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The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions the role of language in cognition and the origins of language were present in the essay contests of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and the take of philosopher Pierre Louis Maupertuis on the relations between language and thought as well as the origins of language.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions in the Cartesian scheme, the notion of the mind-body union was explicated by a repeated reference to the concept of ‘institution, in addition to having famously mechanized the human body, Descartes and the Cartesians that followed afterwards described the human body consistently in terms pertaining to semiotic artefacts.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions Johann Georg Hamann discussed the relations between language and thought as well as the origins of language, and is of the opinion of reciprocal influence between language and opinions, however, he observes that some writers are more dependent on the language and the opinions it expresses than others.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder prefigured some of the more Romantic visions of the role of language in building nationhood developed later by Alexander von Humboldt, along with the relations between language and thought as well as the origins of language.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions Julien Offray de La Mettrie seems to encounter the abbé as if by chance, just by walking along the same streets, reaching similar or sometimes practically identical conclusions concerning language and the formation of the human mind without any explicit or implicit reference to the abbé's works.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions possibility or impossibility of reducing human nature to functions that are natural, mainly sensation, was also an important theme and subject of disputes in the writings of David Hume. It also mentions Hume's discussion on how impressions and ideas are associated or related to each other is confined mostly to the psychological level of description, referring only occasionally to the traces in the brain.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions English philosopher Thomas Hobbes discussed the role of signs in human cognition without, however, insisting on the necessity of culture for this to take place, and thought that due to the close union of the soul with the body, culture and language do affect our mind by causing changes in our body, mainly in the brain, which in turn affect the mind.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition. It mentions English philosopher John Locke's place in the story is justified by his discussions of the way language helps to build complex ideas and by provoking some of his later readers and critics such as Condillac into presenting more radical views on the necessity of language for human mental functions.

The article focuses on the role of culture and language in cognition, along with cartesian philosophy. It mentions the close union of the soul with the body, culture and language do affect our mind by causing changes in our body, mainly in the brain, which in turn affect the mind, and René Descartes thought that the possession of language is a criterion for being able to think,7 neither he nor his followers actually considered that thinking depends on language.

The article focuses on analysis of philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce philosophy with assessment of relation between pragmatism and semiotics. Topics discussed include consideration of pragmatism as major project by philosophers that semiotics; approach of Peirce for development of pragmatism as scientific philosophy that is considered as an anti-Cartesian; and collaboration of pragmatism and semiotics through pragmatist maxim conditions by Peirce.

An essay discusses the philosophical exchange between philosophers Richard Rorty and Richard Bernstein is presented. It mentioned Bernstein's critique of Rorty's Cartesian Anxiety. It further discussed Bernstein's pragmatic fallibilist to channel the poetic imagination of the liberal ironist into avenues where democrats can put them to the test.

An essay discusses the Spectre of "Cartesian Anxiety" and the objectivism/relativism dichotomy is presented. Philosopher Richard Bernstein's diagnosed that Cartesian anxiety is caused by the profound conviction held by modern philosophers. It further discussed Bernstein's most important contribution that objectivism/relativism dichotomy militates against efforts to live within the realm of practical reason.

An essay discusses thesis of philosopher Richard Bernstein in his book "Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis" published in 1983 is presented. His thesis reflects that the dispute between objectivism and relativism is misguided. Topics discussed includes Cartesian Anxiety, classical American pragmatism and traditional approaches to the problems of objectivity.

The article presents the author's insights on the history of metaphysics in relation to the problem of truth and justice, as derived from philosopher Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the works of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Topics discussed include Heidegger's lectures which account Nietzsche's Cartesianism, the importance of justice in rethinking the essence of truth within the history of Being, and modernity's nihilism in its disjunction between human beings and Being.