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153The lame and the blind, or how much physics does chemistry need?Foundations of Chemistry 3 (3): 241-249. 2001.
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88Critical rationalism in the test tube? Lecture given at the ''international summer school on the philosophy of chemistry and biochemistry'', Bradford & ilkley community college, 11. – 14. july 1994 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 297-305. 1997.Popper's critical rationalism is widely accepted under scientists and philosophers of science as a proper method for the reconstruction of scientific theories. On occasion of the application of the Popperian ideas for the reconstruction of chemistry by Akeroyd the flaws of the critical rationalist approach are criticised and a methodical alternative is proposed, involving the operational definition of scientific terms.
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54Klaus Ruthenberg (ed): František Wald: Essays 1891–1929 WALD Press, Prague, 2009, 231 p (review)Foundations of Chemistry 12 (3): 239-241. 2010.
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20What has philosophy to offer to chemistry?Foundations of Science 3 (1): 183-202. 1998.The paper asks about the reasons for the neglect of chemistry in modern philosophy of science and investigates in how far this science can be the object of an autonomous philosophical reflection. It is argued that from a culturalistic point of view chemistry indeed offers a field of interesting questions ranging from the reconstruction of its epistemological objects to the elucidation of the semantic functions of terms like "atom" or "molecule". It is further argued that the philosophical reflec…Read more
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13Critical Rationalism in the Test Tube? Lecture given at the ’’International Summer School on the Philosophy of Chemistry and Biochemistry‘‘, Bradford & Ilkley Community College, 11. – 14. July 1994 (review)Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2): 297-305. 1997.Popper's critical rationalism is widely accepted under scientists and philosophers of science as a proper method for the reconstruction of scientific theories. On occasion of the application of the Popperian ideas for the reconstruction of chemistry by Akeroyd the flaws of the critical rationalist approach are criticised and a methodical alternative is proposed, involving the operational definition of scientific terms.
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12Travels in Four Dimensions, by Robin Le Poidevin (review)Pragmatics and Cognition 12 (2): 423-426. 2004.
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12Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der PersonTranscript Verlag. 2007.
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10Dirk Hartmann: Neues System der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundriss, Band II: Mathematik und NaturwissenschaftPhilosophische Rundschau 71 (1): 120. 2024.
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10Critical Rationalism in the Test Tube?Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 28 (2). 1997.Popper's critical rationalism is widely accepted under scientists and philosophers of science as a proper method for the reconstruction of scientific theories. On occasion of the application of the Popperian ideas for the reconstruction of chemistry by Akeroyd the flaws of the critical rationalist approach are criticised and a methodical alternative is proposed, involving the operational definition of scientific terms.
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9Rationalität und Gemeinschaft - Sprachanalytische ReflexionenIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 101-118. 2007.
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9Der Begriff der LebensweltIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 157-172. 2007.
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8DrucknachweiseIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 191-191. 2007.
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7The judgment-view of painManuscrito 27 (2): 383-404. 2004.In this paper a concept of pain is introduced that regards pain as a formal entity that can be realized in various material ways, similarly to the concept of justice. Pain utterances have rather the character of evaluative judgments and not of propositional descriptions. They aren’t therefore true or false, but adequate or inadequate, correct or wrong, according to the circumstances and the context, in which they are made. Because pain is constituted by the interplay of individual and public att…Read more
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7VorwortIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 7-8. 2007.
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6Henri Arvon, Max Stirner – An den Quellen des Existentialismus, hg. v. Armin Geus, aus dem Französischen übersetzt v. Gerhard H. Müller mit einem Nachwort v. Bernd Kast (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch 121 (1): 152-154. 2014.
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6Utopien als Demarkationen des MenschlichenIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 173-182. 2007.
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6Heinz Durchhardt: Abgebrochene Forschung. Zur Geschichte unvollendeter WissenschaftsprojektePhilosophische Rundschau 70 (1): 96. 2023.
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6LiteraturIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 185-190. 2007.
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6Facets of Sociality (edited book)De Gruyter. 2006.The aim of this volume is to explore new approaches to the problem of the constitution of the various aspects of sociality and to confront these with received ideas. Therefore many of the contributions to this volume are devoted to a rather holistic and antireductionist conception of social objects, groups, joint actions and collective knowledge. The topics, that are dealt with are: a) the question of the ontological status of social objects and their relation to physical objects, b) collective …Read more
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6Merkmal, Leistung oder Anerkennung? Drei Betrachtungen der PersonalitätIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 19-38. 2007.
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6Things, stuffs, and coincidence. A non-ontological point of viewHyle 7 (1). 2001.In this article the problem of the so-called 'coinciding objects', i.e. the question whether a substantially homogeneous thing is something ontologically different from the corresponding 'piece of stuff' it is made of or not, is examined from a pragmatical and language-analytical point of view. Instead of recurring to ontological assertions, I propose to regard 'stuffs' or 'substances' as a mode of speaking about things that fulfil the condition of being homogeneous in respect to a certain kind …Read more
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6Im Grunde der Seele. Anmerkungen zum Gegenstandbereich der PsychologieIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 119-136. 2007.
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5What is the Thing Whose Measure is Money?In Katharina Neges, Josef Mitterer, Sebastian Kletzl & Christian Kanzian (eds.), Realism - Relativism - Constructivism: Proceedings of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 293-298. 2017.
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5Concepts of Sharedness: Essays on Collective Intentionality (edited book)De Gruyter. 2008.The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions. The common aim of the papers is to explore the structure of shared intentional attitudes, and to explain how they underlie the social, cultural and institutional world. The contributions to this volume explore the phenomenology of sharedness, the concept of sharedness, and also various …Read more
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4Ontologische VorbemerkungenIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 9-16. 2007.
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4Harald Wohlrapp, Der Begriff des Arguments: Über die Beziehungen zwischen Wissen, Forschen, Glaube, Subjektivität und VernunftPhilosophisches Jahrbuch 120 (1): 229-234. 2013.
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3Individuelle Enkulturation oder wie findet man den Weg in die Menschheit?In Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 59-84. 2007.
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3Rotpeters VerwandlungIn Facetten des Menschlichen: Reflexionen Zum Wesen des Humanen Und der Person, Transcript Verlag. pp. 39-58. 2007.
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