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Dignity, Free Will, Emergence, and Illusion
No full textThis paper argues that although emergentism does not appear to provide the libertarian with the tools she requires for metaphysical freedom, this does not actually matter for the grounding of a robust notion of moral re- sponsibility. Moreover, illusionism about metaphysical freedom offers some consolation to those who see meta- physical freedom as a source of human dignity and value. This paper argues that emergentism, even in its weak form, when buttressed by both philosophical and psychological considerations regarding the illusory nature of the phenom- enal experience of metaphysical freedom, as well as the Strawsonian notion of reactive attitudes, serves as a source not only of value and dignity, but also of a robustly grounded conception of moral responsibilit
Astros del cielo profundo: recepción de la magia renacentista en la Trilogía cósmica de C. S. Lewis
No full textMagic performs a significant role in C. S. Lewis\u27s Space Trilogy. This magical thought rests on a pre-copernican cosmology of the two spheres, on the division between theurgy and goetia and christian neoplatonism. These ideas invite us to establish an affinity link with Renaissance magic. However, it should be noted that Lewis explicitly warns of the danger that Renaissance magic means for the salvation of the soul. 
Concept predications and hierarchies in Aristotelian Organon: A philosophical ontology presented in terms of a software ontology
Full text linkBased on the two distinct Aristotelian fundamental predications, namely the essential predication being said of a subject and the accidental predication is in/ existing in a subject, I attempt to shed light on the several types of predication relations met in the Aristotelian Organon and to construct an overall conceptual map including the various relations mentioned in the Aristotelian text. This scheme includes [1] the implicit category tree of classified concepts in terms of genera and species, where a subject-member of a lower class conveys the feature-member of an upper class, as the lower class is a subset of the upper class, [2] ideas predicated of ideas, where the predicate-idea is contained as a feature in the subject-idea. The ideal software environment for the representation of hierarchical trees and custom-defined relationships is the Protégé OWL (Ontology Web Language) equipped with powerful visual tools for the display and extraction of the entire or partial diagrams.
References
Ackrill, J.L., (1971 [1957]) “Plato and the Copula: Sophist 251–59”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 77 (1):1-6 in: Plato. Modern Studies in Philosophy, Vlastos G. (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86203-0_12 , pp.211-221
Cohen, Marc, Predication and Ontology: The Categories,
https://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cats320.htm
Cohen, Marc, “Chapter 16. Predication, Ontology and Change”, in Prof. Cohen course notes, University of Washington.
Dendrinos, Μ. Concept predications and hierarchies in Platonic dialogues: A philosophical ontology presented in terms of a software ontology [to be published]
Dendrinos, M., Griva, A., (2021) Platonic Parmenides– Translation, Analysis and Comments, Zitros Publications, [in Greek]
Dendrinos, M., Griva, A., (2020) “The sixth hypothesis of platonic Parmenides: From the Neoplatonists and Marsilio Ficino to a new hermeneutical approach”, Journal Ελληνική Φιλοσοφική Επιθεώρηση (Greek Philosopphical Review), 111, 176-189 [in Greek]
Dendrinos, M., (2015 [2014]) “Organization of the concepts of the Platonic dialogue Parmenides into a software ontology”, 4th International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO-2014), Madrid, Spain, printed in AIP Conference Proceedings 1644, 161 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907832
Dendrinos, M., (2013) “An interpretation of the Platonic Sophist under the view of the contemporary semantical relations”. Proceedings of the Conference "History of Information”. Law Library of the University of Athens, Ionian University. Athens [in Greek]
http://conferences.ionio.gr/infohist2013/presentations
Dendrinos, M., (2011) “An interpretation of Aristotelian Logic according to George Boole”, The 1st International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO-2011), Kos, Greece
Dendrinos, M., (2006) “Philosophical Views about Digital Information and Relational Schemata”, Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP) Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/89/
MacBride, Fraser, (2006) “Predicate Reference”, published in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by E. Lepore and B. Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 22-74
McPartland, Keith E., (2009) Predication and Ontology in Aristotle’s Organon, Ph.D dissertation, Cornell University, Jan. 2009
Matthen, Mohan, (1983) “Greek Ontology and the \u27Is\u27 of Truth”, Phronesis, Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 113-13
Modelling Amartya Sen’ s Capability Approach: An Interdisciplinary and Contemporary Account
Full text linkAmartya Sen’s Capability Approach is a normative framework for the assessment of social states. Inspired in economics and philosophy, it proposes to move from opulence-centric indicators to people’s quality of life. Its focus on people has stood the test of time, the rigor of science, and the challenge of practice. Although its original conceptual model has proven persuasive in the last three decades, it has also been further elaborated by contributions from different disciplines. Speaking to and engaging different audiences is a virtue of the approach but it has also dispersed the debate. Accounting for this progress in an interdisciplinary and accessible way is the purpose of this paper. The current model expands on the main aspects of the CA, namely capabilities, funtionings, agency, and conversion factors, and adds the relevant aspect of rationality. This shows an increasing interest in explanation as well as understanding. In both elements, as well as in all of its main aspects, there seems to be still room for growth.
