxisme-leninisme n'exerce plus aucune influence et que l'enseignement philosophique tend a se diversifier. Il envisage la situation de la philosophie au sein du monde universitaire dans l'ex-R.D.A.. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les influences culturelles des philosophes originaires de R.D.A. apres la Reunification de l'Allemagne

A proposition constructs a kind of view on the history of philosophy. The view affects the development of philosophical historical research. If you study this proposition by modern horizon, you will realize that the view is based on the proposition that philosophy is science. Its theoretical defect makes modern philosophy and historical research of philosophy go into a theoretical paradox. But when modern philosophy repeats this proposition frequently, people seldom realize it.

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the proper way for Christians to do philosophy, in respect of which I have been inspired by a phrase attributed to Cardinal Newman: “We do not need Christian philosophy. We need Christians making good philosophy.” This sentence can appear controversial, but I believe it is not, if its content is made explicit in an appropriate way. To better develop what I understand Newman to be proposing here, I have added another category to his statement, with the consequence that my own text falls into three sections: 1) on Christian philosophy; 2) on Christian...

Part 1 Philosophical discourse and literary form: the anatomy of philosophical style the plots and acts of philosophical genre Descartes between method and style philosophy in its history - two views philosophical humours nostalgia for the future, waiting for the past - post-modernism in philosophy. Part 2 Literary form and non-literary fact: Hamlet's grandmother(s) autobiography as a matter of literary fact the animal-in-the-text - fables and literary origins the politics of interpretation - Spinoza's modernist turn the praxis of criticism.

This article opens out Marx's abundant content of the important proposition "The World Becomes Philosophical, Philosophy also Becomes worldly" in Marx's doctoral dissertation "General differences in principle between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature", and does researches on the changes of the subject, fulcrum and thinking mode in philosophical studies under the background of globalization.

Chapter 1: The Mission of Philosophy Chapter 2: Systematizing the Data of Philosophy Chapter 3: Philosophical Exposition Chapter 4: The Taxonomy of Philosophy Chapter 5: Some Principles of Philosophy Chapter 6: Philosophical Method: Apories and Evaluative Harmonization Chapter 7: Philosophical Legitimation via Systematization Chapter 8: Philosophical Refutation Chapter 9: Coming to Terms with Philosophical Dissensus Chapter 10: Can Philosophy Be Objective? Chapter 11: Influence among Philosophers Chapter 12: Does Philosophy Make Progress? Chapter 13: On Philosophy as a Guide to Life? Chapter 1...

This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid’s engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid’s close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lu...

I want to begin by pointing out that all the papers which I am going to discussl have been predominantly concerned with the philosophy of science, rather than with the full range of what Wartofsky calls the &dquo;metasciences.&dquo; I am not making this point as a criticism. It is asking too much of any one author to cover the history, philosophy, and sociology of science in one short paper. Each of the authors has, therefore, wisely cho-

The foundation of the (now Royal) Institute of Philosophy coincided with my own entry into the ranks of academic philosophers. It may therefore on this special occasion be of some interest if I cast some retrospective glances at philosophy's daily life in and after the middle 1920s. I shall not steal from the proper hands the task of sketching the history of the Royal Institute itself; but I have some now fairly rare qualifications for describing the philosophical world into which it was born.

Abstract In contemporary academic philosophy, Chinese Philosophy remains a niche. This has a lot to do with its presentation, which often creates an impression of alienness and allegory, making its contribution, especially to analytical questions, not obvious. This paper examines how a change in presentation eases the inclusion of Chinese Philosophy into the mainstream. On the assumption that there has been an “activist turn” in the discipline in general, philosophical interest in a tradition that ranges from conceptual analysis, to ethics and politics, but that is ultimately focused on motiva...

Abstract The two extant works of Constantine the Philosopher of Nicaea reveal a late twelfth century thinker of the Neoplatonic sensibility typically seen only in those who reached the pinnacle of Byzantine literacy during this period. We argue that he is of particular interest because he coined two philosophical terms that, while mirroring controversial Neoplatonic concepts, better accommodate their Orthodox acceptance.We offer here some background on the author, a short discussion of the philosophical content of these works, and for the first time an English translation of both texts.

This volume contains a collection of essays on the philosophical dialogue Schleiermacher conducted with the tradition of philosophy, contributing to the complex cultural profile of the German philosopher and theologian. The essays make a contribution to the history of philosophy, especially concerning the classical age of German philosophy, and human sciences and philosophical hermeneutics.

