Gerasim Petrinski<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-01<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract: <\/strong>The present study aims to explore one of the relatively under-researched aspects of Michael Psellus’ philosophical legacy, namely, his demonological treatises. Although extremely brief, these texts establish a new paradigm that shapes the Byzantine intellectual elite’s approach to ancient heritage, contemporary folklore, and the vernacular literature of preceding centuries. Our first task in achieving this goal will be to outline the main characteristics of the sociocultural context in which Psellus formed his philosophical worldview. As comparative analysis shows, by the eleventh century, a consolidated demonological system was already taking shape based on official Christian dogma and selectively chosen images from ancient literature. The second task will determine the method by which Psellus constructs his demonology. As we shall see, he withholds his sources and intentionally bases his highly selective notes on the subject primarily on a few late antique authors within the Neoplatonic tradition.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/em> Psellus; Neoplatonism; demons; demonology; Byzantium; hagiography<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alexander Kanev<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-02<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>The paper examines the evolution of metaphysical thought from Immanuel Kant to contemporary philosophy, focusing on a pivotal shift in 1951. It explores Kant’s critique of traditional metaphysics and his influence on modern thinkers like Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine. The paper highlights Wittgenstein’s late reflections on the relationship between logic and reality, and Quine’s challenge to the analytic-synthetic distinction, which reshaped metaphysical discourse. It also discusses the revival of speculative metaphysics, influenced by both Kantian critique and the rise of naturalistic and abductive approaches, and questions whether Kant\u2019s objections to metaphysics remain relevant today.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: metaphysics; logic; reality; abductive methodology<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lydia Kondova<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-03<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>The paper provides a detailed reconstruction of Kant\u2019s deduction of the concept noumenon <\/em>at the end of CPR\u2019s Transcendental analytic with the final aim to undermine the view of its unknowability. According to our initial premise, the contradictions, faced by Kant\u2019s transcendental idealism, have their origin on the systematic level. The noumenon should, therefore, be understood as a purely methodological entity with reality solely within the system of transcendental idealism or as a \u201cconceptual gate,\u201d that functions as system\u2019s entrance and exit and preserves its connection with its philosophical \u201cother\u201d \u2013 the realism.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: Kant; transcendental idealism; noumenon; system; method<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aneta Karageorgieva<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-04<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>The text aims to formulate the position in the philosophy of consciousness known as physicalism in a way that does not repeat the shortcomings of existing formulations and yet retains the essential features of the physical as the basis of the mental. It explains why the word „materialism“ is outdated and should be replaced by „physicalism“ despite the existence of usages that treat them as interchangeable. The assumption is defended that physicalism is not only a metaphysical position, as is usually claimed, but is a hybrid \u2013 metaphysical and at the same time scientific \u2013 hypothesis. It is shown where to seek support for physicalism beyond the famous philosophical arguments from causal closure, from prior explanatory successes, and from mind-brain correlations, namely in the realm of the empirical. The best way to connect the mental and the physical is defended as „grounding,“ which shows the mental as a broadly physical fact, based on narrowly physical facts, in contrast to supervenience and realization. The advantages of physicalism as a strategy for studying consciousness are briefly described.<\/p>\n Keywords<\/em>: philosophy of mind, physicalism, materialism, hybrid hypothesis, empirical support<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marina Christodoulou <\/strong><\/p>\n Bulgarian Academy of Sciences <\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-05<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract. <\/strong>This paper discusses the concepts of effort, resistance, action-reaction, sense of life, death, and habit as explored by philosophers such as Xavier Bichat, Maine de Biran, and F\u00e9lix Ravaisson. It highlights the idea that habit is formed as a result of the alternation between external forces and internal resistance. The paper also touches on the role of sensation and tonality in habituation, as well as the individuality of each living being’s vital force. Additionally, it mentions the connection between different \u201cfrequency profiles\u201d and the perception of time. Overall the paper at first explores the complex relationship between life, habit, and the human experience, as a preamble in order to then discuss the concept of burnout in contemporary society, particularly in relation to the pressure to achieve and perform.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/em> effort; habit; depression; fatigue; exhaustion; burnout<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vesselin Dafov<\/strong><\/p>\n S<\/em>\u043e<\/em>fia University<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-06<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong>. The text discusses the issue of agreement (contracting) for philosophical activity (teaching, class, session, etc.) in institutional (school, university, etc.) and meta-academic forms of philosophizing (philosophy with children in kindergartens and primary and secondary schools, individual philosophical counseling, philosophical clubs for adults, etc.). The opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of, on the one hand, the so-called institutional and, on the other hand, meta-academic philosophizing from the point of view of negotiation (contracting) are discussed. The idea of the \u201cstandard\u201d for philosophizing is introduced, as overcoming the limitations arising from the concept of \u201crequirement\u201d in relation to philosophy and philosophizing as common intersubjective and thinking-together being.<\/p>\n Keywords: <\/em>ontology; subjectivity; philosophizing; philosophy with children; philosophical counseling; philosophical practices<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tsena Zhelyazkova Stoeva<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University <\/em>\u201c<\/em>St. Kliment Ohridski<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-03-07<\/a><\/p>\n Abstract<\/strong>. The text explores the form and content of doing philosophy with children, which, while being an educational activity, differs from classical teaching as it is guided by ideas and standards of a different spirit. Children are acknowledged as capable of autonomous thinking. Philosophising with them, is a distinct engagement from teaching and studying any specialised knowledge, skill, or attitude, whereas it does not differ essentially from any other philosophical practice. As a staring point in philosophising with children, any moment of children\u2019s everyday life could become subject to philosophical reflection.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/em> philosophy with children, philosophizing, free thinking, creativity, philosophical community<\/p>\n TO THE ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Plamen Makariev<\/strong><\/p>\n Sofia University<\/em><\/p>\nKant and Contemporary Metaphysics<\/h3>\n
Concerning the Noumenon, or Kant\u2019s Thirteenth and Fatal Concept of the Transcendental Analytic<\/h3>\n
Physicalism in the Philosophy of Mind<\/h3>\n
Irritability (Need) and An-irritability (Fatigue): A Disorder of Rhythms \u2013 the Ontological Burnout<\/h3>\n
Agreement as Beginning of Philosophizing<\/h3>\n
Philosophizing with Children and Philosophizing Children\u2019s Everyday Life<\/h3>\n
A Process-Approach in Education<\/h3>\n