Results for 'Popular Science in Philosophy'

957 found
Order:
  1.  7
    Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of the Popular Toys and Sports.John Ayrton Paris & George Cruikshank - 2013 - Cambridge University Press.
    John Ayrton Paris, writer and physician, became a member of the Linnean Society in 1810, and served as president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1844 until his death. Intended for children and originally composed for the author's family, this three-volume work about science was first published in 1827. Dedicated to the writer Maria Edgeworth and with illustrations by George Cruikshank, it aims 'to blend amusement with instruction', since youth, as Paris writes, 'is naturally addicted to amusement'. Topics (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2.  19
    Populäre Naturwissenschaft in Nürnberg am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts: Reisende Experimentatoren, öffentliche Vorlesungen und physikalisches Spielzeug†.Alexander Rüger - 1982 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 5 (3-4):173-191.
    Popular science in Nuremberg at the end of the 18th century exemplifies a little known German scientific culture: as in English und French towns, public lectures in natural philosophy and experimental demonstrations were offered to an interested bourgeois audience; the production of scientific toys flourished. The career of Johann Konrad Gütle, private teacher, itinerant lecturer and instrument maker, illustrates the popular scientific scene in Enlightenment Nuremberg.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  3.  29
    Popular Science, Pragmatism, and Conceptual Clarity.Oliver Belas - 2014 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 6 (1).
    Introduction One of popular science’s primary functions is to make what would otherwise be inaccessible, specialist knowledge accessible to the lay reader. But popular science puts its imagined reader in something of a dilemma, for one does not have to look very far to find bitter argument among science writers; argument that takes place beyond the limits of the scientific community: witness the ill-tempered exchanges between Mary Midgley and Richard Dawkins in the journal Philosophy (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  4.  45
    Complicating the Story of Popular Science: John Maynard Smith’s “Little Penguin” on The Theory of Evolution.Helen Piel - 2019 - Journal of the History of Biology 52 (3):371-390.
    Popular science writing has received increasing interest, especially in its relation to professional science. I extend the current scholarly focus from the nineteenth to the twentieth century by providing a microhistory of the early popular writings of evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith. Linking them to the state of evolutionary biology as a professional science as well as Maynard Smith’s own professional standing, I examine the interplay between author, text and audiences. In particular, I focus on (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  5.  22
    Science and Philosophy in Aristotle's Biological Works (review).D. M. Balme - 1977 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 15 (4):463-466.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Book Reviews Bibliography on Plato's "'Laws, "" 1920-1970: With Additional Citations through May, 1975. By Trevor J. Saunders. (New York: Arno Press, 1976. Pp. i + 60. $15.00) The Penguin Classics translator of the non-Socratic Laws, as Leo Strauss called them, has here compiled in a most usable way a thorough bibliography of books and articles about the Laws or parts of them. The section "Texts, Translations, and Commentaries" (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  6. Popular science as knowledge: early modern Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos.S. Orozco-Echeverri - 2023 - Galilaeana 20 (1):34-61.
    Iberian repertorios de los tiempos stemmed from Medieval almanacs and calendars. During the sixteenth century significant editorial, conceptual and material changes in repertorios incorporated astronomy, geography, chronology and natural philosophy. From De Li’s Repertorio (1492) to Zamorano’s Cronología (1585), the genre evolved from simple almanacs to more complex cosmological works which circulated throughout the Iberian-American world. This article claims that repertorios are a form of syncretic knowledge rather than “popular science” by relying on the concept of “knowledge (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7.  30
    Reflections on Popular Culture and Philosophy.Alexander Christian - 2021 - Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy 35 (4):335-357.
    Contributions to the philosophical genre of popular culture and philosophy aim to popularize philosophical ideas with the help of references to the products of popular culture with TV series like The Simpsons, Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix and Jurassic Park, or popular music groups like Metallica. While being commercially successful, books in this comparatively new genre are often criticized for lacking scientific rigor, providing a shallow cultural commentary, and having little didactic value to foster philosophical understanding. (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  8.  10
    Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América.Joshua M. Price & María Lugones (eds.) - 2010 - Duke University Press.
