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Stephen Gaukroger: Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten and Herder
Stephen Gaukroger: Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten and Herder
ABSTRACT In the 1760s, Herder sets out a program for replacing metaphysical inquiry into the nature of thought with an anthropological account of the nature of thought. To understand the novelty and significance of Herder’s project, Gaukroger places Herder’s philosophical anthropology in the context of his contemporaries, Diderot, Hume and Baumgarten. SPEAKER PROFILE Stephen Gaukroger […]
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George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
George Reisch: The Paranoid Style in American History of Science
ABSTRACT 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Reisch points out that it is no coincidence that the book was conceived, written, and published in America during the most stressful and anxiety-ridden years of the cold war. Reisch’s talk traces Kuhn’s influential book’s relationship […]