Critique is unsustainable: A polemic

Beyond polemic.

That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy

Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in the theory of the given—an edification of philosophy as that giant mirror and standard for measuring what counts as knowledge; but is it thus synonymous with or reducible to epistemology? How or why? There are two a...

Recycling the Cycle of Perception: A Polemic

Proactive An agent achieves goals, implicit or explicit. Its behaviour is teleological, planned and future-oriented. Reactive An agent perceives and reacts to environmental change. Its behaviour is causal and past-determined. Model-based It uses models of the world to guide its perception and behaviour. Learning-oriented It acquires new behaviours and new models. Rational It reasons, solves pro...

How the Law School Fails: A Polemic

The Unsustainable City

―Make cities more sustainable‖ is an omnipresent slogan in architecture and urban planning. This article is a discussion on theoretical and practical boundaries of using the expression ―sustainability‖ with respect to the scientific community, therefore avoiding sustainability becoming a euphemism for ―doing good‖. By definition, it can be concluded, cities developed as counterparts to the hint...