Category: History of philosophy
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Conceptual genealogy for analytic philosophy – Part III.1: Genealogy as vindicatory or as subversive
This is the sixth installment of the series of posts on my conceptual genealogy project. Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; Part II.2 is here; Part II.3 is here; Part II.4 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is here. In this post, I discuss in more detail the two…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes I am now back to working on my conceptual genealogy project; this post is the fifth installment of a series of posts on the project. Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; Part II.2 is here; Part II.3 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes This is the fourth and for now final installment of my series of posts on conceptual genealogy. Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; Part II.2 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is here. I now discuss the five main features of the historicist…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes This is the third installment of my series of posts with different sections of the paper on conceptual genealogy that I am working on. Part I is here; Part II.1 is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is here. I now turn to Canguilhem as…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes This is the second installment of my series of posts with different sections of the paper on conceptual genealogy that I am working on. Part I is here; a tentative abstract of 2 years ago, detailing the motivation for the project, is here. I now present some of the basics of…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes As some readers may recall (see this blog post with a tentative abstract — almost 2 years ago!), I am working on a paper on the methodology of conceptual genealogy, which is the methodology that has thus far informed much of my work on the history and philosophy of logic. Since…
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By: Samir Chopra In 'Five Parables' (from Historical Ontology, Harvard University Press, 2002), Ian Hacking writes, I had been giving a course introducing undergraduates to the philosophers who were contemporaries of the green family and August der Stark. My hero had been Leibniz, and as usual my audience gave me pained looks. But after the last…
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Religious disagreements are conspicuous in everyday life. Most societies, except perhaps for theocracies or theocracy-like regimes, show a diversity of religious beliefs, a diversity that young children already are aware of. One emerging topic of interest in the social epistemology of religion is how we should respond to religious disagreement. How should you react if you are…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes Today is UNESCO’s World Philosophy Day, which is celebrated on the third Thursday of November every year. As it so happens, November 20th is also the United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day (here is a blog post I wrote for the occasion 2 years ago). I am truly delighted that these two days…
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By Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Cross-posted at M-Phi) I was asked to write a review of Terry Parsons' Articulating Medieval Logic for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. This is what I've come up with so far. Comments welcome! =================================== Scholars working on (Latin) medieval logic can be viewed as populating a spectrum. At one extremity are…
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