How not to Write History of Philosophy: A Case Study

1998 ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
John P. Burgess
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals How to Teach History of Philosophy and Science: A Digital Based Case Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Andrea Reichenberger
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Online Reading ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Foundations Of Physics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relational Concepts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Present Case Study

The following article describes a pilot study on the possible integration of digital historiography into teaching practice. It focuses on Émilie Du Châtelet’s considerations of space and time against the background of Leibniz’s program of analysis situs. Historians have characterized philosophical controversies on space and time as a dichotomy between the absolute and relational concepts of space and time. In response to this, the present case study pursues two aims: First, it shows that the common portrayal simplifies the complex pattern of change and the semantic shift from absolute-relational concepts of space and time to invariance and conservation principles. Second, against this background, I present the Online Reading Guide on Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics, a teaching and research project designed to help navigate Du Châtelet’s Institutions physiques (1740/42). This project makes Du Châtelet’s important text visible to a broad audience and allows for a more critical and deeper view on classical topics of the history of philosophy and science in a more accessible way than traditional introductions.

scholarly journals The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence as a Case Study for the Historiography of Physics

2020 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Matt Waldschlagel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
History Of Physics ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Absolute Space ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
History Of

This paper examines an important episode in the history of early modern physics – the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence of 1715-16, an exchange that occurred at the intersection of physics, metaphysics and theology – before turning to questions of interpretation in the historiography of physics.  Samuel Clarke, a disciple of Isaac Newton, engaged in a dispute over Newton’s commitment to absolute space and absolute time with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who criticized Newton’s views and advanced a rival account.  I clarify the positions at stake in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence, define a variety of terms – absolute space, absolute time, substantivalism, and relationalism – endogenous to the exchange, and reconstruct key elements in the philosophical dimension of the dispute.  I then use the Leibniz-Clarke exchange as a springboard from which to examine interpretive considerations in the historiography of physics.  I argue that the history of physics can benefit from reassessing its historiographical commitments by borrowing or appropriating some of the intellectual resources used by philosophers working in the history of philosophy.  This historiographical reassessment, I contend, will not only shed new light on the Leibniz-Clarke exchange but may also reinvigorate the history of physics.

scholarly journals Logic, truth, and metaphysics: from Leibniz to Heidegger

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Dung Ngoc Duong
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Looking Back

This essay explores the ontological foundations of logic and truth from Heidegger’s philosophical perspective. It focuses, in particulat, on Heidegger’s interpretation of Leibniz’s theory of judgment. This case study aims at looking back at the history of philosophy from Heidegger’s position on truth understood as unconcealment or disclosure (aletheia).

Scholarship in Process. A Reconstruction of Vlastos’ Method of Research into the History of Philosophy

Elenchos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-468
Author(s):  
Celso Vieira
Keyword(s):  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Abstract Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inside View ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Do So

Abstract The paper attempts to reconstruct Vlastos’ method of research into the history of philosophy using his Degrees of Reality as a case study. To do so, I rely on the extensive materials available in the Vlastos Archive. Through the palimpsest of superimposed revisions in his documents as well as the letters exchanged with his colleagues, I will go through the gestation of a whole new perspective in dealing with Plato’s conception of the reality of abstract objects. Furthermore, the focus on the process rather than on the results will provide an inside view on Vlastos’ ground-breaking use of analytical tools in developing research in the field of history of philosophy.

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