scholarly journals FILOSOFIJA LIETUVOJE PO 1989: KĄ APIE TAI BYLOJA LIETUVIŠKI AKADEMINIAI ŽURNALAI?

Problemos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldis Gedutis
Keyword(s):  
Citation Index ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Texts

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama Lietuvos filosofijos būklė po 1989 metų. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas klausimui, ar po 1989 metų Lietuvoje atsirado filosofinė (s) tradicija (-os) bei mokykla (-os). Tyrimo objektas – lietuviški akademiniai žurnalai – „Problemos“, „Filosofija. Sociologija“ ir „Logos“. Chronologinė aprėptis –straipsniai, publikuoti nuo 1989 iki 2009 metų. Siekiama išnagrinėti lietuvių filosofų citavimo ir tarpusavio komunikavimo strategijas, esant galimybei ieškoti kriterijų, leidžiančių identifikuoti filosofinės tradicijos buvimą. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas šiems klausimams: kaip dažnai ir kokiu būdu lietuvių filosofai cituoja ir mini savo kolegas? ar citavimas ir kolegų (pa)minėjimas leidžia identifikuoti tradicijai būdingus santykius tarp Lietuvos filosofų? kurie lietuvių filosofai ir filosofiniai tekstai yra įtakingiausi ir dažniausiai naudojami? 1Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Lietuvos filosofija, filosofinė tradicija, filosofinė mokykla, citavimo indeksas, komunikacija filosofijoje.Philosophy in Lithuania after 1989: What do Lithuanian Academic Journals Reveal?Aldis Gedutis SummaryIn this study, the condition of Lithuanian philosophy after 1989 was analyzed. The attention is focused on the question whether any philosophical tradition(s) and/or school(s) have originated during the last 20 years. The object of the research was Lithuanian academic philosophical journals: Problemos, Filosofija.Sociologija and Logos. The chronological scope: articles published during the period 1989–2009. The major objective of the inquiry is to reveal and figure out citation and communication strategies in the discourse of Lithuanian academic philosophy and to identify the existence of philosophical tradition(school), if any. The major concern can be summarized by the following questions: what is the frequency of the colleagues’ citation? Are Lithuanian philosophers’ citation strategies sufficient to claim the fact of the existence of Lithuanian philosophical tradition (school)? What are the most influential Lithuanian philosophers and philosophical texts?Keywords: Lithuanian philosophy, philosophical tradition, philosophical school, citation index, communication in philosophy.

Buddhist Philosophy as Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Siderits
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Buddhist Teaching ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Current Resistance

Is Buddhist philosophy properly thought of as philosophy? The work of Buddhist thinkers such as Vasubandhu, Nāgārjuna, and Dharmakīrti is widely recognized as deploying the same sorts of tools to investigate the same sorts of topics as what one finds in the practices of academic philosophers in the early 21st century. Still there is resistance to incorporating Buddhist philosophical texts into the philosophy canon, and this both from “mainstream” academic philosophers and from Buddhologists (scholars of the Buddhist tradition). Current resistance can be traced to concerns over the soteriological context of Buddhist philosophizing. Those who wish to maintain the present Eurocentric focus of the philosophy canon suspect that the soteriological ends to which philosophical inquiry is put by Buddhists must compromise philosophy’s commitment to rationality and Buddhism’s commitment to its goal of salvation. Resistance from both sides thus presupposes that a spiritual practice necessarily involves commitments that are not rationally assessable. And this presupposition may be incompatible with the core Buddhist teaching of non-self. If this clears the way to including the Buddhist philosophical tradition in the canon, one must ask how this may affect the two parties to the project of fusion. A brief look at some recent missteps reveals that only if there is greater teamwork between philologically trained Buddhologists and scholars trained in (what currently counts as) “mainstream” academic philosophy can there be real progress. But the potential benefits—for both sides—may well justify the effort.

