Philosophy

Philosophy

Scientific understanding in biomedical research

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Motivated by a recent trend that advocates a reassessment of the aim of medical science and clinical practice, this paper investigates the epistemic aims of biomedical research. Drawing on contemporary discussions in epistemology and the philosophy of sci

Philosophy

AI: Anarchic Intelligence: On Epinoia

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With a few notable exceptions, the word epinoia has not been heard with a philosophical ear since the time of Epicurus and the Stoics. In addition to the scarce mentions it had received in philosophy, epinoia was strewn across the plays of Euripides and A

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Posthumanism and Russian religious thought

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I argue that one of the central aspects characterizing the philosophical horizon at the threshold of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is the erosion of the humanist idea, i.e. 'posthumanism'. Russian religious philosophy is pervaded by considera