AGREEMENTS AND CONFLICTS IN THE INTERNALISM – EXTERNALISM DISCUSSION

The article offers arguments for the compatibility of specific types of internalism and externalism in epistemology through a comparative analysis of the approaches based on their aims of investigation. Such compatibility is viewed as possible after the opposi...

CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE – SCIENCE OR ART?

The aim of the current paper is to discuss medicine as a unity of scientific knowledge, acquired skills, and attitude based on moral responsibility. Following an analysis of the terms ‘science’ and ‘art’, it is suggested that neither of them singlehandedly sat...

WAR AND PEACE: THE INTERPENETRATION (WWI in a new anthropological perspective)

The paper seeks to investigate some of the anthropological consequences of the First World War, which was not simply just another but the first total war. It was without a clear dividing line between the front and the rear; it was with long duration, involving...

EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY

Contemporary cognition theory claims to be a separate branch, separate from philosophy. Would that mean that the other major pillar ontology would also become independent? What will be left of the philosophical body in that case? This, however, will not be a t...

FREEDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN ETHICAL PARADIGM

Freedom, in the context of the ethical views of the Russian classics – Berdyaev, Solovyov, Dostoevsky and others, is examined. Emphasis is placed on freedom and the enormous challenges to achieve it. The faith in Man and the possibility for divine incarnation...

NATIONAL IDENTITY – EUROPEAN IDENTITY: RESEMBLANCE AND DISSONANCE, COMPLEMENTARITY OR CONTENTION?

The debates about the relation between the national and European identity have recently gained a new impetus as a result of the growing national populism within the EU. In this regard, the article aims at elaborating the points of resemblance and dissonance be...

FOR A NEW PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGM

The article explores the relation between education and learning as a means of its implementation and the new type of socio-historical inheritance at the end of the twentieth century, related to changes in the nature of scientific knowledge itself. In the emer...

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF MOTHER’S GRIEF AFTER A FAILED ATTEMPT AT ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

Experiencing loss and grief after a failed attempt at assisted reproduction leads to serious emotional repercussions for the mother and the couple as a whole. To pinpoint the philosophical-existential fears of the mother “that wasn’t” is of great importance,...

THEMATIC AND VALUE MODELS IN PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION

REVIEW ABOUT ANDREI LESHKOV’S MONOGRAPHY – “AURATICAL AND THEATRICAL” (BASIC THEMES OF MODERN AESTHETIC THOUGHT)

“PROTOSOCIOLOGY” OR THE PHILOSOPHICAL BEGINNING OF SOCIOLOGY