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The production of ideas: Notes on Austrian intellectual history from Bolzano to Wittgenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
This paper takes the form of a series of sketches of 19th century Austrian political and intellectual history, allied with a number of more general reflections designed to contribute to our understanding of some of the peculiar characteristics of ...
Smith, Barry
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Majorana equation and its consequences in physics and philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
We focus here on the work of the italian physicist Ettore Majorana, and more particularly on his 1937 article on the symmetrical theory of the electron and the positron, probably one of the most important theory for contemporary thought. We recall the context of this article (Dirac relativistic electron wave equation) and analyze how Majorana deduces ...
arxiv  

Takeuti's proof theory in the context of the Kyoto School [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Gaisi Takeuti (1926–2017) is one of the most distinguished logicians in proof theory after Hilbert and Gentzen. He extensively extended Hilbert's program in the sense that he formulated Gentzen's sequent calculus, conjectured that cut-elimination holds ...
Arana, Andrew
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x and the Politics of y, for some x and y [PDF]

open access: yes
Inauthenticity can be understood as following the herd, in line with a metaphor from Nietzsche. The idea of inauthentic philosophy is explored in an analysis of the titles of articles in philosophy journals, particularly those following the general ...
Ressler, Mark
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The origin of the spacetime metric: Bell's `Lorentzian pedagogy' and its significance in general relativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the `Lorentzian pedagogy' defended by J.S. Bell in his essay ``How to teach special relativity'', and to explore its consistency with Einstein's thinking from 1905 to 1952.
Brown, Harvey R., Pooley, Oliver
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Considering the Classroom as a Safe Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Lauren Freeman (2014) advocates that faculty turn their classrooms into “safe spaces” as a method for increasing the diversity of philosophy majors.
Sackris, David
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Ontology of Faith and Transformation of Metaphysics in Russian Philosophy in the First Half of XX Century

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2008
In the article are considered subject-methodological changes in development of Russian philosophy in the first half of XX centuries, which connected with Kantian philosophy, motivating transition from traditional metaphysics to ontology of faith. Russian
S A Nizhnikov
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