Philosophical Excursus

Excursus 118 – On the Metaphysical and Historical Senses of Materialism

Berkeley, dialectical materialism, historical materialism, Hobbes, idealism, Marx, materialism, ontology, philosophy of history
Excursus 117 – On Dialectic as Method and as Ontology

contradiction, dialectic, Dialectics of Nature, Engels, epistemology, Hegel, immanence, laws of nature, methodology, ontology, Socrates, Stephen Jay Gould
Excursus 116 – On the Origin of Marx’s Concept of Alienation

alienation, craftsmanship, democracy, division of labor, Entäußerung, Entfremdung, Feuerbach, Hegel, humanism, industrialization, labor process, machinery, management, Marx, participation
Excursus 115 – On Reading Earlier Philosophers Through Later Traditions

Aristotle, Christianity, conceptual continuity, Darwin, Hegel, hermeneutics, history of philosophy, intellectual history, interpretation, Marxism, Plato, Social Darwinism, Thomism
Excursus 114 – On Darwin-independent Reconstruction of Evolution

biogeography, consilience, Darwin, evolution, interdisciplinary evidence, paleontology, philosophy of science, quantitative genetics, scientific reconstruction
Excursus 113 – On Illustrative and Demonstrative Examples

conceptual analysis, dialectic, empirical evidence, examples, Hegel, methodology, philosophy of science, quantity and quality, thermodynamics
Excursus 112 – On Closed and Open Dialectics

change, dialectic, Georges Gurvitch, hermeneutics, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy of religion, Plotinus, process theology, Saint Augustine
Excursus 111 – On Ultimate Unifying Principles

Christianity, Comte, Durkheim, Fichte, Hegel, history of philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, Plato, Plotinus, systematic philosophy, ultimate principles
Excursus 110 – On the Meaning of Contradiction

Aristotle, conceptual analysis, contradiction, dialectic, epistemology, Formal logic, hermeneutics, logic, Marx, philosophy of science
Excursus 109 – Reality, Knowledge, and Epistemic Mediation

empirical science, epistemology, Gurvitch, knowledge, mediation, observation, ontology, Plotinus, reality, representation, scientific method
Excursus 108 – On the Culture of Intellectual Disagreement

academic life, Alan Robertson, criticism, disagreement, peer review, quantitative genetics, scientific culture, scientific norms, seminars
Excursus 107 – Continuity, Rupture, and Conflict in the History of Ideas

conceptual change, conflict, continuity, historiography, history of ideas, intellectual history, paradigms, philosophy, science, scientific revolutions
Excursus 106 – Platonic and Aristotelian Essentialism in the Light of Continuous Variation

Aristotle, Plato, ontology, philosophy of science, classification, essentialism, evolution, Allegory of the Cave, continuous variation, substance, Forms
Excursus 105 – On the Epistemological Function of Examples in Plato’s Dialogues

concepts, definitions, dialectic, empirical science, epistemology, examples, observation, philosophical method, Plato, Republic, Socrates
Excursus 104– Rethinking Plato’s Academy: Dialectic as Philosophical Apprenticeship

Academy, apprenticeship, dialectic, higher education, judgment, mentorship, philosophical education, Plato, Republic, Socrates
Excursus 103 – The Moral Responsibility of Scholarly Communities

academic responsibility, ethics of scholarship, humanities, ideology, institutions, intellectual history, philosophy of science, political responsibility, scholarly communities, science, twentieth century
Excursus 102 – The Afterlife of the Allegory of the Cave

Allegory of the Cave, Christian philosophy, evolution of ideas, intellectual history, philosophy of science, Plato, Platonism, Republic, scientific observation, The Matrix
Excursus 101 – On Scientific Prestige and Philosophical Authority

authority, epistemology, intellectual responsibility, methodology, philosophy, philosophy of science, rhetoric, scientific authority, scientific literacy
Excursus 100 – On Human Diversity and Philosophical Idealization

Darwin, evolutionary biology, genomics, human diversity, idealization, Kant, Modern Synthesis, philosophy, philosophy of science
Excursus 099 – On Kant as a Model of Philosophical Responsibility

epistemology, history of philosophy, intellectual responsibility, Kant, Newton, philosophy, philosophy of science, reciprocity, scientific literacy, scientific methodology