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  1. Units of measurement and natural kinds: Some kripkean considerations.Jan Van Brakel - 1990 - Erkenntnis 33 (3):297-317.
    Kripke has argued that definitions of units of measurements provide examples of statements that are both contingent and a priori. In this paper I argue that definitions of units of measurement are intended to be stipulations of what Kripke calls "theoretical identities": a stipulation that two terms will have the same rigid designation. Hence such a definition is both a priori and necessary. The necessity arises because such definitions appeal to natural kind properties only, which on Kripke's account are necessary.
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    On The Philosophy of Chemistry.J. van Brakel & H. Vermeeren - 1981 - Philosophy Research Archives 7:501-552.
    While in the research area known,as ’philosophy of science' there is a growing interest in separate disciplines of the empirical sciences, applied sciences and even technologies, one can find hardly any reference to the discipline of chemistry other than some preliminary discussions of chemical concepts or studies concerning the rational reconstruction of the history of chemistry. No analyses, which might be called 'philosophy of chemistry’ can be found to date. It is hoped that this review paper on what has been (...)
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  3. Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry.J. Van Brakel - 2000
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    Heidegger on Zhuangzi and Uselessness: Illustrating Preconditions of Comparative Philosophy.Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (3-4):387-406.
    In this article, I look at those passages in the Zhuangzi usually associated with “uselessness.” I discuss in what way these passages may have been suggestive to Martin Heidegger to explain his ideas of the necessity of the other thinking and of the “waiting people” being entirely unusable to others. Then I make some brief comments concerning basic conditions of interpretation, using examples taken from the Zhuangzi passages discussed. These conditions include family resemblance across the board, a principle of agreement, (...)
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  5. Philosophy of Chemistry. Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image.Jaap van Brakel - 2001 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 63 (2):431-432.
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    Epistemische deugden en hun verantwoording.Jaap Van Brakel - 1998 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (2):243-268.
    In this paper I argue that all proposals for demarcation criteria distinguishing between scientific and non-scientific knowledge, have failed. Moreover, there is not a single set of epistemic virtues that characterizes 'good' knowledge, nor is there such a set that characterizes science. There are many different epistemic virtues and no universal rules about how they are to be applied in particular cases. Different virtues may dominate in different knowledge domains. In the 'same' domain there are neither universal nor domainspecific rules (...)
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    Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 20 (1):11-57.
    In this paper I assess the relation between philosophy of chemistry and philosophy of science, focusing on those themes in the philosophy of chemistry that may bring about major revisions or extensions of current philosophy of science. Three themes can claim to make a unique contribution to philosophy of science: first, the variety of materials in the world; second, extending the world by making new stuff; and, third, specific features of the relations between chemistry and physics.
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  8. Arguments against quotation-mark-names.J. Van Brakel - 1986 - Logique Et Analyse 29 (15):275.
     
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    Le Culte De Kali, La Mère.W. R. van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (1):158-158.
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    Conventions In Naming.J. Van Brakel - 1982 - Philosophy Research Archives 8:243-277.
    Conventions in the use of names are discussed, particularly names of linguistic expressions. Also the reference of measure terms like ‘kg’ is discussed, and it is found analogous in important respects to expression names. Some new light is shed on the token-type distinction. Applications to versions of the liar paradox are shown. The use of quotation marks is critically examined.
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    Telematic Life Forms.Jaap Van Brakel - 1999 - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 4 (3):208-219.
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    Chemical Engineering Science.Jaap Van Brakel - 2012 - Philosophy of Chemistry 6:531 - 545.
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  13. (1 other version)C.S. Peirce, Categories to Constantinople. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Peirce, Leuven 1997.Jaap van Brakel & Michael van Heerden - 2000 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (1):177-177.
     
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    Emotions as the fabric of forms of life: a cross-cultural perspective.Jaap Van Brakel - 1994 - In W. M. Wentworth & J. Ryan, Social perspectives on emotion.
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  15. Interculturele communicatie en multiculturalisme, Enige filosofische voorbemerkingen.Jaap van Brakel - 1998 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (3):621-623.
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    De wijsheid van Spinoza en de schoonheid der Tachtigers.R. Van Brakell Buys - 1959 - Brill.
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  17. Het ideeëndrama van Friedrich Hebbel.W. R. Van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (12):525-526.
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    A multiculture of veridicalities.J. van Brakel - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (4):481-482.
    Edelman's target article purports to be about veridical representations. I argue that it would be a mistake to think it has much to do with veridicality as normally understood.
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  19. (Hard ernst) 126–132 corrigendum.J. van Brakel, Erik J. Olsson, Believing More & U. Kriegel - 2002 - Erkenntnis 57 (1):457-458.
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    Extension of Family Resemblance Concepts as a Necessary Condition of Interpretation across Traditions.Jaap van Brakel & Lin Ma - 2015 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (4):475-497.
