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The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic
The Great Instauration, a Baconian project, is a form of active fallibilism about natural knowledge. The practice is borrowed from Plato’s new form...
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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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[Rationality vs. Authority] Versus [Rationality + Authority]
The list of precepts for rationality runs up against Chap. 6 ’s paradox that is nonetheless central to the...
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Knowledge as a Leap of Faith
Wahman argues that Santayana’s account of knowledge as a leap of faith is a unique, important, and underappreciated contribution to epistemology. She...
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Introduction
George Santayana (1863–1952) believed that a philosophy of orthodox common sense exists beneath all major systems of philosophy and religion. This...
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The Spatial Languages of Virtual Production: Critiquing Softwarization with Aesthetic Analysis
The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently...
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Artist and Agency: Technologies for Exploring Self and Place
This chapter explores how software-based compositional processes can be used to explore relationships between self and place. The process of creating...
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Dolby Atmos Music and the Production of Risk
The launch of Dolby Atmos in 2012 marked a significant development in commercial surround sound, allowing for audio to be positioned above as well as...
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Der Mathematiker in Wien. Die Unvollständigkeitssätze
Bis Mitte Oktober 1929 hatte Gödel alles getan, um seine Promotion abzuschließen und die Ergebnisse zu veröffentlichen, und er konnte nur darauf...
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Further Considerations of the Most Explanatory Theory of Rationality*: Does It Do Justice to Rationality and Humanity?
This chapter contends that the best theory of rationality (qualified in the text by an asterisk “*,” which is to be dropped) is that with the...
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Berechenbarkeit: Post, Gödel, Church, Turing (und viele andere)
Kurt Gödels Arbeit hatte weitreichende Auswirkungen, über die eher spezialisierten Bereiche der mathematischen Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik...
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Epilog
Zum Zeitpunkt dieser Niederschrift sind seit dem Beginn von Kurt Gödels schwierigem letzten Jahr etwas mehr als 45 Jahre vergangen. Seine Generation...
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Fragen der Gesundheit
Für Kurt Gödel war seine Gesundheit – sowohl die geistige als auch die körperliche – fast sein ganzes Leben lang ein wichtiges Thema. Und sie war...
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Ways and Sideways of Emancipation: Dewey’s Reception in Different Political Eras of an Other-Than-Western Context
The aim of this chapter is to highlight how emancipatory educational ideas of one and the same author (here John Dewey) are always interpreted...
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Education for Emancipating Teachers
Each educative practice always rests on an explicit or implicit philosophy of education that can be aimed at promoting very different political and...
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Emancipatory Education Through an Inclusion of Minority Political Views: Exploring the Concept of Indoctrination
The focus of this chapter is on defining indoctrination from the stance of political studies so that it could be useful for education. Its novelty...
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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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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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Develo** Feminist-Decolonial-Capabilities for Emancipatory Pedagogy: A Case of Gulf-Arab Women’s Learner-Positionalities
To build expansive conceptions of emancipatory pedagogy, this theoretical study develops a novel framework of feminist-decolonial-capabilities to...
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Umzug nach Wien. Studentenleben
Im Oktober 1924, einige Monate nach Abschluss seiner Matura in Brünn, ging Kurt Gödel nach Wien, um sein Universitätsstudium dort zu beginnen. Er...