SEEMA BOSE Abstract My paper focuses on a particular aspect of Simone de Beauvoir’s work, namely her treatment of the ageing process. She draws on her own experience of nursing her mother, and the way this brought home to her own mortality. She is aware that although everyone experiences ageing, apart from those who have … [Read more…]
OANA ZAMFIRACHE Abstract In the western line of thought, there is a close relation between pornography and perversion. But are pornographic representations really perverse? And how should we understand perversion? We shall try to answer these questions using psychoanalytical tools, but without engaging in a truly Freudian approach. We shall analyze two hypotheses: first, the … [Read more…]
MIHAI VACARIU, GABRIEL VACARIU Abstract The binding problem remains one of the most important and unsolved problems in cognitive science. One of the proposed solutions, which is probably the most accepted in the scientific community, involves the synchronized oscillations. According to this theory, the integration of the brain areas responsible for various features, such as … [Read more…]
MIHAELA POP Abstract This paper aims at discussing some problems of the contemporary art through some of Arthur Danto’s theories. The concept of the end of art, the new way of making art, how to understand the contemporary art are some fundamental problems of nowadays art criticism. Comparisons among artistic techniques used by various avant-gardist … [Read more…]
DAN NICA Abstract This paper is a critical investigation about the historical origins of two contemporary approaches in ethics: moral particularism and moral generalism. Moral particularism states that there are no defensible moral principles and that moral thought doesn’t consist in the application of moral principles to cases, but in understanding the morally relevant features … [Read more…]
CRISTIAN IFTODE Abstract The goal of this paper is to emphasize the key methodological role played by the notion of analogy in Plato’s philosophy. My main thesis is that Plato doesn’t operate with two relatively distinct concepts of analogy, one being the mathematical analogy and the other a “participative” and ontological concept of analogy, but … [Read more…]
CORNELIA MARGARETA GĂȘPĂREL Abstract During the development of science, a series of changes in terms of real events that today we find in contemporary moral concepts were done upon the ancient moral virtues in terms of scientific and social aspects. In this context of changes in the paradigm of moral values we refer to the … [Read more…]
CONSTANTIN VICĂ Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between ethics and politics as it was initially stated by Aristotle in the first two paragraphs (1094a-1094b10) of the Nicomachean Ethics first Book. In the beginning I looked at the anteriority relation as an explanatory pattern used by Aristotle to sketch the … [Read more…]
ADRIANA NICOLETA SORA Abstract One of the most influential papers in the contemporary literature about explanation is Friedman’s paper Explanation and scientific understanding (1974), in which the author proposes a theory of explanation in terms of understanding. Following this way of exploration of explanation, we can notice a contemporary debate between theories of explanation which … [Read more…]
GHEORGHE ȘTEFANOV Abstract My paper is an attempt to show that the best way in which we could distinguish between conscious and unconscious opinions in everyday cases is provided by a linguistic approach in the speech act theoretical framework. For this, I distinguish between ‘expressing an opinion’ and ‘attributing an opinion to oneself’, in order … [Read more…]