TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krüger, Hans-Peter
T1  - How is the Human Life-Form of Mind Really Possible in Nature?
BT  - Parallels Between John Dewey and Helmuth Plessner
JF  - Human studies
N2  - J. Dewey and H. Plessner both and independently of one another treated the central question of what new task philosophy must set itself if the assumption is correct that the life-form of mind, i.e., the mental life-form of humans, arose in nature and must also sustain itself in the future within nature. If nature has to reconceived so as to make the irreducible qualities of life and mind truly possible, then it can no longer be restricted to the role of physical material. Conversely humans cannot no longer take on the role of God outside and independent of nature. Instead these philosophers distinguish between three plateaus (Dewey) or stages (Plessner), between physical (inorganic) nature, psycho-physical (living) nature and the nature that is mental life. This distinction is drawn such that a connection between the plateaus is truly possible. The third level, that of the mental form of life, answers mentally within conduct to the break with the first two levels. Hence it depends in the future as well on the continuously renewed difference (between the precarious and the stable for Dewey, between immediacy and mediation for Plessner) in our experience of nature. Within this difference nature as a whole remains an open unknown, which is why we can credit Dewey with a philosophy of diversified and negative holism, Plessner with a differential philosophy of the negativity of the absolute.
KW  - Evolution of the human
KW  - Non-reductive naturalism
KW  - Open holism
KW  - Life forms
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Presuppositions of evolution
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-017-9429-5
SN  - 0163-8548
SN  - 1572-851X
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
SP  - 47
EP  - 64
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Montemayor, Carlos
T1  - On the human uniqueness of the temporal reasoning system
JF  - Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary
N2  - A central claim by Hoerl & McCormack is that the temporal reasoning system is uniquely human. But why exactly? This commentary evaluates two possible options to justify the thesis that temporal reasoning is uniquely human, one based on considerations regarding agency and the other based on language. The commentary raises problems for both of these options.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19000335
SN  - 0140-525X
SN  - 1469-1825
VL  - 42
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pirwitz, Anne
T1  - Romanian Migrants in Western Europe
BT  - Expectations, Challenges and the Importance of their Networks
JF  - Philologica Jassyensia
N2  - This article aims to sum up the main results of a research project made in 2016 and 2017 about the situation of 1190 Romanian migrants in Western Europe and to give an overview about the push and pull factors, transnational family structures, as well as the challenges and difficulties of the Romanian survey respondents living in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy. It also considers the role of personal networks which represent an important motor of migration and constitute the main motive for the choice of a certain destination region. These migration networks lead to the construction of transnational social spaces between Romania and the destination country and have high influence in the search for housing or jobs but can also influence the integration process abroad.
KW  - Romanian migration
KW  - migration networks
KW  - transnational families
KW  - labor migration
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 1841-5377
SN  - 2247-8353
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
SP  - 221
EP  - 230
PB  - Editura Tracus Arte
CY  - Bucharest
ER  -