The Benefit toPhilosophy of the Study of itsHistory.Maria Rosa Antognazza -2015 -British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (1):161-184.detailsThis paper advances the view that thehistory ofphilosophy is both a kind ofhistory and a kind ofphilosophy. Through a discussion of some examples from epistemology, metaphysics, and the historiography ofphilosophy, it explores the benefit tophilosophy of a deep and broad engagement with itshistory. It comes to the conclusion that doinghistory ofphilosophy is a way to think outside the box of the current philosophical (...) orthodoxies. Somewhat paradoxically, far from imprisoning its students in outdated and crystallized views, thehistory ofphilosophy trains the mind to think differently and alternatively about the fundamental problems ofphilosophy. It keeps us alert to the fact that latest is not always best, and that a genuinely new perspective often means embracing and developing an old insight. The upshot is that the study of thehistory ofphilosophy has an innovative and subversive potential, and thatphilosophy has a great deal to gain from a long, broad, and deep conversation with itshistory. (shrink)
CommittedHistory andPhilosophy of the Social Sciences in the Two Germanies.William R. Woodward -1985 -History of Science 23 (1):25-72.detailsThe question of the social commitment of the sociologist, and the scientist in general, has become a burning issue facing the sociology of East and West alike, — though it may take different forms. (P. C. Ludz, “Sociology”, in C. D Kernig (ed.), Marxism, communism, and Western society (New York, 1973), vol. viii, p. 46.).
On theHistory of ModernPhilosophy.Andrew Bowie (ed.) -2012 - Cambridge University Press.detailsOn theHistory of ModernPhilosophy is a key transitional text in thehistory of Europeanphilosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveysphilosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path ofphilosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's own work. The extensive critiques of Hegel prefigure many of the arguments to be found (...) in Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. This is the first English translation of On theHistory of ModernPhilosophy. In his introduction Andrew Bowie sets the work in the context of Schelling's career and clarifies its philosophical issues. The translation will be of special interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, literary theorists, and theologians. (shrink)
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Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the 20th Century: RoutledgeHistory ofPhilosophy Volume 10.John Canfiled V. (ed.) -2013 - Routledge.detailsThe twentieth century brought enormous change to subjects such as language, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology. This volume covers the major developments in these areas and more.
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History/philosophy/science: Some lessons forphilosophy ofhistory.John H. Zammito -2011 -History and Theory 50 (3):390-413.detailsABSTRACTRheinberger's briefhistory brings into sharp profile the importance ofhistory of science for a philosophical understanding of historical practice. Rheinberger presents thought about the nature of science by leading scientists and their interpreters over the course of the twentieth century as emphasizing increasingly the local and developmental character of their learning practices, thus making the conception of knowledge dependent upon historical experience, “historicizing epistemology.” Linking his account of thought about science to his own work on “experimental systems,” (...) I draw extensive parallels with other work in the localhistory of science and consider the epistemological implications both for the relation betweenhistory andphilosophy of science and betweenhistory and theory more broadly. In doing so, I suggest that the long‐standing gap between the natural sciences andhistory as a “human science” has been significantly bridged by the insistence upon the local, mediated, indeed “historicized epistemology” of actual science. (shrink)
The CambridgeHistory of Eighteenth-CenturyPhilosophy: Volume 2.Knud Haakonssen (ed.) -2008 - Cambridge University Press.detailsThe most comprehensive and up-to-datehistory of the eighteenth-centuryphilosophy available in English.
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Mystery & intelligibility:history ofphilosophy as pursuit of wisdom.Jeffrey Dirk Wilson (ed.) -2021 - Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.detailsContributors consider the limits of our knowledge of a world of unlimited knowability by examining philosophical thought from the Classical Greeks to the present.
UsingHistory andPhilosophy of Science to Promote Students’ Argumentation.Pablo Antonio Archila -2015 -Science & Education 24 (9-10):1201-1226.detailsThis article describes the effect of a teaching–learning sequence based on the discovery of oxygen in promoting students’ argumentation. It examines the written and oral arguments produced by 63 high school students in France during a complete TLS supervised by the same teacher. The data used in this analysis was derived from students’ written responses, audio and video recordings, and written field notes. The first goal of this investigation was to provide evidence that an approach combininghistory and (...) class='Hi'>philosophy of science and argumentation could increase students’ awareness of the relevance of experimentation and communication to scientific progress. The second goal was to assess the effectiveness of the TLS to engage students in argumentative classroom interactions relating to the discovery of oxygen at the end of the 18th century. The findings show that this historical case can be useful for promoting students’ argumentation and is also appropriate for high school students. Future research should include students of other ages, other historical episodes and experiences in other parts of the world. (shrink)
Digital Potential of theHistory ofPhilosophy.Nataliia Shcherbyna-Supruniuk -2024 -Sententiae 43 (2):124-129.detailsThe author analyses the modern influence of digitalization on the development of thehistory ofphilosophy and the prospects of the digitalhistory ofphilosophy projects. It has been established that these projects provide researchers with: (1) better opportunities for intercultural and interdisciplinary exchanges; (2) significantly greater variability of methods of producing knowledge in the field ofhistory ofphilosophy; (3) the possibility of involving more specialists in cooperation; (4) greater transparency and variability of (...) research results; (5) a new layer of issues to research. If we talk about publicphilosophy, these projects help tailor popularization materials better to meet the needs and interests of the general public. (shrink)
