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Arnošt Kolman’s Critique of Mathematical Fetishism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Arnošt Kolman (1892–1979) was a Czech mathematician, philosopher and Communist official. In this paper, we would like to look at Kolman’s arguments against logical positivism which revolve around the notion of the fetishization of mathematics.
Mácha, Jakub, Zouhar, Jan
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Revisiting Galison’s ‘Aufbau/Bauhaus’ in light of Neurath’s philosophical projects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Historically, the Vienna Circle and the Dessau Bauhaus were related, with members of each group familiar with the ideas of the other. Peter Galison argues that their projects are related as well, through shared political views and methodological ...
Potochnik, Angela, Yap, Audrey
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Rudolf Carnap’s Ideas in Philosophy of Language in the Context of Conceptual Engineering

open access: yesEpistemology & Philosophy of Science
The past decade has seen notable development of conceptual engineering – a field of analytical philosophy that focuses on the critical evaluation of concepts.
I. Griftsova, N. Y. Kozlova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Zwischen Optimierung und ludischen Gegenstrategien

open access: yesMedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2021
Wie lassen sich post-digitale Regime der Optimierung beforschen? Insbesondere Social Media Plattformen arbeiten in ihren diversen Anwendungsoptionen mit Konzepten des kollektiv und algorithmisch hergestellten Optimums der permanenten, potentiellen ...
Viktoria Flasche, Anna Carnap
doaj   +1 more source

Aquinas and Naturalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Aquinas’s actual response to a naturalistic challenge at ST I.2.3 is one which most naturalists would find unimpressive. However, I shall argue that there is a stronger response latent in his philosophical system.
O'Grady, Paul
core   +2 more sources

Carnap on logic and rationality [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2016
Rudolf Carnap is undoubtedly one of the central figures in twentieth-century scientific philosophy. While his work covers a wide spectrum of topics in philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, formal philosophy of science, and probability theory (among other fields), a particular method of doing philosophy can be identified in all of
openaire   +3 more sources

Utopias and forms of life: Carnap’s Bauhaus conferences [Utopias e formas de vida: as conferências de Carnap na Bauhaus]

open access: yesPrincípios, 2018
This paper discusses Rudolf Carnap’s 1929 conferences at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in the context of Otto Neurath’s utopianism.
Ivan F. da Cunha
doaj   +1 more source

The Counterpart Principle of Analogical Support by Structural Similarity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We propose and investigate an Analogy Principle in the context of Unary Inductive Logic based on a notion of support by structural similarity which is often employed to motivate scientific ...
A. J. Hill   +27 more
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
wiley   +1 more source

Tolerancia és explikáció. Carnap módszertana a filozófiai vitákban

open access: yesElpis, 2014
Miközben Rudolf Carnap 1947-es Meaning and Necessity című könyve mára egy elfeledett, de legalábbis kevésbé vizsgált munkája, e mű mutatja Carnap kései filozófiájában a carnapi metafilozófia legkövetkezetesebb alkalmazását a tolerancia elvén és az ...
Ádám Tamás Tuboly
doaj   +1 more source

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