Philosophical Excursus

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

Allegory of the Cave, Aristotle, classification, continuous variation, essentialism, evolution, Forms, ontology, philosophy of science, Plato, substance
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
Excursus 098 – On an Additional Criterion for Evaluating Philosophers

epistemology, evaluation, history of philosophy, intellectual responsibility, interdisciplinary inquiry, Kant, philosophy, philosophy of science, scientific literacy, scientific progress
Excursus 097 – On Events and Processes

change, continuity, event, historical explanation, paradigm shift, phase transition, philosophy of science, Process, scientific development, Scientific Revolution
Excursus 096 – On Selection in Scientific Inquiry

academic freedom, attention, epistemology, philosophy of science, research methodology, research priorities, scarcity, scientific inquiry, selection
Excursus 095 – On Manifestations of Change

adaptation, change, contradiction, dialectic, negation, opposition, philosophical methodology, philosophy of change, reciprocity
Excursus 094 – On Formal Logic and Changing Reality

Abstraction, Changing reality, deduction, Dialectics, Formal logic, Identity, methodology, Non-contradiction, Process, social theory
Excursus 093 – On the Two Stages of Historical Inquiry

archaeology, evidence, historical methodology, historiography, history, interpretation, manuscripts, natural sciences, radiocarbon dating, scientific method
Excursus 092 – On Structured Inference

causal models, covariance, dependence, epistemology, linkage disequilibrium, philosophy of science, reconstruction, scientific inference, scientific methodology, structured inference
Excursus 091 – On Reconstruction as a Form of Scientific Inference

epistemology, extrapolation, imputation, inference, interpolation, missing data, philosophy of science, reconstruction, scientific methodology, structural constraints