Browsing Faculty Scholarship - Philosophy Department by Creation Date
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Heisenberg and radical theoretic change
(1975)Heisenberg, in constructing quantum mechanics, explicitly followed certain principles exemplified, as he believed, in Einstein's construction of the special theory of relativity which for him was the paradigm for radical ... -
Fleck's Contribution to Epistemology
(1986)Ludwik Fleck opposed the two most prominant schools of the philosophy of science of his time: the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Schlick and others of the Vienna Circle, and the Historicism of Durkheim, Levy-Bruhl, ... -
Husserl's Later Philosophy of Natural Science
(1987)Husserl argues in the Crisis that the prevalent tradition of positive science in his time had a philosophical core, called by him "Galilean science", that mistook the quest for objective theory with the quest for ... -
The Scope of Hermeneutics in Natural Science
(1998)Hermeneutics or interpretation is concerned with the generation, transmission, and acceptance of meaning within the lifeworld and was the original method of the human sciences stemming from F. Schleiermacher and W. ... -
Phenomenology and the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
(2003)In the assessment of scientific theory and practice, the critique of the analytic/empiricist view of science made via the phenomenological orientation of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau- Ponty and others towards the Lifeworld ... -
The Methodological Role of Angst in Being and Time
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-08-10)Heidegger’s analysis of the mood of angst is usually understood in terms of its contribution to the account of authenticity in Division II of Being and Time. I approach the analysis of angst from a different direction, by ... -
Authenticity and Heidegger's Antigone
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-10-14)Sophocles’ Antigone is the only individual whom Heidegger names as authentic. But the usual interpretations of Heidegger’s ‘authenticity’ (as being-towards-death, taking responsibility for norms, world-historical creation, ... -
Kant on Lazy Savagery, Racialized
(Journal of History of Philosophy, 2021-03)Kant develops a concept of savagery, partly characterized by laziness, to envision a program for human progress. He also racializes savagery, treating native Americans, in particular, as literal savages. He ascribes to ...
