Papers by PLAMEN N . NIKOLOV, PhD
International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, Dec 2, 2024
Philosophical categories focus on both emotional and evaluative meanings and become forms of worl... more Philosophical categories focus on both emotional and evaluative meanings and become forms of worldview. They make people experience the world, and thanks to thisthey are again transformed into cultural universals, and thus become established as cultural foundations. The analytic attitude to philosophizing in New European culture takes place primarily in the form of a scientism orientation. Philosophy in the European context is often built in the image of science and is oriented to the highest degree towards the analysis of those worldly consequences that give rise to fundamental scientific achievements. It is also in this discourse that the understanding of philosophy as the science of the most general laws of nature, society, and thought emerges.
The Necessity of Philosophizing Science, Nov 16, 2024
The necessity of a long and difficult evolution of the whole world-perceiving complex in science,... more The necessity of a long and difficult evolution of the whole world-perceiving complex in science, even of the very spiritual pillars of culture, leads to a rupture in the objectivity-subjectivity relation. And if this upheaval were even to the slightest degree partially overcome, philosophy and science – two of the ingredients of the cultural process – would realize the mutual conditioning of these concepts.
The inclusion of categories such as “value” and “purpose” in the structure of rationality challenges the resistance of dialecticians, because the firmly established ideals of scientists have many times more persuasiveness in the eyes of scientists than the hypothetical theses of speculative epistemology. For that reason, cardinal qualitative leaps in scientific knowledge need to revise and reform these ideals in order to become obvious and widely accepted.
IJFMR, E-ISSN: 2582-2160, Vol. 6, Issue 6, November-December , Nov 6, 2024
Turning to the accumulated philosophical knowledge, the scientist almost always discovers that th... more Turning to the accumulated philosophical knowledge, the scientist almost always discovers that there are ideas in it which are far ahead of their time, but which can help in solving scientific problems of quite another historical epoch. In this respect one of the most revealing examples are associated with the discovery of heliocentrism and the General Theory of Relativity. Philosophical ideas and principles immanent in one or another particular science and serving for the solution of some problem of it form the very philosophical foundations of the given science. These, in turn, are by no means identical with the whole body of knowledge which philosophy creates.
By reflecting on the foundations of science and turning to the analysis of its arbitrary forms – namely cosmology – philosophical reflection elaborates ideas and principles that can play an essential role in a certain stage of scientific inquiry.
International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, Oct 23, 2024
The state of European science at the end of the sixteenth century resembles a kind of epistemolog... more The state of European science at the end of the sixteenth century resembles a kind of epistemological
chaos in which there are no clear landmarks and boundaries of the world. Not surprisingly, as some order
took shape within it, the revival of science began. It should not be forgotten, moreover, that the word
"order" itself is etymologized as cosmos, and the discipline that studies it is cosmology. That is why the
first fundamental works on astronomy – Copernicus's “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” and
Galileo's “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican” – bear such
pretentious titles, because they aim to put the whole "world system" in order.
The concepts of scientific determination and the objects of cognition must be present in the problem field
of the cognitive process, and the problems of knowledge translation and communicability between the
subjects of cognition, as well as the extremely complicated interdependencies between the agency of the
scientist and his cultural-historical context, should directly and unconcernedly raise the question of
defining the range of epistemic values in which the value of truth a priori could not be put in contradiction
to the value of one’s outer for the phenomenon heuristic potential or to the consistency of the relevant
scientific noosphere.
International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research, Jul 12, 2024
Belief no longer needs a ready-made picture of the world, in which consciousness can simply be
tr... more Belief no longer needs a ready-made picture of the world, in which consciousness can simply be
transported through it in order to feel itself. The community of minds of the concept of faith, which is
equally accepted by all of them, is not necessary for the individual to self-identify. It chooses by itself
what to believe and defines the concept of faith itself. Faith in its religious version becomes a necessary
condition for the integrity of human consciousness.
