Dialectic

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Négativité et logos dialectique chez le jeune Heidegger

by Olivier Huot-Beaulieu

Symposium : Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale, vol. 16, no. 1, Printemps 2012.

Tout au long de sa carrière philosophique, Heidegger s’est livré à une constante explication avec Hegel, qu’il... more Tout au long de sa carrière philosophique, Heidegger s’est livré à une constante explication avec Hegel, qu’il considérait comme son plus vif antagoniste. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous entendons nous rapporter aux origines de leur différend et prendre la mesure des griefs du jeune Heidegger à l’endroit de la dialectique hégélienne. Nous tenterons en un second lieu de démontrer que son opposition frontale camoufle en fait une secrète appropriation, puisque Heidegger aurait préalablement fait sienne l’idée d’un usage productif de la négation en philosophie.

What symbols

by Dmitry Misyurov

This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response? This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response?

Information retrieval (IR) and the paradox of change: an analysis using the philosophy of Parmenides.

by Clare Thornley

Journal of Documentation, Vol. 68 Iss: 3, pp.402 - 422

Postmodern Convexity and Hegelian Dialectics in Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"

by Ayon Maharaj

Gingko Tree Review 4 (2007), 25-46.

This essay argues that John Ashbery’s postmodern poem, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” should be read as a... more This essay argues that John Ashbery’s postmodern poem, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” should be read as a sustained effort to come to terms with the legacy of modernism. Modernist poets remained haunted by a fundamental dilemma: the more they emphasized the redemptive potential of ecstatic lyric moments, the closer they came to dismissing quotidian existence as a tragic fall from the intensities of aesthetic experience. Ashbery’s poem not only registers forcefully this modernist predicament as the problem of “pathos vs. experience” but also strives to overcome it. Ashbery copes with this problem by invoking the dialectical notion of convexity, which proves to be the poem’s governing principle. By drawing on some core doctrines in Hegel’s philosophy, I clarify the convex logic of Ashbery’s postmodern poetics.

Augustine, Julian, and Dialectic: A Reconsideration of J. Pépin’s Lecture

by Giovanni Catapano

«Augustinian Studies», XLI (2010), ISSN 00945323, pp. 241-253

According to Jean Pépin (Saint Augustin et la dialectique, Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1976), we can find... more According to Jean Pépin (Saint Augustin et la dialectique, Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1976), we can find in Augustine two opposing viewpoints on the use of dialectic in theology: one positive and most clearly stated in the «De doctrina christiana» and the «Contra Cresconium»; the other negative, emerging in the last period of Augustine's life and especially in the treatises against Julian of Aeclanum. The article shows, on the contrary, that Augustine's position remained the same throughout his episcopate, and that his antidialectical statements in his last writings do not concern dialectic itself, but, rather, the incorrect uses of dialectic.

Sull’utilità e il danno della dialettica per la teologia. La posizione di Agostino

by Giovanni Catapano

«Problémata», I (2001), ISBN 9788860016959, pp. 63-87

L'articolo discute una tesi sostenuta da Jean Pépin nel libro «Saint Augustin et la dialectique» (Villanova,... more L'articolo discute una tesi sostenuta da Jean Pépin nel libro «Saint Augustin et la dialectique» (Villanova, Pennsylvania: Villanova University Press, 1976). Secondo Pépin, in Agostino di Ippona sarebbero riscontrabili due prospettive antitetiche circa l'uso della dialettica (ossia dell'insieme di tecniche studiate dalla teoria dell'argomentazione) in teologia: una favorevole, evidente nel «De doctrina christiana» e soprattutto nel «Contra Cresconium»; l'altra avversa, affiorante nell'ultimo periodo della produzione letteraria di Agostino, specialmente nei trattati contro Giuliano di Eclano. L'articolo esamina criticamente le ragioni dell'interpretazione di Pépin. La tesi sostenuta nell'articolo è che, contrariamente a quanto affermato da Pépin, la posizione di Agostino circa l'uso teologico della dialettica è rimasta sempre la stessa, e che le affermazioni antidialettiche contenute negli ultimi scritti agostiniani vanno riferite non alla dialettica in sé, bensì al suo uso scorretto, secondo una distinzione tra "vera" e "falsa" dialettica già teorizzata chiaramente in opere precedenti.

