2025 June - 25 articles
The contribution that arts can make to our health and wellbeing is widely acknowledged in public discourse, with the concept of ‘creative health’ having come to prominence in the UK in the last ten years. This paper asks about the kinds o...
The research explores three interconnected themes: philosophy, education, and ecology. It aims to be an interdisciplinary study that emphasizes the significance of the philosophy of environmental education and its practical implications. Initially, i...
This study explores the contemporary relevance of Confucian educational thought in the context of Vietnam’s ongoing educational reform. It examines how foundational Confucian principles—particularly those related to moral cultivation, ped...
From a Platonistic perspective, ideas are eternal and unchanging, constituting the foundation of reality. An idea itself does not change; it is a principle, immutable in essence. This approach inherently establishes a hierarchy, valuing the world of...
This article aims to provide a comparative analysis between Husserl’s phenomenology and the Pāli Abhidhamma. To conduct this analysis, I will mainly draw on some books of the Abhidhamma and three works by Husserl. What emerges from this st...
This article reads Alcibiades’ speech in Plato’s Symposium in terms of the later Foucault’s examination of ‘parrhēsia’, or ‘frank spokenness’. It contends that, in part, Alcibiades’ stress on the s...
Over the past few decades, performance theory has flourished into a dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, drawing insights from fields such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, political theory, cultural studies, and feminism [...]
This paper examines Ira E. Kasoff’s systemic interpretation of Chang Tsai’s Neo-Confucianism in his The Thought of Chang Tsai (1020–1077), focusing on Kasoff’s reconstruction of Ch’i (qi, 气) as the ontological fou...
Wittgenstein’s notion of “forms of life” has received recent attention in philosophy, political theory, anthropology, and the sociology and philosophy of new medias [...]
Unlike many philosophers in the last quarter of the 20th century, many current scholars of Aristotle are less critical of the doctrine of the reciprocity of the virtues. They recognize that the reciprocity of the virtues is grounded in Aristotle&rsqu...
Liberal political philosophy has traditionally maintained that history is irrelevant to justice, focusing instead on the present and the future. This perspective renders liberalism largely indifferent to historical injustices, as it prioritizes abstr...
In the Pāli discourses of the Buddha, ‘conditioned co-origination’ (paṭicca-samuppāda) is the key insight that underpins the Buddha’s own awakening and his teaching. This paper aims to shed light on three connected a...
This article explores the challenges associated with practicing Buddhist non-attachment as a layperson and whether its application in everyday life represents a puzzle. In Buddhism, practicing non-attachment implies becoming free of desires, as presc...
It is an open question whether participation in dangerous sports is prudentially rational given the high risk of traumatic brain injury they involve. This paper explores the merits of one attempt to rationalize participation in dangerous sport, which...
This paper examines the extended evolutionary synthesis’s critique of the modern synthesis, and introduces the “survival of the luckiest” framework as a mediating perspective. This framework preserves the core principles of the mode...
This paper offers a philosophical account of the specific form of romantic love underlying the ideal of love-based marriages. Rather than examining the institution of marriage, it considers marriage as the promise of infinite love between finite pers...
Can films contribute to the production of thought? Or, to put the question more radically, can films generate thought on their own, or can there be films that think the unthought? When thought is equated with rationality, logic, concepts, generalizat...
“Martial arts” is a popular phrase in popular and academic discourse but notoriously difficult to define. This article addresses the challenge of defining martial arts, demonstrating the multifarious and sometimes contradictory nature of...
The denotational approach to the semantics of programming languages views program meanings as elements of domains, abstract partially ordered structures that form the basis of a mathematical theory of computation. This paper discusses how the interpr...
Divine rebaptism occurs when a deity renames an entity with a proper name N*, which is pronounced differently or is orthographically distinct from the proper name N this entity previously had. Genesis 17:5 and 17:15 illustrate this phenomenon or alle...
Metamorphosis is central to Indigenous Amazonian cosmologies, which often posit a period in the past when transformations from one being into another proliferated. This time gave way to the relative stability of the present that always runs the risk...
The enactive approach offers a powerful theoretical lens for designing artificial intelligence (AI) systems intended to support the health and well-being of non-neurotypical individuals, including those on the autism spectrum and those with with ADHD...
The turn away from phenomenology in 20th century French philosophy was in large part due to an increased emphasis on Ferdinand de Saussure’s notion of “linguistic structure”, i.e., that language is the internal system of differences...
The goal of this paper is to shed light on the nature of mathematical practice, i.e., on “doing mathematics”. It explores Gödel’s perspective, which offers an approach to understanding mathematics centered on concepts, objects,...
Social etiquette, dress codes and culture-specific architectural features are undoubtedly stylistic conventions. Literature from anthropology, sociology and ecological psychology suggests a coordinative function of such conventions, without, however,...
