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23Nature’s affordances and formation length: The ontology of quantum physical experimentsSATS 17 (1): 1-20. 2016.We argue that Bohrian complementarity is a framework for making new ontological sense of scientific findings. It provides a conceptual pattern for making sense of the results of an empirical investigation into new realms or fields of natural properties. The idea of “formation length” engenders this mutual attunement of evidence and reality. Physicists want to be able to ascribe ontological features to atomic constituents and atomic processes such as “emission”, “impact”, or “change of energy-sta…Read more
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13Mapping conversations about land use: How modern farmers practice individualityEmpedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 12 (1): 5-17. 2021.In this article, drawing on the discursive psychology of Rom Harré, we show how mapping the exchange of words among people might disclose a complex reality; not merely that which farmers explicitly talk ‘about’ but the reality implicitly at stake within the communication. More specifically, we show how discourses involving modern farmers reveal an underlying placing in an abstract space, having sub-spaces defined by the life-orientation, sense of self and according self-positioning of modern peo…Read more
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5Self-Liberation, Reason and WillIn Jochem Hennigfeld & Jon Stewart (eds.), Kierkegaard und Schelling: Freiheit, Angst und Wirklichkeit, De Gruyter. pp. 223-234. 2003.
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80Goethe’s contribution to philosophy: the morphology of individualitySATS 20 (1): 35-52. 2019.In this essay, I will discuss a variety of considerations that Goethe expressed in his writings. I will with few exceptions address these writings in chronological order. I include both literary and scientific-philosophical works. In this way I hope to show that a certain theme is at the heart of Goethe’s thinking, and that Goethe’s later works expresses a sophisticated and “deep” account of this theme. In addition, I will try to explain how one can ascribe this Goethean theme to major philosoph…Read more
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87A resolute reading of Cassirer’s anthropologySynthese 179 (1): 93-113. 2011.In the paper I try, resolutely, to associate the open ended encyclopedic character of Cassirer's philosophy with the core part of this philosophy concerning symbolic formation. In this way I try to supplement and strengthen the anthropology that Cassirer formulated in AN ESSAY ON MAN. Finally I discuss the historical character and value of this anthropology
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10Steen Brock A Conception of Modern Life as “the Awakening of the Human Spirit, Revisited”: Wittgenstein’s Early Remarks on Frazer as a Philosophy of CultureIn Aidan Seery, Josef G. F. Rothhaupt & Lars Albinus (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer: The Text and the Matter, De Gruyter. pp. 175-204. 2016.
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18Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Physics in the Light of the Helmholtzian Tradition of Theoretical PhysicsLogos Verlag Berlin. 2003.Steen Brock paints a cross-disciplinary picture of the philosophical and scientific background for the rise of the quantum theory. He accounts for the unity of Kantian metaphysics of Nature, the Helmholtzian principles, and the Hamiltonian methods of modern pre-quantum physics. Brock shows how Planck's vision of a generalization of classical physics implies that the original quantum mechanics of Heisenberg can be regarded as a successful attempt to maintain this modern unity of physics.However, …Read more