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Evald Ilyenkov and the imperialist unconscious in Soviet philosophy
Soviet Marxism is often characterized by the term ontologism . The latter could be defined as a totalizing assertion about material being as...
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Philosophy of Science and Philosophy: The Long Flight Home
In this article, I argue that there is philosophy of science since philosophy existed. Thus, the idea that the philosophy of science was born with...
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Physics for Humans: Kant, Physics, and the Neo-Aristotelian Natural Power Grid
In this chapter, I argue that there is a distinctively different, arguably true, and above all thoroughly anti-skeptical, contemporary Kantian third...
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Mario Bunge (1919–2020): Conjoining Philosophy of Science and Scientific Philosophy
The leitmotif of Mario Bunge’s work was that the philosophy of science should be informed by a comprehensive scientific philosophy, and vice versa;...
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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,...
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A brief history of analytic philosophy in Hong Kong
This paper offers a brief historical survey of the development of analytic philosophy in Hong Kong from 1911 to the present day. At first, Western...
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Philosophy and its children: logic, computation, and the emergence of natural and social science
The middle chapters of Soames’s The World Philosophy Made (comprising his accounts of developments in logic, computation, linguistics, probability and...
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The Crisis of Philosophy and the Meaning of the Sciences for Life
Despite the significant number of critical analyses devoted to the subject, the precise definition of the famed crisis-notion that lies at the heart...
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A metaphysical foundation for mathematical philosophy
Although mathematical philosophy is flourishing today, it remains subject to criticism, especially from non-analytical philosophers. The main concern...
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First Philosophy
A first philosophy for a given field of inquiry is like a supreme court. It is the final court of appeal for disputed knowledge. In the supreme...
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From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life
Many historical studies tend to underline two central Kantian themes frequently emerging in Georges Canguilhem’s works: (1) a conception of activity,...
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Rethinking Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature Through a Process Account of Emergence
The paper proposes a novel reading of Schelling’s speculative physics in light of debates concerning the notion of emergence in philosophy of...
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Introduction and Objective of the Handbook of Islamic Philosophy of Science
The field of Islamic Philosophy of Science (IPS) in the light of the Qur’an is introduced here to be used throughout this Handbook. A few important...
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Second philosophy and testimonial reliability: Philosophy of science for STEM students
In this paper, I describe some strategies for teaching an introductory philosophy of science course to Science, Technology, Engineering, and...
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Current Debates in Philosophy of Science In Honor of Roberto Torretti
This volume collects previously unpublished contributions to the philosophy of science. What brings them together is a twofold goal: first and...
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Pathologies and the Healing of the soul: medical terms as metaphors in philosophy
This paper critically examines the metaphorical use of medical terms in philosophy. Three examples selected from distinct philosophical contexts...
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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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Analytic Philosophy in the Philippines
In this paper, I provide a brief overview of the development of analytic philosophy in the Philippines. I first highlight the circumstances that led...
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The Philosophy of Medicine Versus Medicine
Literature on the philosophy of medicine is characterized by a thirst for generalities. Wittgenstein’s remarks on family resemblances are intended as...