the expressions of “esoteric” and “esotericism” have a wide range of meanings, however, they specifically apply to religious, mystical, and philosophical secret schools. in ancient greek world, i.e. before the hellenistic era, we come across some currents with esoteric tendencies. the various texts from this period show that the ancient greeks sought the source of the esoteric currents outside ...

many academics, worldwide have considered khatami’s dialogue of civilizations as a pow-erful rhetoric and antithesis of the so-called ‘clash of civilization’ theory. this article, how-ever, tries to show the originality and depth of khatami’s vision, framed against the back-ground of ‘the end of history’ and clash of civilization’ theories, political frames used by po-litical actors in the post...

In recent years it has become more and more difficult to distinguish between metaethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism. (Dreier 2004; van Roojen 2004) The distinction most often used to separate the two camps, until recently at least, was their position on the meaningfulness of moral statements and the applicability of truth-predicates to those statements. Cognitivists are said to hold that m...

Since the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries when systematic research on antique Greek mathematics began, the general tone of historiographical work in the field has been dominated by the so-called internalist attitude. H.G. Zeuthen, P. Tannery and others initiated a research tradition whose goal is to reconstruct the mathematical development of the minus 5 th and 4 th century Greece by prov...

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A survey of the /eld of hypercomputation, including discussion of four a priori objections to the possibility of hypercomputation. An exegesis of Turing’s preand post-war writings on the mind is given, and Turing’s views on the scope of machines are discussed. c © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Introduction If we were to acknowledge the interpretive character of our public debates over some of the issues that concern us, we would secure a firm foundation for a deliberative form of democracy. For we would then talk and listen to one another with mutual respect, not simply because political theorists encourage us to do so, but because we recognize the interpretive status of our own posi...

This document presents some views on the semantic of the probability notion. It's mainly a summary of di erent readings, in particular of a Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy article. Probabilities are daily used in real world application, often without a clear understanding of their mathematical foundation and of the meaning we attach to them. This lack of understanding often leads to bad in...