G. Bacigalupo, H. Leblanc, Anton Marty and contemporary philosophy

Chapter Four Anton Marty On Being and Truth

Being, for Aristotle, is an analogous term. It is said in many ways. We can distinguish above all between being in the sense of the categories and being in the sense of being true, a distinction which served as the basis of the early Brentanian bicategorial ontology of things or realia on the one hand, and entia rationis or irrealia on the other. While Brentano abandoned an ontology of this sor...

What’s Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?

Analytic Philosophy (AP), although it comes in many varieties, has four striking properties. First, it is cultivated with every appearance of theoretical rigour. Second, its practitioners do not, by and large, believe that philosophy is or can be a science, i.e., they do not believe that it can add to the stock of positive human knowledge. Third, the philosophers who until very recently were th...

Osteopathic Principles and Philosophy: a Contemporary View

Osteopathic medicine as we know it begins with Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. (1828 1917), who introduced its concepts in 1874. Still’s basic idea --that the human body was much like a machine, one that would function well if all its parts were in proper mechanical relationship --was unique compared to the medical thinking of the time. Doctor Still was a frontier doctor, and had trained like most ph...

Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought

Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Biology : A Historical Review

The philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. The rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. Today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. There have been two generations of textbooks...