Philosophy

Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx

Tianhao Hou - Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author fills this gap through... Keep Reading »

Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders

Audrey Cialdella - Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present. Heightened awareness of racial and class disparities in recent years has increased the perception that conservatism is the ideology of... Keep Reading »

The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography

Youngdahl Kaylee - The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems engage in contemplative action, and strive to assemble a distinguishable pattern of historical study. Though structure develops its own... Keep Reading »

The Brain, Gut and Consciousness: Microbiology of Our Mind

Radek Vana - This paper presents a view that the brain is not the only actor responsible for emergence of our consciousness and that our consciousness is in fact a product of the brain-gut-microbiome axis. The paper first shows relevance of the contemporary research on the symbiotic... Keep Reading »

A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation

David L. Myers - This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum. Noting the insufficiencies of neoclassical economics to deal with problems of cultural difference and priority, the work offers a basic... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Metaphysics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 10
The Structure of Fiction and the Emergence of the Other-Than
By Dani W. Park
In this essay, I will analyze the structure of fiction, arguing that this structure is a duality that rests upon a spirit that defines and propels fiction in reality. This spirit, which I refer to as the Other-than, is the metaphysical embodiment... Read Article »
Fiction Metaphysics Other-than Dualism Imaginative
Critical Theory
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx
By Tianhao Hou
Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author... Read Article »
Biopower Foucault Capitalism Philosophy History Critical Theory Marxism
Epistemology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
The Holistic Universe: Wisdom as Attention to the Cohesion of Physicality and Immateriality
By Erin Aslami
We are all witnesses. You see and are seen; you step in and step out. You brush your hair out of your face, out of the face of a friend, a lover. Sometimes, you feel that the lock of hair is something more than the strands that compose it, and that... Read Article »
Wisdom Cohesion Physicality Immateriality Epistemology
Behavioral Psychology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion Between Judith Butler's Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction
By Melissa Padron
The question of what it means to be a gendered individual has been left unanswered in light of its variants. The feminist movement proceeding the Industrial Revolution propelled philosophical and literary works, such as Simone de Beauvoir’... Read Article »
Gender Feminism Behavioral Psychology Judith Butler Gender Theory
Poetry
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
By Adeola P. Egbeyemi
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity. This essay will explore how poet and scholar Sir Philip Sidney effectively manipulated poetic devices in... Read Article »
Poetry Poetic Devices English Literature Philosophical Poetry
Political Philosophy
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Conservative Perspectives of Political Outsiders
By Audrey Cialdella
Western conservatism is often conceived as the philosophy of large landowners in the past and business executives in the present. Heightened awareness of racial and class disparities in recent years has increased the perception that conservatism... Read Article »
Political Philosophy Law American Politics Conservatism
Comparative Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage
By Yiyang Chen
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new conception of the Middle Passage’s spatiotemporality. With the slave trade haunting the living, this paper attempts... Read Article »
Comparative Literature Comparative Philosophy Queer Theory Black Feminism Postcolonial Literature Poetry Feminist Theory Middle Passage Slave Trade
Philosophy Of History
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography
By Youngdahl Kaylee
The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems engage in contemplative action, and strive to assemble a distinguishable pattern of historical study. Though structure... Read Article »
History Materialism Idealism Relativism Philosophy Of History
Philosophy Of Mind
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
The Brain, Gut and Consciousness: Microbiology of Our Mind
By Radek Vana
This paper presents a view that the brain is not the only actor responsible for emergence of our consciousness and that our consciousness is in fact a product of the brain-gut-microbiome axis. The paper first shows relevance of the contemporary... Read Article »
Consciousness Mind Brain Gut Microbiome Existentialism
Economic Theory
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation
By David L. Myers
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum. Noting the insufficiencies of neoclassical economics to deal with problems of cultural difference and priority, the... Read Article »
Postcolonial Literature Value Theory Economic Value Cross-Cultural Communication
Ethics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Aquinas, Just-War Theory, and Pandemic Response
By Ezekiel Vergara
“Just-war theory,” as it is called, aims to guide action during warfare, so that states and individuals can act ethically. Because warfare is often analogized to epidemics, this paper will argue that just-war theory can recommend how... Read Article »
Thomas Aquinas COVID-19 War Ethics Government Political Theory
Ethics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Hume's Law and Genetic Engineering: Considering the Possible Implications of Positive Eugenics in Light of Our Horrific Past
By Chad E. Brack
The eugenics movement of the 20th century epitomizes the danger that is possible when religion and science coalesce. Grounded in the emerging science of evolution and heredity, social Darwinists superimposed beliefs about social worth, racial superiority... Read Article »
Eugenics Genetic Engineering Moral Philosophy David Hume
Ontology
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Unification of Mind, Matter, and Consciousness Through an Essence of Relation
By Jacob Bell
In contemporary philosophy, the mind-body problem and the problem of consciousness are often viewed through the lens of physicalism, which claims that all that exists is physical. Physicalism in general, and reductive physicalism specifically, remain... Read Article »
Ontology Ontological Pluralism Epistemic Pluralism Relation Existentialism Epistemology
Existentialism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Ergodic Textuality in Egan and Ozeki: The Rhetorical Dialogism of Time Being
By Taylor G. Hein
Human beings decided that time is linear. We continually assert that is made up of the past, present, and future, proceeding infinitely and mercilessly in an exclusively forward motion. Thus, our lives and our relationships are experienced linearly... Read Article »
Rhetoric Fiction Philosophy Existentialism Time Intersubjectivity
Metaphysics
2019, Vol. 11 No. 12
A Nietzschean Interpretation of the Self in Psychological Continuity
By Harry P. Chalklin
There are two views of personal identity that many people find plausible. The first is the psychological continuity view; the second is what I shall call multiplicity views of the self. Despite their plausibility, these positions appear incompatible... Read Article »
Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Identity Metaphysics Consciousness
 
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