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Newton’s Example of the Two Globes
At the end of the Scholium Newton includes a long paragraph about two globes revolving around their center of gravity and held together by a tensed cord. It has been interpreted as a thought experiment (Sect. ...
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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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Doing Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology with Jean Gayon
Throughout my university career, and since I began my Ph.D., Jean Gayon was there. Unlike many contributors to this volume, to the early or mid-career researchers who do French philosophy of biology today, I d...
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Inductive Inferences on Galactic Redshift, Understood Materially
A two-fold challenge faces any account of inductive inference. It must provide means to discern which are the good inductive inferences or which relations capture correctly the strength of inductive support. I...
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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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Taking Historical Epistemology to the International Scene
The aim of this article is to examine the reception on the world stage, taking up what was a constant concern of Jean Gayon. Three major features distinguish this tradition. First, the use of the to design...
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Working Hypotheses, Mathematical Representation, and the Logic of Theory-Mediation
We examine the contrast between the “Newtonian style” and the Cartesian, hypothetico-deductive method in order to expand on George Smith's account of working hypotheses and theory-mediation. We stress the pivo...
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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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Jean Gayon, History and Philosophy of Biology: A New Synthesis
In this contribution, I show that Jean Gayon’s work operates an original synthesis between , the philosophy of science and the life sciences. I propose that the philosophy of biology as it has been constructe...
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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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The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in America and France: The Contribution of Jean Gayon
Jean Gayon’s encounters with American evolutionary biologists and philosophers of biology affected his project of justifying the Darwinian research tradition. He challenged entrenched views about evolution in ...
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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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Jean Gayon and the French School of Population Genetics
The history of evolutionary theory in France after 1859 and of genetics after 1900 is unique to this country, and most of it remained poorly understood until the historical studies conducted by Jean and coll...
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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...
