Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 08 Throughout the history of ideas, later intellectual traditions have frequently interpreted earlier thinkers through conceptual frameworks that arose only afterwards. Such reinterpretations may illuminate genuine continuities, but they may also obscure important differences by attributing to earlier authors concepts, intentions, or doctrines that belong primarily toContinue reading “Excursus 115 – On Reading Earlier Philosophers Through Later Traditions”
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Excursus 114 – On Darwin-independent Reconstruction of Evolution
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 15 Darwin’s historical achievement was to synthesize evidence from several branches of biology into a coherent theory of evolution by common descent. This historical fact, however, should not be confused with an epistemological necessity. A scientific theory may be said to be Darwin-independent if its principal conceptualContinue reading “Excursus 114 – On Darwin-independent Reconstruction of Evolution”
Excursus 100 – On Human Diversity and Philosophical Idealization
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 20 Scientific inquiry frequently employs idealizations. Their legitimacy depends upon whether the features omitted are irrelevant to the problem under investigation. In classical mechanics, for example, a planet may often be represented as a point mass without significantly affecting the accuracy of gravitational calculations. Such simplifications areContinue reading “Excursus 100 – On Human Diversity and Philosophical Idealization”
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