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The term “experimental philosophy” has no standard or widely agreed upon definition, and recent writers have proposed very different accounts of how the term should be used. On the usage we prefer, the term has a broad extension and very fuzzy boundaries: experimental philosophy is empirical work undertaken with the goal of contributing to a philosophical debate, though of course that may not be the only goal. During the last decade, the term “experimental philosophy” has often been used in a much more restricted way. On that more restricted interpretation, which we will adopt for this chapter...

Philosophy has been a public endeavor since its origins in ancient Greece, India, and China. However, recent years have seen the development of a new type of public philosophy conducted by both academics and non- professionals. The new public philosophy manifests itself in a range of modalities, from the publication of magazines and books for the general public to a variety of initiatives that exploit the power and flexibility of social networks and new media. In this paper we examine the phenomenon of public philosophy in its several facets, and investigate whether and in what sense it is its...

The feature of philosophic fiction writing is that the writer brings all elements into play to enable the characters to accomplish their own deep philosophic perception for human life;while that of fiction of philosophy is to get the characters to convey a brand-new philosophic ideology.

In this article ,Marxism is demonstrated to be the only correct philosophy of existence and the reason why it has existed for a long time is also demonstrated in order that people could pay appropriate attention to the new conditions under which this true philosophy of existence can play a proper role.

Down through the ages different philosophers, whatever their other disagreements, have insisted that the philosophic life is the best human life.  As philosophers, they equate happiness with wisdom, the comprehensive account of the whole of reality in light of its first principles and causes.  In his Expositio super librum Boethii de trinitate, Thomas Aquinas denies this teaching.  He asserts, rather, that philosophy can know with absolute certainty that it cannot attain such wisdom and thus that it cannot be the best life.  More precisely, Thomas argues that the limited abstracting power of t...

Abstract The paper starts with reflections on Plato’s critique of the poets and the preference many express for Aristotle’s view of poetry. The second part of the paper takes a case study of analytic treatments of ancient philosophy, including the ancient philosopher poets, to examine the poetics of analytic philosophy, diagnosing a preference in Analytic philosophy for a clean non-poetic style of presentation, and then develops this in considering how well historians of philosophy in the Analytic tradition can accommodate the contributions of philosophers who wrote in verse. The final part of...

L'A. met en evidence le defaut de «La sociologie des philosophies» de R. Collins: l'absence d'une definition claire de la notion de progres intellectuel et l'affirmation d'une disjonction trop radicale entre science et philosophie. Soulignant la pertinence d'une sociologie de la pensee qui se veut sociologie de la philosophie, l'A. deplore la construction sociale de la verite et du progres que Collins reduit a la notion idealisee de reseaux.

One of the early debates in the historical development of African Philosophy has been on whether there is an African philosophy or not. While a school, primarily Africans, argued that there is an African philosophy, another school argued that there is no African philosophy. This argument in the negative was drawn from the poor concept and portrayal of who the African is and what he is capable of achieving by early historians and ethnologists. However, this piece revisits the argument and tries to argue for the philosophicality of African thought from the universalistic concept of philosophy, w...

Experimental philosophy has emerged as a very specific kind of response to an equally specific way of thinking about philosophy, one typically associated with philosophical analysis and according to which philosophical claims are measured, at least in part, by our intuitions. Since experimental philosophy has emerged as a response to this way of thinking about philosophy, its philosophical significance depends, in no small part, on how significant the practice of appealing to intuitions is to philosophy. In this paper, I defend the significance of experimental philosophy by defending the signi...

In every episode of human history, every human being must need God. There is no one who is not godless, even though they worship God according to their respective perceptions of God himself. According to historians, human devotion to God, the Creator is something that is both essential and existential needs of every human being. This fact can be seen also in the historical-sociological intellectual exploration conducted by Karen Armstrong about the search for humanity against God. From classical times to modern times, in Armstrong's search it turns out that every human being always constructs ...

L'A. fait la relation entre deux situations : enseigner la philosophie et etre philosophe. Il analyse sa propre experience d'enseignant et interpelle le lecteur par sa reflexion : Dans ce contexte, comment etre philosophe ?

Strabo of Amasia in his Geography often mentions philosophers, under whose name he includes the thinkers related to particular schools as well as Indian and Egyptian priests, Celtic druids, and Homer—the only poet referred to in the Geography as philosopher. In the narrower meaning, Strabo gives the name of philosophers only to the first group, but in the broader sense he includes all universal scholars, in accordance with the Stoic understanding of philosophy; the introduction to the Geography reflects also a general view of the Stoics that ethics stems from the natural sciences. The remarks ...

