This volume covers five central controversies in current philosophy of mind. There are many more than five current controversies, but arguably the most interesting are those that play out some of the perennial problems of the philosophy of mind. For through the historical progression of philosophical dialectic, certain ancient philosophical problems have taken very specific shapes and have narr...

Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with doctor of sciences in philosophy Oleksiy Panych, devoted to pyrrhonism’s principles, practice and contemporary status.

In this paper I discuss Taylor's criticism of contemporary moral philosophy and the role which this plays in his wider account of the development of Western moral consciousness, an account which I compare with Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. While I endorse Taylor's rejection of "naturalism", I deny that this entails the rejection of non-realism and I maintain that, indeed, ...

spinoza’s theory of mind posits identity of mind and body in opposition to the cartesian dualistic tradition. these dualistic and monistic views of the mind and body have caused many reactions in the contemporary philosophy. feminists have objected to the dualisms which were resulted from cartesian tradition and criticized them. in doing so, they have found spinoza’s philosophy as a resolution ...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

Insights gained by contemporary biology should interest philosophers, whether or not they agree with E. O. Wilson's statement (2006, 106): [Biology] has become foremost [among the sciences] in relevance to the central questions of philosophy, aiming to explain the nature of mind and reality and the meaning of life. Clearly, philosophy of science finds significance in current biology. Vigorous d...

This paper outlines some key features of Chinese cosmology and discusses its significance on contemporary philosophical issues. Contrary to popular approaches to comparative philosophy, I aim to offer a holistic picture of Chinese cosmology by examining its own concerns and its internal dynamics. In particular, I have traced the development of Chinese cosmology from the Shang dynasty to the Son...

concept of divine emanation (as that concept is understood in Neoplatonic philosophy). The insight of apophatic discourse, as well as of contemporary metaphor theory, is that how a person understands these abstract conceptual domains is optional. To view any conceptual mapping as necessary or essential is at best an exaggeration, and at worst an im-

Rocco J. Gennaro Indiana State University [final version in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2002] Jean-Paul Sartre believed that consciousness entails self-consciousness, or, even more strongly, that consciousness is self-consciousness. As Kathleen Wider puts it in her terrific book The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, “...all consciousness is, by its ...

This paper offers a comparative analysis of the nature of consciousness correlating the insights of the 11th century Śaiva philosopher Abhinavagupta with the work of some contemporary philosophers of consciousness. Ultimately these comparisons especially bring to light possibilities for constructing a materialist paradigm that might operate from a prioritization of subjectivity rather than obje...