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Art’s Precarious Timelessness
The intricate interweaving of history and fiction underpinning Les Noyers de l’Altenburg was soon to assume an added dimension when Berger, the...
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Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity
Ask any linguist for an example of a quantifier, and the answer is likely to be “every”. For most linguists, every is the prototypical,...
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Leibniz and Van Helmont: Their Friendship and Collaboration
In order to establish the influence of van Helmont on Leibniz it is important to dispel the general opinion that van Helmont was something of a...
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The Relapse into Medievalism
The continued dominance of the medieval conception of Plato in England before 1485 is apparent even in the bare statistics regarding copies of...
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Epistemological and Methodological Concerns of Feminist Social Scientists
Feminist social scientists have been, and still are, facing special epistemological and methodological problems. Critical Rationalism offers some...
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The Early Tudors (1485–1558)
One would have supposed that since the pipeline that brought new dialogues of Plato from Italy to England had flowed so profusely between 1423 and...
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Phenomenology, the Question of Rationality and the Basic Grammar of Intercultural Texts
This essay is an adventure in, and a critical exploration of, the postmodern condition. As a “postparadigm”, postmodernism is a critical response to...
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Diachronic Sources of ‘All’ and ‘Every’
It has become increasingly clear over the past ten or fifteen years that semantic change is not as arbitrary and irregular as was once thought. There...
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The Myth of Jewish Antiquity: New Christians and Christian-Hebraica in Early Modern Europe
Christian Hebraica, the Christian use of Hebrew, rabbinic, or Cabbalistic sources for Christian religious purposes found new expression in...
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Biblical and Early Rabbinic Views
In the Hebrew Scriptures, the Jews are presented as God’s chosen people; they alone are the recipients of his true revelation. This conviction led to...
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Christian Jews and Jewish Christians in the 17th Century
Christian Jews are not just Jews who have Christmas trees in the house in late December each year, and Jewish Christians are not just Christians who...
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Cabalists and Christians: Reflections on Cabala in Medieval and Renaissance Thought
This endorsement of Cabala by St. John Fisher, a conservative and notably prudent man (he lost his head over only one issue), should give pause to...
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The Kabbala Denudata: Converting Jews or Seducing Christians
The traditional view of the Renaissance and Reformation as periods of philo-Semitism2 has been qualified in recent years as scholars have...
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Medieval Conflict between Jews and Christians
Even though such writers as Rabbenu Tam and Judah Halevi espoused a tolerant attitude toward the Christian faith, the Jewish community as a whole was...
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The Impact of the Enlightenment
For the majority of European Jewry the medieval period extended into the eighteenth century, however the French Revolution followed by the Napoleonic...
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Allegory and Maxim: Power and Faith, Passions and Virtues
Allegories meander like an unbroken thread through Baroque art and creativity, and likewise throughout Queen Christine’s activities, festivities, and...
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Thomas Stanley’s History of Philosophy
The simultaneous publication in 1655 of Thomas Stanley’s History of Philosophy and Georg Hornius’ Historia philosophica gave evidence for the growing...
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Renaissance Antecedents to the Historiography of Philosophy
By the time Thomas Stanley published the first volume of his work entitled The History of Philosophy in London in 1655, European culture was ready to...
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Śatapathaprajñâ: Should we speak of philosophy in classical India? A case of homeomorphic equivalents
All the terms used by the Modern Natural Sciences can be translated into any given language. If need be, a scientific discipline introduces new names...