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Aesthetic experience of beautiful and ugly persons: a critique
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2016 The question of whether or not beauty exists in nature is a philosophical problem. In particular, there is the question of whether artworks, persons, or nature has aesthetic qualities. Most people say that they care about their own beauty. Moreover, they
Mika Suojanen
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Gaston Bachelard and Contemporary Philosophy [PDF]
, 2019 This special issue aims to redress the balance and to open up Gaston Bachelard's work beyond a small in-crowd of experts and aficionado’s in France. It aims to stimulate the discovery of new and understudied aspects of Bachelard’s work, including aspects
Cortois, Paul +3 more
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Posthumanism: A Fickle Philosophy? [PDF]
, 2018 Defining posthumanism as a single, well-oriented philosophy is a difficult if not impossible endeavour. Part of the reason for this difficulty is accounted by posthumanism’s illusive origins and its perpetually changing hermeneutics.
Umbrello, Steven
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Religions, 2019 In contemporary debates on the so-called “return of religion„ in new forms and practices of spirituality, the spiritual practices are often seen as emerging on the ruins of a fragmented and outdated religious tradition.
Herman Westerink
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Science, thought and nature: Hegel’s completion of Kant’s idealism [Special Issue] [PDF]
, 2019 Focusing on Hegel’s engagement with Kant’s theoretical philosophy, the paper shows the merits of its characterisation as “completion”. The broader aim is to offer a fresh perspective on familiar historical arguments and on contemporary discussions of ...
Deligiorgi, Katerina
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(The Varieties of) Love in Contemporary Anglophone Philosophy [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter assesses theories of the nature of personal love in Anglophone philosophy from the last two decades, sketching a case for pluralism.
Bagley, Benjamin
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European posthuman border image: performativity, creativity and beyond
Creativity Studies, 2018 To artists, border is not just a physical reality imposed on the landscape by political forces, but also a subject for imagination and creativity, representation and visualization.
Basia Nikiforova
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Philosophers, scientists and the unity of science [PDF]
, 1981 This paper examines historical images of the unity of science and makes a case for a contemporary conceptualisation of this project for our own times.
Sheehan, Helena
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The Auditory Dimension of the Technologically Mediated Self
Open PhilosophyIn this article, I aim to clarify some of the ways in which the auditory dimension of the self is constituted through the mediation of technology.
Gutierrez Ivan
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Creativity Studies, 2015 The paper deals with the concept of matter manipulation and its vitality in the Brothers Quay’ works. The matter manipulation is not limited to the actual “matter”.
Basia Nikiforova
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