Philosophical Instrument Makers

Mutual benefits of collaborations between instrument makers, musicians and acousticians

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Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III

the sectarian tradition. Firstly, Flemming considers a corpus of imperial rationalist or eclectic texts, which includes the work of Rufus of Ephesus, Aretaeus the Cappadocian, the pseudo-Galenic Introduction and Medical definitions, as well as the works of the authors called Anonymus Londinensis and Anonymus Parisinus. Secondly she studies the Gynaecology of Soranus of Ephesus, the only extant ...

Mutual benefits of collaborations between instrument makers, musicians and acousticians

1 Philosophical Heuristics and Philosophical Methodology

Introduction Metaphilosophy is all the rage nowadays. Philosophers are becoming increasingly self-conscious about their methodology, as this volume showcases. And rightly so—it is part of our job description to put thinking under the microscope, and that obviously should include our philosophical thinking. Much as we want philosophers of physics, of biology, of mathematics, and so on to scrutin...

Truth - Makers

During the realist revival in the early years of this century, philosophers of various persuasions were concerned to investigate the ontology of truth. That is, whether or not they viewed truth as a correspondence, they were interested in the extent to which one needed to assume the existence of entities serving some role in accounting for the truth of sentences. Certain of these entities, such...