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Open 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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Open AccessPublished: 22 August 2025

Things Fall Apart in the Well of Lost Plots... Stories... Clues... Signs… Symbols... Meanings: A Philosophical Formalist Hermeneutic on Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49”

Alvin Servaña

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 141–149 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.467

Using Philosophical Formalism, I am executing a close textual examination of Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49” as a “postmodern” novel. By looking into the implications of genre and/into the supposed self-aware critico-novelistic vision of Pynchon, I cascaded this critique as follows: Part 1: the semiotic/semiological text

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Open AccessPublished: 21 August 2025

Art, Sex and the State: a Reflection on Certain Encounters between Philosophical Thinking and the Real World

Robert Adlam

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 116–140 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.529

This paper stems from the author’s practical experiences in relation to the provision of educational opportunities and the facilitation of organizational development in a number of very different institutions and real-world settings. Contrasts between the realm of philosophical inquiry and that of people in their more usual cont

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Open AccessPublished: 12 October 2024

Sartre’s ‘Freedom’ and Society: Existentialist’s Dilemma in Naturalistic View

Anirban Ghosh, Malabika Chakrabarti

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 13-25 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.203

Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different cause

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Open AccessPublished: 26 June 2026

Theoretical Roots and Practical Implications of Transhumanism

Seyithan Can

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 77–91 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102487

Transhumanism is an intellectual and philosophical movement that aims to advance human existence beyond current biological and cognitive constraints through the strategic application of science and technology. At its core, it engages with speculative and practical questions concerning the enhancement, transformation, and potenti

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Open 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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Open AccessPublished: 15 March 2025

Phantom Objectivity: Intersubjective Knowledge in Complex Domains of Informal Structure

Jorge Rodas-Osollo, Karla Olmos-Sánchez

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1–24 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.366

This paper advances three interconnected logical claims: First, that epistemological neutrality is fundamentally unattainable due to inherent cognitive, social and historical contingencies; second, that intersubjective frameworks offer a viable alternative to both naïve objectivism and radical relativism; and third, that Complex

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Open AccessPublished: 20 October 2026

Reconceptualizing the Philosophy of Penal Legitimacy: Human Dignity and an Integrated Theory of Criminal Justice

Md Sohel Rana

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 29–45 · 10.55121/prr.v4i1.103283

Criminal punishment represents an ongoing challenge to normative justification because it involves the state’s use of coercive power against people who are believed to be guilty of misconduct. This study explores how the concepts of retributivism, consequentialism, communicativeness, restitution, rehabilitation, dignity-based me

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Open AccessPublished: 18 October 2026

The Ontology of Growth Mindset: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Synthesis of Carol S. Dweck’s Empirical Psychology and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Theological Epistemology

Piet Hizbullah Khaidir, Revoluna Zyde Khaidir, Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, Anis Ulfiyatin, Andri Nirwana

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 1–28 · 10.55121/prr.v4i1.101552

Since its conceptualisation in modern cognitive psychology, the growth mindset paradigm has profoundly shaped academic discourses on human cognitive malleability and existential self-transformation. However, its prevailing secular framing often lacks ontological depth regarding human agency. This article undertakes a cross-cultu

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Open AccessPublished: 9 October 2026

The Age of Machines: Anders on Work, Alienation and Promethean Gap

Federico Monaro

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 163–175 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.101941

This article examines Günther Anders’s critical reflection on the human condition in technological modernity, focusing on the central concepts of the “obsolescence of man” and the Promethean Gap. The latter describes the widening disproportion between the productive power of machines and the limited cognitive, moral, and imagina

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