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• 'Scientism' 14 - 1891-1968

  In 1891, the New York positivist T. B. Wakeman chose, as W. M. Brown would later do, to embrace 'scientism' (the doctrine and the label). Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• WWI Links, Some Literary

  

  First German Gas Attack at Ypres by William RobertsSource.British entries on the Somme (National Archives) and on Passchendaele (the Wellcome Library).Five... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Some Philosophy Links (February)

  Chad Hansen's new MOOC 'Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought'.'Stanford scholar explores Arabic obsession with language....Key also found that the early... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 13 - Charlton on the Difference Between Positivism & Scientism

  Thirteenth in a series of thirteen posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). The relation between the phrases 'positivism' and 'scientism' is ambiguous. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 12 - James, Dewey & Mueller

  Twelfth in a series of twelve posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).William James used 'scientism' in a few letters. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• January Philosophy Links

  Eric Banks interviewed about his new book The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived. Banks wrote an earlier book called... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' in Analytic Philosophy

  This post is quick and dirty, but I just want to organize some quotations from analytic philosophers about scientism. Some of the critiques of scientism are fro... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• Great Moments in the History of the University of Toronto

  In 1853, Toronto's University College (the oldest part of the University of Toronto) invited applications for a new professorship in natural philosophy. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 10

  Tenth in a series of ten posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).I've found two definitions of 'scientism' by clerics in the mid-20th Century. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 9

  Ninth in a series of nine posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8).In my previous post on this topic, I said that 'scientism' was used several times during the 1870s in... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• George Henry Lewes in the Fortnightly Review 'Spiritualis...

  George Henry Lewes in the Fortnightly Review 'Spiritualism and Materialism (Part I)' (New Series v. 19 [1876]: at 492): The human consciousness is reflected in... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• December Philosophy Links

  Putnam says Husserl got the gist of 'twin earth' in 1911.Alva Noë on colour as well as Evan Thompson and Stephen Batchelor's new book.Ivan Ilyin, Putin's... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• More Poems About Philosophers

  Last June, I noted some poems about philosophers. Here are some more.Robert Browning's Bishop Blougram's Apology makes reference to Schelling, Fichte, and D.... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 8

  Eight in a series of eight posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7). The English word 'scientism' came to be used in its modern sense in the 1870s. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 7

  Seventh in a series of seven posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6). I've found an 1877 piece called 'Scientism' in a Canadian magazine. Here's a passage from the opening... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 6

  

  Sixth in a series of six posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I looked in the New York Times archives for that publication's first use of 'scientism'. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 5

  Already in 1951 we find a Vienna Circle positivist (and physicist-philosopher) reacting against claims about 'scientism'. Philipp Frank wrote:All of these group... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 4

  I've found more mid-20th-Century uses of 'scientism'.First, there is this passage from Emil Brunner's Gifford Lectures (1947-48):Science and art serve men best... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 3

  Some quick observations about the mid-20th-Century use of 'scientism':It was used in a more overtly political way by both religious and non-religious authors wh... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY

• 'Scientism' 2

  Norman Foerster (1937): By a belief in scientism I mean a more or less exclusive devotion to the methods, mental attitudes, and doctrines appropriate to science... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY