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Common Sense and the Natural Light in George Berkeley’s Philosophy
It is argued that George Berkeley’s term ‘common sense’ does not indicate shared conviction, but the shared capacity of reasonable judgement, and is...
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Berkeley and Toland: Irish Philosophy, Past and Future
I can indicate the main aims of this chapter by explaining its title. By ‘Irish Philosophy, Past’, I understand that period when Ireland was at the...
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Ayer and Berkeley on the Meaning of Ethical and Religious Language
In the 6th chapter of Language, Truth and Logic (LTL), Ayer sketched a simple ethical theory that was later called emotivism. Emotivism faced serious...
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George Psathas and His Contributions to a “Phenomenological Sociology” Movement
George Psathas was one of the most important “central figures” or “intellectual promoters” in a “phenomenological sociology” movement not only in the...
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Idealismus und Materialismus
Im 9. Kapitel werden die zwei bekanntesten idealistischen Positionen behandelt. Gottfried W. Leibniz entwickelte einen objektiven Idealismus, der die...
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Vulgar Talk and Learned Reasoning in Berkeley’s Moral and Religious Thought
Berkeley “argues with the learned and speaks with the vulgar.” I use his double maxim to interpret his ethics. My approach is new. The Sermons and Guar...
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Newton on the Relativity of Motion and the Method of Mathematical Physics
The work of George Smith has illuminated how Newton’s scientific method, and its use in constructing the theory of universal gravitation, introduced...
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George A. Reisch, The Politics of Paradigms. Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”. Albany: State University of New York Press 2019, 456 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4384-7367-3
This review-article is about George Reisch’s second big and impressive volume about the fate of philosophy of science after World War II. This one...
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Views of Revelation
In this chapter three types of views of revelation are examined. Tradition-grounded views concentrate on forms of traditional revelation, classifying...
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Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”
Climate and evolution (Matthew,
1915 ) represents an important contribution to evolutionary biogeography, that influenced several authors, notably...
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Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics
The chapter emphasizes the complexity of the relations between philosophy and science in the eighteenth century, as they must be seen against the...
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The Problem is Not Monsters: The FRANKENCON Panel on Science and Ethics
In November of 2019, the University of California Santa Cruz hosted a 3-day interdisciplinary conference to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the...
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Armut in der Philosophie der Neuzeit II (Empirismus)
Ob es eine ›empirische‹ philosophische Tradition gibt, ist eine Frage, die seit langem im Zentrum der Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie der...
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To what extent can institutional control explain the dominance of analytic philosophy?
Katzav and Vaesen have argued that control by analytic philosophers of key journals, philosophy departments and at least one funding body plays a...
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Berkeley’s Theory of Perception: Searle Versus Pappas
In Seeing Things as They Are (Searle 2015), Searle developed a direct realist’s theory of perception. According to direct realism, physical objects...
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Problems of Mensuration and Experimentation
Measures assign numbers to data according to scaling theory requirements. If measured numbers are not correctly assigned, no unambiguous knowledge...
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Egalitarian Spiritual and Legal Traditions
Ideas tend to drift toward consensus led by those with the strongest influence and highest status in their fields. The racist ideas about race...