englischAccording to Sartre, every individual exists necessarily as consciousness of something. Rather implausibly, this seems to imply that one would not survive a dreamless sleep.

The author motivates the issue by, on the one hand, critically and analytically discussing somatic, psychological, [...]

englischSociety is fundamentally political and contingent. And yet politics is a tough and energy-sapping struggle for hegemony, and the foundations of the social order appear unshakeable despite various attempts at change.

Drawing on Ernesto Laclau's formulation of a theory of hegemony and [...]

englischHow certain can we be of the accuracy of a doctor’s diagnosis? Which inference rules are used? Why do diagnostic errors happen? The author illuminates the convoluted thought process from symptom presentation to diagnosis using epistemology and theory of science with a special reference to [...]

englischIn this paper, Hannah Damm examines and assesses the WHO Code of Conduct on Global Migration from a Christian social ethical perspective. She uses the social ethical principles of personhood, solidarity, subsidiarity and sustainability as a yardstick. The analysis clearly shows the quality [...]

englischIn the Covid 19 pandemic, quick, collectively binding decisions were required despite incomplete knowledge. Old heuristics failed. The system of scientific policy advice had to be reoriented. Hubertus Nietsch describes the conflict of goals between contingent knowledge and political [...]

englischAlthough we are conscious beings, it is puzzling to us where this consciousness comes from. If, as traditionally assumed, the physical has no consciousness at all, it is not very plausible to assume the origin of consciousness in the physical. Therefore, Christoph Rothenbühler deals with [...]

englischIn their early works, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein present a holistic way of thinking that also deals with the central philosophical basic terms world, life, death and subject. The otherwise very different thinkers both stand in a radical relationship of reception and detachment [...]