Realism was a response to philosophical questions posed in different terms depending on the era. We can then distinguish three important periods in the history of philosophical realism, corresponding to three types of debates: Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Quarrel … Read More
The multiple meanings of being “Being” is said in multiple senses, says Aristotle at the beginning of the fourth book of his Metaphysics, he enumerates in this same passage, a list of concepts each of which receives the name of … Read More
Reenactment, literally defined as “historical reconstruction”, is a method of recreating certain aspects of a past event, a historical period or a specific way of life. The resuscitation of the past through physical and psychological experience occurs through body-based discourse. … Read More
The mind-body problem is a philosophical questioning of the type of relationship the mind has with the body, especially with the brain. Although this problem may have already arisen since the first developments of philosophy, in Plato in particular, and … Read More
Among the attempts to dismantle the first horn of Hume’s fork, Henderson mentions Kant’s approach discussed later and that of Bayes. Bayesian logic is not ampliative: it does not provide more information than that contained in the premises and observations. … Read More
General principles Lack of hierarchical authority Anarchism is a political philosophy that presents a vision of a human society without hierarchy, and which proposes strategies to achieve it, by overthrowing the authoritarian social system. The main objective of anarchism is … Read More
Appearance of heavy elements in the Universe Heavy elements 98% of visible matter is made up of hydrogen and helium. All the other elements (heavy elements: carbon, iron, oxygen in particular which are the constituents of organic matter and therefore … Read More
Neo-pragmatism The pragmatism of Richard Rorty Pragmatism, which established itself in the United States as the dominant current before the Second World War, suffered a long eclipse due to the dominance of the analytical style, but is experiencing a revival, … Read More
(Bertrand Russell in 1957. Credit: Anefo, Wikipedia) The tenets of idealism have been questioned time and time again since its emergence, and the criticisms leveled at it are as varied as are the different forms of idealism. In England, the … Read More
The main systems By introducing a distinction between the sensible and the intelligible, Plato founds, without naming it, what will later be called metaphysics, as the science of being insofar as it “is” and that it is what it is … Read More
Performance art is developing in Europe and the United States and many movements, such as Fluxus, are gaining an international base. In Europe, it was undoubtedly after his trip to Japan, from September 23, 1952 to January 1954, that Yves … Read More
Since David Wiggins and his article of 1967, the reflection on personal identity, one of the most difficult and disturbing in the philosophy of mind, has often relied on the “argument from fission” to challenge our most ingrained beliefs about … Read More
