philosophy

The B theory of time is the theory associated with General Relativity. It suggests that all of time is equally real, which suggests a sort of super-determinism in the sense that the future exists ...

(RNS) – “It’s a little surprising, but I don’t think it’s unexpected,” he told Religion News Service this week. “The Vatican has been cultivating relationships with the tech community for about 10 years.” Green would know. As a leading tech … Read More

There are striking differences between the classic description of the scapegoat ritual found in Leviticus 16 and later renderings of this rite in rabbinic and early Christian authors. For instance, several enigmatic additions to the Levitical blueprint of the scapegoat ritual appear in later interpretations of this rite found in mishnaic, targumic, and talmudic accounts, especially in the descrip…

Accounts of Jesus’s baptism found in the synoptic gospels reveal some sim- ilarities with Jewish biblical theophanies, including the one found in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel

Virginia Held, professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York and an influential figure in ethics and social and political philosophy, has died. Professor Held is especially well known for her work on the ethics of care and feminist philosophy. She is the author of several books, including The Public Interest and Individual Interests (1970), Rights and Goods: Justifying Social…

Recently I had a philosophical thought, and I was wondering whether someone had a similar one, philosophy is very old but I didn't see something identical yet so I'm wondering if some philosopher ...

The Principle of Ontological Preservation (POP) establishes a minimal ontological restriction on the admissible attribution of fundamentality within physical theories introducing non-trivial structural constraints on the ontological interpretation and unification of physical descriptions across domains. POP is developed upon the single requirement that explanatory decomposition cannot coherently …

This paper develops a general theory of Eigenzeit relations. Its point of departure is the observation that people, institutions, and systems share the same reality and yet often appear to live in different “worlds.” The present work argues that such differences should not primarily be understood as differences of identity, culture, personality, or diagnosis, but as differences of world-binding i…

_British Journal for the History of Philosophy_. 2026This paper reconsiders Hegel’s account of madness in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences and the Lectures on the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. Hegel characterizes mental disorder as a disruption rooted in the natural determinacy of the mind, while simultaneously insisting on its necessary relation to rationality and maintaining t…

The concepts of singularity and the Big Bang occupy a central position in contemporary cosmology. However, both concepts raise significant philosophical and conceptual questions concerning infinite density, the breakdown of physical laws, the origin of spacetime, and the relationship between mathematical models and physical reality. This paper examines major philosophical objections to singularit…

_Philosophia Mathematica_. forthcomingAccording to the realist or ‘non-eliminative’ renderings of mathematical structuralism, mathematical objects are merely positions in structures, ontologically dependent on the structure to which they belong. The purely structural character of mathematical objects leads to various treatments of identity statements linking positions from distinct structures, su…

Radical semantic change can occur beneath lexical continuity. Semantic capture names the process by which a discourse preserves its inherited vocabulary while displacing the operative centre that organises its reference, function, affect, and verification. Using a simple rescue-ship parable as a philosophical model, this article shows how a promised ship remains named while the messenger graduall…

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in philosophy. Here’s one thing I said to her: People should be cautious when inferring how much philosophy of AI work is actually happening from how much philosophy of AI work they’re hearing about. AI is…

This paper introduces "scope leakage of happiness" as a moral-psychological phenomenon in which perceived responsibility expands beyond legitimate culpability and practical remedial power, producing losses in subjective well-being that are not redeemed by corresponding improvements in the world. Contemporary persons are exposed to global harms with historically unusual immediacy and frequency, ye…

_Philosophy of Science_. forthcomingThis article argues that nonlinear dynamical systems provide a structural mechanism for (near-)unfaithfulness that has received little attention in philosophical discussions of causal discovery. In such systems, observable statistical relations arise from invariant-measure averaging over state-dependent causal effects. Because local causal influences vary acros…

_Zenodo_. 2026The intelligibility of the world is the silent presupposition of every rational discipline. Science, philosophy, and theology all assume that reality possesses an inherent order that can be known, described, and articulated. This paper argues that intelligibility is not an epistemic artifact but a constitutive property of being itself. Drawing on classical metaphysics, phenomenology…

This paper interprets Gödel’s incompleteness theorems through the Superposition Principle developed by the author from the study of ancient philosophy. The central thesis is that incompleteness can be understood as a boundary event in which the truth–falsehood pair cannot be fully internalized by the proof rules of a formal system. According to the Superposition Principle, opposition is not the r…

This foundational manuscript constructs a formal, operator-theoretic framework that strictly distinguishes derivation, demonstration, standing, agreement, and authority as mathematically independent objects. In modern scientific and technical discourse, these epistemic states are frequently conflated, allowing institutional consensus or symbolic theatricality to masquerade as structural rigor. To…

This paper examines the structural limitations of artificial intelligence in therapeutic and ethical contexts, drawing on modal logic as both analytical framework and case study. The paper contributes to the emerging discourse on medical AI ethics by arguing that the recent failures of AI therapy chatbots, including cases of serious harm to vulnerable users, are not engineering problems awaiting …

his work develops the Philosophy of Belonging, a relational ontology grounded in the proposition that: being is belonging. Against atomistic individualism and reductionist ontology, the manuscript argues that human existence unfolds through layered participation within material, biological, interpersonal, institutional, and civilizational structures. The work proposes four foundational principles…