It is worth considering whether the abstract concepts defined in the mind of Homo Sapiens or its eventual
desomatised aethereal being would have the same or similar connotations in the artificial variant of
intelligence they created, bearing in mind that their creation presumably does not have a classical
evolutionary component, nor a biochemical carrier to bind it to previous experience in the likeness of its
creator.
Open journal of philosophy, 2024
Time is an overall attribute of being. It means one can describe through it everything in the wor... more Time is an overall attribute of being. It means one can describe through it everything in the world. This, however, leads to a formal absurd-what happens when we try to define a concept in predicative manner if it has no predicates? It is not time which forms the attributes of physical phenomena, but on the contrary-it self-defines itself in the outlines of different processes within the material world, i.e. time should have been understood in a derivative way on the background of its master-the personal mind. The paper points out that the superior position of mind in relation to time-like the set that immanently defines its elements in addition to itself-could be dropped in a cognitive sense. Just as modern physics understands time and space as a unified space-time continuum, so the temporality of the pure mind would be identified with its infinite being. The structure of the paper stipulates the application of interdisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of time aiming to define the question about its essence as a standalone scientific matter.
Advances in anthropology, 2024
The idea about time within the outlines of philosophical anthropology erases the boundary between... more The idea about time within the outlines of philosophical anthropology erases the boundary between the cognitive intentions of the philosophical and nonphilosophically oriented knowledge as well as it tries to raise the question about the comprehension of time within consciousness in the context of a total cognitive theory. The paper displays how the most significant thinkers within the history of the philosophical reflection on time up until the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century aim (even intuitively) critically to distinguish themselves from the non-philosophical visions of temporality. However, we believe this is an undertaking in vain, because we claim there is a cognitive discipline which can unify the entire knowledge about time and not keeping it only in the realms of specific fragmented regional ontologies, i.e. philosophical anthropology.
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research, Mar 23, 2024
The paper describes the mutual correlation between the complex systems and the simple ones throug... more The paper describes the mutual correlation between the complex systems and the simple ones through the prism of the micro based entities like viruses. The carbon based biochemical beings in their capacity of complex systems are in a constant coexistence with viruses representing the simplest biological system, which unintendedly may destroy their host. On the other hand, the digital viruses also operate in an environment, where they can spread causing the same consequences for the complex system they use as a host. The article explicitly shows what are the similarities between the two entities, which can cause the same ontological outcomes, although they belong to different evolutionary paradigms.
PHAENOMENOLOGY AND LIVED PHASES OF PERCEIVED TIME, 2024
The paper represents an analysis of the concept for reflection in the context of Husserl's idea o... more The paper represents an analysis of the concept for reflection in the context of Husserl's idea of the absolute flux of consciousness and phenomenological concept of time in its complexity. In the first place, the goal here is to isolate the core of Husserl's understanding of subjectivity as the interconnection of different levels of temporariness. In the second place, the paper contributes for the correlation of the general premises of phenomenological method with the concrete intentional analysis, and thirdly – to specifically show the basic contradictions in regard to phenomenology: the reflection as a basis of the phenomenological method, which proclaimed "motion to objects themselves", there is, actually, a motion from the objects, because turning to the reflection is a rotation from the objective space and time, from the objective being of nature as a whole, from the objective practical and social activity to the subjectivity as their sole actual basis.
Journal Phhilosophy, 1996
В главата се разглежда в антропологичен аспект понятието "страх", което остава непреодолима психо... more В главата се разглежда в антропологичен аспект понятието "страх", което остава непреодолима психологическа движеща сила при съвременния начин на живот.
ГОДИШЕН АЛМАНАХ, 1995
Предизвикателствата пред човешкото мислене са най-големите изпитания, на които подлагаме сами себ... more Предизвикателствата пред човешкото мислене са най-големите изпитания, на които подлагаме сами себе си. И ето още едно - що е философия?
Има случаи, в които предварително знаем, че въпросът, който ни занимава, открай време е бил "препъникамък" за велики умове и все пак се втурваме в търсене на истината.
