scholarly journals Religious Dimensions in Transhumanist and Posthumanist Philosophies of Science

Conatus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Evaldas Juozelis
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
Societal Relations ◽  
Entire Apparatus

The article discusses transhumanism and posthumanism as marginal trajectories of the modern philosophy of science, which, however, distinctly influence the mainstream narrative of science and societal relations. Among the decisive determinants of this impact is trans/posthumanism’s para-religious content that replenishes a conceptualised process of cutting-edge scientific practices and ideals. In particular, transhumanism and posthumanism evolve as ideological exploiters of seemingly obsolete forms of religiosity, for they simultaneously exploit and reinvent the entire apparatus of the scientific, political, and moral activity in Western societies. Avant-garde secular worldviews tend to be religious in the sense that their ultimate quest is the transformation of humans into certain historical entities, which are capable of rearranging their own systems of order.

scholarly journals John Dewey's theory of inquiry. Quantum physics, ecology and the myth of the scientific method

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Joaquín Fernández Mateo
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Theory Of Inquiry

The modern philosophy of science has not succeeded in defining conclusively what the scientific method consists in. On the contrary, scientific practice seems to consist in a methodological pluralism, a definition that connects with essential fragments of John Dewey's Logic, the Theory of Inquiry. For Dewey, even the forms of logic emerge from the problems defined in indeterminate situations. A historical example was the introduction of the notion of complementarity in physics, which allowed the interpretation of two confusingly paradoxical experiments in a coherent way. Dewey's thought demonstrates its relevance by helping us to define the pattern of inquiry. Methodological pluralism and the dependence of logic on research problems is not something that will happen, it is something that has happened and does happen in scientific practices.

scholarly journals Перспективы современной философии науки и метафилософия

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
B.I. Pruzhinin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Future ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Selection Of

Статья посвящена обсуждению перспектив современной философии науки и является, по сути, проекцией на релевантную проблематику дискуссии об аналитической версии метафилософии, развернувшейся на страницах журнала «Эпистемология и философия науки» (2019, т. 56, № 2). Опубликованная в этом журнале подборка материалов дает в целом достаточно полное представление о концептуальных возможностях аналитического метафилософского тренда в ракурсе перспектив осмысления проблем современной философии. Однако, по мнению автора, и метафилософские изыскания аналитиков, и их обсуждение в данном случае в значительной мере погружены во «внутренние» проблемы самой аналитической философии, так что осмысление перспектив философии редуцируется к анализу методов, связанных с разворотом аналитической традиции к метафизической проблематике. В результате фактически игнорируется стержневой, по сути, вопрос «философии философии» – каковы те особенности и философско-методологические запросы меняющейся реальности, которые, собственно, заставляют сегодня искать новые пути ее философского осмысления? По мнению автора, в такого же рода обсуждении перспектив нуждается и философия науки, фактически утерявшая сегодня связь с реальностью современных научных практик. В статье предпринимается попытка наметить некоторые заслуживающие обсуждения метафилософские перспективы современной философии науки. Ключевые слова: метафилософия, философия философии, аналитическая философия, философия науки The future of modern philosophy of science and metaphilosophy. BORIS I. PRUZHININ (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences) The article focuses on the future of the modern philosophy of science and is somewhat inspired by the discussion on the analytical version of metaphilosophy on the pages of «Epistemology and Philosophy of Science» (2019, vol. 56, no. 2). The selection of articles published in the issue generally gives a fairly complete picture of the conceptual abilities of the analytical metaphilosophical trend in thinking on the problems of modern philosophy. However, according to the author, both the metaphilosophical research and discussion of the representatives of analytic philosophy, in this case, are largely immersed in the «internal» problems of the analytic philosophy. That is, their reflection on the future of philosophy is reduced to the analysis of methods, associated with the turn of analytical tradition to metaphysical problems. As a result, the core question of «philosophy of philosophy» – what are the features of the changing reality that force us to look for new ways of its philosophical comprehension today – is actually ignored. According to the author, the philosophy of science is in need of the same kind of discussion because by now it has actually lost its connection with the reality of modern scientific practices. The article attempts to identify some metaphilosophical prospects of the modern philosophy of science that deserve consideration and reflection. Keywords: metaphilosophy, philosophy of philosophy, analytical philosophy, philosophy of science

English Prize Essay Happiness and Experimentalism: on H(a)ppy and The Lesser Bohemians

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (264) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Samantha Purvis
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Prize Essay

Abstract This essay contends that happiness offers an alternative point of entry into recent debates about the supposed ‘hybridity’ or ‘dialectic’ of realism and experimentalism in contemporary literature. Sarah Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness suggests that happiness is a particularly contemporary concern; I will also argue that it has been brought surprisingly to the fore in two recent experimental texts, Eimear McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians1 and Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY. At first glance, the marriage of experimentalism and happiness may appear odd; as Sianne Ngai observes, the avant-garde ‘is conventionally imagined as sharp and pointy, as hard- or cutting-edge’, and Rachel Greenwald Smith has delineated a supposed tension between affect and postmodernism. However, Claire Colebrook’s theory of a relationship between literature and non-teleological or desubjectivized happiness helps us to see how Barker and McBride mobilize the destabilizing capacities inhering in literary form to return a greater complexity and ambivalence to the concept of happiness. This suggests one way of placing the novels in terms of literary history and contemporary aesthetics, evoking what Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker call a ‘metamodernist oscillation’ between postmodern suspicion and modernist hope. However, the erratic behaviour of happiness as narrative telos in the novels also challenges the logic of aesthetic categories by alerting us to the strangeness of literary form, suggesting that qualities normally attributed to experimental writing may be possibilities inhering in literature as such.

The Relevance of Descartes's Philosophy for Modern Philosophy of Science

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Buchdahl
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophy Of Physics ◽  
World Picture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Snell’S Law ◽  
Snell's Law ◽  
The Ideal

SummaryI. Reputed shortcomings of Descartes as philosopher of science.II ‘Knowledge’ in mathematics and in physics. The ‘ontological’ postulates of Descartes's philosophy and philosophy of physics.III. The ‘foundations of dynamics’: ‘Newton's First Law of Motion’ and its status.IV. Descartes's conception of ‘hypothesis’: the competing claims of the ideal of the a priori in physics and the conception of retroductive inference. (The status of the mechanistic world picture.)V. Descartes's notion of ‘analysis’. The distinction between ‘procedure’ and ‘inference’. The notion of ‘induction’ and ‘understanding through models’: ‘Snell's Law of Refraction’.

scholarly journals Modern Philosophy of Science

Nature ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 186 (4724) ◽  
pp. 503-504
Author(s):  
HERBERT DINGLE
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Science
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