Philosophical Essays
A collection of personal essays in philosophy of science (physics, especially gravity), philosophy of information and communication technology, current social issues (emotional intelligence, COVID-19 pandemic, eugenics, intelligence), philosophy of art, and logic and philosophy of language. CONTENTS: The distinction between … Read More
COVID-19 Pandemic – Philosophical Approaches
The paper begins with a retrospective of the debates on the origin of life: the virus or the cell? The virus needs a cell for replication, instead the cell is a more evolved form on the evolutionary scale of life. … Read More
Emotions and Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
An argumentation for the dualistic importance of emotions in society, individually and at community level. The current tendency of awareness and control of emotions through emotional intelligence has a beneficial effect in business and for the success of social activities but, … Read More
Epistemology of experimental gravity – Scientific rationality
The evolution of gravitational tests from an epistemological perspective framed in the concept of rational reconstruction of Imre Lakatos, based on his methodology of research programmes. Unlike other works on the same subject, the evaluated period is very extensive, starting … Read More
Causal Theories of Reference for Proper Names
Presentation and comparison of the main causal theories of reference for proper names, and a proposal of a new approach based on the analogy of the causal chain of reference with the block chain from blockchain technology and Paul Ricœur’s … Read More
Big Data Ethics in Research
The main problems faced by scientists in working with Big Data sets, highlighting the main ethical issues, taking into account the legislation of the European Union. After a brief Introduction to Big Data, the Technology section presents specific research applications. … Read More
Les mémoires d’un Pierrot (Memories of a Sparrow)
Livre bilingue anglais/français (Bilingual English/French Book), par (by) Henri de la Blanchère, traduit par (translated by) Nicolae Sfetcu « Je suis né dans le Jardin d’acclimatation du bois de Boulogne. Ma mère avait fait choix, pour établir son nid, du … Read More
Memories of a Sparrow
by Henri de la Blanchère, translated by Nicolae Sfetcu “I was born in the acclimation garden of the Bois de Boulogne. My mother had made a choice, to build her nest, of the thatched roof covering the house of a … Read More
Last Thoughts
by Henri Poincaré Translated by Nicolae Sfetcu Henri Poincaré is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher and engineer, born April 29, 1854 in Nancy and died July 17, 1912 in Paris. He has carried out works of major importance in optics and … Read More