Experimental philosophy and the history of philosophy

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of History

mathematical and one philosophical. In the first, Socrates leads the slave boy to correct, refine, and extend his intuition of a pair of geometrical diagrams by examining his presuppositions in the light of certain background knowledge (about arithmetic), as they solve a problem together. In the second, Socrates leads Meno to correct, refine, and extend his intuition about virtue as well as abo...

Psychology, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science: Reflections on the History and Philosophy of Experimental Psychology*

This article critically examines the views that psychology first came into existence as a discipline ca. 1879, that philosophy and psychology were estranged in the ensuing decades, that psychology finally became scientific through the influence of logical empiricism, and that it should now disappear in favor of cognitive science and neuroscience. It argues that psychology had a natural philosop...

A native proposal for the philosophy of history

Though philosophy of history like other fields of knowledge has its roots in eastern traditional knowledge, as an epistemological branch it appeared in West and then entered in East. Present states of knowledge in Islamic Iran, particularly with regard to the necessities and grounds of change in humanities, have prepared an opportunity to present a proposal in the field of philosophy of history...

History/Philosophy

Several physicians, born in Empoli area, have an outstanding position in the history of medicine. First of all, we have to stress the great insights into anatomy and physiology that Leonardo (Vinci 1452 – Cloux 1519) realized about five centuries ago. The second scientist we want to introduce is Michele Mercati, who was born in San Miniato on 1541. He was educated at the University of Pisa, whe...