A Design Philosophy for Agents in the Smart Home [PDF]
The home is often the most private space in people's lives, and not one in which they expect to be surveilled. However, today's market for smart home devices has quickly evolved to include products that monitor, automate, and present themselves as human.
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Dissenting body and its creative recontextualisation in Lithuanian visual arts
The body is an important starting point concept throughout deconstruction, reconstruction and recontextualization of the body’s concept. This change of focus in research that stems from the results to the process of contextualization means that the ...
Basia Nikiforova, Kęstutis Šapoka
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A Reflection on Cahill's Interpretation of the Ethical and Cultural Point of Wittgenstein's Tractatus [PDF]
According to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, propositions of natural science are all meaningful propositions of language therefore there is no ethical proposition because alleged ones do not fulfil the criterion of meaningfulness of ...
Hossein Shaqaqi
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Critical Review on the Book To Welcome Contradiction: An Essay on the Paradox, Contradiction, and Dialetheism [PDF]
Defending the truth of some contradictions in the actual world by means of Graham Priest’s views, To Welcome Contradiction written by Rahman Sharifzadeh is rarely problematic in the appearance - i.e in the edition.
Mahdi Assadi
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The changing of Lithuanian identity in global modernity
The present day discourse of globalization is a new socio‐culturally determined form of self‐identification which is chosen by the subjects taking part in globalisation, being ready for cultural openness vs. rarefaction of boundaries of national identity.
Lilijana Astra
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The Internet as Idea:For a Transcendental Philosophy of Technology [PDF]
This article attempts to render the Internet an object of philosophical consideration. It does so by referring to Kant’s transcendental approach. The argument is that Kant’s “transcendental idealism” is one example of an approach focused on conditions ...
Smith, Dominic
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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms
Deliberative democracy aims at reaching collective decisions through mechanisms that involve flexible opinions, variable alternative sets and information gathering in the process of decision making as opposed to exogenously fixed alternative sets and ...
Hannu Nurmi
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Mystical Awakening (Yaqzah) and Being-Mindfulness: Towards a Comparative Understanding of the Mystical Relevance of the Ontological Philosophies of Heidegger and Sadra [PDF]
Sadra and Heidegger share a common fundamental concern, i.e. the retrieve of the question of Being. Their whole philosophical career in one sense has been devoted to the accomplishment of this single task.
Beytollah Naderlew+2 more
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Conciliationist Approach to the Challenge of Religious Disagreement [PDF]
Conciliationists believe that after the emergence of disagreement between epistemic peers, one cannot reasonably be committed to her previous belief or her degree of confidence in that.
Ghazaleh Hojjati
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Religious Act in Max Scheler's Phenomenology of Religion [PDF]
Max Scheler’s philosophy of religion is, in fact, the essential phenomenology of religion. The core of his discussion of religion is the concept of "Religious Act," which Scheler introduced as a "givenness" in which the divine/holy is given.
Hamid Reza Erfanifar, Hassan Ghanbari
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