Contents/Table des matieres.- One/Premiere Partie Philosophy of language/Philosophie du langage.- The place of the philosophy of language.- The theory of meaning in analytical philosophy.- Semantics: A revolt against Frege.- Wittgenstein et la philosophie du langage.- Richard Montague and the logical analysis of language.- Constructing a pragmatic foundation for semantics.- 'Logique hermeneutique'?.- Two/Deuxieme Partie Philosophical logic/Logique philosophique.- Philosophical aspects of proof theory.- Modal logic, modal semantics and their applications.- Conditionals and possible worlds.- Ent...

With ontological significance of "field of vision " and of "position "for philosophies of practice, the philosophical practice is "one" only coupled by "cognizing" and " transforming".In overcoming sorts of limitations in study of philosophies of practice, in strengthening the ties between practice and dire straits of mankind , between practice and ultimate concern of mankind, in gaining a clear idea of certain basic problems in the view of communicant practice, such as "communication"?"intersubjectivity", generally speaking, in deepening philosophy of practice, philosophical definition of pra...

The paper discusses the use of terms in the study of the philosophy of language and proposes to distinguish the two terms of Linguistic Philosophy and Philosophical Linguistics,leaving the latter specifically within the field of linguistics.It also talks about the relation between philosophical linguistics and general linguistics and analyses the requirements for the philosophical speculation of language.

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In the article, the relationship between the highest professional specialization of philosophy and its involvement in the realities of everyday life consciousness, collective and individual, are considered. Karl Jaspers defines philosophy precisely through the natural need and ability of human being as such, from the piercing questions of children to the revelations of anomalous geniuses. Great philosophers only concentrate this sleeping ability in a person to see the world directly and every time anew. Rightly considered the most closed type of intellectual activity, philosophy at the same ti...

Of a homiletic nature, Calvin’s predication follows the principle of the lectio continua, akin to the commentary on the lectiones. The reformer often mentions philosophers in a positive fashion regarding the knowledge they represent but also in order to criticize them. Philosophy and philosophers are ambivalent realities, as in the Institution of the Christian religion, which represent human knowledge of the world and of Man in so far as one can or dare consider these realities as independent from God. The greatest praise of Philosophy leads to its sharpest condemnation. Calvin uses the term p...

Although any view of the social role of manage ment can be shown to have assumptions about the nature of man and society, it is necessary to create such views with philosophical criteria in mind from the beginning. This last has not been done, and the consequences are that the decision- making manager is isolated from general theories about social values. Social responsibility is defined in terms of conformity to the mores of the society in which the businessman—manager —is operating. This truncates his thinking just below the level where philosophical decisions must be made, because it eschew...

One view of philosophy that is sometimes expressed, especially by scientists, is that while philosophers are good at asking questions, they are poor at producing convincing answers. And the perceived divide between philosophical and scientific methods is often pointed to as the major culprit behind this lack of progress. Looking back at the history of philosophy, however, we find that this methodological divide is a relatively recent invention. Further, it is one that has been challenged over the past decade by the modern incarnation of experimental philosophy. How might the reincorporation of...

One of the more philosophical forms of counselling (as opposed to forms of philosophical counselling) is Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), a popular form of cognitive therapy developed in the nineteen-fifties by the American psychologist Albert Ellis. It’s currently championed in the UK by Windy Dryden, a prolific and wellknown writer on psychotherapy and counselling. Although it claims to be philosophical, it can in fact be criticised from a philosophical perspective of being of guilty a number of conceptual confusions. In the first part of this paper I will provide an overview of RE...

Although history is the pre-eminent part of the gallant sciences, philosophers advise against it from fear that it might completely destroy the kingdom of darkness—that is, scholastic philosophy—which previously has been wrongly held to be a necessary instrument of theology.

It is remarkable that the first pages of Walden are dedicated to the critique of man's habitual life. Thoreau ironically described it as a worse punishment than the asceticism (I'ascese) of the Brahmans and the twelve tasks of Hercules. Men lead a senseless life (une vie d'insense). They are in ignorance and error, absorbed by artificial worries and unnecessarily harsh tasks. They are only ma chines, tools of their tools.1 Their existence is only despair or resignation. The reason for men's unhappiness, in the eyes of Thoreau, is that they ignore what is necessary and sufficient for life, that...

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