Many histories of philosophy attempt to classify Hegel as a latterday rationalist. While there is much to be said for such a classification, in the philosophy of mind it can be misleading. For however much Hegel may share with his rationalist predecessors, his philosophy of mind is dominated by very different concerns. The central questions in the rationalist philosophy of mind concern the subs...

Persian philosopher Avicenna (980‒1037) is famous for his thought experiment concerning the flying person,” “floating person” or “person suspended in air.” In this experiment, a person created air state of total sensory deprivation. Scholars have debated centuries what all about. Most scholars interpreted as essentially being about existence soul (al-nafs) its immateriality, substantiality, and...

This article deals with an argument reported by Razi (d. 1210) that attempted to undermine the immaterialist position about human nature. After some introductory remarks and explanation of conceptual background, analyses structure argument, special attention idea soul-switching.’ Some comparisons are made between a number arguments from modern contemporary eras philosophy. One section is devote...

the paper claims that the meaning of life in the philosophy of mulla sadra is equivocal (moshakik) and diverse not univocal (motawati). this diversity has its root in mulla sadra’s anthropological view, which states that man is not a single univocal species, but is an equivocal one or a genus including disparate species.  the central issue in this paper is to study the influence of gradual and ...

Contemporary philosophers tend to become interested in Aquinas’s conception of the mind when they perceive it as possibly offering a promising alternative between “the Scylla of materialism and the Charybdis of dualism”. They tend to become disillusioned, however, when they run into the problem of the apparent inconsistency in Aquinas’s conception. Furthermore, if they manage somehow to get ove...

The five-part relief series Development of the Human Soul (c.1887–1903) by Finnish sculptor Sigrid af Forselles is a monumental work consisting five large plaster reliefs. artist’s esoteric interests have been noted in previous research, but their impact on her art has not properly analysed. first part series, which for its subject theme from Scandinavian mythology, belongs to collections Natio...

Bu çalışma yirminci yüzyıl avangart sanatçıları ile başlayan sanat eserinin bütünsel ve dokunsal algısının izini, kavramsal olarak Moholy-Nagy’nin film kuramında Benjamin’in çığır açan metni “Teknik Yeniden Üretilebilirlik Çağında Sanat Yapıtı”nda arar. Mayeryalite üzerinden benzer bir izleği güncel yeni medya kuramlarında da takip eden bu makale, özellikle Mark Hansen’in insan bedeninin dijita...

Recent portrayals of growth differentiation factor (GDF)-11 as an endocrine fountain of youth fail to consider the competitive influences of myostatin, a homologous protein with true endocrine action that binds the identical receptor, activin receptor IIb (ActRIIb). Subsequent studies have disproven the original premise that circulating levels of GDF11, but not those of myostatin, decline with ...