Incomplete Nature is about an important and difficult subject: how life and mind evolved from a world of inanimate matter. It is also about what are the right concepts to use in understanding the nature and workings of life and mind. We need to be able to conceive them in such a way that it becomes intelligible that they could have arisen naturally from the kinds of inanimate processes describe...

Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of the best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century “metaphysics of youth.” Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter’s academic investigation on the concepts of “persuasion” and “rhetoric” in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato’s corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean “bei...

While philosophy has been defined as a critical endeavour since Plato, the potential of rhetoric mostly overlooked. In recent years, critique itself – means enlightenment and emancipation come under attack. there have various attempts to renew strengthen theory practice, not yet played part in these attempts. Addressing this lacuna, article argues that can function force within philosophy. The ...

through the advent of heterodox approaches in modern economic methodology, mccloskey's contribution on introducing rhetoric in methodology has been nominated as one of the most controversial propositions ever alleged in the literature. concerning new predominant perspectives in philosophy of language, this paper seeks to analyze the theoretical status of rhetoric in the methodology of econ...