In his influential book The principles of Psychology (1890) the well-known psychologist and philosopher William James listed seven “elementary mental categories” that he postulated as having a natural origin [Jam07, p. 629]. In an alleged order of genesis he listed, on the third place, together with ideas of time and space, the idea of number. His mentioning the idea of number along with the id...

Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) is best known as Wittgenstein’s student during the 1930s. Her association with probably most famous philosopher of twentieth century contributes to her obscurity. referred in historiography this period ‘follower’ or ‘disciple’ but never considered own right a philosopher. The neglect place history philosophy needs be resisted. This paper explores some Ambrose’s interes...

This paper seeks to highlight the French philosopher Michel Foucault's contributions regarding his analysis of power. In this sense, text proposes a conceptual transition around ideas that could have interested author within digital context, integrating some notes and examples from 2019 Chilean mobilizations.The article has an initial section exposes genealogy as way approaching social reality....

C.W. Churchman (19132004) is probably the most influential philosopher of systems thinking thus far. A founding father of operations research and management science and NASA research philosopher, he never allowed himself to become absorbed by the mainstream of the fields he pioneered. Two outstanding qualities distinguish his academic life: intellectual honesty, and moral outrage.

Abstract Abul A‘la Maududi explicitly built on Islamic ideas of equality to critique nationalism and modern racism. How then could he reject the idea social between men women? This is particularly puzzling given his noticeable employment a Marxist marketisation society liberal conceptions freedom in controversial 1939 book Pardah . Parsing out structure argument some detail emphasising hitherto...

Over the past ten years, female-to-male transgender/transsexuality has become far more widespread, both in cultural representations (Boys Don't Cry, for example) and as a legitimate choice for many individuals. As the number of people who transition ftm grows, information about and access to gender reassignment has become far easier to find. Much of this information flows informally through com...