References
Alkire Sabina. 2009. “Concepts and Measures of Agency.” In: Arguments for a Better World, Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen (Volume I), edited by K. Basu and R. Kanbur, 455-474. New York: Oxford University Press
Alkire Sabina. 2010. “Human Development: Definitions, Critiques and Related Concepts.” Human Development Research Paper 2010/01
Alkire Sabina and Severine Deneulin. 2010. “The Human Development and Capability Approach.” In An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach, edited by S. Deneulin and L. Shahani, 22-48. London: Earthscan
Crocker David and Ingrid Robeyns. 2010. “Capability and agency.” In Amartya Sen, edited by C. Morris (60-90). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Drèze Jean and Amartya Sen. 2002. India: Development and Participation. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Garcés Pablo. 2020a. “The reasoning agent: agency in the capability approach and some implications for development research and practice.” Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies 9(2): 268-292
Garcés Pablo. 2021b. “Humanizing development: taking stock of Amartya Sen’s capability approach” Problemas del Desarrollo 51(203): 191-212
Garcés Pablo. 2020c. “Using the Capability Approach and Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Development Policy Evaluation.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2019.1699277
Gasper, D. 2002. “Is Sen’s Capability Approach an Adequate Basis for Considering Human Development?” Review of Political Economy 14(4): 435–61
Haq Mahbub. 1995. “The human development paradigm.” In Reflections on Human Development, edited by M. Haq (13-23). New York: Oxford University Press
Hvinden, Bjorn and Rune Halvorsen. 2017. “Mediating Agency and Structure in Sociology: What Role for Conversion Factors?” Critical Sociology: 1-17
Ibrahim Solava. 2006. “From individual to collective capabilities: The capability approach as a conceptual framework for self – help.” Journal of Human Development 7(3): 397–416.
Le Grand, Julian. 2003. Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: of knights, knaves, pawns and queens. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Martins Nuno. 2007. “Ethics, ontology and capabilities.” Review of Political Economy 19(1): 37–53.
Martins Nuno. 2009. “Rules, Social Ontology and Collective Identity.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 39(3): 323-344
Nussbaum Martha. 2000. Women and Human Development: the capabilities approach. New York: Cambridge University Press
Robeyns Ingrid. 2017. Well-being, Freedom and Social Justice. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers
Robeyns Ingrid. 2008. “Sen’s Capability Approach and feminist concerns.” In The capability approach in human development: concepts, applications and measurement, edited by S. Alkire, F. Comim and M. Qizilibash, 82-104. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Robeyns Ingrid. 2005. “The Capability Approach: A Theoretical Survey.” Journal of Human Development 6(1): 93–114.
