Since the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century, philosophy has suffered from a need for legitimation. If it is science that provides us with our advanced knowledge of the world, what role is there left for philosophy? Several answers have been given. One answer is that of Wittgenstein. Philosophy is not in the knowledge business at all. In a world in which no one misused language, ...

Viewed solely on its cinematic merits, few are likely to evaluate Andrew Niccol’s film Gattaca as great art. As a vehicle for stimulating debate about serious social and moral issues, however, it shows up well against Independence Day, Jurassic Park, and most other attempts to translate science fiction onto the big screen. Relying heavily on less than subtle imagery (the staircase which the par...

Experimental philosophy is a new interdisciplinary field that uses methods normally associated with psychology to investigate questions normally associated with philosophy. The present review focuses on research in experimental philosophy on four central questions. First, why is it that people's moral judgments appear to influence their intuitions about seemingly nonmoral questions? Second, do ...

according to the non-physical aspects of conservation in the world today and intangible effects were considered serious. conservation process, but help to understand the purpose and effect of not reading, but perception is a matter of epistemological roots in philosophy and  in modern philosophy the process of understanding a monument-art conservation in connection with the audience is importan...

among british playwrights , george bernard shaw is a dramatist who envisages the hermeneutics o f history with a m ore challenging perspective w hich approximates him to a modern o utlook. i n this regard, he manages to attune his philosophy of history ( best exposed in a 1923 p lay by t he name of s aint joan ) with the idea of f . w . hegel, t he nineteenth - c entury german th inker , and hi...

the connection between philosophy and literature goes back at least to plato, who has a well reputed fame in philosophy as well as literature. schopenhauer, russell, bergson and … are the other philosophers whose philosophical works, according to critics, are comparable to the best literary works. in order to express their philosophical viewpoints they have had access to an appropriate language...