The Sociology of Philosophies

revolution derives from the metaphysical assumptions of a Neoplatonic cosmology. It is not only that many of the scientific inno ...

11. Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality Compare the general model of political revolutions in Skocpol (1979) a ...

had been the Portuguese base for the Jesuit philosophers Molina and Suarez. In 1624 da Costa interpreted religion as a human cre ...

Leibniz stresses the argument for innate ideas in his Discourse, written in 1686 but left unpublished; Locke’s Essay was comple ...

from Britain by his network fellows, building a theory of mind on Locke and Newton. I place “modern” in quotes to indicate that ...

By the 1770s and 1780s, these included Hutton, whose geology overturned biblical chronology, and Lord Monboddo, who produced ea ...

Intellectual movements in this respect resemble other social movements (Marwell and Oliver, 1993). Goethe on his travels in 177 ...

The famous incident when Schopenhauer was sued for throwing a seamstress out of his anteroom occurred in Berlin in 1821, at jus ...

Sources on the movement to abolish the university (Lilge, 1948: 2–3; Schnabel, 1959: 408–457; Weisz, 1983: 18). On German educa ...

Descartes stayed on the abstract level whereas the philosophes of the 1700s or the Utilitarians of the 1800s limited their issue ...

of formal education at this time. The leaders of educational reform all had personal experience of one of the main alternative s ...

this time, such as in Schelling’s Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom (1809). The first history of philoso ...

from Spain (1648), and the Dutch Republic in the 1660s and 1670s was the freest state in the world. Spinoza’s own political acti ...

Hume; in fact Whitehead’s discussion of these thinkers largely focuses on the flaws of their sensationism and intellectualism. L ...

Peirce’s 1868 argument resonates both with his semiotic chains and with the later maneuvers of Idealists such as Royce. Peirce ...

attempt to clarify disreputable issues such as divergent series (Boyer, 1985: 562, 566), but as an exploration of particular iss ...

Cantor originated the method of one-to-one correspondence; Cantor’s concept of the power or cardinal number of a set is similar ...

alternative algebras, which they had generalized from Hamilton’s quaternions. Peirce was an American import of British mathemati ...

to break through old gestalts in the theory of types, had an inkling of the impor- tance of symbolism in Wittgenstein’s breakthr ...

Vienna Circle was developing in the 1920s, Einstein was going in the opposite direction. The fact is Einstein’s special relativi ...