Sen Amartya. 2009. The Idea of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Sen Amartya. 2004. “Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation.” Feminist Economics 10(3): 77-80
Sen Amartya. 2002. “Introduction: Rationality and Freedom.” In Rationality and Freedom, edited by A. Sen, 3-64. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
Sen Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sen Amartya. 1993. “Capability and Well-being.” In The Quality of Life, edited by M. Nussbaum and A. Sen, 30-53. Oxford: Clarendon Press
Sen Amartya. 1992. Inequality Reexamined. New York: Oxford University Press
Sen Amartya. 1990. “Development as Capability Expansion.” In Human Development and the International Development Strategy for the 1990 edited by K. Griffin and J. Knight, 41-58. London: Macmillan,
Sen Amartya. 1997. “Maximization and the art of choice.” Econometrica 65: 745-779
Sen Amartya. 1988. “The concept of Development.” In Handbook of Development Economics, edited by H. Chenery and T. Srinivasan, 10-25. London: Elsevier Science Publishers
Sen Amartya. 1985. “Well-Being, agency and freedom. The Dewey Lectures 1984.” Journal of Philosophy 82: 169–221
Sen Amartya. 1982. "Liberty as Control: An Appraisal", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 7.
Sen Amartya. 1977. “Rational Fools: a critique of the behavioural foundations of economic theory.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 6(4): 317-344
Webb James. 2012. “Pragmatism(s) Plural, Part II: From Classical Pragmatism to Neo-Pragmatism.” Journal of Economic Issues 46(1): 45-74
Wolff Jonathan and de-Shalit Anver. 2013. Disadvantage. London: Oxford University Press
Zimmermann, Bénédicte. 2006. “Pragmatism and the Capability Approach: Challenges in Social Theory and Empirical Research.” European Journal of Social Theory, 9(4): 467–48
Un elogio della follia italiano
Full text linkThis paper is a study of La Pazzia, an Italian
anonymous work which was printed for the first time in
Venice in 1540. The text has clear references to the more
popular In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Even if it avoids the significant religious discussion,
on the other hand it suggests a deeper emphasis on
the Italian literary context of the sixteenth century. The
research is centered on an unpublished manuscript of the
work, found in the Archivio di Stato of Bologna. It reveals
interesting additions and differences with the printed
editions, whose analysis has been essential for better
knowing the author and the editorial context of the opera,
too. This work starts with a punctual comparison between
the Italian work and his source by Erasmus, in order to
note the credits and, moreover, to underline the originalities.
It follows a study on the various suggestions of authorship.
Even though the author has not been identified,
more biographical data has been found and some identity
suggestions have been proven to be wrong. In the end, the
unpublished text of the last manuscript sheets is presented
Aura in the Age of Aesthetic Rationality: Adorno’s Criticism of Benjamin and the Claim for an “Authentic” Modern Art
Full text linkThis essay focuses on particular aspects of Adorno’s criticism of Benjamin’s statements, as they mainly appear in the notorious essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Adorno reconsiders the concept of aura and the relationship between artwork, rationality, technique and technology. In order to explicate the background of his criticism, I explore and reconstruct its relevance to cardinal issues in Aesthetic Theory and to his ideal conception of a critical and “authentic” modern art. My aim is to demonstrate that divergences in the approaches of the two thinkers constitute not merely an ideological controversy, but a systematic art-theoretical differentiation.
References
Adorno, T. W. Aesthetic Theory. G. Adorno & R.Tiedemann (Eds.), R. Hullot-Kentor (Trans.). London: Continuum Press, 2002.
Adorno, T. W. “The Aging of New Music”. In R. Leppert (Ed.), S. H. Gillespie (Trans.), Essays on Music. University of California Press: London, 2002.
Adorno, T. W. “Kriterien der neuen Musik”. Klangfiguren: Musikalische Schriften I. In G. Adorno & R. Tiedemann (Eds.), Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 16. Frankfurt a. M: Suhrkamp, 1997.
Adorno, T. W. Philosophy of Modern Music. A. Mitchell & W. Blomster (Trans.). New York: The Seabury Press, 1980.
