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Schiller’s Philosophy of History
Schiller’s philosophy of history has received comparatively little attention. This is partly because Schiller is perceived as a poor imitation of...
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Husserl and Fink: From Philosophical Systematics to a ‘Phenomenology of Phenomenology’
Husserl’s intensive collaboration with Eugen Fink is a particularly apt point of departure for a reading looking to clarify Husserl’s complex notion...
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Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy
To speak of human race is to speak of human races—if there were only one human race, that “race” would be the whole of humanity. To understand the...
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Darwinian/Hennigian Systematics and Evo-Devo: The Missed Rendez-Vous
EvoDevo called homeotic genes “architect genes” because they “control” “body plans”. Using such ordering causal factors, mainstream EvoDevo stayed...
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Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century
The aim of the series of the three articles entitled “Name game…” is to present the historical information about nomenclature history of every known...
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World History of Philosophy and Vision of a “World Philosophy”
Only one volume of the great project of a history of philosophy from a world-historical perspective was published during Jaspers’ lifetime: the...
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Metaphor in the History of Philosophy: A Matter of Style or Thought?
This chapter attempts to reconstruct the debate about the cognitive value of metaphor without claiming to cover the entire historical development of...
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Historiography of Biogeography in Mexico
The study of the history of science has been of great interest and has diversified and become specialized since the last decades of the twentieth...
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Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification of Animals and Plants and Its Philosophical Contexts
Botanical and zoological systematics in the early modern period – from Cesalpino in the sixteenth century to Linnaeus and Jussieu in the eighteenth...
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Pluralizing Darwin: Making Counter-Factual History of Science Significant
In the wake of recent attempts at alternate history (Bowler
2013 ), this paper suggests several avenues for a pluralistic approach to Charles Darwin... -
Woman: The Natural Contradiction—Outlines of Fichte’s Philosophical Gender Theory
Within the systematics of his philosophy as a whole, Fichte develops a concept of woman’s nature as a contradictory being, which as such is a...
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Attaching Names to Biological Species: The Use and Value of Type Specimens in Systematic Zoology and Natural History Collections
Biological type specimens are a particular kind of voucher specimen stored in natural history collections. Their special status and practical use are...
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Taxa hold little information about organisms: Some inferential problems in biological systematics
The taxa that appear in biological classifications are commonly seen as representing information about the traits of their member organisms. This...
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On Pattern-Cladistic Analyses Based on Complete Plastid Genome Sequences
The fundamental Hennigian principle, grou** solely on synapomorphy, is seldom used in modern phylogenetics. In the submitted paper, we apply this...
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Cats are not necessarily animals
Some plausibly necessary a posteriori theoretical claims include ‘water is H 2 O’, ‘gold is the element with atomic number 79’, and ‘cats are animals’....
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On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock’s approach with a new revised proposal
Walter Bock was committed to develo** a framework for evolutionary biology. Bock repeatedly discussed how evolutionary explanations should be...
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Historiography of Biogeography in Mexico
The study of the history of science has been of great interest and has diversified and become specialized since the last decades of the twentieth...
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A Historico-Logical Re-assessment of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism
Today vitalism is widely dismissed as a metaphysical heresy. For instance, Brigandt and Love (Reductionism in biology. In: Zalta EN (ed) The stanford...
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Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel’s Organic Physics
In this chapter I argue that Hegel is not an ‘essentialist’ when it comes to living nature. Hegel does not have a conception of species that fits...