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The Key Role of Chemistry in Schelling's Early Philosophy of Nature

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article puts forward the thesis that Schelling's philosophical engagement with chemistry plays a key role in his project of a philosophy of nature. I claim that Schelling takes Lavoisier's new chemistry to indicate that Kant's dynamical theory of matter could provide the basis for a unified account of nature. By dynamical theory of matter,
Luis Fellipe Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Unsolvable Riddles and the Truth of Skepticism: Wittgenstein and Cavell

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Both Wittgenstein and Cavell see riddles as a model of intellectual difficulty. By drawing attention to it, they remind us that not all of our intellectual challenges take the form of empirically answerable questions—there may be cases of our not merely lacking knowledge, but of being caught in the fantasy that a certain type of knowledge can ...
Gilad Nir
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Surrationalism after Bachelard: Michel Serres and le nouveau nouvel esprit scientifique [PDF]

, 2019
The work of Michel Serres is often presented as a radical break with the work of Gaston Bachelard. The aim of this paper is to partly correct this image, by focusing on Serres’s early Hermes series (1969-1980). In these books Serres portrays himself as a
Simons, Massimiliano
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Is Immanent Critique Possible?

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Our social world is governed by norms. But do we have reason to follow them? On the one hand, critical theorists deny this: just because gendered norms tell women to cook and racialized people to serve does not mean that they should. On the other, critical theory relies on immanent critique.
Livia von Samson
wiley   +1 more source

KILUBA ET PHILOSOPHIE AFRICAINE [PDF]

Ziglôbitha
Résumé : Nous voulons d’abord, dans cet article, montrer que la philosophie africaine contemporaine trouve son origine dans les aires culturelles de Luba-Shankadi dans la province du Haut-Lomami en République démocratique du Congo.
Abbé YUMBA MWADI Elias
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Sind Gedankenexperimente in der praktischen Philosophie besonders?

Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie, 2022
Dieser Text geht der Frage nach, ob und, wenn ja, inwieweit sich Gedankenexperimente in der praktischen Philosophie in ihrer Struktur und ihrer epistemischen Signifikanz von Gedankenexperimenten in der theoretischen Philosophie oder in den ...
Marc Andree Weber
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The Impact of Heinrich Rickert's Ideas about Chaos on Rudolf Carnap [PDF]

, 2019
This research aims to address the hypothesis of the possible influence of Rickert’s ideas about chaos on the philosophy of Rudolf Carnap. This paper considers arguments in favor of the hypothesis and those against it. I show that
Kulyk, Oleksandr
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Ideas as the ‘Divinity of Our Soul’: Kant's Theocentric and Platonic Model of Human Cognition

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract I pursue Kant's characterization of the ideas of reason as the ‘divinity of our soul’ with the aim of correcting a highly influential reading of his philosophy as rejecting the theocentric cognitive model, one measuring human cognition against the norm of the divine intuitive intellect.
Kimberly Brewer
wiley   +1 more source

Modélisation, construction et imitation des processus vitaux. Approche pluridisciplinaire du biomimétisme [PDF]

Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2015
Dans le cadre des activités de la Pépinière interdisciplinaire CNRS-PSL « Domestication et fabrication du vivant », des journées d’études ont été organisées pour engager une réflexion collective autour du biomimétisme.
Pitrou Perig, Dalsuet Anne, Hurand Bérengère   +2 more
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Georges Sorel’s Diremption: Hegel, Marxism and Anti-Dialectics [PDF]

, 2016
Georges Sorel’s use of the term diremption to describe his method has long been found obscure. This paper shows that the term was associated with Hegel, and that interpreting it in this light can help us make sense of Sorel’s method.
Eric Brandom
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