In a recent paper, Berger and Nanay consider, and reject, three ways of addressing the phenomenon of unconscious perception within a naïve realist framework. Since these three approaches seem to exhaust the options open to naïve realists, and since there is said to be excellent evidence that perception of the same fundamental kind can occur, both consciously and unconsciously, this is seen to present a problem for the view. We take this opportunity to show that all three approaches considered remain (...) perfectly plausible ways of addressing unconscious perception within a naïve realist framework. So far from undermining the credibility of naïve realism, Berger and Nanay simply draw our attention to an important question to be considered by naïve realists in future work. Namely, which of the approaches considered is most likely to provide an accurate account of unconscious perception in each of its purported incarnations? (shrink)

It has been claimed that naïve realism predicts phenomenological similarities where there are none and, thereby, mischaracterises the phenomenal character of perceptual experience. If true, this undercuts a key motivation for the view. Here, we defend naïve realism against this charge, proposing that such arguments fail (three times over). In so doing, we highlight a more general problem with critiques of naïve realism that target the purported phenomenological predictions of the view. The problem is: naïve realism, broadly construed, doesn’t make (...) phenomenological predictions of the required sort. So, as a result, opponents must resign themselves to attacking specific incarnations of naïve realism, or approach matters quite differently. (shrink)

In this paper, I investigate the role of public opinion and De Staël’s liberal principles in relation to her psychological image of human nature. De Staël regarded the French Revolution as a new stage of human progress, in which the French people, for the first time, gained a political voice. From her position as a liberal republican, De Staël argues for political progress in the form of civil equality and liberty confirmed by law and political representation, for which public opinion (...) serves as a political tool. I aim to demonstrate that De Staël developed a multi-layered analysis of public opinion as both an emancipatory tool for more equality, justice, and liberty, as well as a discriminating and harmful tool. According to De Staël, human passions play a crucial role in determining the employment and the effects of public opinion, as becomes clear in the case of the trial of Marie-Antoinette. (shrink)

[This is a pre-print; please cite the published version] This paper employs structural topic modeling (STM) to describe the academic philosophy landscape in Brazil. Based on a public national database, a corpus consisting of 12,515 abstracts of monographs defended in philosophy graduate programs between 1991 and 2021 was compiled. The final STM model identified 74 meaningful research topics, clustered into 7 thematic categories. This study discusses the prevalence of the most significant topics and categories, their trends across three decades, and (...) their (positive or negative) association with the supervisor's gender. Results show the first empirical evidence that Brazilian philosophical research exhibits a greater focus on philosophers than on specific themes or problems. Moreover, by visualizing the variations in topic prevalence over time, it was possible to track the rise or decline of the major interest categories and topics. Finally, results also show which topics are more influenced or less influenced by gender. (shrink)

Etnofiction essay, between anthropology and philosophy.

you can conspire. So do I. Reality, social or natural, supernatural, can conspire against you or in favour, it depends on the quality of your seeds...

Absorb or replicate em terms of social relacions and even intercourse? Reflect, with reflection, it may be silly, but it works, on several levels of human experience.

nevrosity for the dense social relations in urban context.

Back to the days on childhood, to a regular café on a small village where time goes by.

An opus to the one who founded christianity.

an extended letter to a friend who is not there.

recolection and the street, probably two similar ways to percieve the world and the self.

being in the dar is the dark side of the moon, that can turn itself to be a brilliant aspect of yourself.

Vacuity, vanity, proposal of a elapsed time fadeaway, an essay in portuguese language, soon on english.

Fear. Cerimonial Fear, as the Judge could be God, wich represents, some way, the entire society, dead or alive.

We intend to demonstrate that Jesus was a kind of social scientist, not only a prophet, the Cristianity is a way of conceiving and perceiving the world, a cosmology and a state of mind, like many others. To be part of is not to deny other forms os religious experience and manifestation.

A ideia de sublime é necessária à reflexão filosófica contemporânea?

Relationship between solitude and social relation, when solitude is a kind of (social) relation, intuitive, imaginative, mentaly moved.

beyond the political bodyz, an essay on christian social theory.

Portuguese Discoveries and Erasure's theme "Ship of Fouls", navigating in an age of loneliness and excelera<ting public cerimonies of hapyness, seeking for social recognition and professional realizations for question os status or just simply competition , on the realm of danger and street violence, between normality and pathology, what is norm?, could be mental ilness just a process of individual salvation to ta better way of being?

ecology of mind and culture, due to perfeccionism of mankind in the way to the future.

Methodical Doubt is more kierkegaardian than cartesian.

tensional relations in the city, in the small village, all due to bad use of power and disrespect of singular expectations.

The anguish of Erich Fromm, a philosophical journey to an hypothesis on the turbulent life of a renowed psychoanalist when he meets Martin Heidegger.

Autonomy as a desonesty, i.e., exogamic behaviour does not betray family values.

Prison, porsuing the work of Erwing Goffman, and Paul Valéry, au-delá of Victor Turner.

wine and wisdom, a path to self realization and fulfillment.

object subjectivity and the other, perceving otherness and troubled self, needing do praise some God or Godess.

After a trip to France, we return to imaginary open spaces of a clear process of becoming national.

Road accidents are as same as fatal than domestic violence in Portugal.

suicidal tendencies about faith and spiritual deliverance.

meaning trough a political world, as said the song.

social transformations in modern Portugal.

some literary day about philosophical topics and some anthropological items.

What is Happiness? Where my mind lies? Who am I? What am I?