scholarly journals Epistemology and the Transformation of Knowledge in the Global Age: God and the Epistemology of Mathematics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Zamarovský
Keyword(s):  
Epistemology Of Mathematics ◽  
Global Age

Psychology in the global age.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Global Age

Social Theology: Challenges of the Global Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
I. Kolesnyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Age

Toward a Curricular Balance of High School in Global Age

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
강익수 ◽  
Kyeongsun Baek ◽  
박하식
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Global Age

Mathematical Knowledge and the Interplay of Practices

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Ferreirós
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽  
Advanced Mathematics ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Epistemology Of Mathematics ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
Elementary Math ◽  
Mathematical Tradition

This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice. Charting an exciting new direction in the philosophy of mathematics, the book uses the crucial idea of a continuum to provide an account of the development of mathematical knowledge that reflects the actual experience of doing math and makes sense of the perceived objectivity of mathematical results. Describing a historically oriented, agent-based philosophy of mathematics, the book shows how the mathematical tradition evolved from Euclidean geometry to the real numbers and set-theoretic structures. It argues for the need to take into account a whole web of mathematical and other practices that are learned and linked by agents, and whose interplay acts as a constraint. It demonstrates how advanced mathematics, far from being a priori, is based on hypotheses, in contrast to elementary math, which has strong cognitive and practical roots and therefore enjoys certainty. Offering a wealth of philosophical and historical insights, the book challenges us to rethink some of our most basic assumptions about mathematics, its objectivity, and its relationship to culture and science.

Beyond Onto-theology and Metaphysics: the Cases of Heidegger and Nietzsche

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Vinod Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
Evaluative Study ◽  
Common Criticism ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
Critique Of Religion

AbstractTwo recent works will be considered that discuss Heidegger and Nietzsche in the context of the problem of overcoming metaphysics and the onto-theological tradition. A common criticism will be that these works in their attempt to retrieve a conception of religion, politics or faith beyond onto-theology and metaphysics tend to justify or idealize particular historically and culturally conditioned perspectives, which are not immune from further philosophical critique. Simon Oliai’s approach to countering the burgeoning fundamentalisms in our global age is ultimately not very convincing, representing as it does, a Western, liberal, Eurocentric worldview. The author’s use of Nietzsche or Heidegger for this purpose is also not very compelling. The remainder of this review essay appraises the volume edited by Cimino and van der Heiden, which attempts to rethink faith beyond onto-theology in several interesting ways. Although meant to be a comparative study, several contributions subscribe to a general Heideggerian (or Heidegger-inspired phenomenological-hermeneutical) theoretical framework, which itself is not rigorously scrutinized. A problematic implication is that Nietzsche’s own critical and constructive views of philosophy, his critique of religion and history, and his positive appraisal of faith and divinity are not seriously considered on their own terms: they are either mostly ignored, or they are selectively interpreted through a Heideggerian lens, with the result that this volume puts forward a mostly unfavorable view of Nietzsche. Some of the conceptual moves credited to Heidegger in the volume have their equivalents in Nietzsche’s philosophy, which a comparative and evaluative study such as this one must seriously take into account by resisting the uncritical acceptance of Heidegger’s own view of Nietzsche.

Global Gandhi

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Moral Standard ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The World

Gandhi is regarded as something of a global saint, and his non-violent methods of satyagraha have been employed around the world—these alone would make him a figure relevant to the global age. But what is even more significant about his thinking is the applicability of satyagraha in situations of a diverse multicultural milieu. The satyagraha methodology of conflict resolution assumes that although there is a truth to be found in conflicting perspectives, there is no one side that is necessarily correct, there is no moral standard. Gandhi’s approach to conflict requires an engagement of contending sides to see what elements of their positions are truthful and to build a new syncretic view of truth based on this engagement. It is an approach to moral consensus and conflict resolution that is particularly relevant to the multicultural situation of globalised societies in the contemporary world.

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