Adorno, T. W. Philosophy of New Music. R. Hullot-Kentor (Trans.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Benjamin, W. “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”. In H. Arend (Ed.), H. Zohn (Trans.), Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Benjamin, W. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. In H. Arend (Ed.), H. Zohn (Trans.), Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Blumröder, C. von. Die Grundlegung der Musik Karlheinz Stockhausens. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, vol. XXXII. Franz Steiner: Stuttgart, 1993.
Borio, G. & Danuser, H. (Eds.). Im Zenit der Moderne. Rombach: Freiburg, 1997.
Bratu Hansen, M. “Benjamin’s Aura”. Critical Inquiry 34 (Winter 2008).
Bürger, P. “Das Altern der Moderne”. In L. v. Friedeburg & J. Habermas (Eds.), Adorno Konferenz 1983. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1983.
Burke, D.A. “Adorno\u27s Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialectic of Natural and Artistic Beauty”. In A. Biro (Ed.), Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Fues, W. M. “Reproduktion und Simulation: Walter Benjamins Kunstwerk-Aufsatz und die Ästhetik der Postmoderne”. In K. Garber & L. Rehm (Eds.), Global Benjamin, vol. I: Internationaler Walter-Benjamin-Kongreß 1992. Fink: Munich, 1999.
Giannopoulos, I. “Precarious Autarky: Adorno on Art and Solipsism”. Aisthema International Journal, vol. VI, No 1 (2019).
Hocquenghem, G. & Schérer, R. “Formen und Metamorphosen der Aura”. In D. Kamper & C. Wulf (Eds.), Das Schwinden der Sinne. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1984).
Kant, I. Critique of Judgment. Trans. W. S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1987.
Nomura, O. “Der Begriff der Aura bei Benjamin and Adorno”. In K. Garber & L. Rehm (Eds.), Global Benjamin, vol. I: Internationaler Walter-Benjamin-Kongreß 1992. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1999.
Richter, G. “Adorno and the Excessive Politics of Aura”. In L. Patt (Ed.), Benjamin’s Blind Spot: Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura. Topanga/California: The Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2001.
Stockhausen, K. “Situation des Handwerks (Kriterien der punkuellen Musik)”. Texte zur elektronischen und instrumentalen Musik, vol. 1. DuMont Buchverlag: Köln, 1988.
Sziborsky, L. Rettung des Hoffnungslosen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1994.
Wellmer, A. “Wahrheit, Schein, Versöhnung. Adornos ästhetische Rettung der Modernität”. In L. v. Friedeburg & J. Habermas (Eds.), Adorno Konferenz 1983. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1983.
Wolin, R. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1994
Rethinking of Sexual Difference Beyond Binary: A Debate between Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray
Full text link Can we go beyond binary? By emphasizing this argument, it shall explore the notion of sexual difference that has not been recognized fully in the patriarchal society. It explicates the different sexuality of women and other sex to reconstruct their subjectivity from the psychoanalytic framework. It also attempts to clarify the argument of sexual difference which is not based on gender difference. Gender difference does not construct the sexuality of the individual as one may have more than one sexuality. As we have seen that lesbian, gay, queer is socially and culturally considered as the problem of identity and gender. These different sexualities are recognized as the outsider in the patriarchal discourse. Their social identities and sexuality are always being blurred, redefined, and questioned. In response to these blurred identities, many sexualities must be accepted as the intelligible identity for the societal norms. It is a fact that some people may have multiple sexualities which are being blurred in our society. Because the inherent sexualities create the limitation among the individual. Thus, to go beyond the binary I shall explore the rest with the debate of both Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray.
(keywords: sexual difference women, body and sexuality, subjectivity, other gender, and sex)
References
Butler Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge Publications, New York, 1990.
Butler Judith, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, Routledge Publication,
New York, 1993.
Beauvoir, Simon De, The Second Sex, (trans., & ed., by H. M. Parshley), Lowe and Brydone Ltd., 1956 (Reprint).
