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Philosophies, Volume 1, Issue 3

December 2016 - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,576 Views
14 Pages

8 December 2016

This article aims at commenting in a novel way on the concept of political correctness, by showing that, even if adopting a politically-correct behavior aims at promoting a precise moral outcome, violence can be still perpetrated, despite good intent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,311 Views
16 Pages

7 December 2016

How can we harness nature’s power for computations? Our society comprises a collection of individuals, each of whom handles decision-making tasks that are abstracted as computational problems of finding the most profitable option from a set of option...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,203 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2016

Under the impact of information technology and the information sciences, major changes are occurring in both science and philosophy that constitute an informational turn. The recently developed Philosophy of Information has integrated the unique dual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
14,312 Views
8 Pages

4 November 2016

The Greek notion of archetype was adopted and popularized in the context of the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Marshall McLuhan used the concept archetype as a formal perspective rather than the content of an alleged “collective unconscio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
11,260 Views
10 Pages

26 October 2016

Homo sapiens is entering a vital era in which the human-technology link is an inexorable trend. In this paper a look is taken as to how and why this is coming about and what exactly it means for both the posthuman species Homo technologicus and its o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
25,807 Views
9 Pages

Media Ecology: A Complex and Systemic Metadiscipline

  • Octavio Islas and
  • Juan David Bernal

11 October 2016

Media ecology is not the theoretical stream of communication studies and it is not limited to Marshall McLuhan´s work and thinking; however, we focus on McLuhan’s approach to media ecology for this special issue on the philosophy of Marshall McLuhan....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,542 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2016

The article develops Marshall McLuhan’s approach to the interplay between media, the sensorium, and reality. McLuhan’s concepts of “acoustic space” and “visual space” are unfolded with regard to the consequences that digital media will have on the hu...

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Philosophies - ISSN 2409-9287