50 papers in the library · 155 citations · publishing 2017-2026
Philosophies October 27, 2026 Alexander George Kurtz correction
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Philosophies October 9, 2026 Rein Raud
Contemporary psychiatry no longer views a large number of people who diverge from the “neurotypical” paradigm as patients who need to be “cured”, but simply as otherwise fully functional people with certain idiosyncrasies, and even the currently applicable label “disorder” has been challenged in the literature. The questions that need to be asked by philosophy of mind are thus not the classical...
Philosophies August 18, 2026 Erik Axelkrans
Contemporary science has achieved extraordinary explanatory and predictive success, yet its ontological interpretation remains unsettled. This paper argues that one source of this instability lies in the inherited assumption that reality is fundamentally composed of independently existing substances. While this picture was historically fruitful, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain...
Philosophies August 12, 2026 Liliana Albertazzi
Recent studies in plant and animal cognition are currently leading to a re-evaluation of subjective experience in scientific endeavor while also questioning the widespread application of the physicalist paradigm. These new developments reactivate the old Aristotelian idea of natural philosophy as a unitary vision of science, life, and the universe that surpasses the way it is fragmented into...
Philosophies July 20, 2026 D.H. Lange
The philosophy of artificial intelligence often begins one question too late. Discussions move directly to whether a system could be conscious, whether there is something it is like to be the system, or whether it possesses genuine subjectivity, without first asking a more basic structural question: what would have to be true of a system’s internal organization before those questions gain a...
Philosophies July 14, 2026 Diego Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Contemporary cognitive science is predominantly grounded in physicalist assumptions that locate cognition and consciousness in neural and computational processes. While these approaches have yielded significant empirical advances, they often struggle to account for the qualitative and first-person structure of experience. This paper proposes an ethno-phenomenological perspective by engaging...
Philosophies July 8, 2026 O. Varypaiev
Everyday work with large language models (LLMs) normalizes a practice in which a generated formulation supports judgment before the user has checked its grounds. This crisis of rationality arises not from a single technical defect in the system, but from a shift in justificatory practice in which fluent textual coherence is read as evidence of semantic understanding and rational judgment. The...
Philosophies June 29, 2026 John Robert Bagby
Two related problems, problems of (in-)compatibility, are addressed to understand Deleuze’s philosophical project and to deepen our understanding of his use of Spinoza and Bergson: that of the compatible and incompatible features of Spinozism and Bergsonism, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the status of metaphysical compatibilism with respect to freedom in all three of their...
Philosophies June 25, 2026 Abraham Meidan
This paper does not attempt to resolve the metaphysical question of whether consciousness and free will really exist, nor whether machines could literally possess them. Instead, it pursues a more modest and, I suggest, more fruitful aim: to show that it is possible, in principle, to construct machines that think they are conscious and think they choose freely, in essentially the same way that...
Philosophies June 25, 2026 Pavel Straňák
Discussion of consciousness and artificial intelligence has hitherto focused on the question of whether a large language model (LLM) exhibits signs of consciousness or understanding. This paper proposes to redirect attention elsewhere: not to the model itself, but to the orchestrating layer that governs the model—the backend, understood here as the collection of mechanisms (context management,...
Philosophies April 1, 2026 Patrick Seniuk
Depression is notable for high rates of disability. The medical model typically characterizes depression as a physiological dysfunction or psychological disorder. However, both views fail to appreciate the phenomenology of depressed experience. Drawing on the existential phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, this article contends that the lived experience of chronic depression is marked by a...
Philosophies March 19, 2026 J. M. Alves Ferreira
The intricate relationships between humans and animals have long shaped philosophical, cultural and scientific inquiry. This narrative review examines evolving conceptions of animal consciousness, agency and sentience within broader historical, ethical and epistemological contexts. Drawing on philosophy, ethology, neuroscience, psychology and animal studies, it critically engages debates on...
Philosophies March 13, 2026 Tina Röck
In this contribution, I explore the idea that reality is best understood as fundamentally dynamic and interdependent, i.e., processual, bringing together resources from process thought, phenomenology and the Madhyamaka school of Buddhism. I furthermore explore how this view shapes the ways we speak about, investigate, and understand the natural world. What is novel in my approach is that I...
