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Open AccessPublished: 30 May 2026

From Experience to Concept: Nominalization and the Formation of Philosophical Meaning in Everyday Life

Maryna Tsehelska, Olena Ilienko

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 43–61 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102359

Philosophical inquiry has traditionally approached abstract notions such as responsibility, resilience, and meaning as products of sophisticated theoretical reasoning, while paying comparatively limited attention to the ways in which these constructs arise from ordinary human experience. This paper seeks to address this imbalanc

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Open AccessPublished: 29 May 2026

Law as Psychic Ontology: Prohibition, Fantasy, and the Affective Life of Authority

Vered Ben David

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 30–42 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.1259

This paper argues that law operates not only as an institutional or political order, but also as a psychic formation embedded within affect, desire, and recognition. The endurance of legal authority cannot be explained solely through coercion, consent, or procedural legitimacy. It also depends on how legality becomes internalize

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Open 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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Open AccessPublished: 19 October 2024

Thought-Shaping, Reflection and the Refractive Element

Otto Paans

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 39-54 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.278

Is it possible to think beyond the structuring and directing influences of thought-shaping? Or, phrased differently, how can thought-shaping be genuinely free and creative? My response in this essay is that we must move beyond the idea of thought-shaping as mere awareness or critical reflection. As I show, the notion of reflecti

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Open AccessPublished: 29 June 2026

Cultural Extensibility and the Ethics of Cohabitation: Exclusionary Identity, Anti-Blackness, and the Ontology of Culture

Viateur Nkurunziza

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 124–140 · 10.55121/prr.v3i2.102510

This philosophical article examines the ontological assumptions underlying exclusionary claims of cultural preservation and racialised belonging. Contemporary debates on cultural identity frequently oscillate between pluralist recognition and defensive forms of exclusion, yet they rarely interrogate the conception of culture tha

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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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