Author : Dennis L. Sepper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780521531320
Sepper shows that the condemnation of Goethe's attacks on Newton has been based on erroneous assumptions about the history of Newton's theory.
Author : F.R. Amrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 940093761X
of him in like measure within myself, that is my highest wish. This noble individual was not conscious of the fact that at that very moment the divine within him and the divine of the universe were most intimately united. So, for Goethe, the resonance with a natural rationality seems part of the genius of modern science. Einstein's 'cosmic religion', which reflects Spinoza, also echoes Goethe's remark (Ibid. , Item 575 from 1829): Man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible. Else he would give up investigating. But how far will Goethe share the devotion of these cosmic rationalists to the beautiful harmonies of mathematics, so distant from any pure and 'direct observation'? Kepler, Spinoza, Einstein need not, and would not, rest with discovery of a pattern within, behind, as a source of, the phenomenal world, and they would not let even the most profound of descriptive generalities satisfy scientific curiosity. For his part, Goethe sought fundamental archetypes, as in his intuition of a Urpjlanze, basic to all plants, infinitely plastic. When such would be found, Goethe would be content, for (as he said to Eckermann, Feb. 18, 1829): . . . to seek something behind (the Urphaenomenon) is futile. Here is the limit. But as a rule men are not satisfied to behold an Urphaenomenon. They think there must be something beyond. They are like children who, having looked into a mirror, turn it around to see what is on the other side.
Author : Marcos Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 331967398X
This edited volume explores the different and seminal ways colours matter to philosophy. Each chapter provides an insightful analysis of one or more cases in which colours raise philosophical problems in different areas and periods of philosophy. This historically informed discussion examines both logical and linguistic aspects, covering such areas as the mind, aesthetics and the foundations of mathematics. The international contributors look at traditional epistemological and metaphysical issues on the subjectivity and objectivity of colours. In addition, they also assess phenomenological problems typical of the continental tradition and contemporary problems in the philosophy of mind. The chapters include coverage of such topics as Newton’s and Goethe’s theory of light and colours, how primary qualities are qualitative and colours are primary, explaining colour phenomenology, and colour in cognition, language and philosophy. "This book beautifully prepares the ground for the next steps in our research on and philosophising about colour" Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong) "It is not an overstatement to say that How Colours to Philosophy is a ground breaking publication" Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh) "Anyone interested in philosophical issues about color will find it highly stimulating." Martine Nida-Rümelin (Université de Fribourg) "The high quality papers included in this anthology succeed admirably in enriching current philosophical thinking about colour” Erik Myin (University of Antwerp) “This is certainly the most complete collection of philosophical essays on colours ever published” André Leclerc (University of Brasília) “All in all this collections represents a new milestone in the ongoing philosophical debate on colours and colour expressions” Ingolf Max (University of Leipzig)
Author : Beatrice Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Color
ISBN :
Author : Scot Danforth
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781433101700
With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology, psychology, and education. This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States.
Author : Karl J. Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521402115
Fink explores how Goethe's scientific activities contributed to the growing literature in the history and philosophy of science.
Author : Astrida Orle Tantillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2010-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441132783
Author : Tom Rockmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022635007X
German Idealism as Constructivism is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore—it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of constructivism that still plagues our grasp of the history of German idealism and the whole epistemological project today. Rockmore argues that German idealism—which includes iconic thinkers such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel—can best be understood as a constructivist project, one that asserts that we cannot know the mind-independent world as it is but only our own mental construction of it. Since ancient Greece philosophers have tried to know the world in itself, an effort that Kant believed had failed. His alternative strategy—which came to be known as the Copernican revolution—was that the world as we experience and know it depends on the mind. Rockmore shows that this project was central to Kant’s critical philosophy and the later German idealists who would follow him. He traces the different ways philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel formulated their own versions of constructivism. Offering a sweeping but deeply attuned analysis of a crucial part of the legacy of German idealism, Rockmore reinvigorates this school of philosophy and opens up promising new avenues for its study.
Author : David Seamon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791436820
Examines Goethe's neglected but sizable body of scientific work, considers the philosophical foundations of his approach, and applies his method to the real world of nature.
Author : J. P. Singh Uberoi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This unique work provides a new reading of Goethe's oft neglected scientific work in botany and optical physics, arguing that Goethe's 'non-standard' or Paracelsian conception of scientific method is an important and relevant alternative to the orthodox scientific tradition. Tthe author examines both Goethe's sources and critics, from fields as diverse as physics, philosophy, and occultism.
