The starting hypothesis of the new age atomism was that individuals, such as Robinson, are capable of survival in an environment due to their reason and their own strengths, and that such independent individuals organize a state community on the basis of their own insights and pragmatic needs. The atomistic paradigm failed because of a mistaken calculation of its fundamentals. The new-age reaso...

10 I take my point of departure from Paul Redding’s thoughtful and thought11 provoking book Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought, which I see as 12 a paradigm of the sort of philosophy Hegel described as ‘its time, captured in 13 thought.’ It is at once impressively and usefully learned, and philosophically 14 insightful and suggestive. Redding’s strategy is to tunnel from two...

THE history of the development of the atomic theory is usually imagined to be the exclusive province of chemistry and physics, and there is a tendency to suppose that molecular biology is one of the most recent products of twentiethcentury science. For these reasons it is surprising to discover that the paths of the corpuscular world-view and theoretical physiology crossed more than two thousan...

This paper examines the claims of the Gestalt psychologists that there was a crisis in experimental psychology ca. 1900, which arose because the prevailing sensory atomism excluded meaning from among psychological phenomena. The Gestaltists claim that a primary motivation of their movement was to show, against the speculative psychologists and philosophers and Verstehen historians, that natural...

Famously, both in his early and later years Leibniz criticises ancient atomism for describing atoms as absolutely indivisible. According to his view, matter is both infinitely divisible and actually infinitely divided.1 Nevertheless, the early Leibniz in numerous passages nevertheless is committed to entities that he calls “atoms”, and in his later years he continues calling composite substance...

The aim of my paper is to describe and evaluate different conceptions holism in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I distinguish three readings holistic elements this work: i) Minimal Holism (E. Anscombe, M. Black, D. Pears); ii) Moderate (J. Conant, C. Diamond, G. Ryle); iii) Radical (G. Bar-Elli, Kremer, P. Livingston). conclusion that the most viable option since it embrac...

This article examines the time duration of individual occasions in light discovery that temporal succession produces frequency ratios. The ratios are used to define energy and quantum. manifold common particles constructed graphically using arrows time, with mass-ratios derivable from graphs. formal reduction physics compels us adopt Whitehead's conception physical universe as experience engage...