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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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Individuality and Freedom
In this article, Ellen Bliss Talbot explores the free will/determinism debate through an examination of the notions of individual unity, uniqueness, and self-sufficiency.
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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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The Collaboration Between Writer and Reader
Plato’s is a kind of higher-order pedagogy in which the readers are not the passive receptors of a content but they discover themselves as authors of the content. I have chosen to respond to the Platonic intel...
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Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think
The paper puts Kant’s second paralogism in the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason into the context of eighteenth century debates on materialism. In the second paralogism, Kant argues that neither dua...
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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 Freedom of the Person
In this article, Grace Andrus de Laguna develops a view of human freedom, one according to which it is made possible by the uniqueness of human individuals and the cultural worlds in which they live.
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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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Diagrammatic Reasoning
Diagrams are helpful to draw inferences useful for problem solving. Efficient reasoning is heterogeneous. A truly heterogeneous inference system is Hyperproof: the givens of the problem are in a diagram window, w...
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Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and Its Philosophical Contexts
Botanical and zoological systematics in the early modern period – from Cesalpino in the sixteenth century to Linnaeus and Jussieu in the eighteenth century – was a two-faced and latently contradictory enterpri...
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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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Theoretical Adulthood and Structuralism
Shapiro’s ante rem structuralism is a kind of structuralism that ignores the individual properties of the objects, that are irrelevant, and it considers only the objects as positions in a structure. The axioms go...
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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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Naturalism and the Vienna Circle
Despite the growth of interest in the project in the late 1980s and early 1990s, naturalized epistemology has existed for a lot longer. Its origins are typically traced to Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized” in...