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, _Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América _is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of thinking, which is deeply tied to Indian ways of knowing and being. Arguing that this binary cuts through América, Kusch (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  9.  21
    Science in a Democratic Society by Philip Kitcher (review).Henry S. Richardson - 2014 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (1):106-109.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Science in a Democratic Society by Philip KitcherHenry S. RichardsonReview: Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society, Prometheus Books, 2011In examining the place of science in a democratic society, Philip Kitcher is ultimately asking what standards scientific activity is answerable to. Here, as in Science, Truth, and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2001), he rejects two extreme possibilities: first, the suggestion that science is (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  10. Frameworks, models, and case studies: a new methodology for studying conceptual change in science and philosophy.Matteo De Benedetto - 2022 - Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
    This thesis focuses on models of conceptual change in science and philosophy. In particular, I developed a new bootstrapping methodology for studying conceptual change, centered around the formalization of several popular models of conceptual change and the collective assessment of their improved formal versions via nine evaluative dimensions. Among the models of conceptual change treated in the thesis are Carnap’s explication, Lakatos’ concept-stretching, Toulmin’s conceptual populations, Waismann’s open texture, Mark Wilson’s patches and facades, Sneed’s structuralism, and Paul (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11.  80
    Levels of analysis in philosophy, religion, and science.Piotr Bylica - 2015 - Zygon 50 (2):304-328.
    This article introduces a model of levels of analysis applied to statements found in philosophical, scientific, and religious discourses in order to facilitate a more accurate description of the relation between science and religion. The empirical levels prove to be the most crucial for the relation between science and religion, because they include statements that are important parts of both scientific and religious discourse, whereas statements from metaphysical levels are only important in terms of religion and are neutral (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  12.  19
    The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century.Richard Mouw - 2002 - Philosophia Christi 4 (1):234-237.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  13.  73
    Martial Bliss: War and Peace in Popular Science Robotics. [REVIEW]Robert M. Geraci - 2011 - Philosophy and Technology 24 (3):339-354.
    In considering how to best deploy robotic systems in public and private sectors, we must consider what individuals will expect from the robots with which they interact. Public awareness of robotics—as both military machines and domestic helpers—emerges out of a braided stream composed of science fiction and popular science. These two genres influence news media, government and corporate spending, and public expectations. In the Euro-American West, both science fiction and popular science are ambivalent about (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  14.  19
    The soul in the twentieth century: insights in psychology, science, nature, philosophy, spirituality, and politics from Europe and North America.Kocku von Stuckrad - 2021 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture-from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  15. Reductionism as an Identity Marker in Popular Science.Hauke Riesch - 2015 - In Susann Wagenknecht, Nancy J. Nersessian & Hanne Andersen (eds.), Empirical Philosophy of Science: Introducing Qualitative Methods into Philosophy of Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16.  13
    Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp. [REVIEW]Cora Stuhrmann - 2024 - Journal of the History of Biology 57 (2):345-348.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17.  18
    Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América.Rodolfo Kusch - 2010 - Duke University Press.
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, _Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América _is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of thinking, which is deeply tied to Indian ways of knowing and being. Arguing that this binary cuts through América, Kusch (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  11
    Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific and Philosophical Essays in Honour of Azarya Polikarov.R. S. Cohen - 1997 - Springer.
    Azarya Polikarov was born in Sofia on October 9, 1921. Through the many stages of politics, economy, and culture in Bulgaria, he maintained his rational humanity and scientific curiosity. He has been a splendid teacher and an accomplished critical philosopher exploring the conceptual and historical vicis situdes of physics in modern times and also the science policies that favor or threaten human life in these decades. Equally and easily at home both within the Eastern and Central European countries and (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   16 citations  
  19.  74
    Yoga in modern India: the body between science and philosophy.Joseph S. Alter - 2004 - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
    Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic research and an analysis of both ancient and modern texts, Yoga in Modern India challenges this popular view by examining the history of yoga, focusing on its emergence in modern India and its dramatically changing form and significance in the twentieth century. Joseph Alter argues that yoga's transformation into a popular activity idolized (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  20.  22
    Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain.Nathan Edward Charles Smith - 2023 - Annals of Science 80 (3):268-292.
    ABSTRACT This paper examines the rise and fall of the British popular microscopy movement during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. It highlights that what is currently understood as microscopy was actually two inter-related but distinct communities and argues that the recognized collapse of microscopical societies in the closing decades of the nineteenth century was the result of amateur specialization. It finds the roots of popular microscopy in the Working Men’s College movement and highlights how (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  21.  14
    Gods, philosophers, and scientists: religion and science in the West.Scott Hendrix - 2019 - Mechanicsburg, PA: Oxford Southern, an imprint of Sunbury Press.
