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Philosophies

Subject Areas: History and Philosophy of Science
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
ISSN: 2409-9287
SJR: 8

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The Poetics of Physics

Jeynes, Chris; Parker, Michael C.; Barker, Margaret

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010003

Physics has been thought to truly represent reality since at least Galileo, and the foundations of physics are always established using philosophical ideas. In particular, the elegant naming of physical entities is usually very influential in the acceptance of physical theories. We here...
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The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness

Ott, Brian L.

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010004

Technologies of communication condition human sense-making. They do so by creating the social environment we inhabit and extending their structural biases and logics through human use. As such, this essay inquires into the prevailing habits of mind in the digital era. Employing a media ecology of...
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The Mythologist as a Virologist: Barthes’ Myths as Viruses

Al-Kadi, Thaer T.; Alzoubi, Abdulaziz Ahmad

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010005

This article is an attempt to explore and explain the complex processes and mechanisms involved in creating myth signs as presented in Roland Barthes’ Mythologies (1957) through an interdisciplinary and an interdiscursive approach. The article presupposes that the mythic system of...
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“Surveyability” in Hilbert, Wittgenstein and Turing

Floyd, Juliet

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010006

An investigation of the concept of “surveyability” as traced through the thought of Hilbert, Wittgenstein, and Turing. The communicability and reproducibility of proof, with certainty, are seen as earmarked by the “surveyability” of symbols, sequences, and structures of...
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Common Grounds: Thinking with Ruderal Plants about (Other) Filmic Histories

Castro, Teresa

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010007

This article explores the connections between film and ruderal plants: plants that grow spontaneously in anthropized environments and that we often call “weeds”. Thriving across damaged lands, ruderals are not only exceptional companions for thinking with at a time of ecological...
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Turing’s Biological Philosophy: Morphogenesis, Mechanisms and Organicism

Greif, Hajo; Kubiak, Adam; Stacewicz, Paweł

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010008

Alan M. Turing’s last published work and some posthumously published manuscripts were dedicated to the development of his theory of organic pattern formation. In “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” (1952), he provided an elaborated mathematical formulation of the theory of the...
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‘What Am I Going to Do with My Philodendron?’ Looking at a Plant in Desk Set

Evans, Georgina

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010009

Desk Set, a 1957 20th Century Fox studio comedy, made with the sponsorship of IBM, charts the relationship between a reference librarian, Bunny Watson, and Richard Sumner, the inventor of a computer which appears to threaten her job. The film displays a thriving philodendron within Bunny’s...
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Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Philosophies in 2022

Philosophies Editorial Office,

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010010

High-quality academic publishing is built on rigorous peer review [...]
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Civic Solidarity and Public Health Ethics

Farrés Juste, Oriol

2023 Philosophies

doi:10.3390/philosophies8010011

Is solidarity in bioethics or public health ethics necessary? If so, why? Is there room for a principle of obligatory solidarity in bioethics or in public health ethics? In the first part of this paper, I assess the meaning of the value of solidarity in ethics. In the second part, I propose...

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