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Introduction: Problems and Sources
In our day, almost all professional philosophers who explicitly relate their thinking to some known logical theory have opted for modern logic, a...
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The Emergence of the Causal Law from the Principle of Retribution
If we believe the findings of modern physics, and its interpretation by leading exponents of this most exact of all the sciences, we stand in the...
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Introduction: A New University and the Challenge of the New Science
Despite the recent and continuing controversy concerning the proper role of the universities, it is still widely agreed that among their functions,...
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‘Notions’ as the Counterpoise of ‘Ideas’
The central thesis I propose to develop is that Berkeley’s philosophy is essentially a system of concepts made coherent by the complementary...
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Tumult Over Cartesianism
The philosophy of nature which the European reading public discovered in Descartes’ Principia philosophiae depicted a new universe as dramatic in its...
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Diffusion of Copernicanism in Japan
Before we examine closely the diffusion of Copernicanism in Japan, it may be helpful (1) to define briefly what Copernicanism means by analyzing it...
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Copernicus in Spain
The introduction of Copernican ideas into Spain, has, until now, been the subject of a brief article by Father Antonio Romañá Pujo S. J.1 (noted in...
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Ernst Mach — His Life as a Teacher and Thinker
The first recent occasion for commemorating the work of Ernst Mach presented itself in 1938, the year of Mach’s hundredth birthday. At that time the...
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Respiration as Interface Between Self and Non-Self: Historico-Biological Perspectives
The total “surface” (the area exposed to the macroscopic physical environment) of an adult human lung is approximately 70 square meters, i.e. nearly...
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Toward a gibbsian approach to the problems of growth and cancer
Certain sections of Josiah Willard Gibbs's thermodynamics papers might be applicable to biological equilibrium and growth, normal or abnormal. Gibbs ...
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Respiration as Interface Between Self and Non-Self: Historico-Biological Perspectives
The total “surface” (the area exposed to the macroscopic physical environment) of an adult human lung is approximately 70 square meters, i.e. nearly...
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Metaphor
As we have seen, there is an “analogy” that consists in the proportion of one or more entities to the selfsame thing. This is called Analogy of...
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The Nature of Scientific Research
Every schoolboy knows that science progresses by means of a logical, ordered sequence of events called the scientific method. Every schoolboy is...
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The Receptions of the Copernican System in Sweden
At the time of the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium codestium, the learned and scientific culture of Sweden was in a profound...