dependent limitations on scientists’ insight into the diversity of their group. In arguing for these claims and analyzing DD detection, I will focus a type of DD that strikes me as intriguing but has so far been largely overlooked in philosophical research: While philosophers working on diversity...
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263-65. Opposition to essentialism began long before Darwin on two fronts: among naturalists and among philosophers. In the latter connection, Mayr quotes Locke. 142 Figural Strategies in Th e Renaissance Pater (in the company of George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy) turns the ...
The book was targeted toward his fellow academics in the universities of Germany who scoffed at religion- he appealed to their sense of art and beauty as true Romantics- and made the case that true religion is ‘the sense and taste for the infinite’ that is religion can be an expression ...
Learn how the Scientific Revolution led to the Enlightenment. Review the inventions of the Scientific Revolution and study their influence on the...
When Islam expanded, it crossed with Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egpytian culture and philosophy.–And then, of course, some people, some philosophers in the muslim countries, wrote some books. But what happened to them?He claims that the great minds from the time of...
Nearing the end of the Tudor Dynasty, philosophers like Sir Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon published their own ideas about humanity and the aspects of a perfect society, pushing the limits of metacognition at that time. As England abolished its astrologers and alchemists, it came closer to ...
Part of what makes it difficult to find aconsensusamong philosophers about the definition of theirdisciplineis precisely that they have frequently come to it from different fields, with different interests and concerns, and that they therefore have different areas of experience upon which they find ...