Revisiting the Early Modern Philosophical Canon

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Philosophical Presuppositions of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine

The theory of Ayurveda rests on the concepts of matter, vital principle, mind, and pure consciousness. It is a holistic theory of medicine, which aims at restoration of physical and mental health, and spiritual well-being in a sick person, so that he may self-actualize himself, and eventually, realize his nature as pure consciousness. Modern Western medicine tries to reduce consciousness, and v...

Highlight: Changing the Canon—Revisiting a Classic Experiment to Alter the Genetic Code

It doesn’t take much for an organism to accept something radically new into its life. That is the conclusion of a recent inquiry into the mutability of life’s fundamental genetic code by Ting-Fung Chan, a computational biologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues. “There are not actually that many genes involved in the change,” says Chan. For an organism to switch from us...

One Scripture or Many?: Canon from Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Perspectives

The Early Modern Debate

II. Focus on Innateness: a. Central issue: the relation of the mental items in question and experience. b. Broadly construed, how are mental items tied to experience? i. Are all relevant mental items derived from experience? That is, do all relevant mental items depend on experience? ii. Empiricist: All relevant mental items are derived from (depend on) experience. c. Notions of ‘Dependence’ i....