background: in recent decades, traditional medical ethics which is confined to certain commands and prohibitions, is substituted by modern medical ethics which deals with problems such as euthanasia, abortion, organ transplantation, etc. and tries to find proper ethical solutions. these solutions wittingly or unwittingly are rooted in certain philosophical foundations. methods: the philosophy o...

for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...

Neuroscience is a laboratory-based science that spans multiple levels of analysis from molecular genetics to behavior. At every level of analysis, experiments are designed in order to answer empirical questions about phenomena of interest. Understanding the nature and structure of experimentation in neuroscience is fundamental for assessing the quality of the evidence produced by such experimen...

The article considers the theoretical and practical consequences of so-called "soft" version epistemological realism in Bimal K. Matilal's philosophical project. author offers an analytical view on philosophy, which helps to understand it a broader prospective, comparing his arguments perception objectivity with contemporary Western philosophy; fact, is possible Matilal not only as proponent re...

the concept of causality is fundamental to our understanding of the world. the idea of causality was made popular, in western philosophy, by david hume; one of the best-know british empiricists. this paper examines critically the human idea of causality-that of a necessary/physical connection - in juxtaposition to an africa theory. the thesis that the causal relation, when correctly defined, is...

This paper explores the cross-cultural dynamics and contradictions that surface when attempting to apply universal claims of Marxist literary aesthetics particular case a non-Western national tradition. More specifically, key work 1930s proletarian writer, Kobayashi Takiji (“The Factory Ship”) his mentoring relationship critic, Kurahara Korehito, will be analyzed by examining tensions in trying...

This text aims to show how, in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, moment jouissance is constitutive selfhood ego and conditions very possibility a sensitivity other man, so ethical relation itself. These considerations on enjoyment invited us think artistic creation poetry as way respond anesthesia our sensibility through knowledge, which characteristic western thought for Levinas.

Twentieth-century philosophers of religion made strides forward in advancing sophisticated arguments about religious knowledge, language, experience and arguments for the existence of the theistic God. However, by the end of the century Anglo-American philosophers in particular tended to treat philosophy of religion as synonymous with a Christian account of the divine. Male and female philosoph...