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The Missing Hymn of Metis: an Origin of Loss
It is simply no longer acceptable to speak of the goddess Athena from the fifth generation of Olympian/Orphic Greece without reference to her mother...
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Thales and Anaximander
This chapter shows how, whereas Thales was an inspiration for both Nietzsche’s conception of the will to power and his view that philosophy—driven by...
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Epistemological Challenges
The kinds of technologies upon which we have reflected, together with countless others, result from what we have defined as the epistemological move...
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Parmenides and Empedocles
In this chapter, we see that Nietzsche was as mistaken about what he saw as Parmenides’ cold rationalism, as he was about what he saw as Empedocles’...
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Serendipity and the History of the Philosophy of Science
Samantha Copeland takes this chapter to delve into the history of philosophy of science, paying particular attention to the discussions around...
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Creative Ignorance
Much research in creativity proceeds from the hylomorphic model, that is the notion that the creator imposes a preconceived form on inert matter and...
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Automata, Renaissance
Automata and self-moving mechanisms have a long history – part of which, namely the medieval chapter, remains largely unexplored in any systematic...
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Wisdom Within the Firm: An Aristotelian-Hayekian Approach to the Managerial Process of Division and Coordination of Labor
Throughout history, scholars have set the division of labor in manufacturing in opposition to the division of labor in society. They have focused on...
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Wisdom Within the Firm: An Aristotelian-Hayekian Approach to the Managerial Process of Division and Coordination of Labor
Throughout history, scholars have set the division of labor in manufacturing in opposition to the division of labor in society. They have focused on...
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Doctors that “doctor” sickness certificates: cunning intelligence as an ability and possibly a virtue among Swedish GPs
The relations of power between healthcare-related institutions and the professionals that interact with them are changing. Generally, the...
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Anaxagoras and Democritus
This chapter shows how, while Nietzsche associated Anaxagoras and Democritus with the sophists as a way of affirming what he saw as their manly...
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For a Cognitive Semiotics of Subjectivity
This chapter will attempt to illustrate how a semio-linguistics approach specific to cognitive semiotics can make a concrete contribution to certain...
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Culturally appropriate consent processes for community-driven indigenous child health research: a sco** review
BackgroundCurrent requirements for ethical research in Canada, specifically the standard of active or signed parental consent, can leave Indigenous...
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Pythagoras and Heraclitus
This chapter illustrates not only how Pythagoras and Heraclitus inspired Nietzsche to use strategic silences and cognitive dissonances in his writing...
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Cleobulina of Rhodes and the Philosophical Power of Riddles
The aim of this paper is to examine the riddles composed by Cleobulina of Rhodes, who was one of the first known Greek intellectual women and a...
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Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)?
COVID-19 has been called “a disaster for feminism” (Lewis in The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism, 2020) for numerous reasons. In this short...
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Antike Technikphilosophie
Die Technik als Gegenstandsbereich der Philosophie scheint im Vergleich zu den großen Themen wie Metaphysik oder Ethik von der abendländischen...