WHAT IS NON-CLASSICAL SCIENCE?

I make an attempt at specifying methodological features under which a theory may be avowed to be non-classical with respect to the extant scientific knowledge. One such feature is the case when a theory suggests a systematic description of objects that display...

BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW. THE FUTURE OF PLATO’S MYTH OF THE CAVE REPRESENTED IN A TALE OF GLASS (VILLY SØRENSEN)

The recent article aims at examining the reception of Plato’s myth of the cave in the novel <i>A Tale of Glass</i> (<i>En Glashistorie</i>) written by one of the most famous Danish authors and philosophers Villy Sørensen. The first impression that the novel in...

THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD IN THE POETICS OF GASTON BACHELARD. PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE POETIC IMAGE AND IMAGINATION

The aim of the paper is to analyse the influence of the phenomenological and psychoanalytical methods on the formation of Bachelard’s phenomenology of poetic image. One of the paper’s tasks is to represent the characteristics of the poetic image and the specifi...

ARE THE BORDERS AFTER 1989 LESS OR IT IS AN IDEOLOGEME OF THE GLOBALIZED NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM?

The article makes a comparative analysis of different types of borders in the social system until 1989 in Eastern Europe and later in the system of the second Bulgarian capitalism, integrating Bulgaria into the system of world capitalism. It is criticized the...

THE CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY FORECASTING

Forecasting is a legitimate matter of concern in the domain of political and social philosophy, not only because of its specifics as a form of referring to the future, but also because its achievements are in a way prerequisite for building, consolidating and...

ON THE „PURIFYING EXERCISES“ IN HESYCHASM

The article traces the development of the idea of “puri fication“ (katharsis) from the ancient mythology, Pre-Socratic philosophy and Plato to Judaism. Then it scrutinizes manner by which the Patristics absorbs this idea and turns it into a daily practice of p...

„CRITICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY” AND THE NECESSITY OF RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PRACTICE

THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS VS. THE LIBERAL TOLERANCE OR AN ESSAY ON THE IDEOLOGICAL BATTLES AFTER COMMUNISM

NEW READING OF ORTEGA Y GASSET’S SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

II. INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY CONGRESS The City and Philosophy. Uludağ University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy. 11-13 October 2012, Bursa, Türkiye