From Animal to Environment: The Narrative of a Research on Nature from the 18th Century to the Present Day
Prof. Dr. Jean-Luc Guichet
Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France)
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-01
Abstract. This paper is the text of a lecture given at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski on 2 November 2023 at the invitation of Professor Irena Kristeva…
The Genuine Rhythm оf Being аs A Task оf Philosophy
Dr. Nikolay Turlakov, Assoc. Prof.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-02
Absract. This work can be seen as a kind of continuation of the main topic in my essay “Notes on the Assimetrical Rhythm of Being, or What is Philosophy with a Soul”...
Ontology Non Finitio
Prof. Dr. Vassil Vidinsky
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-03
Absract. The article addresses key ontological issues related to the book “What is Ontology? Counter Definitions” (2023) by Dimitar Vatsov and Boyan Manchev...
The Limits of Philological Reading – Some Observations on the Internal Limits in The Humanities
Dr. Ivan Popov
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-04
Abstract. The article deals with the problem of the boundaries in contemporary humanities – if “everything is a text” and the process of assimilation and interpretation of new meanings is fundamentally open and infinite, then do we have any grounds to distinguish between different kinds of understanding of the cultural phenomena surrounding us?
The Fallacy of Synthesis and Diairesis: Towards Logic and Logos in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Sophistical Refutations
Dr. Gerasim Petrinski, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-05
Absract. The present study focuses on the so-called ‘fallacy of combination and division’ or ‘synthetic-dieretic fallacy,’ as discussed by Aristotle in his treatises ‘Rhetoric’ and ‘On Sophistical Refutations.’...
Pride, Reason and Salvation. Reflections on the Meaning of Thomas More’s Utopia
Prof. Svetoslav Malinov
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-06
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to recover the original intention of Thomas More in creating the fictional island depicted in his book Utopia…
Crossing with Hegel the Zones of the Late Soviet (Anti)Utopia
Prof. Vladimir Sabourín, DSc.
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-07
Absract. During the late Soviet era, science fiction was one of the first zones of its ideological cosmos, registering the exhaustion of the communist utopia precisely within the literary genre aimed at its representation...
Ontological Considerations of the Projectizing Community in “Philosophical Wondering” Method for Doing Philosophy with Children
Prof. Dr. Vesselin Dafov
Sofia University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-08
Absract. Considering the leading position in the ontology of philosophy sessions at present, namely: building of “community of inquiry”, here I discuss the advantages and the horizon that are created to philosophy and philosophizing through the ontology of projectizing (producing, creating) community...
On the Contemporary Organization of Religious Experience, Оr How it is Possible to be “A Believer but not Religious”
Prof. Martin Kanushev, DSc.
New Bulgarian University
https://doi.org/10.53656/phil2024-04-09
