Out of The Books: Field Philosophy

Philosophy inside Out

Philosophy is often conceived in the Anglophone world today as a subject that focuses on questions in particular ‘‘core areas,’’ pre-eminently epistemology and metaphysics. This article argues that the contemporary conception is a new version of the scholastic ‘‘self-indulgence for the few’’ of which Dewey complained nearly a century ago. Philosophical questions evolve, and a first task for phi...

the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext

this study investigates the relationship between field-related cognitive styles and global reading comprehension of hypertext. technically, field dependency is prevailing dominance of field on perception of parts, while global comprehension is skim-like reading to grasp the general content. in this research project, 60 senior and junior students of arak university majoring in english literature...

Introducing New Books Introducing the Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, Golara DavarPanah

A Dialogue of Two Books on Film and Philosophy Mehrdad Pourelm

The books Philosopher or Director and Film as Philosophy, in their own way, address the issues of film and philosophy and their relationship. From the outset, Philosopher or Director takes on an evaluative approach and tries to project this relationship as a false and constructed concept but Film as Philosophy, tries to approach this issue from different angles with an analytical approach and, ...

The Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory

If we divide our physical theories (somewhat artificially) into theories of matter and theories of spacetime, quantum field theory (QFT) is our most fundamental empirically successful theory of matter. As such, it has attracted increasing attention from philosophers over the past two decades, beginning to eclipse its predecessor theory of quantum mechanics (QM) in the philosophical literature. ...