Rationalism and Empiricism

Three short stories

Clerestory

Feeling this diagram critiquing the #foundationalism so many of my former #fundamentalists used to structure their claims.

Major ad hoc part of class yesterday.

#ReneDescartes was a mathematician, scientist and philosopher, with a Jesuit education and training as an army engineer. He was one of the philosophers who attacked scholasticism in light of the new Copernican/Galilean science... #mindbody #descartes #dualism #rationalism #foundationalism #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #intellectualtraditions #Scholasticism #copernicanrevolution
https://philosophyindefinitely.wordpress.com/2020/08/14/the-rationalism-and-dualism-of-descartes/
The rationalism and dualism of Descartes…

The rationalism and dualism of Descartes Descartes is usually considered a starting point of modern philosophy, he was a mathematician, scientist and philosopher, with a Jesuit education and traini…

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@jef

William #Whewell's notion of #Consilience is often mentioned in this connection. It was later picked up by #EOWilson.

#Peirce's #Pragmatism takes some pains to side-step the superficial dichotomy between #Objectivism or #Foundationalism and #Coherentism or #Consensualism.

Susan #Haack, for instance, tries to integrate them in her concept of #Foundherentism.

Well, that's enough isms for one day ...

Post-foundationalism departs from the assumption that there is no ground, necessity, or objective rationale for #human #political existence or action. The edited volume puts #contemporary debates arising from the »spatial turn« in cultural and #social #sciences in a #dialogue with post-foundational #theories of space and place to devise post-#foundationalism as radical approach to #UrbanStudies.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5073-0/un-grounding/

[Un]Grounding

[Un]Grounding is a ground-breaking introduction to post-foundationalism as a theoretical and practical research approach to investigate intersections between politics and space.

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Mathematics is a unique science; an ‘epistemic exception #foundationalism