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…

• ÜNSAL ÇİMEN

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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The view that prime matter possesses extension as an essential feature offers one way to explain the traditional role of prime matter while avoiding the twin charges of incoherence and vacuity. In this paper, I show that attributing extension to prime matter as an essential feature is not a viable interpretation of Ar…

• MARY KATRINA KRIZAN

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• İLHAN BAHŞİ
• MUSTAFA ORHAN
• PİRAYE KERVANCIOĞLU

16. ve 17. yüzyıl bilimsel devrimler çağı bilim insanlarının keşfettikleri bilimsel gerçekleri açıklamak için cesur da olmaları gereken bir dönemdi, zira keşfedilen gerçekler dini otoritenin dogmalarıyla ters düştüğü anda bilim insanları yaşamlarıyla tehdit edilmişlerdir. İşte bu çalışmada da kilise baskısının oldukça…