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Abstract: Rich intersubjective experiences are rooted in real-time, physical interactions where bodies and non-verbal cues play a crucial role in fostering shared understanding. In digital settings, such as online teaching, participants are separated in space and interact through virtual representations: images, initials, or live video. This study focuses on a Danish seventh-grade class during the […]

Abstract: The longstanding and often unproductive debates among North American philosophers of technology—particularly over the distinction between Technology and technologies—call for a renewed examination of Heidegger’s ideas. This paper argues that, despite their differences, both camps share a concern central to The Question Concerning Technology: the pursuit of a free relationship between human existence and technology.

We invite submissions for a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) devoted to a reappraisal of the history of mechanical philosophy. Although historiography has often treated it as a monolithic category, the label “mechanical philosophy” has been conceived as internally divided since its very establishment. Classical mid-twentieth-century literature identified within it

The Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) invites submissions for a special issue marking the 400th anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death in 2026. This volume will explore the diverse reception of Bacon’s philosophical work across different traditions and geographical regions. Bacon’s legacy is a complex tapestry of intersecting, clashing, and sometimes unrelated interpretations. He has

Abstract: The early Royal Society was an intellectual movement with remarkably homogenous epistemological and methodological features. Despite the petty squabbles fellows occasionally engaged in, general agreement existed among them about the principles, methods, and aims of their collective enterprise. On rare occasions, however, the society was genuinely infiltrated by someone with incompatible conceptions and principles,

We invite submissions for a special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) dedicated to Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535-1615), a pivotal and multifaceted figure whose vast oeuvre profoundly influenced the intellectual landscape of early modernity. This special issue aims to explore new facets of Della Porta’s contributions across his diverse fields of interest,

Call for Papers: Studia Phaenomenologica, Volume 27 (2027) “Phenomenological Approaches to Affectivity” Guest Editors: Claudia Serban & Anthony Steinbock Whether in the context of clarifying the theory of intentionality, uncovering the background of our facticity, describing the pre-linguistic layer of our being-in-the-world, or understanding the orientation of our intersubjective field as polarized by values, affectivity

See also: Luz ASCARATE, Quentin GAILHAC, Circé FURTWÄNGLER (Eds), Phenomenology and Transcendental Idealism [Table of Contents] 16. Husserl‘s Idealism at Work: The Example of the Transcendentalization of Value Alexis Delamare (University College Dublin) French interpreters of Edmund Husserl, influenced by Heidegger (2006, 82–83), have long emphasized that the founder of phenomenology defends the primacy of

ARON L. OUWERKERK, Mapping the ‘Republic of Letters’ in East Central European Correspondences [OPEN ACCESS]Abstract: The significance of the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a Pan-European and cross-national concept is often addressed in scholarship on early modern intellectual history. Focusing on an extensive digital epistolary corpus of authors of East Central European descent from c. 1600

OBERTO MARRAMA, “The Habit of Virtue”: Spinoza on Reason and Memory [OPEN ACCESS]Abstract: In this paper I explain how, for Spinoza, humans can acquire the “habit of virtue” from “fatal necessity” (Ep.58). Spinoza claims that no decision can be made without memory of the thing that one wants to do. However, his rejection of free will