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Abstract: Emotions, feelings, and passions shape the quality of our existence, but we are not always aware of the ways in which our emotional life is expressed. In fact, we tend to live irreflectively. What self-care enables us to cultivate the affective side for the benefit of the quality of existence? And how is it possible
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CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] From its very beginning, phenomenology has shown a strong connection with scientific thought and the sciences. Husserl, for instance, began his intellectual career not as a philosopher, but as a student of physics, astronomy, and especially mathematics under the guidance of Karl Weierstrass and Leopold Kronecker. He
CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] Abstract: In this paper, I respond to contemporary debates on technoscience by asking about how science and technology are fusible. This directs me to Heidegger’s critique of calculative thinking in modern technology and science: it turns things into objects of representation so that they may be ordered and
CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS]Abstract: Hume once argued the basic science to be not physics but “the science of man” and the foundation of this science to be the empiricist mechanism of association governed by the law of similarity in appearance—now more popular than ever in the form of artificial neural networks.
ADRIAN WILSON: The Great Instauration of the Eighteenth Century. In Journal of Early Modern Studies vol. 12.1 (2023) Abstract: This paper argues that there took place in the eighteenth century a specific, distinctive and essential phase in the emergence of modern science, a phase which can be characterised as “the Great Instauration” in that it
CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] En à peine vingt ans, de son arrivée à Rome à sa fin tragique à Porto Ercole, Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), dit Le Caravage, a bouleversé l’histoire de la peinture : brutalement et irréversiblement, il l’a fait entrer dans ce que l’on appelle « la modernité ». Un art sans précédent
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CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS] Abstract: We provide a phenomenological explanation of the particular function mental images play in the realization of enjoyment and their significance for human freedom on the basis of the idea, drawn from Sartre, that images are not things but rather a way consciousness behaves towards objects. The mental
CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS]. Abstract: The purpose of the article is to offer a phenomenological description of VR images and their experience. In the first section, I briefly present the peculiar features of these kinds of images; in the second section, I compare VR images with phantasms, especially in the light
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CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION [OPEN ACCESS]. Images have been a remarkably constant preoccupation for the phenomenological tradition. Beginning with Husserl’s early investigation of image‑consciousness, with its threefold conceptual articulation of material Bildding, appearing Bildobjekt, and referential Bildsujet (Hua XXIII), phenomenological accounts of the image can be found in the classic works of Martin