time no longer exists as an objective physical reality. “When even the gravitational field—geometry i n c a r n a t e — becomes a noncommuting (and hence nonlinear) operator, how can the classical interpretation of Gμν as a geometric entity be sustained? Now not only the observer, but the very concept of geometry, becomes relational and contextual.” The article might have passed unnoticed in th...

Representation or Inference: Must We Choose? Should We? In his monumental 1994 work Making It Explicit, 1 Robert Brandom announces a revolution in the philosophy of language. Brandom in some ways self-consciously models his revolution on Kant‟s famous “Copernican revolution” in the Critique of Pure Reason 2 – so much so that a clever parody posted for some time in the University of Pittsburgh p...

Humean supervenience (HS) is the thesis that everything supervenes upon the spatiotemporal distribution of local intrinsic qualities. A recent threat to HS, originating in thought experiments by Armstrong and Kripke, claims that the mere possibility of rotating homogeneous discs proves HS false. I argue that the rotating disc argument (RDA) fails. If I am right, Humeans needn’t abandon or alter...

Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing heteropatriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to d...

Abstract When the caricature came up in late 16th century, notion meant an overloaded or exaggerated – and humorous kind of portrait. Since then its meaning has changed considerably. Today is understood as a visual equivalent literary satire. This modern understanding origin bourgeois culture Enlightenment. In my contribution I examine change concept Western history. The focus on connection bet...