The new issue of Epoché is live! With writing on Bataille, Schelling, Adorno, Derrida, Benjamin, and adventures through the enlightenment. Politics, biology, literature, metaphysics and laughter. Get in it.
Latest papers: Itzel Cadena-Alvear & Melina Gastelum-Vargas aim to deepen into a theoretical account on the role of behavioural settings and relational affordative space and how this perspective can be used to reconceptualise human cognition https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2360132@philosophy#philosophy
Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 2013
Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, Truth manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to the private mental worlds of great philosophers; from spiritualism to science and from New York to New Guinea.
Latest papers: François Recanati compares their account of IEM to the simple view and argues that their account complements the simple view by answering why no identity assumption is needed to ground the singular judgment in the IEM cases https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2359493@philosophy#philosophy
“In what follows, a reading of Wittgenstein’s remarks will be offered according to which Wittgenstein subscribes to a form of dialetheism (that is, the view that there are sentences that are both true and false). In contrast to modern dialetheist approaches to the Liar, however, some of Wittgenstein’s remarks suggest combining a dialetheist position with what is called ‘logical nihilism’ (that is, the view that there are no universally valid inference rules).”
The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos by Ken Wilber, 2024
A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory—by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.
Latest papers: Melanie Gillespie Rosen & Marina Trakas argue that particular dream emotions towards objects and events that only exist when dreaming can be assessed under either the imagination model or the hallucination model of fittingness https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2350500@philosophy#philosophy
The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology by John F. Schumaker, 1995
This groundbreaking volume examines our sometimes strained grasp of reality and sheds new light on three subject areas that continue to fascinate researchers: religion, hypnosis and psychopathology.
Latest papers: Greyson Abid argues that a complete explanation of the cross-race effect must account for our difficulty in recognising other-race faces along with our limited metacognitive awareness of this difficulty https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2356207@philosophy#philosophy
‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’
“Last month, UCL academics unveiled the most significant rediscovered books left to the university in Bentham’s will, including the translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools and a maths textbook explaining Euclid’s propositions. Their contents, together with the philosopher’s own notes, indicate how some of his radical theories were first sparked.”