Alexandru Liciu Abstract: The present article represents an attempt to argue in the favor of the thesis that, in the First Meditation, in the fragment where the problem of madness is spoken of, Descartes’ view aims to exclude the possibility that the knowing subject, the Cogito, could be insane, and not only to avoid the … [Read more…]
Dragoș Vădana Abstract: The theological aspect of the dispute between the modern philosopher René Descartes, and the Calvinist theologian, Gisbertus Voetius, remains a chapter insufficiently explored in Cartesian studies. This paper highlights a set of objections on natural theology addressed by Descartes and Voetius to each other. It shows and expands the common ground Descartes … [Read more…]
Aleš Erjavec, Oana Șerban Abstract This interview is inspired the most important working-hypothesis presented in the volume Aesthetic Revolutions and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, edited by Aleš Erjavec, that questions the legitimacy of the distinction between aesthetic and artistic avant-gardes, supported by the relationship of each concept with the modern revolutionary politics. The … [Read more…]
Gábor Boros Abstract This paper will tackle, first, the history of the “original stance” in the history of European philosophy, in which feelings had to be subordinated to reason-based knowledge. Afterwards I will have a first look at 20th century phenomenology and neuro-sciences in order to show the apparition and prevalence of the new stance … [Read more…]
Lynda Gaudemard Abstract This issue arises from the selection of the articles based on the presentations delivered at the international seminar “Feel to Know: Emotion and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy” I organised at the Institute of History of Philosophy (Aix-Marseille University), in Fall 2021. Participants included Gabor Boros (KRE, University of Budapest), Pablo Montosa … [Read more…]