Cognitive Ontology – Part 2: Concepts

(P3) Human enhancements can constitute and/or give rise to transformative experiences. The article can be accessed in its entirety via Open Access here. The conclusion we draw is that (C) it can in some cases be in principle impossible for…

Sridhara Pandit was a resident of Navadwip. He used to live at the northern extremity of Mayapur and to the southeast of the Chand Kazi’s Samadhi, in the place which is now known as Sridhara Angan. -Qouted in Srimad Bhagavatam…

I am grateful to Professor Audi for comments on an earlier draft. On Tuesday 8 March, Professor Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, gave a Public Lecture for the Oxford Uehiro Centre…

In his Thinking in Images (Bloomsbury 2023), Piotr Kozak defends the view that thinking in images in possible. The main arguments against the idea that one can think in images are two-fold. The first argument is that images are only…

‘Meaning’ and truth can, then, be conceptualised not as single, fixated and decidable, but as phenomena in a relatively open space of uncertainty and possibility. And communication of and theorising about them can, accordingly, be meaningfully conducted as suspensive rather…

But there’s a scenario where things get more interesting with emergence. Let’s consider here the possibility that in some (or possibly many) cases regions do not carry out well defined functions.  Instead, two or more regions working together instantiate the…