The Problem of the Formation of Philosophical Prose in Persian

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Tatyana G. Korneeva
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Texts

The article discusses the problem of the formation of philosophical prose in the Persian language. The first section presents a brief excursion into the history of philosophical prose in Persian and the stages of formation of modern Persian as a language of science and philosophy. In the Arab-Muslim philosophical tradition, representatives of various schools and trends contributed to the development of philosophical terminology in Farsi. The author dwells on the works of such philosophers as Ibn Sīnā, Nāṣir Khusraw, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Aḥmad al-Ghazālī, ʼAbū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and gives an overview of their works written in Persian. The second section poses the question whether the Persian language proved able to compete with the Arabic language in the field of science. The author examines the style of philosophical prose in Farsi, considering the causes of creation of Persian-language philosophical texts and defining their target audience. The article presents viewpoints of modern orientalist researchers as well as the views of medieval philosophers who wrote in Persian. We find that most philosophical texts in Persian were written for a public who had little or no knowledge of the Arabic language, yet wanted to get acquainted with current philosophical and religious doctrines, albeit in an abbreviated format. The conclusion summarizes and presents two positions regarding the necessity of writing philosophical prose in Persian. According to one point of view, Persian-language philosophical works helped people who did not speak Arabic to get acquainted with the concepts and views of contemporary philosophy. According to an alternative view, there was no special need to compose philosophical texts in Persian, because the corpus of Arabic philosophical terminology had already been formed, and these Arabic terms were widely and successfully used, while the new Persian philosophical vocabulary was difficult to understand.

A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Tzohar
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Philosophical Texts

This book is about what metaphors mean and do within Buddhist texts. More specifically, it is about the fundamental Buddhist ambivalence toward language, which is seen as obstructive and yet necessary for liberation, as well as the ingenious response to this tension that one Buddhist philosophical school—the early Indian Yogācāra (3rd–6th century CE)—proposed by arguing that all language use is in fact metaphorical (upacāra). Exploring the profound implications of this claim, the book presents the full-fledged Yogācāra theory of meaning—one that is not merely linguistic, but also perceptual.Despite the overwhelming visibility of figurative language in Buddhist philosophical texts, its role and use have received relatively little attention in scholarship to date. This book is the first sustained and systematic attempt to present an indigenous Buddhist philosophical theory of metaphor. By grounding the Yogācāra’s pan-metaphorical claim in its broader intellectual context, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist, the discussion reveals an intense Indian philosophical conversation about metaphor and language that reached across sectarian lines, and it also demonstrates its potential contribution to contemporary philosophical discussions of related topics. The analysis of this theory of metaphor radically reframes the Yogācāra controversy with the Madhyamaka; sheds light on the school’s application of particular metaphors, as well as its unique understanding of experience; and establishes the place of Sthiramati as an original Buddhist thinker of note in his own right, alongside Asaṅga and Vasubandhu.

Masterly Maxims

PMLA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-497
Author(s):  
Mieke Bal
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Unlike most others teaching (English) literature, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is intimately knowledgeable about philosophy, especially German. Her deep knowledge of Kant, Marx, and Gramsci is a red thread running through her many books. And, given her interest in what we call less and less happily “postcolonial” theory (the hesitation coming from an awareness of the problematic meaning of the prefix post-), her discussions of such canonical and inexhaustible philosophical texts never lose sight of the sociopolitical implications of the ideas gleaned from the encounter. Thus, she brings a philosophical tradition to bear on contemporary social issues of a keen actuality. This solid philosophical background does not make her texts always easy to read for literary and other cultural scholars eager to get ideas—preferably quickly—about “how to do” postcolonial literary studies. Spivak's work is as challenging to read, understand, and absorb as it is important in content.

Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitri Nikulin
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philosophical tradition, setting the themes for debate and establishing strategies of argument and interpretation, Proclus falls closer to its end, developing a grand synthesis of late ancient thought. The book discusses many central topics of philosophy and science in Plotinus and Proclus, such as the one and the many; number and being; the individuation and constitution of the soul, imagination, and cognition; the constitution of number and geometrical objects; indivisibility and continuity; intelligible and bodily matter; and evil. It shows that late ancient philosophy did not simply embrace and borrow from the major philosophical traditions of earlier antiquity—Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism—by providing marginal comments on widely known philosophical texts. Rather, Neoplatonism offered a set of highly original and innovative insights into the nature of being and thought, which can be distinguished in much subsequent philosophical thought up until modernity.

Scenes of Inclination

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Adriana Cavarero
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Male Individual ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Distinctive Role

Cavarero’s ethic of inclination responds to a postural geometric imaginary in the philosophical tradition that is irrefutably gendered. Opening with a reflection on the character of Irina in Italo Calvino’s ‘If, on a winter’s night, a traveller’ she draws out the inclined, sinuous, curving figures of the female common to literary and philosophical texts, and contrasts them to the straight, upright, correct and erect, male figure. Tracing these stereotypes back to Ancient Greek etymology, she charts its progress through the work of Plato, Kant, and Proudhon. From the devalued imagery of the female body as maternal, Cavarero begins her subversion of the philosophical tradition. Following Arendt’s valorisation of the natal scene, Cavarero emphasises the distinctive role of the inclined mother as care giver. This image of inclined motherhood is to form the basis then, of Cavarero’s ethic of inclination—an altruistic ethic that upends the ‘imagined wholeness’ of the dominant liberal model of the independent, self-sufficient male, individual.