Философски четения, 2002
Ако ситуираме понятията "темпоралност" и "интерсубективност" в схемата на взаимна обусловеност ил... more Ако ситуираме понятията "темпоралност" и "интерсубективност" в схемата на взаимна обусловеност или метафизична отрицаемост, несъмнено ще открием доста повече форми на органична и изначална несъвместимост.
Въпреки това, тези два концепта играят значителна роля във феноменологичната традиция - както в нейната предистория, така и в посткласическите й послания.
Акцентът в изследването на тези две понятия се поставя по-скоро върху това какво те сами по себе си представляват, отколкото как биха могли да се свържат в релевантно отношение.
ЕТЕРОИД - ОПИТ ВЪРХУ ЛИШЕНАТА ОТ ТЕЛЕСНОСТ ЧОВЕШКА ПРИРОДА, 2022
Монографията поставя въпроса за бъдещето на човека в контекста на онтологичното предизвикателство... more Монографията поставя въпроса за бъдещето на човека в контекста на онтологичното предизвикателство, отправено му от изкуствения интелект и възможността за съществуването на саморефлектиращ разум извън конвенционалната форма на съзнание.
Текстът предоставя отговори на много питания, които съвременната емпирична наука просто загатва, а философите отбягват.
Gewissenangst - Угризения на съвестта, 1998
Превод от немски език на XXIII глава от книгата "Общуване със страха"на Хорст-Еберхард Рихтер
Fear of the Universe - metaphysical dread or creative impulse, 2003
Anthropological fear in its qualitative transcendence stands up in a position of inner transparen... more Anthropological fear in its qualitative transcendence stands up in a position of inner transparency just because its supernatural character. In this case we might use a sui generis reversive approach - we must release the human incarnacy and look immediately at the fear, i.e. to objectivate the fear in itself, to transform it into reality in order to be acquainted. Creation Is that force, which could fight the fear - no matter
if it is anthropological or metaphysical - without arising of some negativistic tendencies. Once anthropologically engaged with fear humans stand in an intersubjective situation with each other. But when they are risen up in front of metaphysical dread of the Universe - the very subject is noumenally alone.
Teaching Documents and References by PLAMEN N . NIKOLOV, PhD
Plamen N. Nikolov's article Reflection on the Essence of Time (2024) seeks to revisit one of phil... more Plamen N. Nikolov's article Reflection on the Essence of Time (2024) seeks to revisit one of philosophy's perennial problems-the definition and nature of time-through interdisciplinary reflection. The article argues that time, although an overall attribute of being, resists definition as a predicate and should instead be understood as derivative from the mind. While drawing upon Augustine, Kant, Bergson, and modern physics, Nikolov ultimately positions temporality as a phenomenon best explained through the immanent operations of consciousness rather than as an external, autonomous reality. This review undertakes a critical examination of Nikolov's contribution and compares his conclusions with the philosophy of S. C. Sayles, particularly as developed in CHRONOS: The Logos-Centred Chronosophy (Volume One), KAIROS: The Logos-Centred Chronosophy (Volume Two), TIME AND TIMES: The Architecture of Time, The Veritas Confirmata series, and The Recovery of the Soul: The Informational Architecture of the Mind. Points of convergence are acknowledged, particularly the priority of mind over mechanistic accounts and the rejection of time as a mere physical metric. However, significant divergences emerge, as Sayles insists upon the ontological grounding of time in the Logos and the Information Field (IΔF), thereby safeguarding temporality from subjectivism and abstraction. The review concludes that while Nikolov's study raises valuable questions, his framework risks collapsing into relativism unless anchored in a transcendental Logos-based ontology, as articulated in Sayles' metaphysical chronosophy and metaphysical anthropology.
This work offers an intriguing exploration of viruses as ontological entities, drawing parallels ... more This work offers an intriguing exploration of viruses as ontological entities, drawing parallels between biological and digital viruses, while posing significant questions about selforganization, complexity, and evolution. The author, Plamen N. Nikolov, encourages readers to contemplate viruses not merely as biological menaces but as entities with a conceptual role within broader existential frameworks. OVERVIEW In "Ontology of the Virus," Nikolov examines viruses through the dual lenses of biological and digital frameworks, proposing that these entities, despite their simplicity, possess a form of intelligence through self-organization and interaction with hosts. By likening viral behavior to complex systems and historical phenomena such as the fall of the Roman Empire, the paper enriches the dialogue on how viruses challenge the hierarchical structures of intelligence and consciousness. Implicitly drawing on transhumanist thought and dialectic logic, the author argues for a reconceptualization of how we perceive intelligence, organization, and evolution from an ontological perspective.