    According to Pew Research studies, most Americans think religion always conflicts with science. The popular writings of scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Lawrence Krauss reinforce this idea, as do books by writers such as Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennet. Furthermore, the two versions of the enormously popular television show Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan in 1980 and Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2014, present a history of science in which religion has always acted as (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  52
    Science and culture: popular and philosophical essays.Hermann von Helmholtz - 1995 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by David Cahan.
    Hermann von Helmholtz was a leading figure of nineteenth-century European intellectual life, remarkable even among the many scientists of the period for the range and depth of his interests. A pioneer of physiology and physics, he was also deeply concerned with the implications of science for philosophy and culture. From the 1850s to the 1890s, Helmholtz delivered more than two dozen popular lectures, seeking to educate the public and to enlighten the leaders of European society and governments (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   5 citations  
  23.  34
    The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference (review).Seth Kadish - 2003 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2):269-270.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.2 (2003) 269-270 [Access article in PDF] Steven Harvey, editor. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy: Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000. Pp. xi + 547. Cloth, $239.00. This fine volume, covering the proceedings of a conference at Bar-Ilan University (January, 1998), is the first book devoted to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  24. Parliamentarization of popular contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834.Charles Tilly - 1997 - Theory and Society 26 (2-3):245-273.
  25.  50
    The strong program in embodied cognitive science.Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira - 2023 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (4):841-865.
    A popular trend in the sciences of the mind is to understand cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, ecological, and so on. While some of the work under the label of “embodied cognition” takes for granted key commitments of traditional cognitive science, other projects coincide in treating embodiment as the starting point for an entirely different way of investigating all of cognition. Focusing on the latter, this paper discusses how embodied cognitive science can be made more reflexive and (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  26.  28
    Max Weber on Science, in the Context of Our Days Thinking.Lyudmila A. Markova - 2020 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (8):56-71.
    Max Weber analyzes the science of the Modern Period. The revolution in physics at the beginning of the 20th century, the creation of quantum mechanics bring to the fore another type of scientific thinking. It is important to note that past knowledge in this case is not refuted, not destroyed, it becomes marginal and enters into communication with its competitor. It is this type of communication with Weber’s philosophy of scientific thinking that helps us to understand its specificity. (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  27.  41
    Fictionalism in Philosophy.Bradley Armour-Garb & Frederick Kroon (eds.) - 2019 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
    There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up. This might be something mundane, like the way we talk about the sun setting in the west, or it could be something much deeper, like engaging in talk that is ostensibly about numbers despite believing that numbers do not literally exist. Rather than regard such behaviour as self-defeating, a "fictionalist" is someone who thinks that this kind of discourse (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  28. The Role of Imagination in Ernst Mach’s Philosophy of Science: A Biologico-economical View.Char Brecevic - 2021 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (1):241-261.
    Some popular views of Ernst Mach cast him as a philosopher-scientist averse to imaginative practices in science. The aim of this analysis is to address the question of whether or not imagination is compatible with Machian philosophy of science. I conclude that imagination is not only compatible, but essential to realizing the aim of science in Mach’s biologico-economical view. I raise the possible objection that my conclusion is undermined by Mach’s criticism of Isaac Newton’s famous (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  29. After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives From Philosophy and Theology.Peter Harrison & John Milbank (eds.) - 2022 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    The popular field of 'science and religion' is a lively and well-established area. It is however a domain which has long been characterised by certain traits. In the first place, it tends towards an adversarial dialectic in which the separate disciplines, now conjoined, are forever locked in a kind of mortal combat. Secondly, 'science and religion' has a tendency towards disentanglement, where 'science' does one sort of thing and 'religion' another. And thirdly, the duo are frequently (...)
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  30.  56
    Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece.G. E. R. Lloyd - 1983 - Indianapolis: Cambridge University Press.
    Taking a set of central issues from ancient Greek medicine and biology, this book studies firstly, the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore or popular assumptions; secondly, the ideological character of scientific inquiry. Topics of interest in the philosphy and sociology of science illuminated here include the relationship between primitive thought and early science, the roles of the consensus on the scientific community, tradition and the authority of the written text, in the development of science.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   17 citations  
  31.  14
    The History of Science in the Context of the State Ideology.Alexander A. Pechenkin - 2023 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 60 (2):168-186.
