Philosophical Excursus

Excursus 018 – On Epistemology and Cognitive Science

cognition, cognitive science, epistemology, knowledge, learning, perception, philosophy of science, psychology, reasoning, scientific method
Excursus 017 – On Intellectual Autonomy and Heteronomy

authority, critical thinking, education, epistemology, Francis Bacon, heteronomy, independent judgment, inquiry, intellectual autonomy, philosophy
Excursus 016 – On the Progression of Science

induction, Francis Bacon, scientific method, hypothesis, Charles Darwin, Thomas Kuhn, scientific progress, technology, scientific revolutions, instrumentation
Excursus 015 – On Mathematical Analysis and in silico Experiments

computational science, cosmology, experiment, Francis Bacon, in silico simulation, mathematical modelling, observation, philosophy of science, scientific method, systems biology
Excursus 014 – On Dualism

Aristotle, continuity, contraries, dialectic, dualism, Francis Bacon, metaphysics, natural philosophy, ontology, Plato
Excursus 013 – On the Typology of Theoretical Structure: Simplicus vs. Compositum

classification, complexity, conceptual analysis, explanation, methodology, philosophy of science, simplicity, systems, theoretical structure, theory
Excursus 012 – On Transmutability

history of science, species, biology, essentialism, evolution, transmutability, Charles Darwin, alchemy, transformation, natural philosophy
Excursus 011 – On the Concept of Species

Aristotle, Francis Bacon, species, Linnaeus, classification, biology, taxonomy, natural history, essentialism, evolution
Excursus 010 – On Induction: One Word, Several Meanings

induction, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, scientific method, epistemology, scholasticism, epagōgē, inductio vera, inductio vulgaris, conceptual evolution
Excursus 009 – On Induction, Deduction, and the Syllogistic Structure of Aristotle

induction, syllogism, Aristotle, scientific method, first principles, Posterior Analytics, demonstration, epistemology, logic, deduction
Excursus 008 – On the Scientific and Philosophical Senses of “Truth”

induction, Francis Bacon, scientific method, epistemology, philosophy of science, truth, correspondence theory, veracity, metaphysics, veritas
Excursus 007 – On the Term “Notion” (Notio) in Bacon and Aristotle

induction, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, epistemology, history of philosophy, notion, concepts, common notions, notio, mental representation
Excursus 006 – On Hypothetico-Deductive Models

induction, scientific method, deduction, Karl Popper, hypothetico-deductive model, philosophy of science, Modus Tollens, hypothesis, falsification, Hempel
Excursus 005 – On Hypothetico-Deductive Model

deduction, explanation, hypothesis, hypothetico-deductive model, induction, Karl Popper, Modus Tollens, philosophy of science, scientific method, testing
Excursus 004 – On Bacon’s Use of the Term Dialectic

Aristotle, dialectic, Francis Bacon, hermeneutics, history of philosophy, logic, Novum Organum, scholasticism, syllogism, terminology
Excursus 003 – Three Historical Roles of Dialectic

contradiction, dialectic, epistemology, Hegel, history of philosophy, methodology, ontology, Plato, Socrates, soteriology
Excursus 002 – On Axiom and First Principles in Aristotle, Euclid, and Bacon

Aristotle, axiom, demonstration, Elements, epistemology, Euclid, first principles, Francis Bacon, induction, Posterior Analytics
Excursus 001 – On the Organon and the Novum Organum

Aristotle, Francis Bacon, history of science, induction, Instauratio magna, interpretation of nature, Novum Organum, Organon, scientific method, syllogism