In this paper I defend the importance of Daniel Dennett’s “intentional stance” for Philosophical Posthumanism vis-à-vis humanism. After first establishing role intentionality in humanism, move to a critique that from perspective both ontology and history scientific explanation. Rendering deeply problematic thereby acting support Posthumanism, argue may ultimately be too strong itself. This is b...

code). All of this evidence gives suggestive empirical support to the notion that manipulating concepts -including applying them to examples -involves perception-related cognition, which clashes with the classical picture of non-experiential, a priori cognition.

Is there a distinction between questions of fact and questions of language? Many philosophers have said no. But a version of the distinction is ubiquitous, in philosophy and elsewhere, in the notion of a verbal dispute. Intuitively, a dispute between two parties is verbal when the two parties agree on the relevant facts about a domain of concern, and just disagree about language used to describ...

The idea of a multiverse – an ensemble of universes or universe domains – has received increasing attention in cosmology, both as the outcome of the originating process that generated our own universe, and as an explanation for why our universe appears to be fine-tuned for life and consciousness. Here we carefully consider how multiverses should be defined, stressing the distinction between the...

The concept of indiscernibility in a structure is analysed with the aim of emphasizing that in asserting that two objects are indiscernible, it is useful to consider these objects as members of (the domain of) a structure. A case for this usefulness is presented by examining the consequences of this view to the philosophical discussion on identity and indiscernibility

cosmological argument has been one of the most significant philosophical and theological arguments in religious traditions of different religions. in the western theo-philosophical tradition, there have been both different interpretations and numerous criticisms presented about this argument. in this article, the most important of those arguments and their criticisms are both taken into conside...

martyr sayyed mostafa khomeini is one of the contemporary philosophers who has grown in transcendent philosophy and has new doctrines in islamic philosophy. his only remained book, commentaries on the transcendent philosophy, contains his theories. but you can also find his special philosophical theories in his 29 volume books about fiqh, assets of fiqh, and interpretation. his big philosophica...

from marcel's point of view, since philosophical issues such as existence and free will belong to the realm of mystery rather than problem, metaphysics is a matter of meditation on mysteries which are considered through secondary reflection. gabriel marcels believes that the metaphysicians have made the mistake of trying to put forward philosophical issues which are of the sort of mystery ...