Luis De Miranda
Biographic Data
| ID | 459801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis De Miranda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | De Miranda |
| SIGNATURE | DE MIRANDA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5875-9851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bioethics as bios ethikos
Drawing on a genealogical analysis of the distinction between zoē (biological life as organic functioning) and bios (a distinctively human way of life shaped by meaning, orientation, and evaluative practice), the article reconceives bioethics as bios ethikos : ethical reflection on the conditions under which forms of life become meaningful and inhabitable. It introduces the notion of the existential remainder to describe the ethically significant…
Tetractys of philosophical health: A structured approach to aligning personal cosmology, higher purpose, and practices of the compossible
This article introduces the Tetractys of Philosophical Health, a structured visual exercise inspired by the Pythagorean tetractys that facilitates alignment between an individual’s cosmological worldview, sense of purpose, and practical engagement with the world. This heuristic exercise is methodologically grounded through multi-layered convergent indications from cognitive load theory, affective neuroscience, neuroplasticity research, ancient wi…
The philosophical health compass: A new and comprehensive assessment tool for researching existential dimensions of wellbeing
This paper introduces the Philosophical Health Compass (PHC), a quantitative assessment tool designed to complement qualitative research methods in investigating philosophical aspects of human wellbeing. The PHC evaluates six dimensions of philosophical health identified through previous research: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and philosophical sense. While qualitative approaches in phil…
The Crealectic Method: From Creativity to Compossibility
Can we fruitfully apply creative ecology practices in the world of industrial production? Enter the crealectic method for innovation and self-innovation, aiming at fostering creative long-term thinking and acting. The crealectic method proposes five steps: Step 1-Resetting (doing tabula rasa); Step 2-Crealing (reconnecting with the "Creal"); Step 3-Profusing (letting ideas pour out without censorship); Step 4-Compossibilizing (connecting compatib…
Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction
What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense. Luis d…
Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health
The present article is a primary introduction to the semi-structured interviewing method SMILE_PH, an acronym for Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health. Beyond grounding this new methodology theoretically (a work that is started here but will in the future necessitate several developments), the main motivation here is pragmatic: to provide the recent philosophical health movement with a testable method and show that …
Worlding with the Creal: Autonomous Intelligence and Philosophical Practice
Philosophical practice is guided by an ideal of autonomous intelligence: to think for oneself. But is a fully autonomous form of intelligence possible? Autonomy in thinking may be thought to be relative or absolute. First, one may imagine an asymptotic social process of self-ruling; in this case, to become philosophically healthy would then mean to become more virtuous and more autonomous cognitively, relative to others or to a previous version o…
Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue
This article is the fruit of a written dialogue between a sociocultural psychologist and a philosopher invested in the study of the Creative Real, in a context that resonates with process philosophy and posthumanism. Each of the two authors come from a different tradition (or, rather, different traditions) to the topic of posthuman creativity and their approaches overlap considerably but include as well important points of difference, ranging fro…
Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
In a world described or experienced as unfair, what can philosophical practitioners propose in order to help individuals and communities strive for a meaningful life? One answer, empirically informed by the author's practice as philosophical counselor in therapeutic, self-care and organizational contexts, is five principles for the cultivation of philosophical health, namely mental heroism, deep orientation, critical creativity, deep listening, a…
Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history? Unveils the hidden and conflicting ideologies at stake behind the concept of esprit de corps and its contemporary uses Focuses on the discursive uses of esprit de corps in various transnational contexts and in the long term, from 1700 to present times Combines intellectual history, cultural history, philosophy, history of ideas, discourse analysis, political theory and labour history Offers a fresh…
Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century
In this chapter, the birth of the phrase is evidenced in Montesquieu as well as in military discourse, several decades before what is generally admitted by dictionaries. In the eighteenth century, the notion of esprit de corps developed into a fierce critical weapon, a combat concept bred by social philosophers. Firstly targeting religious groups, chief among them the Jesuits, it would later, in the name of national interest, point at social grou…
Ensemblance
Esprit de Corps: A Timeline
