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    Based on a creative use of the phenomenological method, we argue that a close examination of the temporality of objects reveals the future as genuinely open. Without aiming to decide the matter of phenomenological realism, we suggest that this method can be used to investigate the mode of being of objects in their own temporality. By bracketing the anticipatory structure of experience, one can get a sense of objects’ temporality as independent of consciousness. This contributes to the current Re…Read more
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    Reimagining AI: Introduction
    with Dominic Smith, Natasha Lushetich, Edzia Carvalho, Kenny Lewis, and Gabriele Schweikert
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 9 (2): 87-99. 2022.
    The expression “AI” has become as commonplace as “computer.” While many people have a relatively clear idea of what an AI system or a computer does or can do, fewer have an idea of how precisely th...
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    The Multiple Future of Ontology
    Balkan Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 37-44. 2013.
    For centuries most ontological systems have been based on the presupposition that the paradigmatic type of being is the kind of being things like stones and houses have. But if one looks at the beginning of Philosophy, at the emergence of philosophic thought, this choice was not obvious. For the pre-Socratics and even for Plato and Aristotle it was not obvious that reality is composed out of static and distinct elements. In this paper I investigate this relationship between a static and a dynami…Read more
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    Is reality static, or dynamic and relational? This book dives into the complexities of this question to reveal a new view of the relationship between thinking and being. Philosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. This book transcends this understanding to explore the depths of relational and dynamic ontology. These explorations can be both complex and problematic as it attempts to understand and conceptualize becoming. To navigate this level of understanding, thi…Read more
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    Über die Unentrinnbarkeit der Metaphysik. Johann Georg Hamanns Kant-Kritik
    Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44 (1). 2019.
    Although Kant is often considered the philosopher who ended the reign of metaphysical dogmatism, the situation is not quite so clear. On the one hand, this analysis must bear in mind that Kant himself had a great interest in metaphysics, insofar as it was not dogmatic – Kant himself considered his Critique to be just a reform of metaphysics. On the other hand, the Critique of Pure Reason itself is a result of certain metaphysical-dogmatic preliminary decisions. In order to show how one-sided the…Read more
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    The Concept of Nature – From Pre-Socratic Physis to the Natural Κόσμοσ of the Timaeus
    Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (47): 9-26. 2016.
    It is a puzzling fact that the Greek term for Nature ‘physis’ could be used to refer to i) reality as a whole, ii) the nature of something, iii) to individual material beings or materiality and iv) all things that are self-generating. In order to understand and tie together this wide array of possible meanings, I will consider the thesis that ‘physis’ was in fact used as a concept of being, a term naming the fundamental property of all of reality in the early pre-Socratics, poets and scientists …Read more
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    In this contribution, I will argue for an ontological understanding of time as temporality. This, however, implies that in a certain sense being is temporality, by which I mean that on an ontological level temporality is nothing but the process of change, i.e. the dynamic aspect of being in its becoming, changing, and perishing, and that concrete beings are not merely in time, but they are temporal. This leads to the conclusion that actual time is the process of change that becoming beings are, …Read more
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    In this paper, I will describe how Brentano was able to integrate descriptive philosophy and logical analysis fruitfully by pointing out Brentano’s concept of philosophy as a rigorous science. First I will clarify how Brentano attempted to turn philosophy into a rigorous descriptive science by applying scientific methods to philosophical questions. After spelling out the implications of such a descriptive understanding of philosophy, I will contrast this descriptive view of philosophy with a sem…Read more
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    8. The Being of Becoming in Pre-socratic Philosophy
    In Keith Peterson & Roberto Poli (eds.), New Research on the Philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann, De Gruyter. pp. 153-170. 2016.
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    Denken und Ding
    Heidegger Studies 32 151-166. 2016.
    This paper investigates the correlation of Thinking, as understood by Martin Heidegger, and his concept of Thing.