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Controlling Animals: Carl von Heß, Karl von Frisch, and the Study of Color Vision in Fish
In the 1910s, physiologist Carl von Heß and zoologist Karl von Frisch studied color vision in fish. In what follows, I first show what types of...
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Controlling the Unobservable: Experimental Strategies and Hypotheses in Discovering the Causal Origin of Brownian Movement
This chapter focuses on the experimental practices and reasoning strategies employed in nineteenth century investigations on the causal origin of the...
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One Myrtle Proves Nothing: Repeated Comparative Experiments and the Growing Awareness of the Difficulty of Conducting Conclusive Experiments
This chapter focuses on physicists from across Europe who, between the mid-1740s and the mid-1780s, investigated whether electricity promoted plant...
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Introduction
This volume includes selected essays by invited contributors on the social philosophy and the philosophy of science of the Hungarian-British polymath...
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Concluding Remarks
I reflect on the openness of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, the contingency of consciousness and existence, as well as the philosophy that is meant...
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On the Relationship Between Education and Emancipation
This chapter provides a brief history of the concept of emancipation and its applications in and relationship with education, starting with the...
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The Anthropocene Subject and Emancipation: The Challenge of “Emancipatory” Pedagogy in an Era of Climate Crisis
In “What is Enlightenment?” Kant (1784) proposed the close connection between the Enlightenment political project, the aims of education and the...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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Introduction: Practices, Strategies, and Methodologies of Experimental Control in Historical Perspective
The introduction distinguishes four distinct strands in the history of experimental control. The first is the historical development of control...
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Controlling Nature in the Lab and Beyond: Methodological Predicaments in Nineteenth-Century Botany
Botany changed dramatically in the nineteenth century, particularly in German-speaking countries, and an important part of this change was the...
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Perfect and Imperfect Sympathy in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy
This chapter shows in what sense sympathy would be central to understanding Smith’s conception of harmony between oneself and others. Specifically,...
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Schuster’s Interpretation of Descartes in Descartes Agonistes
Most historians of science contrast Descartes’ verbally formulated (and in many respects mistaken) physics with Galileo’s and Newton’s mathematical...
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Abelard on Grounding in Ontology and Logic
Contemporary discussions of grounding have found an historical ancestor for their claims in Aristotle’s appeal to the four causes. In this paper I...
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Up in the Air: Buridan’s Principled Rejection of Grounding
The fourteenth-century theorist Jean Buridan claimed that in a thoroughly bivalent framework central semantic concepts such as truth and...
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Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus on the Causation of Proper and Inseparable Accidents
Medieval philosophers such as Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus defended the possibility of what I call self-agency, the view that substances bring...
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Emotions in Renaissance Philosophy
The philosophical study of the emotions during the Renaissance constitutes a rather multifaceted phenomenon. Emotions were discussed in many...
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A New Case Study Pedagogy for Teaching Psychoanalytic Theory
This chapter introduces the Cultural Encounters Case Study Method, a new theoretical-experiential pedagogy for teaching clinical concepts from...
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Spatial Behavior Data in Virtual Conference: Proximity and Network Analysis
Recent advances in virtual environments have extended real-life activities to virtual spaces, thereby generating enormous amounts of data on spatial...
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The Forms of Traditional Chinese Aesthetic Spirit
Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the nature and discipline of beautybeautydiscipline of beauty and aesthetic responsesaestheticsaesthetic...
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The Expressive Spirit of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
The term “expression” mentioned here is an abbreviated term for “expressionism,” which refers to the expression of the subject’s spirit. It is an...