The Sociology of Philosophies

“until the world becomes an absolutely perfect, rational and symmetrical sys- tem, in which mind is at last crystallized in the ...

mentally or mathematically defined conditions. Another strand in Peirce’s thinking was a staple of academic philosophy in Americ ...

which were the ingredients of Peirce’s system; he was a figure of the transition, who guessed wrong as to the future base for om ...

view of liberal theology, Green’s flaw was his static dichotomy of the spiritual world between individual selves and the absolut ...

with scientific experimentation evolving toward solving problems. Dewey’s reputation faded in the long run; in his day he was th ...

the solidity of physical objects exists for us because we project ourselves into them—we take the role of the physical object—an ...

unification, universities were incorporated into the centralized state system, and the German model of higher research faculties ...

Croce became minister of education in 1920–21, and Gentile succeeded him in 1922–1924 under Mussolini. In Italy the halfway hous ...

vate education of the Tokugawa period, a considerable proportion of teachers in the lower schools were Buddhist priests. Anti-cl ...

losophy has not gone back to the style of thinking of the lay figures of the Enlightenment or of the Utilitarians. Academic phil ...

CHAPTER 13 £ The Post-revolutionary Condition: Boundaries as Philosophical Puzzles The upsurge of Idealist philosophies is the c ...

of its contents by the growth of autonomous specialties? The death of philoso- phy has often been proclaimed on just these groun ...

FIGURE 13.1. GERMAN NETWORK, 1835–1900: NEO-KANTIANS, Historicists, Positivists, Psychologists 690 •^ Intellectual Communities: ...

statement of knowledge. Neo-Kantians now took as their turf the task of classifying various kinds of fields of knowledge by exam ...

the former have meaning, structure, or validity in their own sphere. Hermann Cohen, founder of the Marburg school, resurrected K ...

A third party in German philosophy between the movement of experimen- tal psychologists and the Neo-Kantians was led by Brentano ...

from contemporary Germany: instead of the struggles of post-Idealism amidst the new academic disciplines, we see the formation o ...

comes a fourth kind of philosophical creativity: counter-movements to keep challengers out. Modern philosophies are heavily infl ...

mathematicians their entire professional lives; Bolzano was primarily a mathe- matician, and Peirce’s only academic appointment ...

creativity and sometimes ending up far from the starting place. The original thrust of Frege’s method was fruitful in all these ...