Through the Looking-Glass: Reflections on the mirror-structure of Foucault’s The Order of Things

by Stefano Malfitano

In Reflections on the mirror-structure of Foucault’s The Order of Things the author argues that the space of... more In Reflections on the mirror-structure of Foucault’s The Order of Things the author argues that the space of archeology, as detached from those of ontology and phenomenology, is established by Foucault only through a particular textual disposition of the contents of Les Mots et les Choses. The essay defines this framework “the mirror- structure”, aiming to demonstrate that it is only in this way that the French author is able to produce an original, non-foundational, non-dialectical and immanent account of the history of the conditions of knowledge.

The Financial Crisis as an Expression of Macrohistorical Trends - World Hegemony, Neoliberal Globalization, and Financialization in 21st Century Capitalism - Shane Willson

by Shane Willson

Many studies try to understand the financial crisis that began in 2007 by utilizing short-term perspectives, but few... more Many studies try to understand the financial crisis that began in 2007 by utilizing short-term perspectives, but few step back far enough to see how macrohistorical transformations created the environment for a crisis of immense magnitude. In this work, I apply Arrighi’s theory of systemic cycles of accumulation to the current crisis and find that, while this theory elucidates some broad features of the global political economy that fostered the crisis, Arrighi’s explicit limitations lead to further areas of inquiry that help to understand this crisis in its specificity.

By analyzing large-scale historical lines unique to the late 20th century, I show that financialization and globalization – mediated through US world hegemony and neoliberalism – created feedback loops promoting, not just a quantitative rise in the use of finance, but qualitative changes to overarching production, distribution, and consumption practices throughout the global economy. Some of these changes include the integration of many new and varied actors into the financial sector, the financialization of the globalized production process, the increased use of finance by lower and middle classes to reproduce labor in the face of stagnant wages, and the increased use of derivatives for profit-making.

Additionally, I elaborate market-level changes in the US financial sector and show how the aforementioned macro-level transformations expressed themselves through the crisis. The use of “slice and dice” and “originate and distribute” models crippled the functions of derivatives and promoted their widespread misuse, even in the face of highly regarded theories of risk management. A historical view of derivatives shows that, while their use may be a fundamental cause of the crisis, derivatives express deeper trends in the evolution of capitalism: derivatives increase alienation, change the way we view ownership, and increase competition in our globalized political economy.

This long-term view allows me to elaborate how the nexus of financialization, globalization, neoliberalism, and world hegemony came together to create the most far-reaching financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Science in Discussions: An Analysis of the Use of Science Content in Socioscientific Discussions

by Jan Alexis Nielsen

Science Education, 96(3), 369–571, 2012

This paper presents a normative pragmatics analysis of students’ use of science content in eight socioscientific group... more This paper presents a normative pragmatics analysis of students’ use of science content in eight socioscientific group discussions about human gene therapy. The specific focus of the paper is on the argumentative role that invocations of science had in the dialectics of the discussions. The analysis suggests that science content occasionally played an informative role in attempts to establish the factual background of parts of the deliberations, but that speakers often invoked science content creatively and selectively in argumentative strategies that aligned with an attempt to frame the issue of the discussion in ways that were favorable for the speaker. The paper aims at explaining how strategies that contained invocations of science worked pragmatically in the dialectical context of the discussions. The findings are discussed in relation to previous findings in the science education community as well as to more general questions pertaining to how science fits into socioscientific discussions in which the arguers deliberate about what to do, not just what is true.

The Contradictions of Moral Life: Hegel's Critique of Kant

by John Russon

Chapter 10 of John Russon, _Reading Hegel's Phenomenology_, (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004), pp 147-156, (and notes, pp 255-256).

This is an interpretation of the "Morality" section of Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_. I identify the... more This is an interpretation of the "Morality" section of Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_. I identify the central insight of Kant's moral philosophy, explain the core idea involved in Hegel's criticism of Kant's moral position, and then define what Hegel's positive position on morality is.

