Kantian Transcendentalism in Contemporary Philosophical Discussions. Report of the “Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy-3” International Workshop

Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Biology : A Historical Review

The philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. The rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. Today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. There have been two generations of textbooks...

Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Law

The foundations of knowledge in transcendental philosophy

  The relation among the three elements of knowledge is considered as an important issue in epistemology. Mollasadra introduced the relation between knowledge and object-known in mental existence and upon his own principals of philosophy believed that the essence of knowledge is the occurring of quiddity and the nature of external object in mind. Knowledge is a kind of existence, which within ...

a reflection on the contemporary philosophical discussions on meaninglessness in art

artworks are different in terms of creation, application, function, interpretation and finally meaning. sometimes, we don’t know the meaning of a picture or a literal text. human perceptual media and cognitive faculties are confused. the understanding of artworks is difficult. the ready-mades have disrupted the rules of the aesthetic judgment. the recognition of art from non-art is not the work...

Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...