The paper "Culture And Philosophical Reflection" by Plamen N. Nikolov examines the complex interp... more The paper "Culture And Philosophical Reflection" by Plamen N. Nikolov examines the complex interplay between philosophy and culture, with a particular emphasis on how philosophical categories shape worldviews and cultural universals. The work argues that philosophy in European contexts has been heavily influenced by scientific thought, often assimilating scientific methods into its framework. Conceptualizing philosophy as reflective discourse, the paper delves into how it constructs, perpetuates, and critiques cultural paradigms. Implicitly, the paper rests on assumptions about the symbiotic relationship between philosophical discourse and tangible cultural shifts.
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Papers by PLAMEN N . NIKOLOV, PhD
The inclusion of categories such as “value” and “purpose” in the structure of rationality challenges the resistance of dialecticians, because the firmly established ideals of scientists have many times more persuasiveness in the eyes of scientists than the hypothetical theses of speculative epistemology. For that reason, cardinal qualitative leaps in scientific knowledge need to revise and reform these ideals in order to become obvious and widely accepted.
By reflecting on the foundations of science and turning to the analysis of its arbitrary forms – namely cosmology – philosophical reflection elaborates ideas and principles that can play an essential role in a certain stage of scientific inquiry.
chaos in which there are no clear landmarks and boundaries of the world. Not surprisingly, as some order
took shape within it, the revival of science began. It should not be forgotten, moreover, that the word
"order" itself is etymologized as cosmos, and the discipline that studies it is cosmology. That is why the
first fundamental works on astronomy – Copernicus's “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres” and
Galileo's “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican” – bear such
pretentious titles, because they aim to put the whole "world system" in order.
The concepts of scientific determination and the objects of cognition must be present in the problem field
of the cognitive process, and the problems of knowledge translation and communicability between the
subjects of cognition, as well as the extremely complicated interdependencies between the agency of the
scientist and his cultural-historical context, should directly and unconcernedly raise the question of
defining the range of epistemic values in which the value of truth a priori could not be put in contradiction
to the value of one’s outer for the phenomenon heuristic potential or to the consistency of the relevant
scientific noosphere.
transported through it in order to feel itself. The community of minds of the concept of faith, which is
equally accepted by all of them, is not necessary for the individual to self-identify. It chooses by itself
what to believe and defines the concept of faith itself. Faith in its religious version becomes a necessary
condition for the integrity of human consciousness.
It is worth considering whether the abstract concepts defined in the mind of Homo Sapiens or its eventual
desomatised aethereal being would have the same or similar connotations in the artificial variant of
intelligence they created, bearing in mind that their creation presumably does not have a classical
evolutionary component, nor a biochemical carrier to bind it to previous experience in the likeness of its
creator.
Има случаи, в които предварително знаем, че въпросът, който ни занимава, открай време е бил "препъникамък" за велики умове и все пак се втурваме в търсене на истината.
Въпреки това, тези два концепта играят значителна роля във феноменологичната традиция - както в нейната предистория, така и в посткласическите й послания.
Акцентът в изследването на тези две понятия се поставя по-скоро върху това какво те сами по себе си представляват, отколкото как биха могли да се свържат в релевантно отношение.
Текстът предоставя отговори на много питания, които съвременната емпирична наука просто загатва, а философите отбягват.
if it is anthropological or metaphysical - without arising of some negativistic tendencies. Once anthropologically engaged with fear humans stand in an intersubjective situation with each other. But when they are risen up in front of metaphysical dread of the Universe - the very subject is noumenally alone.
Teaching Documents and References by PLAMEN N . NIKOLOV, PhD