Repenser la subjectivité incarnée. Levinas lecteur de Husserl

This paper intends to analyze the question of the embodied subjectivity in Emmanuel Levinas’s work, starting from a specific point of view: the controversial reception of Husserl’s phenomenology. In the early period of his confrontation with Husserl, Levinas criticizes the excess of theoreticism in transcendental idealism. However, he then seems to discover right inside of it the conditions to bring the philosophical debate out of the limits of knowledge theory. This is when he recognizes the important role played by the body in the husserlian description of the act of sense-giving (Sinngebung). Though, while praising Husserl for his conception of sensibility – as the “Commentaires nouveaux” clearly show – Levinas actually proceeds to an original rethinking of the meaning of incarnation, beyond the purity of the ego, and the supposed “property” of the flesh.

Bayesian Model-Based Approach: Impact on Science and Policy

In this chapter, we summarise the scientific and policy implications of the Bayesian model-based approach, starting from an evaluation of its possible advantages, limitations, and potential to influence further scientific developments, policy and practice. We focus here specifically on the role of limits of knowledge and reducible (epistemic), as well as irreducible (aleatory) uncertainty. To that end, we also reflect on the scientific risk-benefit trade-offs of applying the proposed approaches. We discuss the usefulness of proposed methods for policy, exploring a variety of uses, from scenario analysis, to foresight studies, stress testing and early warnings, as well as contingency planning, illustrated with examples generated by the Risk and Rumours models presented earlier in this book. We conclude the chapter by providing several practical recommendations for the potential users of our approach, including a blueprint for producing and assessing the impact of policy interventions in various parts of the social system being modelled.

METAL CUTTING IS IT STILL OF INTEREST TO ANYONE?

For almost 100 years, the phenomena in the metal cutting process have offered researchers in the field a wide range of research topics, and at the same time, as much satisfaction, both in terms of deepening theoretical knowledge, especially in terms of the practical results obtained. Interest in this field has declined dramatically, however, since the beginning of the third millennium. Has the cutting process reached the limits of knowledge by their exhaustion or has it become inefficient for industry compared to other new processes for manufacturing metallic, non-metallic materials and composites? Why is the field no longer as attractive to researchers? Here is what this paper tries to clarify and propose to researchers in the field to reinvent the approach of the cutting process, as an incomplete explored and still excellent perspective, not only for the manufacturing industry, but also for the theoretical foundations of the cutting phenomenon.

Magna Cosmogony

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This article aims to show that science and faith have always walked closer than is usually thought, and that they can even coexist harmoniously in the same individual. It also seeks to show the sterility of the debate that puts both in direct confrontation, evidencing the often prejudiced and disdainful position of current science towards faith as a characteristic of the human condition, whether or not it is associated with a religion. In a broader approach, it discusses currently existing beliefs about the existence of intelligent life outside the Earth in contrast to the possibilities that science offers in our actual state of technological development. In addition, the work intends to convey the perception that it would be much more constructive to accept faith as a natural manifestation of consciousness that recognizes the limits of knowledge, rather than rejecting it through scientific arguments that, being faith, is manifestly inapplicable.</p><p><strong>Key-words:</strong><strong> </strong>science, faith, cosmogony, cosmology.</p><p>================================================================ </p><p><strong>Resumo:</strong> Este artigo tem como objetivo mostrar que ciência e fé sempre estiveram mais próximas do que normalmente se pensa, e que podem até coexistir harmoniosamente no mesmo indivíduo. Também busca mostrar a esterilidade do debate que as coloca em confronto direto, evidenciando a posição muitas vezes preconceituosa e desdenhosa da ciência atual em relação à fé como característica da condição humana, associada ou não a uma religião. Em uma abordagem mais ampla, discute-se as crenças atualmente existentes sobre a existência de vida inteligente fora da Terra em contraste com as possibilidades que a ciência oferece em nosso atual estado de desenvolvimento tecnológico. Além disso, o trabalho pretende transmitir a percepção de que seria muito mais construtivo aceitar a fé como manifestação natural da consciência que reconhece os limites do conhecimento, do que rejeitá-la por meio de argumentos científicos que, para ela, sendo fé, não se aplicam.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> ciência, fé, cosmogonia, cosmologia.</p>

Drawing the Limits of Knowledge

Metaphysicians hold that there are two kinds of real things: those that are truly real and those that are less real. The former are the grounds of the latter. Metaphysics is supposed to be knowledge of the truly real things; the reality that underlies appearances. Schlick argued (i) that metaphysics so understood needs to have a special source of knowledge distinct from the sources of knowledge on which science and common sense rely and (ii) that there is no such source of knowledge. Hence, even if there are truly real objects and facts, they are beyond the limits of knowledge. Schlick concludes that there are no differences in degrees of being: all being is on a par. The chapter gives an overview of the metaphysicians attacked by Schlick and reconstructs his argument against metaphysical knowledge that is based on the two-term view of cognition.

Doxycycline-like drugs for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease

Sketch for a patent submission. Due to several copyright and IP infringements, details are not disclosed about the work, nevertheless, I still made the work available for education purposes within the limits of knowledge.

The Limits of Knowledge in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some Prudential Recommendations in Uncertainty Conditions

The knowledge in the context of COVID-19 pandemic must be viewed from the perspective of its purpose: the intention to limit the effects and spread of SARS-CoV-2, respectively to cancel them. In order to increase the level of knowledge we identify some of the possible classifications, based on them allowing a first outline of uncertainty. The purpose of the analysis is to contribute to the clearest possible identification of the known and the unknown, thus creating a more stable cognitive field for effective public health decisions. Given that measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic along with its effects is one of humanity's priorities, it is useful to clear up some of the issues that are likely to have improper meanings. The identification of each situation that includes significant doses of unknown and the public recognition of the uncertainty represents the condition for the possibility of robust public policies. Indicating the place that each current aspect occupies in one of the four cognitive quadrants is an important cognitive work. The position we adopt is characteristic for cognitive skepticism, trying to indicate some of the knowledge`s limits of and the risks of pseudo-knowledge. The article is a theoretical approach, based on some epistemological principles of critical thinking, the starting point being the belief that knowing what you do not know (to shape the uncertainty as appropriate as possible) is an essential part of the knowledge.