Foucault and the logic of dialectics

by John Grant

Published in Contemporary Political Theory

This paper reorganizes our understanding of dialectical thought and the work of Michel Foucault by addressing each one... more This paper reorganizes our understanding of dialectical thought and the work of Michel Foucault by addressing each one through the other. Foucault explicitly repudiates dialectics, and yet the dialectical implications found in his positions on power and resistance offer a contrasting understanding of his work. Although I do not claim that Foucault is in fact a dialectician, I show how he participates in dialectical thought through his programmatic arguments and in his genealogical histories. This requires elaborating an appropriate logic of dialectical relations that cannot be reduced to a logic of contradiction. The result is that a rapprochement between Foucault and proponents of dialectics becomes possible. It gives recourse to Foucault for those who see dialectics as a requirement of radical politics, while also providing a platform for future research that reconnects the study of power relations with dialectical themes such as experience, liberation and ideology.

Hegel e la filosofia contemporanea del tempo [Hegel and the contemporary philosophy of time]

by Federico PERELDA

Draft version of "Hegel e la filosofia contemporanea del tempo", published in  "Verifiche" XXXIX, 1-4, 2010, pp. 135-85.

In this essay I compare Hegel’s theory of time and becoming with the contemporary debate, aiming on the one hand (A)... more In this essay I compare Hegel’s theory of time and becoming with the contemporary debate, aiming on the one hand (A) at presenting Hegel’s thought in contemporary terms, and on the other, (B) at offering new inputs to the present metaphysical debate from a Hegelian point of view. From a close reading of selected Hegelian texts I argue (1) that Hegel advocates a form of presentism and shares McTaggart’s thesis that the B-series (chronological time) presupposes the A-series (dynamical time); (2) that his position is pe-culiar because, although he admits that change is inconsistent, he puts in jeopardy the law of non contradiction (at least in its universality), instead of denying the reality of time and change, like McTaggart did. These considerations will then lead to Hegel’s speculative logic. According to the so called coherentistic reading of Hegel’s thought, he never seriously questioned the principle of non contradiction: he would be just a very sophisticated Aristo-telian, after all. I oppose this view, arguing (3) that Hegel was a proponent of an articulated form of dialetheism.

Dialectical Features of Students’ Argumentation: A Critical Review of Argumentation Studies in Science Education

by Jan Alexis Nielsen

Research in Science Education, 2011

This paper explores the challenges of using the Toulmin model to analyze students’ dialogical argumentation. The paper... more This paper explores the challenges of using the Toulmin model to analyze students’ dialogical argumentation. The paper presents a theoretical exposition of what is involved in an empirical study of real dialogic argumentation. Dialogic argumentation embodies dialectical features — i.e. the features that are operative when students collaboratively manage disagreement by providing arguments and engaging critically with the arguments provided by others. The paper argues that while dialectical features cannot readily be understood from a Toulminian perspective, it appears that an investigation of them is a prerequisite for conducting Toulminian analysis. This claim is substantiated by a detailed review of five of the ten most significant papers on students’ argumentation in science education. This leads to the surprising notion that empirical studies in the argumentation strand — even those studies that have employed non-dialectical frameworks such as the Toulmin model — have implicitly struggled to come to terms with the dialectical features of students’ discourse. The paper finally explores how some scholars have worked to attend directly to these dialectical features; and it presents five key issues that need to be addressed in a continued scholarly discussion.

Introducing Dussel: the Philosophy of Liberation and a really social psychology.

by Mark Burton

co-authored with Jorge Mario Flores Osorio, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, México.
Psychology in Society, (41), 20-39

The work of Argentinian-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel is presented in outline, focusing on his intellectual... more The work of Argentinian-Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel is presented in outline, focusing on his intellectual history as a thinker from the global periphery. We explore his reconstruction of the history of modernity and critique of Eurocentrism, his reconstruction of the later Marx, his concepts of analectics and trans-modernity, and his ethical framework. Finally we consider his relevance for psychology in the context of the debate over modernism, indicating some features of a Dusselian, transmodern psychology.

El escepticismo de Sexto Empírico y su neutralización dialógica

by Daniel Vazquez

Tesis de maestría, UNAM, México 2010. Ganadora del Premio Norman Sverdlin 2009-2010 (http://www.filos.unam.mx/premiosverdlin/premiados.php).

MPhil dissertation, UNAM (National University Mexico), Mexico. Awarded the Norman Sverdlin best MPhil dissertation 2009-2010 (http://www.filos.unam.mx/premiosverdlin/premiados.php).

