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Sensibility as vital force or as property of matter in mid-eighteenth-century debates Ghent University
Sensibility, in any of its myriad realms U+2013 moral, physical, aesthetic, medical U+2026 U+2013 seems to be a paramount case of a higher-level, intentional property, not a basic property. Diderot famously made the bold and attributive move of postulating that matter itself senses, or that sensibility is a general or universal property of matter, even if he at times stepped back from this claim and called it a U+201Csupposition.U+201D ...
Hermann von Helmholtz’s Empirico-Transcendentalism Reconsidered: Construction and Constitution in Helmholtz’s Psychology of the Object Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims at contributing to the ongoing efforts to get a firmer grasp of the systematic significance of the entanglement of idealism and empiricism in Helmholtz's work. Contrary to existing analyses, however, the focal point of the present exposition is Helmholtz's attempt to articulate a psychological account of objectification. Helmholtz's motive, as well as his solution to the problem of the object are outlined, and interpreted against ...
The claims of parenting: Reasons, responsibility and society KU Leuven
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, Western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. Several commentators have noted what they regard as a worrying trend for over-prescriptive interference on the part of the state and its agents into family life, through research, policy and legislation around “parenting”. Yet while there ...
Binding Waste as Evidence for the Reconstruction of a Lost Aristotelian Manuscript KU Leuven
This note discusses the hypothetically reconstructed content of a fourteenth-century Latin manuscript of Aristotle's Parva naturalia, from which two bifolia survive as flyleaves in an incunable binding. The note argues that the lost manuscript contained a collection of Aristotelian treatises in combination with short texts by Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas, which had a limited circulation in German-speaking regions.
Robert Grosseteste’s Translation of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo: Tracking down a Second Manuscript and the Greek Model KU Leuven
The note surveys the reception history of Robert Grosseteste's Latin translation of Aristotle's De Caelo and of Simplicius's commentary on the same treatise. It presents the analysis of previously unnoticed fragments from a second manuscript of the translation. Their discovery necessitates the revision of earlier ideas about the limited dissemination of the text. The note also confirms a neglected hypothesis about the Greek model that ...
An introduction to the co-creation of policy briefs with youth and academic teams Ghent University University of Antwerp
Drawing on insights from a four-day online workshop, which explored geo-engineering and policy making with 13 youth participants, an academic and youth authorial team provide a guide to the co-creation of policy briefs. Drawing on excerpts from the policy brief at different stages of development and commentary provided by the authors during the workshops, we set out four stages including (1) Identifying the key message and audience, (2) Reading ...
The selective advantage of representing correctly University of Antwerp
Here is a widespread but controversial idea: those animals who represent correctly are likely to be selected over those who misrepresent. While various versions of this claim have been traditionally endorsed by the vast majority of philosophers of mind, recently, it has been argued that this is just plainly wrong. My aim in this paper is to argue for an intermediate position: that the correctness of some but not all representations is indeed ...