humanities – Hossein Jorjani

Excursus 103 – The Moral Responsibility of Scholarly Communities

Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 05 The twentieth century profoundly altered the relationship between scholarship, politics, and society. The unprecedented destructive capacity demonstrated during the two World Wars—culminating in genocide, strategic bombing, and nuclear weapons—led many intellectuals to question whether scientific and scholarly activity could be regarded as morally neutral. Organized knowledgeContinue reading “Excursus 103 – The Moral Responsibility of Scholarly Communities”

Excursus 055 – On Mental Faculties and the Division of Academic Disciplines

Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 18 The traditional division of the human mind into faculties such as sensation, perception, memory, imagination, understanding, reason, judgment, emotion, and will should not be understood as a map of sharply separated regions within the brain. These faculties are better regarded as functional distinctions: analytical categories usedContinue reading “Excursus 055 – On Mental Faculties and the Division of Academic Disciplines”