Lettres de Nedim Coggia, by Germain de Saint-Foix, praises the esprit de corps of the French musketeers.1752 D'Alembert, in the Encyclopédie, criticises the anti-national esprit du corps of the Jesuits.1755Voltaire, in the Encyclopédie, distinguishes esprit de corps from its supposedly worse version, esprit de parti.In the same volume, Diderot, more critical, suggests that the Encyclopaedists must avoid catching the esprit de corps by remaining o…
Artificial intelligence and philosophical creativity: From analytics to crealectics
The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an “anthrobotic” horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here a…
Big data, small concepts: Histosophy as an approach to longue-durée history
In this essay, we sketch out a method, histosophy, which makes possible the study of intellectual history and conceptual genealogy both in depth and over long periods of time. Histosophy uses digital tools to survey ‘large issues within small compasses.’ A genealogy of signifiers, it considers metonymic parts of a problem in order to contribute precisely and coherently to a larger perspective. We outline the theoretical contours of our approach. …
This national esprit de corps’: A short deconstruction of a reappearing spirit
In 2016, a few months before he was chosen to be the British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis wrote online: When people arrive in the UK the general response is one of
"Life Is Strange and "Games Are Made: A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator With Copilot Sartre
The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre's script for the movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally "games are made") uses the same narrative strategy as Life is St…
Is A New Life Possible? Deleuze and the Lines
In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts that: ‘Whether we are individuals or groups, we are made of lines’ ( Deleuze and Parnet 2007 : 124). In A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari), Deleuze calls these kinds of ‘lifelines’ or ‘lines of flesh’: break line (or segmental line, or molar line), crack line (or molecular line) and rupture line (also called line of flight) ( Deleuze and Guattari 2004a : 22). We will explain the difference bet…
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Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
In a world described or experienced as unfair, what can philosophical practitioners propose in order to help individuals and communities strive for a meaningful life? One answer, empirically informed by the author's practice as philosophical counselor in therapeutic, self-care and organizational contexts, is five principles for the cultivation of philosophical health, namely mental heroism, deep orientation, critical creativity, deep listening, a…
"Life Is Strange and "Games Are Made: A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator With Copilot Sartre
The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre's script for the movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally "games are made") uses the same narrative strategy as Life is St…
Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health
The present article is a primary introduction to the semi-structured interviewing method SMILE_PH, an acronym for Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health. Beyond grounding this new methodology theoretically (a work that is started here but will in the future necessitate several developments), the main motivation here is pragmatic: to provide the recent philosophical health movement with a testable method and show that …
Artificial intelligence and philosophical creativity: From analytics to crealectics
The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an “anthrobotic” horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here a…
Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction
What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense. Luis d…
FluXX
est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Is A New Life Possible? Deleuze and the Lines
In his dialogues with Claire Parnet, Deleuze asserts that: ‘Whether we are individuals or groups, we are made of lines’ ( Deleuze and Parnet 2007 : 124). In A Thousand Plateaus (with Guattari), Deleuze calls these kinds of ‘lifelines’ or ‘lines of flesh’: break line (or segmental line, or molar line), crack line (or molecular line) and rupture line (also called line of flight) ( Deleuze and Guattari 2004a : 22). We will explain the difference bet…
This national esprit de corps’: A short deconstruction of a reappearing spirit
In 2016, a few months before he was chosen to be the British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis wrote online: When people arrive in the UK the general response is one of
"Life Is Strange and "Games Are Made: A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator With Copilot Sartre
The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre's script for the movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally "games are made") uses the same narrative strategy as Life is St…
Big data, small concepts: Histosophy as an approach to longue-durée history
In this essay, we sketch out a method, histosophy, which makes possible the study of intellectual history and conceptual genealogy both in depth and over long periods of time. Histosophy uses digital tools to survey ‘large issues within small compasses.’ A genealogy of signifiers, it considers metonymic parts of a problem in order to contribute precisely and coherently to a larger perspective. We outline the theoretical contours of our approach. …
Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
Is esprit de corps the secret engine of history? Unveils the hidden and conflicting ideologies at stake behind the concept of esprit de corps and its contemporary uses Focuses on the discursive uses of esprit de corps in various transnational contexts and in the long term, from 1700 to present times Combines intellectual history, cultural history, philosophy, history of ideas, discourse analysis, political theory and labour history Offers a fresh…
Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
Musketeers and Jesuits: The French Birth of Esprit de Corps in the Eighteenth Century
In this chapter, the birth of the phrase is evidenced in Montesquieu as well as in military discourse, several decades before what is generally admitted by dictionaries. In the eighteenth century, the notion of esprit de corps developed into a fierce critical weapon, a combat concept bred by social philosophers. Firstly targeting religious groups, chief among them the Jesuits, it would later, in the name of national interest, point at social grou…
Ensemblance
Esprit de Corps: A Timeline
Lettres de Nedim Coggia, by Germain de Saint-Foix, praises the esprit de corps of the French musketeers.1752 D'Alembert, in the Encyclopédie, criticises the anti-national esprit du corps of the Jesuits.1755Voltaire, in the Encyclopédie, distinguishes esprit de corps from its supposedly worse version, esprit de parti.In the same volume, Diderot, more critical, suggests that the Encyclopaedists must avoid catching the esprit de corps by remaining o…
Artificial intelligence and philosophical creativity: From analytics to crealectics
The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an “anthrobotic” horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here a…
Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
In a world described or experienced as unfair, what can philosophical practitioners propose in order to help individuals and communities strive for a meaningful life? One answer, empirically informed by the author's practice as philosophical counselor in therapeutic, self-care and organizational contexts, is five principles for the cultivation of philosophical health, namely mental heroism, deep orientation, critical creativity, deep listening, a…
Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue
This article is the fruit of a written dialogue between a sociocultural psychologist and a philosopher invested in the study of the Creative Real, in a context that resonates with process philosophy and posthumanism. Each of the two authors come from a different tradition (or, rather, different traditions) to the topic of posthuman creativity and their approaches overlap considerably but include as well important points of difference, ranging fro…
Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health
The present article is a primary introduction to the semi-structured interviewing method SMILE_PH, an acronym for Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health. Beyond grounding this new methodology theoretically (a work that is started here but will in the future necessitate several developments), the main motivation here is pragmatic: to provide the recent philosophical health movement with a testable method and show that …
Worlding with the Creal: Autonomous Intelligence and Philosophical Practice
Philosophical practice is guided by an ideal of autonomous intelligence: to think for oneself. But is a fully autonomous form of intelligence possible? Autonomy in thinking may be thought to be relative or absolute. First, one may imagine an asymptotic social process of self-ruling; in this case, to become philosophically healthy would then mean to become more virtuous and more autonomous cognitively, relative to others or to a previous version o…
Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction
What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense. Luis d…
Tetractys of philosophical health: A structured approach to aligning personal cosmology, higher purpose, and practices of the compossible
This article introduces the Tetractys of Philosophical Health, a structured visual exercise inspired by the Pythagorean tetractys that facilitates alignment between an individual’s cosmological worldview, sense of purpose, and practical engagement with the world. This heuristic exercise is methodologically grounded through multi-layered convergent indications from cognitive load theory, affective neuroscience, neuroplasticity research, ancient wi…
The philosophical health compass: A new and comprehensive assessment tool for researching existential dimensions of wellbeing
This paper introduces the Philosophical Health Compass (PHC), a quantitative assessment tool designed to complement qualitative research methods in investigating philosophical aspects of human wellbeing. The PHC evaluates six dimensions of philosophical health identified through previous research: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and philosophical sense. While qualitative approaches in phil…
The Crealectic Method: From Creativity to Compossibility
Can we fruitfully apply creative ecology practices in the world of industrial production? Enter the crealectic method for innovation and self-innovation, aiming at fostering creative long-term thinking and acting. The crealectic method proposes five steps: Step 1-Resetting (doing tabula rasa); Step 2-Crealing (reconnecting with the "Creal"); Step 3-Profusing (letting ideas pour out without censorship); Step 4-Compossibilizing (connecting compatib…
Bioethics as bios ethikos
Drawing on a genealogical analysis of the distinction between zoē (biological life as organic functioning) and bios (a distinctively human way of life shaped by meaning, orientation, and evaluative practice), the article reconceives bioethics as bios ethikos : ethical reflection on the conditions under which forms of life become meaningful and inhabitable. It introduces the notion of the existential remainder to describe the ethically significant…
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