Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis. KU Leuven
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the ...
Hieronymos of Rhodes was one of the main representatives of the 3rd century BCE Peripatos. Although much read in later times, his works have come down to us in fragments only. The work titles and the fragments we have show a special interest in historical topics: in biography of poets and philosophers, history of literature and history of culture. As for his philosophical views we know most about his ethical doctrines where he departed, to ...
The demise of substantive philosophies of history in the spirit of Hegel, among historians, is generally held to be the result of rational progress signalling the overcoming of metaphysics by a more scientific and critical historical ethos. However, the issue of speculation has not simply gone away, as thinkers like Reinhart Koselleck and François Hartog have demonstrated. Neither can a distinction between unscientific speculation and a ...
In the last decade or so of his life, Jan Patočka devoted a significant number of texts to developing a philosophy of history. In recent years, this aspect of his work has attracted ever-increasing attention and admiration. At the same time, however, there has been a lack of any thoroughgoing critical assessment of this philosophy of history, especially with regard to its methodology and its connection to the other aspects of his philosophy. ...
Scholars often assume medieval thinkers made little, if any, contribution to the philosophy of history. Handbooks, historical surveys, and introductions to the philosophy of history tend to skip over the Middle Ages, moving from Greco-Roman conceptions of history to Augustine and then on to the Renaissance, or simply beginning with Vico, Hegel, or Collingwood and the emergence of history as a modern academic discipline. Similarly, handbooks ...
This project aims to systematize the contemporary, increasingly influential movement named ‘Transcendental Materialism’ (‘TM’) by philosopher Adrian Johnston. Associated with, among others, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, this philosophy eclectically draws from German idealist, psychoanalytical, and Marxist traditions. Recent scholarship shows that TM, despite earlier attempts at systematization, is currently still unable to reflect on its key ...
In 1907, French philosopher Henri Bergson published a metaphysical interpretation of biological evolution, Creative Evolution. The book became a bestseller and propelled him to international fame. Historians of biology have mostly considered that Bergson’s ideas left little or no lasting impression on biologists. In addition, in Anglo-American analytic philosophy of biology, Bergson’s ideas are widely ignored. However, the problems Bergson ...
A first line of research for CLPS is investigating non-classical logics. This includes both logics that constitute a fragment of classical logic (like some paraconsistent logic's) as logic that are an alternative to classical logic (as some relevant logics). Important to us is to design and research on adaptive logic programs. Adaptive Logics (first developed by Diderik Batens, founder CLPS) provide a uniform framework for studying cognitive ...