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Lectures on theHistory ofPhilosophy 1825-6: Volume 1: Introduction and OrientalPhilosophy.Robert F. Brown &Peter C. Hodgson (eds.) -2009 - Oxford University Press UK.detailsThis new edition of Hegel's Lectures on theHistory ofPhilosophy sets forth clearly, for the first time for the English reader, what Hegel actually said. These lectures challenged the antiquarianism of Hegel's contemporaries by boldly contending that thehistory ofphilosophy is itselfphilosophy, not justhistory. It portrays the journey of reason or spirit through time, as reason or spirit comes in stages to its full development and self-conscious existence, through the successive (...) products of human intellect and activity. These lectures proved to be extremely influential on the intellectualhistory of the past two centuries. They are crucial to understanding Hegel's own systematicphilosophy in its constructive aspect, as well as his views on the centrality of reason in humanhistory and culture. Volume I holds additional importance because, as well as setting out Hegel's discussion of thehistory of Chinese and Indianphilosophy, it presents the interesting and significant changes that Hegel made to the stage-setting introduction to these lectures across the years from 1819 to 1831. This edition adapts the considerable editorial resources of the German edition that it translates, to the needs of the general reader as well as the serious scholar, so as to constitute an unparalleled resource on this topic in the English language. (shrink)
Research inHistory andPhilosophy of Mathematics: The Cshpm 2017 Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario.Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,Marion W. Alexander,Zoe Ashton,Christopher Baltus,Phil Bériault,Daniel J. Curtin,Eamon Darnell,Craig Fraser,Roger Godard,William W. Hackborn,Duncan J. Melville,Valérie Lynn Therrien,Aaron Thomas-Bolduc &R. S. D. Thomas (eds.) -2018 - Springer Verlag.detailsThis volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society forHistory andPhilosophy of Mathematics/Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques, which was held at Ryerson University in Toronto. It showcases rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of topics in thehistory andphilosophy of mathematics from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century. A series of chapters all set in the eighteenth century consider topics such (...) as John Marsh’s techniques for the computation of decimal fractions, Euler’s efforts to compute the surface area of scalene cones, a little-known work by John Playfair on the practical aspects of mathematics, and Monge’s use of descriptive geometry. After a brief stop in the nineteenth century to consider the culture of research mathematics in 1860s Prussia, the book moves into the twentieth century with an examination of the historical context within which the Axiom of Choice was developed and a paper discussing Anatoly Vlasov’s adaptation of the Boltzmann equation to ionized gases. The remaining chapters deal with thephilosophy of twentieth-century mathematics through topics such as an historically informed discussion of finitism and its limits; a reexamination of Mary Leng’s defenses of mathematical fictionalism through an alternative, anti-realist approach to mathematics; and a look at the reasons that mathematicians select specific problems to pursue. Written by leading scholars in the field, these papers are accessible to not only mathematicians and students of thehistory andphilosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics. (shrink)
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Between thePhilosophy of Religion and CulturalHistory: Susan Taubes on the Birth of Tragedy and the Negative Theology of Modernity.Sigrid Weigel -2010 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2010 (150):115-135.detailsThe caesura of tragedy, more precisely tragedy as the scene of a caesura upon which an interruption occurs in the relation between divine grounds and human will, stands at the center of Susan Taubes's confrontation with tragedy. Moving beyond an explication of generichistory, she analyzed the “Nature of Tragedy” (1953) as a phenomenon emerging from a cultural-historical threshold situation, illuminating tragedy's origins in the framework of her approach to ritual, religion, andphilosophy. In respect to the (...) class='Hi'>history of theory, these reflections are located at a transition point between religious and culturalhistory. Her argument that tragedy maintains a…. (shrink)
History, humanity, and truth.Robert Conquest -1993 - Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University.detailsHISTORY, HUMANITY, AND TRUTH The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities II am deeply honored that you have chosen me to give the Jefferson Lecture in the ...
(1 other version)The purpose ofhistory.Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge -1916 - New York,: Columbia University Press.detailsFromhistory tophilosophy.--The pluralism ofhistory.--The continuity ofhistory.
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Essays in NaturalHistory andPhilosophy. Containing a Series of Discoveries by the Assistance of Microscopes.John Hill, Whiston,Benjamin White,Paul Vaillant &Lockyer Davis -2013 - Rarebooksclub.com.detailsThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1752 edition. Excerpt:... to which the original Exclusion had been owing, the Points of two short and slender Hairs appear'd protruding themselves from its oval Surface. The thicker butoblong Bodies, from whose Extremities these grew, next forc'd themselves out, and it was evident to a-'n accustom'd Eye, that they were (...) the Antennze of a two wing'd Fly; next presented themselves the anterior Surfaces of two chequeffd Orbs, which were plainly the complex Eyes of anlnsect' of the same Species, separated by a plain Portion of a Forehead; and soon after the whole Head. This was no sooner all in View, than it swell'd to a Diameter equal to twice the Measure of that of the Breast. lt might have appear'd from the first, that the Head was growing under the Eye of the Observer, from the Extremity of the Thorax, but tho' a more rational Enquiry could not but produce for its Answer, that it was only now thrust forth out of the Cavity of the Breast in which it had before been lodg'd; it yet appear'd singular after this sudden Change in Size to conceive how a Thing should have been till that Moment lodg'd in a Cavityz not equal to half its own Diameter. P a The The Head was now entire and in its Place, and the Legs were firm, and supported the Body well, but the Wings did not yet appear. On examining the Place where they were to be expacted, I discover'd two irregular Protuberances of a wrinkled Surface, and considerably large, and under them the two oblong Pedicies which we see supporting the Balls under the Wings of all the two wing'd Flies. It was evident from this, that the Protuberances at the two Sides of the Base of the Thorax were the very Wings in their folded State, and this was soon prov'd by their expanding. The Wings in all this Race of Creatures are the last Part... (shrink)
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