Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and
most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in …

Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his
racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his core philosophy. They also …

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists,
physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life …

Newton's impact on natural philosophy has been well studied, but little attention has been
paid to the role Newtonian “analogies” played in the formulation of conceptual schemes in …

This chapter argues that the standard conception of Spinoza as a fellow-traveling
mechanical philosopher and proto-scientific naturalist is misleading. 1 It argues, first, that …

abstract This study explores several arguments against Spinoza's philosophy that were
developed by Henry More, Samuel Clarke, and Colin Maclaurin. In the arguments on which I …

Sensibility, whether understood in moral, physical, medical, or aesthetic terms, seems to be
a paramount case of a higher-level, intentional property, not a basic property. Diderot …

It is difficult to separate “materialism” as a diverse eighteenth-century philosophical
movement from the many polemical arguments surrounding it throughout the century. Like …

I examine a series of definitions and ways of locating, defending or rejecting 'vitalism'in early
modern thought, roughly from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This …

Pourquoi consacrer une étude à la pensée du «savant oublié1» Pierre-Louis Moreau de
Maupertuis (1698-1759)? Il convient avant tout de mettre en exergue l'obscurité dans …