My paper 'Reason in Check: the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus' (Hermathena 186, 2009) is an early and brief version of the main arguments.

El tema de esta investigación es el escepticismo de Sexto Empírico, en específico sobre su primer libro de los Esbozos... more El tema de esta investigación es el escepticismo de Sexto Empírico, en específico sobre su primer libro de los Esbozos pirrónicos. La problemática principal puede expresarse en la pregunta: ¿Qué se puede responder ante las dificultades que plantea Sexto? Para contestar defenderé dos tesis. Primero, que este tipo de escepticismo es irresoluble. Segundo, que, aunque no hay solución posible, existe una forma general de contestar sin contradecirse, caer en una recurrencia al infinito o convertirse en escéptico.

The Early Frankfurt School

by Mattias Martinson

DIALÉCTICA EN LA ARGUMENTACIÓN ECONÓMICA Revista de Economía Institucional, primer semestre, año/vol. 7, número 012 Universidad …

by Fernando Estrada

more http://econpapers.repec.org/article/reiecoins/v_3a7_3ay_3a2005_3ai_3a12_3ap_3a113-135.htm


This paper presents a group of argument models with the purpose of highlighting which debate characteristics should be kept in mind when analyzing written texts or oral speeches in different activities of daily life. It describes the importance of controversies in conceptual change and epistemology illustrated with a typical case of the debate on the challenges of free trade. The authors elaborate an interpretation of the explanation/understanding dualism in the social sciences through argumentation models and controversies.

A Peace More Primordial Than War: William Desmond and the Sabbath as Festive Mindfulness

by Brendan Sammon

Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference on Leisure, Chaminade University, HI, 2007.

It is often assumed that at the very base of all existence resides a primordial conflict, or war, that human reason... more It is often assumed that at the very base of all existence resides a primordial conflict, or war, that human reason alone orders and disciplines. But such a conclusion derives from certain philosophical assumptions as arbitrary as they are misguided. This presentation considers a different point of view, that of the contemporary philosopher William Desmond, whose metaphysics is based upon a primordial peace at the heart of all being. Recognizing this primordial peace requires recognizing the nature and limits of the kind of mind that concludes on a primordial war. The Sabbath for thought, configured as festive mindfulness – that is, as the contemplative celebration of mind’s limits in the face of being’s generous excess – becomes a way in which the original peace of being may be continually verified precisely as it is offered in this Sabbath.  That there is a peace more primordial than war is a reality whose truth is in excess of determinate categories.  This is why it requires a Sabbath: only when the mind willingly relinquishes its act of determination can it arrive at the contemplation of that after which this act is striving.  Only then can the mind experience the peace more primordial than war. 

Jihad VS McWorld: A Dialectic Civilization

by Surya Awangga

Jihad dan McWorld bertindak dengan kekuatan yang seimbang dalam posisi yang berlawanan. Yang satu (Jihad) digerakkan... more Jihad dan McWorld bertindak dengan kekuatan yang seimbang dalam posisi yang berlawanan. Yang satu (Jihad) digerakkan oleh kebencian parokial, yang lain (McWorld) digerakkan oleh pasar-pasar global. Yang satu menciptakan kembali subnasional lama dan batas etnis dari dalam dirinya, yang lain membuat batas nasional mudah ditembus dari luar.  Definisi Jihad – McWorld sebagai ‘kekuatan’ merupakan hal yang menarik sebab keduanya memang berupa daya yang menggerakkan dan dapat termanifestasi dalam bentuk yang beragam. Dalam menerangkan relasi Jihad-McWorld, Barber menggunakan istilah “dialektika” yang dipinjamnya dari kosakata filsafat Hegel. Berber menyebutkan bahwa dialektika McWorld adalah suatu studi yang memiliki alasan tertentu untuk menghormati perbedaan radikal yang memisahkan. Jihad dan McWorld mengetahui kekuatan serta saling ketergantungan yang paradoks satu sama lain. Dialektika adalah suatu pola dialog, saling menangkal dan dengan demikian saling membenarkan dan memajukan, bukannya dimengerti dalam pola tesis-antitesis-sintesis saja.