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Grace de Laguna’s 1909 critique of analytic philosophy: presentation and defence
Grace A. de Laguna was an American philosopher of exceptional originality. Many of the arguments and positions she developed during the early decades...
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Practical Philosophy
I propose that we understand philosophy as the clarification of human reason. Philosophical activity aims at clarifying what qualifies beliefs and...
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The negative theology of absolute infinity: Cantor, mathematics, and humility
Cantor argued that absolute infinity is beyond mathematical comprehension. His arguments imply that the domain of mathematics cannot be grasped by...
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Grace de Laguna, Joel Katzav, and conservatism in analytic philosophy
In this paper, we consider the implications of Grace Andrus de Laguna and Joel Katzav's work for the charge of conservatism against the analytic...
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Central Themes and Open Questions in the Philosophy of Computer Science
This paper introduces the Global Philosophy symposium on Giuseppe Primiero’s book On the Foundations of Computing (2020). The collection gathers...
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Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy
In this work we argue that there is no strong demarcation between pure and applied mathematics. We show this first by stressing non-deductive...
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The introduction of topology into analytic philosophy: two movements and a coda
Both early analytic philosophy and the branch of mathematics now known as topology were gestated and born in the early part of the 20th century. It...
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Safety and Pluralism in Mathematics
A belief one has is safe if either (i) it could not easily be false or (ii) in any nearby world in which it is false, it is not formed using the...
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Philosophy as a Science and as a Humanity
This commentary on Philip Kitcher’s book What’s the Use of Philosophy? addresses two questions. First, must philosophers be methodologically...
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Disagreement, progress, and the goal of philosophy
Modest pessimism about philosophical progress is the view that while philosophy may sometimes make some progress, philosophy has made, and can be...
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Propter quid demonstrations: Roger Bacon on geometrical causes in natural philosophy
In Posterior Analytics 1.13, Aristotle introduced a distinction between two kinds of demonstrations: of the fact ( quia ), and of the reasoned fact ( pro...
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Process Ontology: Conversations and Argumentations, Controversies in Mathematics and Mathematics as Socialisation
To better conceive the socializing and pragmatic aspects of mathematics, it can be useful to use a process ontology, which allows, starting from an...
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The Law of Non-contradiction and Global Philosophy of Religion
This article focuses on the applications of philosophical logic in the discipline of philosophy of religion of both ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’...
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Philosophy
Diogenes Laertius begins Lives of the Eminent Philosophers thus: “There are some who say that the study of philosophy had its beginning among the...
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Jerusalem Divided: The Hebrew University’s Philosophy Department Between Rotenstreich and Bar-Hillel
The years following Israel’s founding were formative ones for the development of philosophy as an academic discipline in this country. During this...
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Ranking philosophy journals: a meta-ranking and a new survey ranking
This paper presents a meta-ranking of philosophy journals based on existing rankings, and a new ranking of philosophy journals developed through a...
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Can Non-classical Logic Treat Mathematics as Exceptional?
The paper criticizes a ‘lazy’ strategy popular amongst contemporary advocates of non-classical logic motivated by non-mathematical phenomena (e.g....
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Introduction: Symbolic Logic and Scientific Philosophy
The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the...
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Roberto Torretti’s Philosophy of Science
In this chapter, we provide an analysis of Torretti’s main views in the general philosophy of science. I shall examine his Kantian take on...
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Analytic philosophy in Japan 1933–2000
Although logical positivism had been known before World War II, it was introduced into academic philosophy in Japan only after it. In this process,...