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Cassirer’s enlightenment: on philosophy and the ‘Denkform’ of reason

open access: yes, 2020
This paper examines the way in which Cassirer implicitly commented on current issues in his historical studies, proposing a case study on his monograph The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, published in November 1932.
U. Renz
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Cassirer’s Reception of Dedekind and the Structuralist Transformation of Mathematics

open access: yesThe Prehistory of Mathematical Structuralism, 2020
Ernst Cassirer was a keen observer of development in the mathematical sciences, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this essay, the focus is on his reception of Dedekind’s contributions to the foundations of mathematics, and with it, on ...
E. Reck
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A Correspondence Theory of Objects? On Kant's Notions of Object, Truth, and Actuality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Ernst Cassirer claimed that Kant's notion of actual object presupposes the notion of truth. Therefore, Kant cannot define truth as the correspondence of a judgment with an actual object.
Vanzo, Alberto
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The Relativized A Priori, the Historical A Priori, and the Symbolic Form

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent work in philosophy of science has suggested that scientific paradigms in the wake of revolutions can be conceived as relativized a priori frameworks. In this paper, I put these accounts in dialog with two accounts of broadly “cultural” accounts of the relativized a priori in the history of philosophy: Ernst Cassirer's account of ...
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
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Storyworlds and the Semiotic Rules of Narrative Imagination: Peirce and Cassirer as a Starting Point for the Study of Literary World Experience

open access: yes, 2020
With the help of Peirce and Cassirer, this article embeds storyworld theory in a broader phenomenology of narrative imagination. A first step is the semiotic description of narrative imagination; storyworld elements come about through the laws that ...
B. Keunen
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Cassirer and Kant on the Unity of Space and the Role of Imagination

open access: yesKant Yearbook, 2020
The focus of this paper is Cassirer’s Neo-Kantian reading of Kant’s conception of unity of space. Cassirer’s neo-Kantian reading is largely in conformity with the mainstream of intellectualist Kant-scholars, which is unsurprising, given his own ...
Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira
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Philosophy of Science and Democracy. Some reflections on Philipp Frank"s "Relativity – a richer truth". [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Philipp Frank"s book Relativity – a richer truth1 shows something we do not find very often after World War 2: a philosopher of science acting as a public intellectual.
Nemeth, Elisabeth
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The Legacy of the Enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in American Behavioral Scientist 49(5):647-663. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764205282215 (login required to access content).
Schmidt, James
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Cassirer and Goldstein on Abstraction and the Autonomy of Biology

open access: yesHOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2020
This article examines the mutual influence between Ernst Cassirer and his cousin, the neurologist Kurt Goldstein. For both Cassirer and Goldstein, views on the nature of human cognition were fundamental to their understanding of scientific knowledge, and
M. Chirimuuta
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A Feeling for History? Bakhtin and `The Problem of Great Time' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
‘Great time’ has usually been seen as a ‘late term’ of Bakhtin’s. However, although it occurs most frequently in works written in the 1960s and 1970s, there is one known instance of its use in the 1940s.
SHEPHERD, D
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