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History of Philosophy
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Canguilhem’s Historiography of the Life Sciences
In this chapter, I revisit ’s interpretation of ’s “normative turn” in epistemology and his application of the principle of recurrence to medicine and the life sciences. This discussion will first highlight ...
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“Interpretations of Nature” in Polanyi’s Science, Faith and Society
In Science, Faith and Society, Michael Polanyi speaks about various ‘interpretations of nature’. I discuss the items that he has in mind, identify two of his major theses about them, and investigate the extent to...
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Arguments Showing that Descartes’ Physics is Mathematical
I would like to present four arguments in support of the thesis that Cartesian physics was a mathematical physics. The first two are historical, the other two of a systematic nature. I believe that together th...
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Fumbling Toward the Animal in “Animal Faith”
Padrón focuses our attention on the animality in SAF. He shows how the fact that we are descended from other animals with similar capacities is central to both Santayana’s earlier and later philosophy and how our...
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Pyrrhonians, a School of Skeptics
From the Pyrrhonians, who recommended living by appearances, Francis Bacon learned how apparent knowledge is practical. If we can improve how reality appears, we can gain new power over nature. This idea is at...
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The Architecture of Public Trust
To disclose and highlight Michael Polanyi’s concerns about the sheltering institutions of freedom, the author examines Polanyi’s distinctive (and counterintuitive) conceptions of authority, tradition, and cons...
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Truth and Ontology
Tiller enquires into Santayana’s notion of a realm of truth. He considers how the realm of truth is situated in Santayana’s ontology. He notes some of the defining features of the realm of truth and differenti...
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Hermes as an Interpreter and the Guide to Hades: Re-reading “The Lord Chandos Letter” with Reference to Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith
Kremplewska discusses how Santayana’s engagement with radical scepticism has a cross-disciplinary import and can be seen as a response to some of the intellectual and moral concerns prominent in the literature...
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The Sphinx
We can appreciate Francis Bacon’s method better if we collect his many remarks together than by carefully analyzing a few. Some suggest that he proposed the method of eliminative induction, i.e., refuting all ...
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From Scientific Truth to Tradition-Encased Personal Meaning: Polanyi’s Critique of Enlightenment Ideas
As a young man, Michael Polanyi gloried in the freedoms he experienced in turn of the century liberal society. He understood liberal society to be the beneficent heritage of Enlightenment thinking. Then the di...
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The Ideal of a Philosophic Redemption: Baruch Spinoza’s Place in Western Philosophy and in Santayana’s Thought
Amir investigates Santayana’s statements about Spinoza in Scepticism and Animal Faith. She answers the question of how Santayana can acknowledge Spinoza as “his master” and “hero” while systematically rejecting S...
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Francis Bacon’s Elenchus
Since the interpretation of Francis Bacon’s method is new, it will need to be supported by his text. This chapter combines his entire method with key quotations from his writings. We begin with his rescue of s...
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What Kind of Approach This Study Takes and What It Does Not
We may believe we have a good intuition about what “rationality” is. It has something to do with reasoning. Employing it in daily use is reputed to help improve our lives. It is not tied to a religion, althoug...
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Tidying the Rational* Home
Rationality, once this chapter has laid it out into at least 21 complete and substantial senses, now appears overburdened, cumbersome, even messy, and hardly attractive for empirical analysis. It seems, then, ...
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Is Aristotle’s Prime Mover an Efficient Cause by Touching Without Being Touched?
For two and a half millennia readers of Aristotle have been struggling to understand just what sort of causation is being attributed to the Prime Unmoved Mover or PM, whether final or efficient, assuming that ...
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Foreword: The Essence and Structure of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
What is the spirit of traditional Chinese (By “spirit” I mean the typical quality of a concept)? To approach this question, I suggest that the initial step is to examine traditional Chinese from a macrosco...
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The Incoherence of Ockham’s Ethics
Ockham thinks that God can command creatures to hate him. He also thinks that it is right to obey any divine command. This paper investigates what it is, for Ockham, to obey divine commands, and what makes it ...
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Alignment of the Individual and Common Good in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius
The chapter analyses the relationship between the individual and common good in the political theory of Johannes Althusius (1563–1638). Within a broadly Aristotelian and Calvinist framework, Althusius paints a...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the book. It gives an outline of the chapters. Before this, it gives some historical context to the writing of the Preface of Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. The chapter also ...
