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Volume 3 Issue 1


Philosophy and Realistic Reflection

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11 articles
ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 19 November 2025

Delegating Authority to Algorithms: Legitimacy and Public Values in European Tax Administrations

Pascal Stiefenhofer, Ufuk Gergerlioğlu, Cafer Deniz

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1-21 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.757

This paper develops a philosophical and empirical framework for evaluating the democratic legitimacy of algorithmic decision-making in European tax administrations. Drawing on evidence from fifteen jurisdictions, it investigates how four core public values—intelligibility, contestability, non-domination, and equality before the

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 19 November 2025

Guiding the Process of Construct Building: An Exploration Based on Heidegger’s Ontological Difference

Heribert Gierl

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 22-46 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.815

Numerous academic disciplines are dedicated to the study of human behavior. Within these disciplines, a well-established standard governs the conduct of research, encompassing construct building, theory formulation, measurement development, and statistical analysis. While literature provides extensive criteria to ensure the qual

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 13 December 2025

Weaving Beyond the Mind: A Philosophical Framework for Post-Individual Intelligence

Jorge Rodas-Osollo, Karla Olmos-Sanchez

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 47-60 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.848

This article advances the thesis that knowledge, agency, and responsibility can be stabilised beyond the individual mind within hybrid human–AI systems. It proposes and develops the Cognitive Tapestry as a philosophical framework grounded in computational models of associative memory—Entropic Hetero Associative Memory and Alpha–

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 13 January 2026

Kripke's Critique of Descriptivism and the Conceptual Challenges of Necessity and Contingency

Euclides Souza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 61–80 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.775

This investigation offers a systematic critique of Saul Kripke's anti-descriptivist theory of rigid designation through five converging lines of argument, aiming to demonstrate that descriptive content is not merely auxiliary but philosophically necessary for reference. First, the analysis shows that Kripke's causal–historical m

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 14 January 2026

The Paradoxes of the Modern Geistes: Critico-Comparative Introspect of the Previous Century

Alvin Servaña

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 81-91 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.771

This essay investigates the existential and philosophical dilemmas of modernity, drawing on the prophetic insights of Friedrich Nietzsche and José Rizal as critical entry points. Though situated on opposite ends of the globe, both thinkers discerned a paradox at the heart of modernity: its promise of liberation entwined with new

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 28 January 2026

The Globalization of Anti-Blackness: Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Colonial Roots of a Universal Prejudice

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 92–102 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.962

Anti-Black racism persists as a global social phenomenon despite its lack of empirical foundation and its incompatibility with rational moral theory. This paper investigates the paradox of racism's endurance by integrating evolutionary psychology, cognitive bias theory, colonial history, and analytic philosophy. It argues that a

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 29 January 2026

A Case against Stephen Kleene’s Incomputability

Edgar Graham Daylight

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 103–125 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.658

In Mathematical Logic (1967), Stephen Kleene addresses a central activity of software engineering through his introduction of tally-based Turing machines. Yet in doing so, he inadvertently builds a subtle form of impredicativity into his theory: he implicitly defines the semantics of Turing computability by appealing to the very

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 30 January 2026

Joy, Learning, and Emotional Intelligence: Confucian Wisdom in Dialogue with the Bible and Contemporary Social Science

Ann-Marie Hsiung

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 126-141 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.749

Confucian philosophy has shaped East Asia’s moral, social and educational life and still offers resources for human growth, yet its relevance is often underestimated. This article re-examines three interlocking themes—joy (le 樂 ), learning (xue 學 ), and self cultivation (xiushen 修 身 )—in conversation with the contemporary framew

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 1 February 2026

Authenticity without Essence: A Buddhist-Cognitive Critique of the ‘True Self’ in Spiritual Identity

Heather Kempton

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 142-169 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.889

The concept of a ‘true self’ remains central to many contemporary spiritual narratives, often serving as a benchmark for authenticity and personal growth. However, this notion typically rests on essentialist assumptions that are increasingly challenged by both Buddhist philosophy and cognitive science. Drawing on the Buddhist do

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 10 February 2026

Philosophy's Independence in Modernity: The Temporality of Myth and "Equality of Intelligences" as Conditions for Cultivating the Philosophical Environment

Nikita Konstantinovich Nekliudov, Siyana Vitalievna Shchepanovskaya

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 170–187 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.959

Contemporary mass interest in self-improvement and mindfulness requires philosophy to solve the problems of a modern soul no worse than other initiatives in the field of mind ecology. However, professional philosophers lose the philosophy and reduce it, for example, to teaching critical thinking. It often turns into a market pro

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 27 March 2026

Cultural and Aesthetic Agency at the Intersection of Art and Economics

Robert Gordon

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 188–198 · 10.55121/prr.v3i1.651

An important element in understanding human life and history is how market forces and economic development relate to the creation and distribution of the significant artifacts of culture. The relationship between art and economics is important because commercial activity is a primary means by which humans sustain life amid the v

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