STYLE AND HABITUS: HUSSERL’S SHIFT FROM EMPATHY TO COMMUNICATION

This article exploresthekeyrole of “experiential style”(Erfahrungsstil) in Husserl’s account of social habituality. It demonstrates the developmental bridge this concept throws between the distinct intentionalities of empathy and communalization. The importanc...

DEDUCTION OF CATEGORIES IN A DEFINITION OF ART

In the contemporary literature, the most authoritative on the definition of art is the institutional theory that emerged as a response to the radicalizations in modern art associated with ready-made, pop art, conceptualism and other movements. In familiar vers...

DIGITAL MEDIA AND DYNAMICS OF CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC SPHERE: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The article examines the dynamics and change of the contemporary public sphere caused by the emergence of digital media and their transformative impact on social life and communicative professions. For this purpose the stages in Jürgen Habermas's theory of the...

UNILINEARITY AND/OR VARIABILITY. EASTERN AND WESTERN CONCEPTS OF PREDESTINATION

The article is based on the postmodern understanding about the collapse of grand narratives (Lyotard). One of the most significant grand narratives is the narrative about unidirectionality and irreversibility of development. Part of the roots of this narrative...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE “INDIAN THREAD” IN EUROPE:TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF EASTERN IDEAS IN THE WEST

The article examines the earliest evidence of transmission of Indian and Buddhist ideas. The aim is to outline a schematic mental “map” of the first contacts between Ancient Greece and Europe during the early Middle Ages and India in a socio-cultural and relig...

A BRILLIANT EXAMPLE OF HOW PHILOSOPHY COULD HELP SOLVE SOME OF THE GREATEST CONTEMPORARY PUZZLES IN PHYSICS

This Review of “Suggested Answers to Philosophical Puzzles” by Prof. Anguel S. Stefanov (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022) concentrates on the astrophysical chapters of the book. Spreading from what is a proper definition of a non-classical scientific theor...

ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS IN BULGARIAN TRANSLATION

EIGHTEENTH NATIONAL ETHICS CONFERENCE FAITH AND TRUST – ETHICALASPECTS AND MORAL VALUES

This paper is a review of the 18thNational Ethics Conference that took place in November 2022 and was organized by the Department of Ethical Studies of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this review is to...

НУЧО ОРДИНЕ (18 юли 1958 – 10 юни 2023) Vir Bonus et Sapiens