Review of Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani, eds., Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

There has been no challenge to ‘the tradition of philosophy’ in contemporaneity: philosophy since evolved past the criticisms twentieth century. Indeed, contemporary is such a diverse pursuit that it impossible identify philosophy’. is, however, an ontological philosophic metatradition. This inchoate, lacking meontological pole. pole can be provided by spirituality east form Kyoto School, but f...

The title of my talk, “Living Neoplatonism,” is intentionally ambiguous, for it can refer, first, to Neoplatonism as a living philosophy rather than as a historical artifact embodied in the writings of Plotinus, Proclus, and the rest. And second, it can refer to the practice of living Neoplatonically as a modern way of life. But why Neoplatonism, as opposed to some other philosophy? From my per...

Philosophical questions about biology have been addressed by philosophers and scientists for centuries. Yet as a genuine discipline within philosophy, philosophy of biology started to emerge in the 1970s (Byron, 2007). One motivation for this was the fact that much of traditional philosophy of science—growing out of logical positivism—focused on physics as the exemplar of science. Thereby past ...

alain badiou is one of the leading contemporary thinkers whose ideas in philosophy have seriously influenced theological discourse. his thought mainly relies on two pillars, ontology and theory of the event. based on these ideas, he tries to remove religious/spiritual elements of contemporary thought. with his novel mathematical ontology of multiple, he tries to categorize and criticize all the...

Ungureanu, Camil and Monti, Paolo (2018)Contemporary Political Philosophy Religion: between Public Reason PluralismNew York: Routledge, 349 p.ISBN 9780415552196

In recent years, the emergence of a new trend in contemporary philosophy has been observed in the increasing usage of empirical research methods to conduct philosophical inquiries. Although philosophers primarily use secondary data from other disciplines or apply quantitative methods (experiments, surveys, etc.), the rise of qualitative methods (e.g., in-depth interviews, participant observatio...

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