Philosophies February 26, 2026 Pavel Straňák 2 citations
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) achieves remarkable results in data processing, text generation, and the simulation of human cognition. However, it appears to lack key characteristics typically associated with living systems—consciousness, autonomous motivation, and genuine understanding of the world. This article critically examines the possible ontological divide between simulated...
Philosophies February 26, 2026 Graziosa Luppi
This review provides a systematic critique of the debate between two paradigms in the philosophy of mind—the Naturalist–Externalist Research Program (NERP) and the Phenomenal Intentionality Research Program (PIRP)—with particular focus on Uriah Kriegel’s reconciliation project. Following Kriegel’s view, attention is given to rational agents’ awareness of their mental states—a key issue since...
Philosophies January 12, 2026 Federico Divino
This paper aims to provide an in-depth and detailed overview of the relationship between language and cognition in Pāli Buddhist texts. These reflections will touch on several fundamental themes, such as the role of signs in structuring cognitive processes and semiosis as a force linked to the proliferation of concepts and percepts, whose organization underlies the constitution of a shared and...
Philosophies August 27, 2025 Federico Divino 2 citations
This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Buddhist thought and Peircean semiotics, situating the discussion within the framework of a Buddhist theory of signs that addresses aspects related to perceptual processes and cognitive experience. The influence of signs on cognition is what led Buddhism, from its earliest formulations, to adopt contemplative practice as a means of...
Philosophies June 10, 2025 Federico Divino
This article aims to provide a comparative analysis between Husserl’s phenomenology and the Pāli Abhidhamma. To conduct this analysis, I will mainly draw on some books of the Abhidhamma and three works by Husserl. What emerges from this study are interesting convergences between the two systems of thought, which allow us to consider, in some respects, a true Buddhist phenomenology codified in...
Philosophies May 20, 2025 Andrea Sangiacomo
In the Pāli discourses of the Buddha, ‘conditioned co-origination’ (paṭicca-samuppāda) is the key insight that underpins the Buddha’s own awakening and his teaching. This paper aims to shed light on three connected aspects of conditioned co-origination: the synchronic and non-linear nature of the conditional relations it establishes, the non-causal nature of this relation, and how the whole...
Philosophies May 19, 2025 Joykrishna Sarkar
This article explores the challenges associated with practicing Buddhist non-attachment as a layperson and whether its application in everyday life represents a puzzle. In Buddhism, practicing non-attachment implies becoming free of desires, as prescribed by Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy in pursuit of liberation. This raises a critical challenge to form and maintain friendships in this...
Philosophies April 25, 2025 Federico Divino 5 citations
In this paper, the Buddhist view on language and its implications for perception and cognition will be analyzed. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that archaic Buddhism, as documented in the suttas of the Pāli Canon, already presents a well-articulated theory of knowledge, and that Buddhist considerations on the problem of language are comparable to Saussure’s early linguistic theories,...
Philosophies August 28, 2024 Hong Wang
In this paper I attempt to trace the semiotic path of meaning experience from “nothing” into “something”. Traditional communication studies are problematic in 1. focusing on the message to the effect of ignoring the communicators; 2. choosing to overlook how yet-to-be signs acquire meanings in the communicative moments; and 3. tending to assume a “natural science” attitude toward the studied...
Philosophies June 26, 2024 Sophie Grace Chappell
Phenomenal socialism says that what we actually, directly, literally perceive is only or primarily instances of high-level phenomenal properties; this paper argues for phenomenal socialism in the weaker, primarily version. Phenomenal socialism is the philosophy of perception that goes with recognitionalism, which is the metaethics that goes with epiphanies. The first part states the...
Philosophies May 27, 2024 A. Shutaleva correction
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Philosophies April 26, 2024 Lenart Škof
This essay is an attempt to propose an outline of a new respiratory animal philosophy. Based on an analysis of the forgetting of breath in Western philosophy, it aims to gesture towards a future, breathful and compassionate world of co-sharing and co-breathing. In the first part, the basic features of forgetting of breath are explained based on David Abram’s work in respiratory ecophilosophy....