Daniel Schulthess: Publications - PhilPeople

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History of Western Philosophy

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17th/18th Century Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy

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A. Gurwitsch: "Leibniz - Philosophie des Panlogismus" (review)
Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 27 (n/a): 355. 1977.

A review of Aron Gurwitsch’s Philosophie des Panlogismus (1974), which reads Leibniz’s metaphysics as a form of panlogicism. Leibniz’s metaphysics is not only derivable from his logic (Couturat, Russell), but is itself a form of logic, all the way down until reaching the level of the phenomena.

Leibniz: Metaphysics Leibniz: Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic
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Reid and Lehrer
Grazer Philosophische Studien 40 (1): 135-147. 1991.

The contrast between Thomas Reid's epistemological concerns and a common core of the classical approach to epistemology is the following one: Reid abandons the classical use for criteria of knowledge and pushes the problem of the justification of beliefs to the level of the mental faculties from which the beliefs arise. A similar shift plays various roles in Keith Lehrer's coherentist epistemology. However, this shift raises several difficulties: (i) the impact of epistemological concerns on act…Read more
The contrast between Thomas Reid's epistemological concerns and a common core of the classical approach to epistemology is the following one: Reid abandons the classical use for criteria of knowledge and pushes the problem of the justification of beliefs to the level of the mental faculties from which the beliefs arise. A similar shift plays various roles in Keith Lehrer's coherentist epistemology. However, this shift raises several difficulties: (i) the impact of epistemological concerns on actual intellectual inquiries gets lost; (ii) the favored model of justification lacks in generality; (iii) 'vertical justification' (which proceeds via the faculty) is not independent from 'horizontal justification' (not proceeding via the faculty).
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"N. Grimaldi": L'expérience de la pensée dans la philosophie de Descartes (review)
Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 112 (n/a): 211. 1980.

A review of Nicolas Grimaldi’s L’expérience de la pensée dans la philosophie de Descartes (1978), a work proposing an interpretation of Descartes which disentangles the (“rhizomatic”) “experience of thought” in Descartes’ philosophy from the “order of reasons” of his system (cf. Martial Gueroult). In his intellectual development, Descartes successively explores three orders of thoughts: the order of truth, the order of utility, and the order of freedom.

René Descartes

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