a 2 : 2 pp. 86 – 101, 2006 THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ON METAPHYSICS AND ITS LIMITS

Many would agree that Michelangelo’s David or Monet’s Water Lilies is a masterpiece of beauty, compelling casual admirers and expert critics alike to gaze in awe. This implicitly Western conception of beauty has evolved historically and culturally along the path of Classical Platonism (i.e., ideal forms), Aristotelian metaphysics (i.e., imitation), and turn-of-the-century emphases on nature and...

The author makes an appraisal of the videogame Mark of the Ninja (Klei 2012) through the analysis of its construction of temporality. Appropriating the framework of litterature scholar Éric Méchoulan, time is described as the anachronistic folding of the past upon the present. The theme of time and memory in the game is paralleled with Méchoulan’s media-archeological approach to western metaphy...

Anaximander's fragments on biology report a theory of evolution, which, unlike the development of other biological systems in the ancient Aegean, is naturalistic and is not based on metaphysics. According to Anaximander, evolution affected all living beings, including humans. The first biological systems formed in an aquatic environment, and were encased in a rugged and robust envelope. Evoluti...

The structural abstract discusses the features of modern post-non-classical scientific discourse, according to which all kinds and religious knowledge are simplified mental construction a complex objective reality. All accumulated is combination various theoretical models divine reality, performance was checked by centuries experience mystical connection with Lord. According requirements discou...

A different, immanent, embodied, and relational conception of mimesis is currently informing the posthuman turn. Emerging from an ERC-funded project titled Homo Mimeticus, this opening essay introduces mimetic turn in studies via three related steps: first, it differentiates aesthetic realism metaphysics sameness entails a open to differential processes becoming other; second inscribes brief ge...

Abstract According to naturalized metaphysics, metaphysics should be informed by our current best science and not rely on a priori reasoning. Consequently, tends dismiss metaphysicians’ attempts quarrel with science. This paper argues that instead welcome such conflicts between Naturalized is (and be) eliminative of metaphysics. So, if are driven the immediate absence in an answer metaphysical ...