The essay focuses on the German physician Georg Franck von Franckenau (1643– 1704) and his Satyrae medicae from the 1670s and 1680s. It illuminates Franckenau’s ideas on sexual difference based on his discussion of sex-specific bodily functions such as menstruation and male and female genital structure. In Franckenau’s satires, a woman is not simply opposed to or likened to a man, but she is al...

1 Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 2 Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 3 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources, 30655 Hannover, Germany 4Department of Geobiology (Geoscience Institute), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 5 UK Centre ...

gadamer considers understanding as an event which is the result of the fusion of horizon of interpreter and horizon of the text. from his point of view, understanding has a fundamental connection with the concept of horizon and in fact horizon is the central point in the process of understanding. horizon for nietzsche is a limiting concept which is not able to be transitive. husserl draws his a...

As the use of data mining and machine learning methods in the humanities becomes more common, it will be increasingly important to examine implicit biases, assumptions, and limitations these methods bring with them. This paper makes explicit some of the foundational assumptions of machine learning methods, and presents a series of experiments as a case study and object lesson in the potential p...

Originally, hermeneutics was the interpretation of important texts. In 19th century, transformed into a science about meaning and all expressions. 20th Martin Heidegger radicalized hermeneutics, indicating that understanding (the essence hermeneutics) is not technical or intellectual operation, but way being. The central point reference in article hermeneutic philosophy Hans-Georg Gadamer Paul ...