RETHINKING PHILIP KITCHER’S SCIENCE POLICY IN TIMES OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC by Merve Kaptan

“…The renowned British philosopher Philip Kitcher’s Science, Truth and Democracy is still relevant today, some twenty years after its first publication, as the heated debates concerning the role of science and its social consequences rages on. …”
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Moral Certainty instead of Moral Objectivity by Aistė Noreikaitė

“…A brief preliminary conception of it is developed while invoking the German philosopher Robert Spaemann’s ontology of a person. …”
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Evil genius of feminism: Nietzsche’s origins of woman by R. L. Kochnev

“…The article is a commentary and an additional research on the Russian translation of an article by the American philosopher Robert С. Golub, published in this journal. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). The paper discloses the civilizational features and stages of the evolution of the elite. …”
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Les écrits philosophiques d’Yves Simon aux États-Unis (1939-1945). Essai de biographie intellectuelle by Bernard Hubert

“…The French philosopher Yves R. Simon, who was a lecturer from 1938 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, published, on the one hand, Nature and Functions of Authority (1940) and, on the other hand, several writings in English about political philosophy (“Liberty and Authority”; “Thomism and Democracy”; “Beyond the Crisis of Liberalism”) in 1941-1942. …”
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Theologische hermeneutiek en de postmoderne uitdaging by Willem J. Ouweneel

“…It is therefore essential to recognise it as basically of a philosophical nature. This underlines again the necessity of a Christian-philosophical framework for doing responsible theology. …”
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Contradictions Around the Stoic Sage. Chapter Twenty of Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradictions by Anna Aklan

“… In Chapter nineteen of his De Stoicorum repugnantiis, Plutarch criticizes Chrysippus in that the idea of the sage he presents is contradictory in parts of the Stoic philosopher’s writings. Plutarch exposes the contradictions which center mainly around the mutually exclusive precepts of the private versus public life of the sage and secondly, around his money-earning occupations that both entail further contradictory corollaries. …”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…Bonaventure was a theologian and philosopher first of all. He shows us St. Francis as a perfect follower of Jesus. …”
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Estação Carandiru e o mundo construído pelas formas de nomeação by Maria Aparecida Silva Ribeiro

“…This article proposes a reading of the text of Varella, from the choices practiced in their nomination process, which subsidize the narration, in line with traditional of the narrator setting enunciated by the philosopher Walter Benjamin. It also scrutinizes the ways in which space, almost a character in the story told, is built by nominating speech, in its excesses and shortages.…”
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Faith – Reason: a Problematic Relationship? Theology as an Extension of Faith in Reason by Marcelo Javier Navarro Muñoz

“…Then, he introduces philosophical and theological considerations of Cornelio Fabro to do theology in the footsteps of Aquinas. …”
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Creating the Situation of Success as Implementation of the Optimism Idea: Pedagogic Interpretation of M. Seligman’s Theory by Y. V. Andreyeva

“…The author shares the idea of the contemporary American psychologist and philosopher regarding the optimism as the acquired skill affecting the students’ academic progress, and recommends developing students’ self-assurance by addressing a situation of success. …”
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NEGARA DAN KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM PEMIKIRAN ALFARABI by Imam Sukardi

“…The ideal state for Alfarabi is the state which is having the goals for its citizen welfare, and who become the prime leader is a philosopher, who is having the prophetic character, having the wider knowledge, and able to communicate with al 'aql al fa’al trough al ‘aql mustafad.…”
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Video Assemblages: ‘Machinic Animism’ and ‘Asignifying Semiotics’ in the Work of Melitopoulos and Lazzarato by Jay Hetrick

“…Assemblages (2010) is a three channel audio-visual documentary about the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. I will argue that, in order to fully understand this work, we must interrogate the incredibly dense theoretical context it inhabits. …”
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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…The thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann and Paul Tillich, which Robinson summarized in his book, were themselves simply the twentieth century version of the radical changes in theology made necessary by the advent of the post-Enlightenment world, and which had been set in motion in rather different ways at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher. …”
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Bertrand Russell’s epistemology: towards neutral monism by A. B. Didikin

“…The article presents the evolution of the ideological views of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell on the nature of knowledge and the methodological principles underlying the cognition theory. …”
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Katharsis and Phantasia in Plotinus’ Thought by ilker Kisa

“…Thus, intellectual philosophical work is what provides the necessary step thanks to which the desiderative and affective states change and upgrade. …”
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CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP by M.M.-Y. Yuen

“…Employing surveys by non-governmental organisations, particularly those in Hong Kong, as well as my own interviews and observations, I examine the situation of the frontline workers and discuss the moral principles and conditions for upholding women’s dignity and well-being, based on the capability approach of feminist philosopher Martha Nussbaum. I argue that emphasising women’s moral agency and giving a voice to women themselves through women collectives are important in empowering them and building a life-giving community among women, especially during and after the pandemic. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In addition, this study examines how one of Rossi’s most famous architectural artefacts, the ossuary of San Cataldo cemetery at Modena, can be viewed as a coalescence of a Benjaminian thought-image, thereby fortifying the philosopher’s presence in modern architecture.…”
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Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism by Dulmini Perera, Samuel Koh

“…It does so by examining the concept of ‘cosmotechnics’, as proposed by the philosopher Yuk Hui. Cosmotechnics – defined as ‘the unification of the cosmic and moral order through technical activities’ – proposes that technology is not a universal category but always exists in a co-productive relationship with a specific cosmology. …”
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Athens or Rome? A New Perspective on the Political Philosophy of H. Arendt by Simas Čelutka

“… Hannah Arendt is widely known as a philosopher who attempted to rehabilitate the ancient Greek conception of politics. …”
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