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From Organismic Biology as History and Philosophy to the History and Philosophy of Biology-the Work of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in the German Context. [PDF]
Abstract In this paper, I ask about the broader context of the history and philosophy of biology in the German‐speaking world as the place in which Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger began his work. Three German philosophical traditions—neo‐Kantianism, phenomenology, and Lebensphilosophie—were interested in the developments and conceptual challenges of the life ...
Reiß C.
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Gerhard Krüger's Platonic critique of Martin Heidegger
Abstract This paper examines Gerhard Krüger's interpretation of Plato in light of Martin Heidegger's Destruktion of the Greeks and critique of Platonism. I argue that Krüger's new reading of Plato should be understood as a critique of Heidegger's understanding of Platonism, and thereby as a broader critique of Heidegger's thoughts on Western ...
Antoine Pageau‐St‐Hilaire
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Critical Idealism as Method: Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Abstract To commemorate the centenary of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms this essay focuses on how Cassirer in the development of a distinctive philosophical method analyzed the newest development within philosophy and science. Discussing Einstein's theory of relativity and Russell's formal logic Cassirer found tools to expand the ...
Esther Oluffa Pedersen
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On the eve of the “Philosophy of Symbolic Forms”: Cassirer and Hegel
Abstract This paper aims at focusing on Cassirer's relationship with Hegel during the crucial period when Cassirer is outlining and completing the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms in the early 1920s. The main thesis is that Cassirer has never abandoned his original Neo‐Kantian approach, despite the fact that it has been enriched within the perspective of a
Massimo Ferrari
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ABSTRACT In G. E Lessing's Nathan der Weise (1779) Muslims are represented alongside Jews and Christians. These relationships are framed in terms of shared human morality and the shared biology of family, expressed through physical resemblance, rather than through similarities or differences of faith.
James Hodkinson
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RECONCEIVING THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY: FROM REPRESENTATION TO TRANSLATION
ABSTRACT Arguing that history is not the application of a rigorous method to sources bequeathed to us from the past but rather a practice of coding that constructs “the past” in particular ways, this article seeks to delineate the key elements of this coding.
Sanjay Seth
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Abstract Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as it was developing at this time. Four talks from between 1938 and 1941—‘And the Son of Man That
Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
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L’objet de l’art : Cassirer et Fiedler
This paper aims to understand why Ernst Cassirer never published his short but far-reaching reflections on Konrad Fiedler’s theory of art. While both thinkers do share a vision of art as a way to shape (and not simply to imitate) reality, I suggest that ...
Rémi Mermet
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The Kantian Roots of Merleau-Ponty's Account of Pathology [PDF]
One of the more striking aspects of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (1945) is his use of psychological case studies in pathology.
Matherne, Samantha
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The way Ernst Cassirer understands Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the beginning of the 1930’s is interesting, in so far as it puts forward different mechanisms of interpretation, which Cassirer is not always conscious of.
Laetitia Simonetta
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