Poststructuralist Deconstruction of Meaning as a Challenge to the Discourse of Theism

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Janusz Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
The One ◽  
Large Scale Project

Although it became customary to warn against confusing postmodernism with deconstructionism (deconstructionism having narrower focus), it seems plausible to suggest that their central agendas are not dissimilar. Moreover, from the philosophical point of view, it is the idea of the 'deconstruction of meaning' that can be said to constitute the foundation of postmodernism understood here as an intellectual movement. It is true that grounded in the  poststructuralist language analysis, deconstructionism seeks primarily to challenge the attempts inherent in the Western philosophical tradition to establish ultimate meaning in a text. However, as one might have anticipated, the deconstruction of meaning of texts (especially philosophical texts) provided a basis for a large scale project leading to deconstruction of all 'truths', as conceived in the mainstream philosophical tradition. And it did it by questioning the coherence of the very concept of 'truth'. Eclectic as postmodernism is, it can be recognized by the fundamental assumption (with a clearly deconstructionist overtones) that there is no common denominator (like 'nature', 'truth' or 'God') that guarantees the one-ness of the world, or the possibility of objective or neutral thought. This assumption would suffice to make one expect that postmodernism will challenge the very foundations of any metaphysical or religious system of beliefs. And so it does. In this paper I would like to ellucidate just one way this challange may be construed, poiting to the example of Don Cupitt, the leading exponent of the 'antirealist' critique of the discourse of theism.

Nahmanides, Moses (1194–1270)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Stern
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Mystical Tradition ◽  
Moses Maimonides ◽  
Biblical Commentaries ◽  
Philosophical Texts ◽  
Philosophical Questions

One of the most influential medieval Jewish thinkers to engage with the philosophical tradition, Nahmanides was also a leading Talmudist, biblical exegete, and a founding figure of the Jewish mystical tradition (Kabbalah) that emerged in thirteenth-century Spain. Generally critical of Aristotle, he was deeply influenced by predecessors such as Moses Maimonides. As the leading rabbi in Catalonia, Nahmanides played a central role in the ‘Maimonidean controversy’ of 1232–3, a dispute that raged over the permissibility of philosophical study. He was also at the centre of the ‘Barcelona disputation’ of 1263, conducted with the apostate Pablo Christiani over the issue of philosophically motivated allegories. Unlike his Provençal contemporaries, Nahmanides wrote neither free-standing philosophical treatises nor commentaries on Graeco-Arabic philosophical texts. Instead, he developed his original metaphysical views in sermons and his highlt influential biblical commentaries treating such topics as miracles, providence and idolatry. The commentaries proved especially influential through their thematic treatments of philosophical questions raised by the biblical text and for their suggestive expositions of mystical and theosophical ideas.

Clear possibilities and subtle problems of Russian academic journals development model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa A. Zhgileva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Science Citation ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Russian Science Citation Index

The findings of the analysis of 85 academic journals in Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) being indexed as for August 1, 2020, are presented. The analysis was based on surveys and scientomtrical indicators on eLIBRARY.RU platform; the periodicals’ websites; Russian Academy’s of Sciences (RAS) statements on RSCI policy and expert assessment of the journals; experience of the editorial boards of 5 peer reviewed academic journals found by The Northern Arctic Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov. The possibilities and problems of integrating journals into the global scientific space are discussed.

Psychology and Wikipedia: Measuring Psychology Journals’ Impact by Wikipedia Citations

2021 ◽  
pp. 089443932199383
Author(s):  
Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak ◽  
Dariusz Jemielniak ◽  
Maciej Wilamowski
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Citation Rate ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Rank Score ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scimago Journal Rank

The aim of the study was to explore the impact of peer-reviewed psychology journals on Wikipedia articles. We are presenting a rank of academic journals classified as pertaining to psychology, most cited on Wikipedia, as well as a rank of general-themed academic journals that were most frequently referenced in Wikipedia entries related to psychology. We then compare the list to journals that are considered most prestigious according to the SciMago journal rank score. Additionally, we describe the time trajectories of the knowledge transfer from the moment of the publication of an article to its citation in Wikipedia. We propose that the citation rate on Wikipedia, next to the traditional citation index, may be a good indicator of the work’s impact in the field of psychology.

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