Nietzsche, throughout his writings, chides other philosophers for not placing their question marks at a deep enough place – for breaking off their inquiries prematurely, rather than pressing their questions all the way to the end, allowing themselves to discover where their questions, if pressed, might eventually lead1. In one of his posthumously published manuscripts, the following series of q...

This paper has three dimensions, historical, theoretical and social. The historical dimension is to show how the Ciceronian system of dialectical argumentation served as a precursor to recent computational models like the Carneades argumentation model. The theoretical dimension is to show concretely how these models reveal the interdependency of rhetoric and logic, and so the interdependency of...

Teleology is a central concept in Hegel's philosophy, but, as is too common in his writing, exactly what he understands under that concept, what role within his philosophy it plays, and how he defends his position remain obscure. Hegel did not come to his position on teleology in a vacuum; it was a topic of major concern to his predecessors as well. Then as now, debate focused both on the quest...

Whilst the discipline of psychology has an indigenous critical and feminist tradition, postmodern feminist approaches have developed from, as well as alongside, the broader philosophical and theoretical critiques generated initially in other disciplines. The focus of postmodern feminist work in psychology is on the construction of gender and relations of power. It seeks to unpack the discursive...

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...