In the last years of socialism and my third year of high school in late 1980s Yugoslavia, my logic teacher asked the class why people believe in God. The question was received with silence. I do not remember who came… Read More ›
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Shahryari on Bloor and the Strong Program, Finn Collin
In “A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social”, Shahram Shahryari (2021) advances the following thesis: In his Strong Program in the sociology of science, David Bloor blames traditional philosophy of science for adopting… Read More ›
The Fly is Trapped Inside the Bottle: A Semiotic and Epistemological Critique of the Idea of Disability, Chema Sánchez Alcón
Abstract This article is about “disability” understood as a stand-point of view whose high performative power has influenced the identity of people with various disabilities whom we have called “disabled.” From the philosophy of language, using the tools of semiotics,… Read More ›