Second Nature: Adorno and Contemporary Education by Edvardas Šumila

“…This is done by exploring the notion of ‘second nature’, the significance of which is underlined by its rootedness in the dialectical tradition of German philosophy and Adorno’s emphasis on the nonidentical as an essential condition for critique and a link between subjectivity and what is understood as nature and history. …”
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Comment on “The construction of ecological socialism under the concept of liberating nature: William Rice’s critique of the concept of controlling nature” by Zheng Huang

“…The construction of ecological socialism under the concept of liberating nature: William Rice’s critique of the concept of controlling nature. …”
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Whither Individuality? A Re-reading of Segun Ogungbemi’s Scholarship on Individuality-Community Debate in African Philosophy by Sunday L. Oladipupo

“…Using the analytical method of philosophy, this study attempts a further interrogation of Segun Ogungbemi’s perspective on the place of individuality in understanding human nature within the Yoruba cultural context. …”
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Descartes on Natural Signs and the Case of Sensory Perception

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On the trail of John Calvin's philosophy of language: a few notes on his commentary on Genesis 10 and 11 by N. T. van der Merwe

“… This essay attempts to discover John Calvin’s view on the nature and use of human language. It suggests a strategy for establishing a few building blocks of his philosophy of language. …”
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DESCARTES’ COMPREHENSION OF HUMAN NATURE IN «DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD» by A. M. Malivskyi

“…The purpose of the article is to analyze the text "Discourse on the Method" as one of the first experiences of understanding human’s nature in modern age philosophy. The condition of realization the designated purpose is to solve the following problems: 1) To Define the diversity of Descartes position on the issue of essentiality to the true knowledge of human nature; 2) To find out the manner influence of methodology of understanding the mathematical truth to the way of interpretation of human nature; 3) To clarify the question of Descartes awareness of boundaries rationalist methodology in understanding of human nature. …”
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PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCE IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY ПРОБЛЕМА ОПЫТА В ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКОЙ ФИЛОСОФИИ ПРОБЛЕМА ДОСВІДУ В ПОСТМОДЕРНІСТСЬКІЙ ФІЛОСОФІЇ... by О. Lauta

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Philosophy as a Way of Life, the System, and the Advent of the Research University: Contributions Toward an Unwritten Chapter of the History of PWL by Matthew Sharpe

“…Part 1 contends that these texts represent studies of great significance for the history of PWL, the paper suggests, insofar as they are philosophical reflections on the university, its necessity and its purpose, as well as metaphilosophical reflections more specifically on philosophy, its nature and role, within the universities. …”
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Minangkabau local wisdom: The philosophy of aua jo tabiang sanda basanda in disaster mitigation along the watershed (DAS) by Abbas Ardi, Maideliza Tesri, Alfitri, Agus Syahputra Fendi

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The Laws of Natural Deduction in Inference by DNA Computer by Łukasz Rogowski, Petr Sosík

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The Idea of Mathematicity of the Universe as a <i>Locus Theologicus</i>: Michael Heller and Representatives of “The Kraków School of Philosophy in Science” by Kamil Trombik

“…In this paper, I focus on the analysis of the concept of the mathematicity of the Universe developed by Heller and his colleagues from the Kraków School of Philosophy in Science [KSPS]. For the representatives of this School, the mathematicity of nature was one of the most frequently discussed issues. …”
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Das natürliche Vorbild der Harmonielehre . Naturwissenschaftliche Modelle in Rameaus Musiktheorie by Anna Hausmann

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Notions of personhood, the political and relationalities: Paradigms of the anthropology of nature by Geviller Marín, Francisco Neira, María Elena Ramírez, Diana Soto, Javier Vásconez, Ivette Vallejo

“…The aim of the article is to address the paradigmatic break that has allowed anthropology to connect and engage in dialogues with other disciplines, such as ecology, sociolinguistics and philosophy, paying attention to the complexity and suggesting the uniqueness between nature and culture, in opposition to the dichotomous and fragmentary approaches that separate them. …”
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NECATİ ÖNER, FELSEFE VE ELEŞTİREL RASYONALİZM by Mehmet Sait Reçber

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Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias by Rose Roberto

“…Finally it looks at the firm’s philosophy of self-improvement, progress and understanding of science and questions whether the natural history images used in these encyclopaedias provided its 19th century audiences with any clues for the sensational author of Vestiges.…”
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Philosophical Analysis of the Meaning and Nature of Entropy and Negative Entropy Theories by Kun Wu, Qiong Nan, Tianqi Wu

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The Heart Is Not an Animated Body: Machines of Nature, Functional Organs and Monadic Domination in Leibniz by Christopher P Noble

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ANTIQUE PARADIGM OF TECHNOLOGY by О. F. Tereshkun

“…Proved that the development of technology and its inclusion in an ideological view of the world contributed to several factors: first, the ancient world view is no longer a purely mythological, woven natural-philosophical ideas about the universe; basis of ancient philosophy cosmocentrism with signs of logocentrism. …”
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Pornography and Speech Act Theory – An In-Depth Survey by Áron Dombrovszki

“… Considering the short history of the feminist philosophy of language, Rae Langton’s article “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts” was highly influential as one of the first positive research programs in the movement. …”
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