Cameron, Deborah, Feminism & Linguistic Theory, The Macmillan Press, London, 1992 (Second Edition).
Gaten, Moira, Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality, Routledge Publication, New York, 1996.
Irigaray Luce, Speculum of the Other Woman, (trans., by Gillian C. Gill), Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1985.
Irigaray Luce, This Sex Which is Not One, (Eng., trans., by Cathrine Porter & Carolyn Burke), Cornell University Press, Ithica, New York, 1985.
Irigaray Luce, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, (Eng., trans., by Gillian C. Gill), Cornell University Press, Ithica, New York, 1993.
Irigaray, Luce, I Love to You: Sketch for a Felicity Within History, (Eng., trans., by Alison Martin), Routledge Publication, New York, 1996.
Salih, Sara, Judith Butler, Routledge Publication, New York, 2000.
Whitford, Margaret, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine, Routledge Publication, New York, 1991.
Berg, Maggie, ‘‘Luce Irigaray’s Contradiction: Post structuralism and Feminism’’, Signs, Vol. 17, No. 1, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991, pp. 50-70.
Butler, Judith, ‘‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’’, Theatre Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988, pp. 519-531.
Cheah, Pheng, Grosg, Elizaabeth, Butler, Judith and Cornell Drucilla. ‘‘The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview With Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell’’, Diacritics Journal of Irigaray and the Political Future of Sexual Diffidence, Vol. 28 .No. 1, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1998, pp. 19-42.
Colebrook, Claire, ‘‘Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophy of Feminism- Irigaray and the History of Western Metaphysics’’, Hypatia Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, Wiley, New York, 1997, pp. 79-98.
Davidson, Joyce and Smith, Milk, Wittgenstein and Irigaray, ‘‘Gender and Philosophy in a Language game of Difference’’, Hypatia Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2, Wiley, New York, 1999, pp.
-96.
Davies, Bronwyn, ‘‘The Concept of Agency: A Feminist Post Structuralist Analysis, Social Analysis’’, The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 30, Postmodern Critical Theorising, Berghahn Books, New York, 1991, pp. 42-53.
Disprose, Rosalyn, ‘‘The Body and the Habit of Sexual Difference’’, Hypatia Journal of Feminism and the Body, Vol. 6, No. 3, Wiley, New York, 1991, pp. 156-171.
Hsieh, Lili, ‘‘A Queer Sex or Can Feminism and Psychoanalysis have sex without Phallus’’, Feminist Review, No. 102, Palgrave Mcmillan Publication, London, 2012, pp. 97-115.
Journals and Articles
Juncker, Clara, “ Writing (with) Cixous’’, College English, NCTE, 1988, PP.124-436.
Dr Stanizai, Ehsan Azari ‘‘Lacan and Feminist Debates: Irigaray and Cixous’’, Nida Lacan Study and Reading Group, 2019, P.215
Kruks, Sonia, ‘‘Gender and Subjectivity: Simon De Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism’’, Signs, Vol. 18, No. 1, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992, pp. 89-110.
McLaughin, Janice, ‘‘Feminist relation with Postmodernism: Reflections on the positive aspects of involvement’’, Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 6, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 1997, pp .5-15.
Schutte, Ofelia, ‘‘Irigaray on the Problem of Subjectivity’’, Hypatia Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, Wiley, New York, 1991, pp. 64-76.
Whitford, Marget, ‘‘Irigaray’s Body Symbolic’’, Hypatia Journal of Feminism and the Body, Vol. 6, No. 3, Wiley, New York, 1991, pp. 97-110.
Xu, Ping, ‘‘Irigaray’s Mimicry and the Problem of Essentialism’’, Hypatia Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, Wiley, New York, 1995, pp. 76-89.
Webster Fiona, ‘‘Politics of Sex and Gender: Benhabib and Butler Debate Subjectivity’’, Hypatia, Vol. 15, No. 1, Wiley, New York, 2000, pp. 1-22.
