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On the Uses of Philosophy
This paper agrees with the premises of Philip Kitcher’s argument, but rejects the inference to his conclusion about what we philosophers ought to be...
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Physics, Feminism and Whakapapa; Integrating Eco-Subjectivity After the Enlightenment
Individual rationality continues to underpin political policy making and economics, despite the sustained critique from many realms of philosophy,...
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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...
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Phenomenological Approaches to Physics
The relationship between physics and phenomenology is a blind spot of current literature in a twofold sense. First, while many phenomenologists work...
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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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Computational modeling in philosophy: introduction to a topical collection
Computational modeling should play a central role in philosophy. In this introduction to our topical collection, we propose a small topology of...
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Critique of pure Bayesian cognitive science: A view from the philosophy of science
Bayesian approaches to human cognition have been extensively advocated in the last decades, but sharp objections have been raised too within...
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Why Physics Does Not Inform the Human Condition, But Its Boundaries Do
The science of physics has been extremely successful over the last four centuries, mainly for one reason: It does everything it can to disregard...
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Ottoman Philosophy
Modern scholarship on the history of Ottoman philosophy is in its early stages. For much of the twentieth century, the dominant presumption was that...
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Integrating Chinese with Western Philosophy
This chapter originally appeared in a volume containing essays that discuss and/or involve dialogue between East and West, and the editors clearly...
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Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy as Disguised Political Philosophy
Nietzsche’s immoralism leads him to reject morality altogether for a physics of the soul, a materialistic psychology that identifies the social...
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‘Know Thyself’: Hadot and the Conception of Transformative Philosophy
In light of Hadot’s view of classical Greek philosophy as a spiritual exercise, I suggest an expanded model of the interrelations between the...
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Chinese and Global Philosophy: Postcomparative Transcultural Approaches and the Method of Sublation
The essay deals with problems encountered by Western researchers working in the field of Chinese philosophy. It begins with a discussion of...
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Analytic and Continental Approaches to Biology and Philosophy: David Hull and Marjorie Grene on ‘What Philosophy of Biology Is Not’
Gaining momentum during the last third of the twentieth century, the philosophy of biology is now a distinct field with its own debates, journals,...
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Jan Łukasiewicz’s program of the logicization of philosophy: its genesis, content and realizations
In the paper, Jan Łukasiewicz’s program of the logicization of philosophy is presented and discussed. Łukasiewicz, known mostly for his invention of...
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Heuristic Philosophy of Mathematics
An alternative to mainstream philosophy of mathematics is heuristic philosophy of mathematics, according to which the philosophy of mathematics is...
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Teaching scientific creativity through philosophy of science
There is a demand to nurture scientific creativity in science education. This paper proposes that the relevant conceptual infrastructure with which...
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The Janus-Faced Nature of Philosophy of Science: Eleven Theses
Elsewhere I have tried to provide the justification of both the irreducible (transcendental) distinction of science and philosophy and their...
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