In this collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are brought about between Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis on the one hand, and attachment theory, evolutionary psychology and philosophy of mind on the other.
This paper aims at expanding theories of metaphorical reasoning to other tropes. Asking why figurative language tends to fall into a limited number of patterns, it first examines approaches that offer an answer – ranging from antique rhetoric theory, Ha
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The principle of arbitrariness of human language, however, still remains widely accepted among linguists, philosophers and psychologists (Kovic et al., 2009, Nielsen and Rendall, 2011, Nygaard et al., 2009a, Nygaard et al., 2009b; for a different position; see Reilly, Westbury, Kean, & Pee...
In the philosophy of science, some philosophers have pursued the explanatory role of diagrammatic representations in reasoning and the relationship between images and scientific practice (Abrahamsen et al., 2018; Bechtel & Abrahamsen, 2005; Bechetel et al., 2014; Burnston et al., 2014; ...
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 ...
In Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius's most notable work, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Volume 1 (which was later translated by R.D. Hicks), he wrote of Chrysippus's death, "Some people say that he died of a fit of immoderate laughter. For that seeing his ass eating...
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.
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 ...