    Mandelstam’s criticism of the Rayleigh theory of the blue color of the sky (1907) and his polemic with M. Planck (1907–1908) did not become notable events in the history of physics. However, the method of their coverage in the Soviet and in the post-Soviet physics literature is remarkable. Most of Soviet physicists and historians of physics supported Mandelstam's point of view in his criticism of both Raleigh and Planck. The situation changed only at the beginning of the 21st century: in (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  32.  42
    Science fiction and the moral imagination: visions, minds, ethics.Russell Blackford - 2017 - Cham: Springer.
    In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine futures greatly different from the present. Science fiction was born out of the realization that future technoscientific advances could dramatically change the world. Along with the developments described in modern science fiction - space (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33.  46
    Science, commonsense and philosophy: A defense of continuity (a critique of "network apriorism").Nenad Miscevic - 2001 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 (1):19 – 31.
    A popular line in philosophy championed by Jackson and his followers analyses concepts as networks of propositions. It takes even network-propositions characterizing ordinary empirically applicable concepts to be a priori, in contrast to statements of empirical science. This is meant to guarantee both the autonomy of conceptual analysis, and its substantial and informative character. It is argued here, to the contrary, that empirically applicable and entrenched concepts owe the acceptability of their own network precisely to its empirical (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  34.  8
    Getting science wrong: why the philosophy of science matters.Paul Dicken - 2018 - London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
    Discusses some of the most popular misconceptions about science, and their continuing role in the public imagination. Drawing upon the history and philosophy of science it challenges widespread assumptions and misunderstandings, from creationism and climate change to the use of statistics and computer modeling. The result is an engaging introduction to contentious issues in the philosophy of science and a new way of looking at the role of science in society.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  35.  10
    Classical political philosophy in popular discourse: the case of Poland.Zbigniew Rau - 2021 - Lanham: Lexington Books. Edited by Katarzyna M. Staszyńska, Maciej Chmieliński & Krzysztof Zagórski.
    Classical Political Philosophy in Popular Discourse combines two scientific paradigms-classical political philosophy and contemporary, empirical sociology. The chief aim of this unique scientific project is to explore, operationalize, and reconstruct a political doctrine appearing in social discourse, exemplified by Polish society.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36.  29
    Rejecting Materialism: Responses to Modern Science in the Muslim Middle East.Taner Edis & Saouma BouJaoude - 2014 - In Michael R. Matthews (ed.), International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching. Springer. pp. 1663-1690.
    In the past centuries, most Muslims have encountered modern science as a Western import. To avoid being overwhelmed by the military and commercial advantages enjoyed by technologically advanced nations, Middle Eastern Muslim societies had to begin adopting modern knowledge. As westernization started to shape social structures and institutions as well as technologies, conservative Muslim responses to modern science typically became conditioned by the demands of cultural defense. Many Muslim thinkers argued that upholding the religious character of Muslim civilization (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  37.  82
    Explanatory Judgment, Moral Offense and Value-Free Science.Matteo Colombo, Leandra Bucher & Yoel Inbar - 2016 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 7 (4):743-763.
    A popular view in philosophy of science contends that scientific reasoning is objective to the extent that the appraisal of scientific hypotheses is not influenced by moral, political, economic, or social values, but only by the available evidence. A large body of results in the psychology of motivated-reasoning has put pressure on the empirical adequacy of this view. The present study extends this body of results by providing direct evidence that the moral offensiveness of a scientific hypothesis (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   8 citations  
  38. Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization.Mauricio Suárez (ed.) - 2008 - New York: Routledge.
    Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic description of the world down to the last detail. The essays collected in this book—written by some of the leading experts in the field—challenge this popular image right at its heart, taking as their starting point that science trades not only in truth, but in fiction, too. With case studies that range from physics to economics and to biology, _Fictions (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   42 citations  
  39.  76
    Conceptual Analysis in the Philosophy of Science.Martin Zach - 2019 - Balkan Journal of Philosophy 11 (2):107-124.
    Conceptual analysis as a method of inquiry has long enjoyed popularity in analytic philosophy, including the philosophy of science. In this article I offer a perspective on the ways in which the method of conceptual analysis has been used, and distinguish two broad kinds, namely philosophical and empirical conceptual analysis. In so doing I outline a historical trend in which non-naturalized approaches to conceptual analysis are being replaced by a variety of naturalized approaches. I outline the basic (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40. What is General Philosophy of Science?Stathis Psillos - 2012 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 43 (1):93-103.
    The very idea of a general philosophy of science relies on the assumption that there is this thing called science —as opposed to the various individual sciences. In this programmatic piece I make a case for the claim that general philosophy of science is the philosophy of science in general or science as such. Part of my narrative makes use of history, for two reasons. First, general philosophy of science is (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   13 citations  
  41.  22
    The Attitude of Ashkenazi Society to the New Science in the Sixteenth Century.Elchanan Reiner - 1997 - Science in Context 10 (4):589-603.
