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)

Philosophical Anthropology treatie in portuguese language.

This article presented the apophatism of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a mystical knowledge as refusing determine God as an objective concept and requires the abandonment of formulations that dare quit the Divine Mystery into categories. Therefore, it was necessary to discuss the principle, the difference between the apophaticism own ousia of Scholastic concludes that by reason of the impossibility of knowledge of the “substance” of the Absolute and the persona of the Areopagite concluded that, from personal a relationship and / existential (...) or establish with God, that He cannot be exhausted in noetic formulations of thought. In this sense, the apophatism presents as mystical resignation or a way of overcoming the knowledge of God, which is in the darkness and silence far away from all conceptual idolatry that dare to define Him; unless the symbolic language concluded from their phanias. Understood as mystical renunciation, this apophatism possible to understand God as the “Nothing of all that is” and how “Unnamed Name”; i.e., its nihility and your anonymity. KEYWORDS. (shrink)

mixed bodies and mixed desires and pertinences.

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)

Etnofiction essay, between anthropology and philosophy.

the struggle for status is more primitive of what we thing or tought about, it's very linked with the struggle for survavil, terretory, reproduction, pleasure....in a world more and more violent in some way and stupidly peacefful on other way and territories...

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.

I've tried to make an asset from social sciences to recognize somo philosophycal porpuses in teh relation betwee theory and practice in ethnographic context of southern Europe.

to be or not to be ethically neutral, in a world of decieve and calculation.

a forma como o autor insere na filosofia o trabalho de campo etnográfico, que passa a ser uma das metodologias da filosofia.

correlação filosófico da escrita, linguagem e discurso, entre a prática, praxis, nos termos filosófico e antropológico, fazendo a ponte.

is the subject of philosophy as it is from anthropology, i.e., the other? is alterlogy another science plus?

A troubled mind is a busy mind, whean happyness come frome mental emptyness.

From inspiration to classicism, a new approach to knowledge.

Is art and wrting a pagan manifestation of profane thoughts and feelings? What about the sacred art? Is there a link between the two? In other hand, the social status of the artist and semo processes of artistic creation, his strategy, his willing, his fundamentals.

new treatie on human understanding, pursuing Spinoza and Locke.

nervous essay on the conversion and future work of the disciple of Jesus.

the thing we've been looking for, the definition of a thing who is lost and at the same time we need to find and can be usefull to all mankind and each and every man.

A new approach to Nietzsche, so called Nietzeche sindrom.

Signs evolve on colective inconsciousness.

resumed version of a Philosophycal Anthropology, a PhD Thesis.

Can psychiatry be read from an anthropological point of view? What is normal? What is pathological? Social order and pathos in question on this essay.

sublime and sublimation, between ascetism en religious practice, social order and cultural feelings.

following Spinoza an, somewhat, Locke, trough a luminous path of a unique philosophical adventure.

cinematic proposition to the field of philosophical cinema and literature, in hommage to Henry-Lévi.

From aesthetics to social anthropology and art, this essay is pretending to be an approach to some relevant works on the vision to a better man.

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

On Sublime, subliminal experiences in terms of life and death realtion, in desire and social status.

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