The article analyzes the features of establishment Russian philosophy as an academic discipline at Leningrad-Petersburg University. In this regard, work deals with methodological principles and guidelines for courses in history by professors P. F. Nikandrov A. Galaktionov, ideological philosophical foundations their study guides, novelty approach to studying philosophy. It is emphasized that st...

The article intends to show the significance of Ch. Peirce’s ideas for development contemporary philosophy, find out main directions his criticism principles Cartesian and more broadly modern philosophy (where it comes from Descartes) consider positive program which he offers as an alternative Modern philosophy. Peirce starts a pragmatic semiotic approach human nature, consciousness cognition. ...

In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...

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I defend an inference to the best explanation (IBE) argument for anti-realism about reasons acting based on history of intractable disagreement in moral philosophy. The four key premises are: 1. If there were objective action, epistemically-well-situated observers would eventually converge upon them after two thousand years; 2. Contemporary philosophers, as beneficiaries years philosophy, are e...

It might seem that philosophy of science has fallen on hard times. When not being pilloried by famous scientists, philosophy of science receives scant attention from the educated public. is is not to say that work in philosophy of science is not žourishing; but surely what is žourishing most — in terms of number of jobs, number of publications, etc. — is the philosophy of the specic sciences, ...

Peter Winch believed that the central task of philosophy was to investigate ‘the force concept reality’ in human practices. This involved creative dialogue with critical metaphysics. In ‘Ceasing Exist’, considered what it means judge something unheard-of has happened. Referring Wittgenstein, argued judgments concerning reality must relate our observations a shared ‘flow life’. implies criticism...