This paper is concerned with the phenomenon of knowledge and its institutionalization in the context of society and state. The analysis deals with two paradigms of knowledge, known in history of ...philosophy as the ancient and the modern one. On this basis, the institutionalization of knowledge is questioned as an inherent part of the conceptualization of knowledge, but at the same time, as the problem of alienation of the concept from the human frame of understanding it. Consequently, the reflection of the need for a new approach to the problem emerged and it is actually formulated in this work as the Humanological Management approach. This philosophical frame enables the Management of the (institutionalization of) knowledge on the socio-humanistic basis. In this context, the concept of knowledge as the most important human resource becomes theoretical, as well as practical framework of the Science for humans.
This paper articulates an account of causation as a collection of information-theoretic relationships between patterns instantiated in the causal nexus. I draw on Dennett’s account of real patterns ...to characterize potential causal relata as patterns with specific identification criteria and noise tolerance levels, and actual causal relata as those patterns instantiated at some spatiotemporal location in the rich causal nexus as originally developed by Salmon. I develop a representation framework using phase space to precisely characterize causal relata, including their degree(s) of counterfactual robustness, causal profiles, causal connectivity, and privileged grain size. By doing so, I show how the philosophical notion of causation can be rendered in a format that is amenable for direct application of mathematical techniques from information theory such that the resulting informational measures are causal informational measures. This account provides a metaphysics of causation that supports interventionist semantics and causal modeling and discovery techniques.
This paper analyses the relationship between lack and possibilities of bearing witness in a post-historical context. We wanted to see how discussions about indeterminacy and testimony change the way ...in which we understand possibilities of truth in relation to the confessing subject. The limit of the language of testimony and memory generate experiences of incompleteness and inadequacy which make us negotiate the position of the confessing subject between an impossible historical truth and the non-discursive truth of revelation. We argued that the resistance to representation which drives the language of testimony reflects the improper position of the witness between historicity and existence. There is always an already lost historical event that we have to testify for and that foreshadows possibilities of significance. The witness can only generate discourse from inside a dislocated position which also marks the understanding of revelation.
This paper starts from the fact that the study of narrative in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is almost exclusively the study of fi ctional narrative. It returns to an earlier debate in which ...Hayden White argued that “historiography is a form of fi ction-making”. Although White’s claims are hyperbolical, the paper argues that he was correct to stress the importance of the claim that fi ction and non-fi ction use “the same techniques and strategies”. A distinction is drawn between properties of narratives that are simply properties of narratives and properties of narratives that play a role in forming readers’ beliefs about the world. Using this distinction, it is shown that it is an important feature of nonfi ctions that they are narratives; it is salutary to recognise non-fi ctions as being more like fi ctions than they are like the events they represent.
Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher and one of the most influential contemporary thinkers, died on August 23, 2021 at the age of 81. He graduated in philosophy in 1962 at the University of Paris ...(Sorbonne), and began his academic career as an assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Humanities in Strasbourg (also: Marc Bloch University).
The goal of this paper is to bring together the constructivist approach to public policy and Michel Foucault's concepts of knowledge, power, and truth, and to synthetize useful insights for public ...policy research from that connection. First, the characteristics of the constructivist approach are elaborated, and commentary is provided on the distinction between "rigid" and "soft" constructivism, and the answers to certain criticisms of constructivism are provided. Then, Foucault's concept of truth is elaborated in detail, as well as other important concepts in Foucault's conceptual apparatus such as knowledge, power and discourse. Finally, the connection between Foucault's work and constructivism is presented. The overarching question of the paper is the question of the possibility of establishing objective truth in the area of social sciences, and the relevance of objective truth for public policy and the political field in general.
This article attempts to answer the question of what it meant to be a Piłsudskiite in the thought and political philosophy of Ignacy Matuszewski. The author omitted the biography and political ...activity of the article’s protagonist as they are already relatively well known, and instead focused on his comments on the topic stated in the title of this article that can be found in Matuszewski’s enormous body of works, produced both in the inter-war period and in exile after 1945. The paper presents the attitude of Piłsudskiites towards Józef Piłsudski, the state, independence, and the phenomenon of dogmatism in political thought towards which the Piłsudskiites, including Matuszewski himself, showed great reluctance. The author indicated that during the period in question, the understanding of the term “Piłsudskiite” in Polish political thought evolved from the name of soldiers serving under Piłsudski’s command to a label denoting all Poles who shared the ideas guiding the First Marshal of Poland.
In this review, the authors self-review the text about Foucault's hall of mirrors, in which they try to develop the project of a Foucauldian geo-epistemology. First, they question the process of ...self-review – through the problematization of the text as an object of analysis and the meaning of the process itself, recognizing in it the apparatus of confession which Foucault established as typical for Western civilization. After accepting the challenge of self-criticism, the authors return to the problem area of geo-epistemology and the concept of the trihedral as an analytical tool, first at the level of criticism of the theoretical-methodological framework. In doing so, they observe insufficiently clear delineation of their own approach from Foucault's, insufficient precision of their own geo-epistemological analysis, and insufficient attention that they paid within this framework to the genealogy of concrete practices of power and knowledge. The authors then focus on specific deficiencies that marked the beginning of their research project and were manifested in an insufficiently clear conceptualization of the concept of life, as well as the underdevelopment of the trihedral of spatialization regarding the issues of governmentality and biopower, language, and madness itself. Acknowledging the possibility that, by agreeing to play Foucault's game, they got caught in the "Trihedral Foucault" as a circular framework of interpretation, in the concluding part of the review the authors offer a systematization of their evaluations and present proposals for the further development of the project of Foucauldian geo-epistemological analytics.
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