Historical Philosophy and Science

In this paper I argue that Kant's idea of a realm of ends is not essentially an ethical idea, but a theoretical one – namely, the idea of a community of individuals, an idea to which Kant refers in...

This article reviews the influence of key figures on the pictorial representation of anatomy and the evolution of anatomical illustration during the Middle Ages until the time of the Renaissance, based on medical history books, journals and ancient medical books. During the early period in the Middle Ages, most illust…

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Abstract Philosophy has four forms: wonder, faith, doubt and scepticism. These are not separate categories, but separate ideal possibilities. Modern academic philosophy has fallen, for several centuries, into an error: which is the error of supposing that philosophy is only what I call doubt. Philosophy may be doubt:…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

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The Reformation in European history was an attempt to remove ecclesiastical authority from political (or secular) authority and culture – a process called secularisation. During the eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, however, secularisation gained a different meaning, which is, briefly stated, evolving fr…

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• MUSTAFA BÜYÜKMUMCU

The present study is an attempt to contribute to the debates on the relationship between spiritual traditions and Descartes’s Meditations. Taking its point of departure from Pierre Hadot’s inspiring studies, the article aims to describe the nature of the philosophical practice that Meditations embodies and to discuss…

• KEREM EKSEN

Bilim tarihi çalışmaları da “klasik” eserler üzerinden bir anlam kurma çabası olarak tanımlanabilir. Latince Classius’tan türemiş, “en yüksek sınıfa mensup” anlamına gelen bu ve giderek tek başına mükemmellik ifade eden bu kavram sözcük, egemen sınıfların üstünlüğünün bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Geçmişin seçkin ve g…

• SÜLEYMAN ERTAN TAĞMAN

When we examine the history of astronomy up to the end of the seventeenth century by considering the relation between mathematical astronomy and natural philosophy, it has been argued that there were two groups of philosophers and astronomers: instrumentalists and realists. However, this classification is deficient wh…

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