Philosophies, Volume 10, Issue 6

Design science research (DSR) has become a popular method in information systems research and has been warmly welcomed in other disciplines as well. The importance of DSR is evident, in terms of its contribution to knowledge, as well as the creation...

This article proposes a conceptual reformulation of the phenomenon of boredom by carefully distinguishing ordinary situational or psychologically driven boredom from what is here termed existential boredom: a specific mode of disconnection in which t...

This paper investigates how abstracta, such as numbers or functions, can be said to emerge at particular times, as in the claim that “complex numbers did not exist before the sixteenth century.” Standard accounts encounter well-known diff...

We use a novel type of epistemic logic, employing comparative knowledge assertions, to analyze the relative epistemic powers of individuals or groups of agents. Such comparative assertions can express that a group has the potential to (collectively)...

This essay explores the posthumanist reconfiguration of the body, contrasting it with the humanist paradigm rooted in somatic appropriation and compensatory technology. While the humanist model views the body as incomplete and in need of external sup...

Here I develop an account of what makes something a part of the body. The account presented is not an analysis of parthood generally, but an analysis of parthood specifically for what we are inclined to call a “body,” including but not li...

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This paper traces the development in Heidegger’s thinking of truth from the early drafts of “On the Essence of Truth” (1930) to the published essay of 1943/49. It argues that the shift from the early thinking of truth, which underst...

The Diamond Sutra and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, though grounded in distinct traditions, converge in their critique of the substantial “self,” revealing it as a fantasy produced by symbolic or conceptual structures. The Sutra dismant...

This study investigates how the traditional Chinese “philosophy of self-cultivation and awakening” (xiu-wu) can be systematically harnessed to foster Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among undergraduates. Through historical–philo...

This paper investigates intensional differences between programming languages—understood as differences in how computational processes are expressed, structured, and specified rather than merely in what they compute. While such differences have...

Starting from classical philosophical suggestions about the status of happiness recipes that suggest the optimal ways to reach it, I will soon illustrate the fundamental Kantian suggestion: “No one can coerce me to be happy in his way”, t...

Video games prioritize “fun” and “immersion”, yet suffering can disrupt play. Using phenomenology of emotion, this study examines Black Myth: Wukong as a case where suffering is integral to gameplay and narrative. It argues th...

I defend a diachronic constraint on justification as a necessary condition for knowledge. In my view (JTB + D), a belief is knowledge-apt only if its justification is maintainable over a context-sensitive interval Δ under ordinary avenues of ev...

Some mid-eighteenth-century Political Economists, among them Adam Smith, employed the conceptual and methodological tools from General Grammar. Instead of offering, at the outset, a set of formal definitions of their concepts, they departed from ordi...

In a recent stay in Senegal, I had a chance to contemplate a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata)1 located in the Bandia Reserve, whose hollow interior had been used as a burial site [...]

If evaluated solely by Raz’s criteria, Dworkin’s interpretive theory of law indeed faces a crisis of authority justification. This controversy stems from their divergent understandings of the nature of authority. By drawing on Gadamer&rsq...

This paper presents a methodological framework, Tonal Isomorphism (TI), derived from Tonal Meta-Ontology (TMO), focusing on operational protocols rather than ontological foundations. Tonal Isomorphism is framed as a meta-protocol rather than a metaph...

This article examines how Kant’s conception of sacrifice in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason connects with his account of the sublime in the Critique of Judgment. We argue that the analogy between sacrifice and sublimity illuminate...

This paper examines the conceptual relationship between Adam Smith’s theory of moral sentiments and Kenneth Boulding’s integrative systems approach to economics. Rather than claiming a direct intellectual lineage, we argue that Boulding&r...

This paper aims to outline a framework based on John Dewey and his ideas relating to the topic of habit formation and change. The approach utilised in this article can best be described as a semi-systematic reading and is based on 884 extracts taken...

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This article explores the philosophical and legal foundations of the Metaverse as an emerging socio-technological reality. It examines the co-evolution of technology, law, and society, emphasizing the need for new frameworks to address identity, subj...

This paper employs allegory to examine how pupils experience exclusion in mathematics education. Using Dante’s Inferno as a structural frame, I present nine fictional narratives aligned with the nine circles of Hell. These depict recurring lear...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) supplies the best available data, yet clinicians still face low-value care, surrogate-driven reversals, and pseudoscientific claims. We propose Semi-Imperative Evidentialism (SIE), a normative framework that links eviden...