    In 1903 Rabbi Philipp Bloch, of Posen, published a unique Ashkenazic sixteenth-century polemical pamphlet which attested, so it seemed, to a heated controversy in yeshivah circles in the larger cities of the Ashkenazi cultural sphere in the late 1550s. Revolving around the place of philosophy in Judaism, the dispute reached one of its peaks in Prague some time before April 1559, probably in a public debate before a yeshivah audience, basically similar to the Disputationes then popular in European (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  42.  40
    James and Waismann on Temperament in Philosophy.John Capps - 2023 - The Pluralist 18 (2):46-65.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:James and Waismann on Temperament in PhilosophyJohn Cappsfor william james, philosophyis inextricably linked to what he calls temperament. In the first of his Pragmatismlectures, he claims that "the history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments" ( Pragmatism11), while conceding that this will strike many philosophers as "undignified." In a similar vein, he elsewhere writes that philosophy seeks "by (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  43.  25
    Popular Science in Eighteenth Century Almanacs: The Editorial Career of Henry Andrews of Royston, 1780–1820.Jennifer C. Mori - 2016 - History of Science 54 (1):19-44.
    English popular science was more than a mid-nineteenth century phenomenon, whether defined as practical, utilitarian and comprehensible knowledge, or as a nexus of ¡deas, rhetoric and practice. All these criteria were fulfilled in four Stationers’ Company almanacs for forty years by Henry Andrews, an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer and meteorologist. Andrews employed these as instruments for an extensive campaign in the history of science education devised to acquaint working class readers with the key figures, ideas and methodologies of (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  44.  19
    Philosophy in the Islamic world.Peter Adamson - 2016 - United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims, and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings in the world of early Islam all the way through to the twentieth century. (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  45.  11
    The Demons of Science: What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World.Friedel Weinert - 2016 - Cham: Imprint: Springer.
    This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace's Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell's Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche's thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  46.  16
    Philosophy and Ideology of the Future in the Context of Modern Science.Georgiy G. Malinetskiy - 2020 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63 (5):28-52.
    The article analyzes the issues of the philosophy and ideology of the future from the point of view of the theory of self-organization, or synergetics. This interdisciplinary approach allows researchers to focus their efforts on the key problems of the development of civilization and, in particular, on designing the future. In the theory of valuable information developed by D.S. Chernavsky, it is shown that there is a number of knowledge, skills, and abilities that increase the probability of their holders (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  47.  8
    Art, science and the body in early Romanticism.Stephanie O'Rourke - 2021 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This book reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet, and Philippe de Loutherbourg, it argues that Romantic artworks participated in a widespread crisis concerning the body as a source of reliable scientific knowledge. Rarely discussed sources and new archival material illuminate how artists (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  48. Is Panpsychism at Odds with Science?L. Roelofs - 2021 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 28 (9-10):116-128.
    Galileo’s Error is a superlative work of public philosophy, particularly as a way of introducing modern academic panpsychism to a broader audience. In this commentary, I reflect on an issue that is prominent, though often with different background concerns, in both academic and popular discourse: what it means to be ‘scientific’ or ‘unscientific’. Panpsychism is not itself a scientific hypothesis, but neither is it (as critics sometimes claim) in conflict with science. Indeed, Goff argues, and I agree, (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  49.  8
    Modern Physics and Its Philosophy: Selected Papers in the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science.Martin Strauss - 1972 - Dordrecht,: Springer.
    In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. I have further omitted all book rev.iews. Instead, I have included two papers not published previously; they are marked by an asterisk (*) in the table of contents. Since many of the papers were occasioned by Symposia or similar gatherings their chronological order is rather accidental. Hence I have tried to group the papers thematically into four parts. Within each part the order of sequence is from (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  50.  30
    Social Theory in Popular Culture.Lee Barron - 2012 - Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Social theory can sometimes seem as though it's speaking of a world that existed long ago, so why should we continue to study and discuss the theories of these dead white men? Can their work still inform us about the way we live today? Are they still relevant to our consumer-focused, celebrity-crazy, tattoo-friendly world? This book explains how the ideas of classical sociological theory can be understood, and applied to, everyday activities like listening to hip-hop, reading fashion magazines or watching (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
1 — 50 / 957