Stephanie Clare, ‘Agency, Significance and Temporality, Hypatia, Wiley, 2009, pp.50-62
Nayak Anoop and Kehily Mary Jane, Gender Undone: Subversion, Regulation and Embodiment in the Work of Judith Butler, Routledge, 2006, pp.459-572
Margaret E. Toye, Donna Harway’s Cyborg Touching (UP/ON) Luce Irigaray’s Ethics and the Interval: Poetics as Embodied Writing, Hypatia, Wiley, 2012, pp. 182-200
Claire, Colebrook, Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophy of Feminism: Irigaray and the History of Western Metaphysics, Hypatia, Wiley, 1997, pp.79-98
Eluned, Summers-Bremner, Reading Irigaray, Dancing, Hypatia, Wiley, 2000, pp.90-124
Karen Green, Other as Another Other Hypatia, Wiley, 2002, pp.1-15
Anne, Caldwell, Transforming Sacrifice: Irigaray and the Politics of Sexual Difference, Hypatia, Wiley, 20002, pp.16-3
The Religious Enlightenment of Johann Joachim Spalding: A Paradigmatic Case
Full text linkIn the eighteenth century, being both a Christian and a supporter of the Enlightenment was not easy, and this applies in a very particular way to the German clergyman, theologian and philosopher Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804). Widely known as the author of the bestseller, Die Bestimmung des Menschen, Spalding embodies some recurrent features of the German Enlightenment: he was educated and eventually served as a Lutheran pastor; read the works of Christian Wolff, and was fascinated with Anglo-Scottish moral sense philosophy, contributing crucially to its introduction into the German territories; and finally took a critical stance on the obscurantist politics of Frederick William II and his minister’s edict in religious matters. It comes as no surprise that he was credited with symbolic value by both allies and enemies, who saw him as a leading star or radical rebel, eager to modernise – or destroy – the dogmatic system of Protestantism.
This essay aims to reconstruct Spalding’s efforts to realise this challenging task. To do so, it will provide a comprehensive overview of Spalding’s works, including minor and lesser known writings. Particular attention will be given to Spalding’s views on the aim of human life, the role of religion in attaining this, and the distinctive conception of philosophy at stake here. At the same time, Spalding’s definition of “enlightenment” (Aufklärung) will also be unpacked and carefully explored. In so doing, the article will offer a fresh and additional insight into one of the most fascinating epochs of Western thought and culture, which Spalding – once more – exemplifies paradigmatically
Poner la cabeza en las manos del otro: escritura a dúo en filosofía y el caso Deleuze-Guattari
No full textThe work of Deleuze and Guattari exemplifies the successful implementation of the duo writing process in the field of philosophy. In the germ of this phenomenon there is a fascination for something that we believe the other has and can contribute to us, and its two fundamental values are the empowerment of themes that writers find alien in terms of individuality, and the joy that causes it´s practice. This modality unfolds, redesigns and extends the authorial self; there is tension in the sense of stretching or elongation. The most frequent stumbling block stems from the temptation to become the lead author: the pleasure of working together collides with the need or intention to receive individual credit and tension is generated. Regarding Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateus, the following development covers three aspects: the relational conformation of the duo, the method and the convergence of styles and tones.
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C-Theory and the Epistemology of Mathematics: Explanations and Time Symmetry
Full text linkThe objective of this paper is to investigate the possibility of a conditional symmetry in temporal ordering which pertains to the epistemology of mathematics. In short, I will try to provide the groundwork for analyzing one form of symmetrical temporality (from the perspective of an epistemic agent) by embracing C-theory and non-causal time reversal. It will be argued that, in addition to the general account of time, which is tightly aligned with temporal ordering and seemingly asymmetric, there could possibly exist another form of temporality which is manifested in the so-called epistemic temporal symmetry. This symmetry relies only on the C-series, does not violate causal symmetry, and applies exclusively to the mathematical epistemic domain. In order to adequately describe epistemic time symmetry in mathematics, I will present some examples of mathematical explanations in which this supposed symmetry can be found