Online research in philosophy

Randall Collins: Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9203-z Authors James Aho, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548.

Technical mediation shapes our experience of the world, but it also shapes our experience of ourselves. In this paper, I argue that in order to understand the latter aspect of technical mediation, we need to expand on notions of technical mediation that focuses on actual use, and bring in possible use as well. The concept of technical mediation must therefore be grounded in a more general concept of technological presence. This concept indicates that technology harbours both actuality and potentiality, the (...) latter denoting that technologies offer possible actions, through which we realise specific actions, and, more importantly, realise ourselves; it is through the technological presence in our lifeworld we are able to recognise our own possibilities to be in and act in the lifeworld. The technologically revealed possibilities enable the subject to be constituted in a temporal forward-directedness, so that technological potentiality becomes co-constitutive of the subjects that we are and may become. (shrink)

In two of the most significant and influential contemporary exponents of German philosophical anthropology, anthropogenetic accounts play a large role. Hans Blumenberg and Peter Sloterdijk have presented their mode of philosophical anthropology as a philosophical anthropogenealogy. To this end both of them have ventured into an alliance with paleoanthropology, incidentally drawing on the same paleoanthropolgist, the forgotten pioneer of philosophical anthropology: Paul Alsberg. Taking this observation as its cue, the article addresses two questions. What are the motives for philosophical anthropology (...) to turn into philosophical anthropogenealogy? What is the methodological status of anthropogenetic accounts in philosophical anthropology? By reflecting on these questions the article aspires to convey a synthesis of themes in contemporary German philosophical anthropology and introduce them especially to an English-speaking audience. (shrink)

Terry Eagleton: Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-6 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9206-9 Authors Elizabeth K. Minnich, Queens University, Charlotte, NC, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548.

Rereadings Husserl on Time and Subjectivity Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-6 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9202-0 Authors Gerd Sebald, Department of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548.

The Historicity of the A Priori Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-5 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9207-8 Authors Robert D. Stolorow, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, CA, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548.