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Cognitive Systems: a cybernetic perspective on the new science of the mind Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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On the Contemporary Practice of Philosophy of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper I propose to reflect on contemporary philosophy of mathematics. i argue that the impartiality to methodology that is present in the current practice of philosophy of mathematics is an intellectual vice of our research community because it leaves our philosophical methods to engage with mathematics implicit. This hides difficulties our research community faces, difficulties our students can reasonably expect to learn about and which ...
How Woodin changed his mind Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Philosophy of perception as a guide to aesthetics University of Antwerp
A Constructionist Philosophy of Logic Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper develops and refines the suggestion that logical systems are conceptual artefacts that are the outcome of a design-process by exploring how a constructionist epistemology and meta-philosophy can be integrated within the philosophy of logic.
Artistic creativity and the ideal of beauty : the representation of human beauty in Schopenhauer's philosophy of art Ghent University
According to Schopenhauer, artistic creativity comprises not merely contemplating and communicating universal essences or (Platonic) Ideas. As has been emphasized in the literature, artistic creativity, which is the hallmark of the genius, also involves imagination, thoughtfulness and clarity of mind. What has hardly ever been tackled in the literature on Schopenhauer's aesthetics, however, is the problem of what Schopenhauer calls the ideal of ...
Chromatikon V - Yearbook of Philosophy in Process Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Four years ago I started joining the regular meetings of the Chromatiques
whiteheadiennes at the Sorbonne. As I was soon to discover, the Chromatiques
whiteheadiennes is not just another learned circle of academic philosophers,
only different from other circles because its members happen to be interested
in A. N. Whitehead. Rather, it is a circle that represents, like the chromatic
circle indeed, an ...
whiteheadiennes at the Sorbonne. As I was soon to discover, the Chromatiques
whiteheadiennes is not just another learned circle of academic philosophers,
only different from other circles because its members happen to be interested
in A. N. Whitehead. Rather, it is a circle that represents, like the chromatic
circle indeed, an ...
The Vicissitudes of Metaphysics in Kant and Early Post-Kantian Philosophy KU Leuven
There is no doubt that both Kant and Hegel saw their work as contributions to what they considered metaphysics proper. Yet what they meant by this, I argue, can only be understood by taking into account their own conception of metaphysics. Starting from Kant’s implicit distinction between general metaphysics and special metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason, I argue that Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel engaged in the investigation that ...
On philosophy and schizophrenia : the case of thought insertion Ghent University
Philosophers have often turned towards schizophrenic experience as a way to empirically substantiate philosophical assumptions regarding the essential nature of selfhood. In this context, the phenomenon of thought insertion (TI) has served as a particularly privileged example, as it is assumed to reveal, in a pathological or negative way, the nature of ordinary self-experience. In this chapter, we critically discuss one such philosophical ...