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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: 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 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: 13 June 2025

Rethinking Death: A Philosophical and Biomedical Model of Ontological Priority

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 95–115 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.501

This study introduces a new conceptual model of death that repositions it as an ontologically primary state—one that occurs before and initiates the biological processes traditionally associated with dying. Challenging the conventional linear sequence of life → dying → death, the paper argues that death should not be defined by

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Open AccessPublished: 26 September 2025

Ubuntu as a Normative Ethic of Empowerment: A Philosophical Critique of Faith-Based Vocational Training in a Pentecostal Church

Revi  Zhakata, Rodwell Kumbirai Wuta

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 178–190 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.620

This paper explores Ubuntu as a normative ethic to critically assess empowerment claims in a Pentecostal vocational training program in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. As Pentecostalism influences socio-economic development across Africa, it raises ethical questions about alignment with indigenous African values. Ubuntu, rooted in relati

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Open AccessPublished: 16 October 2024

Justice, Democracy, and Freedom in the Middle Ages: The Fables by Marie de France

Albrecht Classen

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 26–38 · 10.55121/prr.v1i1.367

It might be surprising, and yet it can certainly be confirmed that the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France offered in her Fables (ca. 1190) a wide range of political, social, moral, and philosophical notions about the way people within her society should and could live together in a peaceful, just, and respectful manner. She did n

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