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    The Artificial Enclave: Redefining Culture
    with Yigal Elam
    Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (1): 70-87. 2020.
    This article offers a new definition of culture which hinges on what we consider to be its most distinctive feature, namely its artificiality. Our definition enables us to resolve some of the main issues and controversies involved in the concept of culture and its course of development. We argue that the large human brain played a revolutionary role in inverting the course of natural adaptation of the human species. This dramatic turnabout allowed humans to set their own conditions of existence …Read more
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    Meaning in History
    with Yigal Elam
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 52 11-15. 2018.
    The heated and unresolved debate in philosophy of history evoked by Hempel’s suggestion that the deductive-nomological model of explanation is equally applicable to the natural sciences and history, has unintentionally led to a distorted conception of what it is to explain in history. We argue that explanation in history, at its best, is contingent not on general laws, not even on consequentiality, but on labels as frames of meaning. These labels further serve as a basis for eliciting models whi…Read more