Peter Loptson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Loptson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Loptson |
| SIGNATURE | LOPTSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hume after Three Hundred Years
Among the great western philosophers, David Hume enjoys at present as high and honoured a position as any, especially with the attention he has drawn in 2011, which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth. The general drift of the accounts of Hume’s philosophical ideas has tended over the past few dozen years and more to be extremely positive and typically celebratory. Admirers of the man—widely regarded as the very model of the philo…
Was Leibniz an Idealist?
This paper raises complication for the standard interpretive view of Liebniz's mature metaphysical system as idealist. Body-realist affirmations are found in his writings up to his death, in bulk and diversity very difficult to accommodate to phenomenalist or idealist construal. Claims of Leibnizian inconsistency and indecisiveness do not seem adequately to account for them. The view that body is real for Liebniz, though not a substance, is explo…
Promoting the Good: Fekete on Equity Advocacy in Canada
Social and political topics of public concern shift and reconfigure themselves with volatility as well as speed in contemporary life. Issues ignite and arouse constituencies of response, in alliance and opposition, with a quite uncertain degree of predictability, even if with periodicities and a detectable routing circuitry about which it is easy to become cynical, or at least fatigued. Something burns, now, among us; and we would prefer not to t…
Anne Conway, Henry More and their World
Marjorie Hope Nicolson's The Conway Letters is, simultaneously, a work of so many different kinds, and offers itself to so many distinct cultural and intellectual constituencies, that it is difficult to include them all, and impossible to assign them priority or precedence. It is first of all, though, a delightful and important book. It has been out of print for a great many years, the original edition of 1930 long ago sold out. So its reappearan…
Hegel Naturalized
Philosophical history, or speculative philosophy of history as it has also been called (usually pejoratively, by critics), is suddenly back in the mainstream, as the claimed ‘end of history’ is debated on every side. It essentially starts with the work of the isolated Neapolitan enlightenment philosopher Giambattista Vico
The Idea of Philosophical History
In W. H. Walsh's widely read book, An Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1951) there is set out a distinction which became virtually classic, or canonical, between two kinds of philosophy of history. On the one hand, there is critical philosophy of history , which investigates, in what is supposed to be a more or less neutral and objective way, the actual practices of historians, with a view to determining their methods, the character of …
Lockean ideas and 18th century British philosophy
Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur SchopenhauerJulian Young Dordrecht, Holland: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. xiii + 167 p
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Genetic Epistemology and Philosophical Epistemology
Jean Piaget is well known in psychological circles as an individual who has been researching the cognitive growth of children and adolescents for over half" a century.Piaget, however, does not consider himself a psychologist but rather a genetic epistemologist -one who studies the way knowledge is acquired in individuals.It is Piaget's belief that many traditional epistemological problems, especially those relating to the source and nature of int…
Pelasgikon Argos in the Catalogue of Ships (681)
Anne Conway, Henry More and their World
Marjorie Hope Nicolson's The Conway Letters is, simultaneously, a work of so many different kinds, and offers itself to so many distinct cultural and intellectual constituencies, that it is difficult to include them all, and impossible to assign them priority or precedence. It is first of all, though, a delightful and important book. It has been out of print for a great many years, the original edition of 1930 long ago sold out. So its reappearan…
Pelasgikon Argos in the Catalogue of Ships (681)
Genetic Epistemology and Philosophical Epistemology
Jean Piaget is well known in psychological circles as an individual who has been researching the cognitive growth of children and adolescents for over half" a century.Piaget, however, does not consider himself a psychologist but rather a genetic epistemologist -one who studies the way knowledge is acquired in individuals.It is Piaget's belief that many traditional epistemological problems, especially those relating to the source and nature of int…
Lockean ideas and 18th century British philosophy
Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur SchopenhauerJulian Young Dordrecht, Holland: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987. xiii + 167 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hegel Naturalized
Philosophical history, or speculative philosophy of history as it has also been called (usually pejoratively, by critics), is suddenly back in the mainstream, as the claimed ‘end of history’ is debated on every side. It essentially starts with the work of the isolated Neapolitan enlightenment philosopher Giambattista Vico
The Idea of Philosophical History
In W. H. Walsh's widely read book, An Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1951) there is set out a distinction which became virtually classic, or canonical, between two kinds of philosophy of history. On the one hand, there is critical philosophy of history , which investigates, in what is supposed to be a more or less neutral and objective way, the actual practices of historians, with a view to determining their methods, the character of …
Anne Conway, Henry More and their World
Marjorie Hope Nicolson's The Conway Letters is, simultaneously, a work of so many different kinds, and offers itself to so many distinct cultural and intellectual constituencies, that it is difficult to include them all, and impossible to assign them priority or precedence. It is first of all, though, a delightful and important book. It has been out of print for a great many years, the original edition of 1930 long ago sold out. So its reappearan…
Promoting the Good: Fekete on Equity Advocacy in Canada
Social and political topics of public concern shift and reconfigure themselves with volatility as well as speed in contemporary life. Issues ignite and arouse constituencies of response, in alliance and opposition, with a quite uncertain degree of predictability, even if with periodicities and a detectable routing circuitry about which it is easy to become cynical, or at least fatigued. Something burns, now, among us; and we would prefer not to t…
Was Leibniz an Idealist?
This paper raises complication for the standard interpretive view of Liebniz's mature metaphysical system as idealist. Body-realist affirmations are found in his writings up to his death, in bulk and diversity very difficult to accommodate to phenomenalist or idealist construal. Claims of Leibnizian inconsistency and indecisiveness do not seem adequately to account for them. The view that body is real for Liebniz, though not a substance, is explo…
Hume after Three Hundred Years
Among the great western philosophers, David Hume enjoys at present as high and honoured a position as any, especially with the attention he has drawn in 2011, which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth. The general drift of the accounts of Hume’s philosophical ideas has tended over the past few dozen years and more to be extremely positive and typically celebratory. Admirers of the man—widely regarded as the very model of the philo…
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Hegelianism (2 works) · History of philosophy (2 works)