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The Difficulty of Being Simple: On Some Interactions Between Mathematics and Philosophy in Leibniz’s Analysis of Notions [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this paper is to explore some aspects of the connection between mathematics and philosophy in Leibniz’s thought, and in particular the role that a certain model of logical analysis played in it. In a first section, I will briefly recall the central role ascribed very early by Leibniz to analysis of notions (analysis notionum) and to the ...
David Rabouin
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Gramsci’s Concept of the “Simple”: Religion, Common Sense, and the Philosophy of Praxis
Rethinking Marxism, 2018 One of the minor yet recurring themes of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is his treatment of the “simple,” a category he developed to examine the Catholic Church’s paternalistic view of common p...
Marcus E. Green
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Simple animals and complex biology: Von Uexküll’s two-fold influence on Cassirer’s philosophy
Synthese, 2009 It is a well-known fact that Ernst Cassirer was inspired by his colleague, the biologist Jakob von Uexkull at the university of Hamburg. This paper claims this inspiration was double—affecting both Cassirer’s philosophical anthropology and Cassirer’s epistemology of biology, but in two rather different ways.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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Substance and the Primitive Simple Notion in the Philosophy of Leibniz
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1946 Martial Guéroult
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“Form” and “Simple Nature” in Bacon’s Philosophy
Monist, 1923 William M. Dickie
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The Sublime Science of Simple Souls: Rousseau's Philosophy of Truth
History of European Ideas, 2013SummaryThough it has rarely been the subject of academic criticism, there is a philosophy of truth that animates Jean-Jacques Rousseau's broader philosophical system. This philosophy of truth was unique for its time—in the same way as the whole of Rousseau's thought—in its emphasis on feeling over reason, the heart over the mind, the simple over the ...
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The Relationship of Substances and Simple Natures in the Philosophy of Descartes
Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 1978The purpose of this paper is to show that the ‘simple natures’ which appear in the Regulae are those very ‘modes’ and ‘attributes’ of ‘substance’ which appear in all of Descartes’ later works. Contrary to the opinions of some critics, I hope to show that simple natures were not discarded by Descartes for being inconsistent with his later philosophy ...
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