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Introduction
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century there has been growing interest in women’s contributions to the histories of science, philosophy, and literature dating back to the very beginnings of these disc...
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Review: Meike G. Werner (Ed.), Ein Gipfel für Morgen. Kontroversen 1917/18 um die Neuordnung Deutschlands auf Burg Lauenstein, Wallstein Verlag 2021
In 1917/18 the German publisher Eugen Diederichs organized three “closed meetings” at Lauenstein castle in Upper Franconia (Germany) where about 60 representatives of science, art, and “the youth” discussed “t...
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Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions
Implicit definitions have been much discussed in the history and philosophy of science in relation to logical positivism. Not only have the logical positivists been influential in establishing this notion, but...
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A Role for Cognitive Agents from a Kuhnian Point of View: A Comment to Juan Vicente Mayoral
In his paper, Juan Vicente Mayoral presents various aspects of Kuhn’s thought from a historical perspective. Besides the interesting approach that Mayoral proposes for several problems, in this commentary I am...
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Sappho’s (630–570) Poetics and the Science of Her Time
Ancient Greek thought was not simply rational and analytic but also mythical and intuitive, originating as it did from a fine intellectual and perceptual versatility where myth instigated but also crowned both...
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Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021
The life of the philosopher and librarian Amalia Rosenblüth (1892–1979), who was in touch with the Lemberg-Warsaw-School (Lemberg-Warschauer-Schule) and the Vienna Circle (Wiener Kreis), remained in the dark for ...
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Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures
Recent years have featured the existence of a variety of structuralisms, with an important partition between methodological versus philosophical structuralism. Inside philosophical structuralism, many trends c...
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The Landscape of a Metaphysical Battlefield: A Comment on Eric Oberheim
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend outlined the concept of incommensurability, a concept that has been widely studied in philosophy of science ever since. In particular, Eric Oberheim’s “Incommensurability ...
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Conway’s and Cavendish’s Non-reductionist Mechanism: Establishing Pathways for Grene’s and Keller’s Naturalist Accounts of Living Beings
Considerable conceptual shifts were required to prepare the philosophers of the early modern period for a fully naturalist approach to the study of living beings. Two women philosophers of the seventeenth cent...
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Space and Time: Mathematical and Moral Thoughts in Sophie Germain and Blaise Pascal
Space and time are geometrical notions that Sophie Germain, a French mathematician, discusses on several occasions in her Pensées diverses, however not only in a geometrical way but also in terms of a philosop...
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Stebbing and Russell on Bergson: Early Analytics on Continental Thought
The purpose of this chapter is to argue that the work of Susan Stebbing, an analytic philosopher and proponent of both common sense philosophy and logicism at the time of their emergence in English scholarship...
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A Case Study in Diversifying History and Philosophy of Physics: Teaching Émilie Du Châtelet’s, Luise Lange and Grete Hermann
Today, there is a large consensus in science, politics and society about the relevance and necessity for advancing gender equality. Despite increased measures and initiatives for gender-appropriate research an...
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Seeing, Talking and Behaving… Ways of Inhabiting the World: A Comment to Paul Hoyningen-Huene
The different problems raised by the terminology “world change” in comparison with “worldview change” in Kuhn’s thesis was a tidal wave reaching the metaphysical shores, as Paul Hoyningen-Huene has addressed i...
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Reclaiming Our Health: Greek Feminist Birth Control Movements as a Form of Women’s Engagement with Science
Between 1976 and 1986, feminist birth control movements emerged within the Greek public sphere. Informed by the second wave of feminism, the activists involved questioned both the dominant medical knowledge by...
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Carnap and Gödel, Again
Difficulties and ambiguities of Carnap’s conception of logic and mathematics are the main target of Gödel’s analysis in his famous drafts of “Is mathematics Syntax of Language?”. In a recent article, Gregory L...
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Is Wittgenstein Still an Analytic Philosopher?
If Socrates were asked “Is Wittgenstein Still an Analytic Philosopher?” he would first want to know the definition of “analytic philosophy.” Hanjo Glock has done an excellent job trying to offer a family-resem...
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Peano’s Geometry: From Empirical Foundations to Abstract Development
In Principii di Geometria (1889b) and ‘Sui fondamenti della Geometria’ (1894) Peano offers axiomatic presentations of projective geometry. There seems to be a tension in Peano's construction of geometry in these ...
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Kuhn, Coherentism and Perception
In the latter half of the twentieth century, foundationalist approaches to epistemology and philosophy of science were widely rejected in favour of holist and coherentist approaches. Kuhn may be regarded as a ...
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Review Essay: A New Book on Austrian Philosophy
This book discusses questions concerning mind and matter, substance and accident, and knowledge and experience in the work of a wide range of nineteenth and early twentieth century philosophers, giving a probl...
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“Poincaré: The Philosopher” by Léon Brunschvicg: A Perspective
The article, “Poincaré: the philosopher”, that we translate and present in this volume was written by Brunschvicg, an important figure in the philosophy of mathematics in the twentieth century, in homage to Po...
