Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (henceforth: Representation), B.C. van Fraassen’s most recent, 400 page contribution to the philosophy of science, is contemporary, varied, systematic, historical, exciting, provocative, empiricist, pragmatist, profound, sometimes sketchy and accessible. We ground these judgments subsequently whilst treating most of the topics of Representatio...

1. The Concept of Landscape: Past and Present 1.1 Perceptions of the Landscape and their Reflection in the Arts 1.2 Contemporary Views of the Landscape in Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 1.3 The Landscape Phenomenon in Contemporary Archaeology and Anthropology 2. Sites and Monuments in the Context of Landscape 2.1 The Birth of Interest: Founding Fathers 2.2 New Impulses: Crawford and his Di...

This article is focused on some conditions in today’s world of globalized media, which are producing either an uncritical acquiescence or fright in Muslim societies as a result of the interaction between these societies and the contemporary Western powers that represent modernity and postmodernity on the global stage. The rise of fundamentalism, a tendency toward returning to the roots and stri...

Andrew Feenberg is one of the most significant contemporary social philosophers. His work and its influence in the philosophy of technology are well-known; he has developed a set of ideas about technology and its relationship to society that go importantly beyond standard debates about the “neutrality” or “complicity” of modern technology with respect to its social consequences, emphasizing the...

Few works in the history of philosophy have provoked as much discussion and diverse opinions as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE). Philosophers and scholars in different eras have examined a number of moral topics, such as the best life for a human being, the meaning of virtue, the ideal of natural law and the reasons for moral actions, as a result of their reading of Aristotle’s text. Aristo...