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Methodological triangulation in empirical philosophy (of mathematics) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We reflect on the use of empirical methods in philosophy and the variety of different empirical methods, emphasising that the experimental method in the strict sense is only one of them. Based on our discussion, we argue for the use of methodological triangulation in empirical philosophy.
A Philosophy of Media: A Medium Itself Vrije Universiteit Brussel
What role can Good Old Philosophy still play in our media-saturated society? It seems that "philosophy" - disregarding the elusiveness of the term for now - is either deemed to be irrelevant in an efficiency-obsessed world, or packaged as a cultural product to be consumed along with all the other movies, plays, shows, books, and festive events. Some philosophers, however - among them philosophers of technology such as Andrew Feenberg, Larry ...
Spinoza and the philosophy of science: mathematics, motion, and Being Universiteit Gent
This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling mechanical philosopher and proto-scientific naturalist is misleading. It argues, first, that Spinoza’s account of the proper method for the study of nature presented in the Theological-Political Treatise points away from the one commonly associated with the mechanical philosophy. Moreover, throughout his works Spinoza’s views on the very possibility of knowledge of ...
Were experiments ever neglected? Ian Hacking and the history of the philosophy of experiment Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
Ian Hacking’s Representing and Intervening is often credited as being one of the first works to focus on the role of experimentation in philosophy of science, catalyzing a movement which is sometimes called the “philosophy of experiment” or “new experimentalism”. In the 1980s, a number of other movements and scholars also began focusing on the role of experimentation and instruments in science. Philosophical study of experimentation has thus ...
Tensions between mathematics, the sciences, and philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How do mathematicians and philosophers see one another? In an imaginary dialogue between a mathematician and a philosopher several possibilities are explored
Oxford handbook of philosophy of political science Universiteit Gent
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction to philosophical issues in the practice of political science. Simultaneously, it advances the field of Philosophy of Political Science by creating a fruitful meeting place where both philosophers and practicing political scientists contribute and discuss. These philosophical discussions are close to ...
Eric Voegelin's philosophy of luminous participation in the transcendent ground of being Universiteit Gent
The dissertation investigates the works of the German-American philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-1985), who after criticizing Nazi racism was forced to flee from Austria to the United States, following the Anschluss in 1938. Coetsier illustrates how as a native German Voegelin had to find an answer to this central experiential problem, the burning question: What went wrong, that Adolf Hitler could rise to power? What are the consequences? Voegelin ...
Prehistory of the Philosophy of Chemistry KU Leuven
Throughout the history of philosophy, chemical concepts and theories have appeared in the work of philosophers, both as examples and as topics of discussion in their own right, and scientists themselves have often engaged with theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues that fall within what one would now recognize as philosophy of chemistry. This chapter offers a summary of the history of philosophy of chemistry since Kant, alongside a ...
Do historians (of education) need philosophy? The enlightening potential of a philosophical ethos KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Do historians (of education) need philosophy? The paper suggests that historians do not need philosophical doctrine or (meta-)theory, or philosophical method, but that in so far as historians (as Koselleck states) are writing their own time anew and are rewriting the past (and so enlighten their present), they might find some help in a particular philosophical ethos: an ethos of discomfort or attentive study. First, how Koselleck describes the ...