    In this paper we extend Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblance to translation, interpretation, and comparison across traditions. There is no need for universals. This holds for everyday concepts such as green and qing 青, philosophical concepts such as emotion and qing 情, as well as philosophical categories such as form of life and dao 道. These notions as well as all other concepts from whatever tradition are family resemblance concepts. We introduce the notion of quasi-universal, which connects family resemblance concepts (...)
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    Revisiting W ittgenstein on Family Resemblance and Colour(s).Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2016 - Philosophical Investigations 39 (3):254-280.
    We argue that all general concepts are family resemblance concepts. These include concepts introduced by ostension, such as colour(s). Concepts of colour and of each of the specific colours are family resemblance concepts because similarities concerning an open‐ended range of colour or of appearance features crop up and disappear. After discussing the notion of “same colour” and Wittgenstein's use of the phrase “our colours”, we suggest family resemblance concepts in one tradition can often be extended to family resemblance concepts in (...)
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  22. On the Conditions of Possibility for Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.Lin Ma & Jaap Van Brakel - 2013 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 12 (3):297-312.
    In this essay, we present a theory of intercultural philosophical dialogue and comparative philosophy, drawing on both hermeneutics and analytic philosophy. We advocate the approach of “de-essentialization” across the board. It is true that similarities and differences are always to be observed across languages and traditions, but there exist no immutable cores or essences. “De-essentialization” applies to all “levels” of concepts: everyday notions such as green and qing 青, philosophical concepts such as emotion(s) and qing 情, and philosophical categories such (...)
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    Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy.Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2016 - Albany: Albany.
    Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large. This innovative book explores the preconditions necessary for intercultural and comparative philosophy. Philosophical practices that involve at least two different traditions with no common heritage and whose languages have very different grammatical structure, such as Indo-Germanic languages and classical Chinese, are a particular focus. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel look at the necessary and not-so-necessary conditions of possibility of interpretation, comparison, and other (...)
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    De wetenschappen: filosofische kanttekeningen.J. van Brakel - 1998 - Assen: Van Gorcum.
  25. I {an de aarde 10 miljard mensen voeden?Door Manus van Brakel - forthcoming - Idee.
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  26. Putnams pragmatisch realisme Le réalisme pragmatique de Putnam.J. van Brakel - 1988 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 80 (2):103-114.
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    Filosofie van de wetenschappen.J. van Brakel & J. T. van den Brink - 1988 - Muiderberg: D. Coutinho. Edited by van den Brink & T. J..
    Inleiding in de wetenschapsfilosofie, bedoeld voor filosofiestudenten.
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  28. Filosofie van de wetenschappen.J. van Brakel & J. van den Brink - 1990 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 52 (3):556-556.
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    Substances: The Ontology of Chemistry.Jaap Van Brakel - 2012 - Philosophy of Chemistry 6:191 - 229.
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  30. Do minorities need cultural rights? The case of the Griqua people in South Africa.Jan van der Stoep In Conversation, Cecil le Fleur & Johannes Kraalshoek - 2008 - In Steve De Gruchy, Nico Koopman & S. Strijbos, From our side: emerging perspectives on development and ethics. South Africa: UNISA Press.
  31. Aristoteles.Jan van der Meulen - 1951 - Meisenheim am Glan,: A. Hain.
     
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    František Wald's Empiricism.Jaap Van Brakel - 2013 - Hyle: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry 19 (2):161 - 183.
    In this paper I present an ordered selection of citations from František Wald's publications and correspondence to give some idea of how he fitted in his times, how his views were received by contemporaries, and to illustrate his epistemological views. I highlight the originality of Wald's aim to develop a theory of chemistry on the basis of the concept of 'phase', instead of the concepts of compound and element. In chemistry there has been a vast increase in substances that are (...)
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    Over het denken.W. R. Van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (1):20 - 30.
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    Putnam on Davidson on Conceptual Schemes.J. Van Brakel N. Brenner‐Golomb - 1989 - Dialectica 43 (3):263-269.
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    Revisiting the Exchange between Zhuangzi and Huizi on Qing.Lin Ma & Jaap van Brakel - 2021 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 20 (1):133-148.
    In this article we focus on the famous dialogue between Zhuangzi 莊子 and Huizi 惠子 concerning the question whether or not ren 人 (in particular the shengren 聖人) have qing 情. Most scholars have understood qing in this exchange as referring to “feelings” or “emotions.” We take issue with such readings. First, we demonstrate that, while Huizi probably understands qing as something like feelings or emotions, Zhuangzi’s view is that having qing is connected with making shifei 是非 judgments whereas having (...)
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    Out of the Ge-stell? The Role of the East in Heidegger’s das andere Denken.Lin Ma & Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - Philosophy East and West 64 (3):527-562.
    Modern technology (Technik, la technique) has constituted the gears on which the wheels of the modern world keep turning. The later Heidegger devotes sustained reflection to this unprecedented phenomenon in human history. It is notable that, compared with other figures from twentieth-century continental philosophy, Heidegger has served as the most frequent reference point in current philosophy of technology (Technikphilosophie). This field of philosophy came into being after the so-called empirical turn of “Science and Technology Studies.” While relevant scholars focus mainly (...)
