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97Føllesdal on the notion of the noema: A critiqueHusserl Studies 10 (2): 81-95. 1993.This paper critiques Dagfinn Follesdal's influential interpretation of the Husserlian noema as a Fregean sense. Though other philosophers have argued that Follesdal's interpretation is mistaken, this paper demonstrates that the origin of the error is a fundamental misunderstanding, on Follesdal's part, of Husserlian terminology. The paper also examines the views of David Woodruff Smith and Ronald McIntyre who, influenced by Follesdal, mistakenly read the Husserl of the "Ideas" as a linguisticall…Read more
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Hermeneutic Technics: The Case of Nuclear ReactorsIn Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, D. E. Marietta & L. Embree (eds.), Philosophies of the Environment and Technology (Research in Philosophy and Technology), Jai Press. 1999.
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75Hiroshi Kojima, monad and thou: Phenomenological ontology of human being (review)Continental Philosophy Review 35 (4): 455-460. 2002.
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Some Suggestions for Developing an Africanist Phenomenological Philosophy of ScienceIn Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino & Clevis Headley (eds.), Shifting the geography of reason: gender, science and religion, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007.
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118Black Orpheus and Aesthetic Historicism: On Vico and NegritudeJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19 (2): 121-135. 2011.This essay offers a novel approach for understanding the poetry of negritude and its role in the struggle for black liberation by appealing to Giambattista Vico’s insights on the historical, cultural, and myth-making function of poetry and of the mythopoetic imagination. The essay begins with a discussion of Vico’s aesthetic historicism and of his ideas regarding the role of imagination, poetry, and myth-making and then brings these ideas to bear on the discussion of the function of negritude p…Read more
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82My Station and Its DutiesIdealistic Studies 22 (1): 11-27. 1992.Henry Sidgwick sought to interpret F.H. Bradley’s ethics, as presented in Ethical Studies, in fundamentally Aristotelian terms. Sidgwick “found it ‘natural’ to think of self-realization as the ‘realization or development into act of the potentialities constituting the definite formed character of an individual’.” In this paper, I want to demonstrate that, rather than giving the work of Bradley an Aristotelian interpretation, as Sidgwick sought to do, one should focus on studying the Hegelian inf…Read more
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30Goldman, Alan H. Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (4): 879-880. 2003.
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59The ontological function of first-order and second-order corpuscles in the chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: the redintegration of potassium nitrateFoundations of Chemistry 14 (3): 221-234. 2012.Although Boyle has been regarded as a champion of the seventeenth century Cartesian mechanical philosophy, I defend the position that Boyle’s views conciliate between a strictly mechanistic conception of fundamental matter and a non-reductionist conception of chemical qualities. In particular, I argue that this conciliation is evident in Boyle’s ontological distinction between fundamental corpuscles endowed with mechanistic properties and higher-level corpuscular concretions endowed with chemica…Read more
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591Hiroshi Kojima's phenomenological ontologyPhilosophy East and West 58 (2): 163-189. 2008.: In his book Monad and Thou: Phenomenological Ontology of the Human Being, Japanese philosopher Hiroshi Kojima proposes to redefine the I-Thou relation, first extensively investigated by Martin Buber, and to reconcile the notions of ‘individuality’ and ‘community’ in terms of his new phenomenological ontology of the human being as monad. In this essay, Kojima’s ideas are examined concerning the monad and intersubjectivity, and it is shown how these ideas can be extended and brought to bear on i…Read more
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1The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy in Ibn Sina and HusserlIn Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.), Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology on the perennial Issue of microcosm and macrocosm, Springer. 2006.
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1F.J.J. Buytendijk on Woman: A Phenomenological CritiqueIn Linda Fisher & Lester Embree (eds.), Feminist phenomenology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, C. 2000.
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143The 16th and 17th centuries marked a period of transition from the vitalistic ontology that had dominated Renaissance natural philosophy to the Early Modern mechanistic paradigm endorsed by, among others, the Cartesians and Newtonians. This paper focuses on how the tensions between vitalism and mechanism played themselves out in the context of 16th and 17th century chemistry and chemical philosophy. The paper argues that, within the fields of chemistry and chemical philosophy, the significant tr…Read more
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5Guest Editorial Introduction: Foundations of Chemistry (Special Issue)Foundations of Chemistry 19 (1): 3-4. 2017.
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53Van Helmont’s hybrid ontology and its influence on the chemical interpretation of spirit and fermentFoundations of Chemistry 18 (2): 103-112. 2015.This essay proposes to discuss the manner in which Jan Baptista van Helmont helped to transform the Neoplatonic notions of vital spirit and of ferment by giving these notions an unambiguously chemical interpretation, thereby influencing the eventual naturalization of these ideas in the work of late seventeenth century chymists. This chemical interpretation of vital spirit and ferment forms part of Helmont’s hybrid ontology, which fuses a corpuscular conception of minima naturalia with a non-corp…Read more
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182Husserl's theory of language as calculus ratiocinatorSynthese 112 (3): 303-321. 1997.This paper defends an interpretation of Husserl''s theory of language, specifically as it appears in the Logical Investigations, as an example of a larger body of theories dubbed ''language as calculus''. Although this particular interpretation has been previously defended by other authors, such as Hintikka and Kusch, this paper proposes to contribute to the discussion by arguing that what makes this interpretation plausible are Husserl''s distinction between the notions of meaning-intention and…Read more
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43The Relevance of Boyle's Chemical Philosophy for Contemporary Philosophy of ChemistryIn Jean-Pierre Llored (ed.), The Philosophy of Chemistry: Practices, Methodologies, and Concepts, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2013.
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46From Corpuscles to Elements: Chemical Ontologies from Van Helmont to LavoisierIn Lee McIntyre & Eric Scerri (eds.), Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline, Springer. pp. 141-154. 2014.
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95Ontological tensions in sixteenth and seventeenth century chemistry: between mechanism and vitalismFoundations of Chemistry 13 (3): 173-186. 2011.The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries marks a period of transition between the vitalistic ontology that had dominated Renaissance natural philosophy and the Early Modern mechanistic paradigm endorsed by, among others, the Cartesians and Newtonians. This paper will focus on how the tensions between vitalism and mechanism played themselves out in the context of sixteenth and seventeenth century chemistry and chemical philosophy, particularly in the works of Paracelsus, Jan Baptista Van Helmont, …Read more
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79Reality Without Reification: Philosophy of Chemistry’s Contribution to Philosophy of MindIn Eric Scerri & Grant Fisher (eds.), Essays in Philosophy of Chemistry, Oxford University Press. pp. 83-110. 2016.In this essay, we argue that there exist obvious parallels between questions that inform philosophy of chemistry and the so-called hard problem of consciousness in philosophy of mind. These include questions regarding the emergence of higher-level phenomena from lower-level physical states, the reduction of higher-level phenomena to lower-level physical states, and 'downward causation'. We, therefore, propose that the 'hard problem' of consciousness should be approached in a manner similar to th…Read more
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