As we shall see, convergence may be thought of through the geometrical concept of orthogonality. Utterances in a dialogue have as their content, not only the processes (similar to proofs) which lead to them from a monologic view, but also their interactions with other utterances. Finally, any...
Awareness of asexuality has been rising in recent years, but this sexual orientation is nothing new. Marked by a lack of sexual attraction, asexuality can be found throughout history. Asexual historical figures include philosophers, composers, artists, and writers.Famous asexual peoplein history oft...
Several philosophers and social scientists have recently argued that when individuals detect demographic diversity in their group, this can result in epistemic benefits even if that diversity doesn’t involve cognitive differences. Here I critically discuss research advocating this proposal, introduce a ...
Why are tropes used cross-culturally – and why are there so few of them and always the same ones? Following my hypothesis, tropes provide a way of expressing what Vico calls non-thinking and what enactivist philosophers instead call embodied reasoning and what I would instead deem thinking ...
Drawing on the work by artists-philosophers Madeline Gins and Arakawa, I elaborate the techniques of attention which sustain an ethics for surviving the control society in the TV series Damages .Universite de Montreal (Canada).Pape, Toni.
Nearing the end of the Tudor Dynasty, philosophers like Sir Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon published their own ideas about humanity and the aspects of a perfect society, pushing the limits of metacognition at that time. As England abolished its astrologers and alchemists, it came closer to ...