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    On What Remains: Paul’s Proclamation of Contingency.Jan van der Heiden - 2017 - In Antonio Cimino, George Henry van Kooten & Gert Jan van der Heiden, Saint Paul and Philosophy: The Consonance of Ancient and Modern Thought. De Gruyter. pp. 115-130.
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    De manifestatie van het absolute.W. R. Van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (10):425 - 439.
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  39. The Plasticity of Categories: The Case of Colour.Jaap Van Brakel - 1993 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 44 (1):103-135.
    Probably colour is the best worked-out example of allegedly neurophysiologically innate response categories determining percepts and percepts determining concepts, and hence biology fixing the basic categories implicit in the use of language. In this paper I argue against this view and I take C. L. Hardin's Color for Philosophers [1988] as my main target. I start by undermining the view that four unique hues stand apart from all other colour shades (Section 2) and the confidence that the solar spectrum is (...)
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    Which colour space(s) is Shepard talking about?Lieven Decock & Jaap van Brakel - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4):661-662.
    Contra Shepard we argue, first, that his presentation of a three-dimensional representational (psychological or phenomenal) colour space is at odds with many results in colour science, and, second, that there is insufficient evidence for Shepard's stronger claim that the three-dimensionality of colour perception has resulted from natural selection, moulded by the particulars of the solar spectrum and its variations. [Shepard].
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    Internal Realism, Truth and Charity.J. P. M. Geurts & J. van Brakel - 1988 - Dialectica 42 (1):37-44.
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    Handbook of economics and ethics.Jan Peil & Irene van Staveren (eds.) - 2009 - Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
    The Handbook of Economics and Ethics is a unique collection of 75 original entries on the intersections between economics and ethics.
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    New Beginnings in Literary Studies.Jan Auracher & Willie van Peer (eds.) - 2008 - Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Traditional studies of literature have developed approaches ranging from historical, hermeneutic, critical, close reading and author studies perspectives. The present volume shows that there is much, much more to analysing literary texts, their readers, the literary system, movies, their structure and their effects. These diverse new ways of looking at literature are exemplified in this volume. The volume shows how these various approaches can be carried out in concrete projects in the area of literary studies. Twenty-three chapters encompass research on (...)
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    The limited belief in chance.J. Van Brakel - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (3):499-513.
    In a rarely quoted paper, published in 1958 in the American Journal of Physics, T. Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa introduced the idea that the concept of chance as employed in physics is subject to what she called a ‘Limited Belief in Chance’. In this paper I elaborate the latter concept and the distinction between absolute chance and relative randomness, where the latter, but not the former, is governed by the theory of probability. I argue that in the twentieth century virtually nobody believes seriously (...)
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    The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies.Jan Van Bragt - 1996 - Buddhist-Christian Studies 16:199-202.
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    Orange laser beams are not illusory: The need for a plurality of “real” color ontologies.Lieven Decock & Jaap van Brakel - 2003 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (1):27-28.
    Reflectance physicalism only provides a partial picture of the ontology of color. Byrne & Hilbert’ account is unsatisfactory because the replacement of reflectance functions by productance functions is ad hoc, unclear, and only leads to new problems. Furthermore, the effects of color contrast and differences in illumination are not really taken seriously: Too many “real” colors are tacitly dismissed as illusory, and this for arbitrary reasons. We claim that there cannot be an all-embracing ontology for color.
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    Heidegger and the reversed order of science and technology.Lin Ma & Jaap Van Brakel - 2014 - The Multidimensionality of Hermeneutic Phenomenology 70:183 - 205.
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    The empirical stance and the colour war.Jaap Van Brakel - 2004 - Divinatio: Studia Culturologica Series 20.
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    De conceptie van Kali de Moeder.W. R. Van Brakell Buys - 1938 - Synthese 3 (4):144 - 158.
    Le culte grandiose de Kali, la Mère, son incomparable symbolisme, ses litanies et ses chants, embrasse l'âme de l'univers qu'il glorifie comme aucune conception religieuse ne le fit jamais. La terrifiante déesse sème la peste et les pires ravages sur ses pas, tout en accordant sa grâce et sa clémence à ses enfants assez hardis pour soulever l'horrible masque derrière lequel elle se cache la figure. Ceux-là retrouveront les traits radieux qui ont enchanté leur enfance. La sublime conception de Kali, (...)
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    Colour: An exosomatic organ?B. A. C. Saunders & J. van Brakel - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (2):212-220.
    Sections R1 to R3 attempt to take the sting out of hostile commentaries. Sections R4 to R5 engage Berlin and Kay and the World Color Survey to correct the record. Section R6 begins the formulation of a new theory of colour as an engineering project with a technological developmental trajectory. It is recommended that the colour space be abandoned.
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