Warren Schmaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 194291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Schmaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmaus |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMAUS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5797-0903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions
From positivism to conventionalism
Love, Order, and Progress
Auguste Comte's doctrine of positivism was both a philosophy of science and a political philosophy designed to organize a new, secular, stable society based on or scientific, ideas, rather than the theological dogmas and metaphysical speculations associated with the ancien regime. This volume offers the most comprehensive English-language overview of Auguste Comte's philosophy, the relation of his work to the sciences of his day, and the extensiv…
Determinism
O conceito de posição social na sociologia do conhecimento
Os sociólogos do conhecimento tentam explicar as crenças dos agentes epistêmicos por meio da posição social destes no interior de uma hierarquia de relações de poder. O artigo propõe um modo alternativo de conceber a posição social dos agentes epistêmicos. Inspirado nas noções durkheimianas de integração social e de densidade social, o autor define a posição social de um agente com base na densidade de suas relações no interior de redes sociais. …
Reading Durkheim in Philosophical Context
Giovanni Paoletti. Durkheim et la philosophie: Répresentation, réalité et lien social. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012, 474 pp
Understanding and Explanation in France
Durkheim, Jamesian pragmatism and the normativity of truth
In his lectures on pragmatism presented in the academic year 1913—14 at the Sorbonne, Durkheim argued that James’s pragmatist theory of truth, due to its emphasis on individual satisfaction, was unable to account for the obligatory, necessary and impersonal character of truth. But for Durkheim to make this charge is only to raise the question whether he himself could account for the morally obligatory or normative character of truth. Although rej…
Not Your Doktorvater’s Logical Positivism
Rescuing Auguste Comte From the Philosophy of History
Renouvier and the method of hypothesis
The Value of Values
Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approaches to the Study of Cognition
There is a need to bring the work of philosophers such as Millikan who take an evolutionary approach to the study of the mind more in harmony with work in the cognitive neurosciences. Studies of the brain suggest that knowledge in the cortex may be organized by sensory modality-specific properties rather than by hierarchies of substance concepts, regardless of how adaptive Millikan argues the latter would be. Ryder's work on SINBAD networks, whic…
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The c…
Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychologists cite Durkheim's sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be largely the product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. The author argues that on the contrary, his sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities, taking causal cognition as his example. Whether and to what extent there are such innate ca…
Kant's Reception in France
It has been said that Kant's critical philosophy made it impossible to pursue either the Cartesian rationalist or the Lockean empiricist program of providing a foundation for the sciences (e.g., Guyer 1992). This claim does not hold true for much of nineteenth century French philosophy, especially the eclectic spiritualist tradition that begins with Victor Cousin (1792–1867) and Pierre Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and continues through Paul Janet (…
Durkheim Reconsidered
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Functionalism and the Meaning of Social Facts
This paper defends a social functionalist interpretation, modeled on psychological functionalism, of the meanings of social facts. Social functionalism provides a better explanation of the possibility of interpreting other cultures than approaches that identify the meanings of social facts with either mental states or behavior. I support this claim through a functionalist reinterpretation of sociological accounts of the categories that identify t…
Commentary and Debate, Rawls, Durkheim, and Causality
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science . Pierre Duhem, Roger Ariew, Peter Barker
Emile Durkheim
Paulo Ceri, Torino University Hans-Peter Muller, Heidelberg University W. S. F. Pickering, Cambridge Howard Andrews, Toronto W. Paul Vogt, New York Philippe Besnard, GEMAS, Paris Jean-Claude Filloux, Paris Robert Alun Jones, University of Illinois Hans Joas, Free University of Berlin Francois-Andre Isambert, France
The Empirical Character of Methodological Rules
Critics of Laudan's normative naturalism have questioned whether methodological rules can be regarded as empirical hypotheses about relations between means and ends. Drawing on Laudan's defense that rules of method are contingent on assumptions about the world, I argue that even if such rules can be shown to be analytic in principle (Kaiser 1991), in practice the warrant for such rules will be empirical. Laudan's naturalism, however, acquires nor…
Durkheim on Religion
Lévy-Bruhl, Durkheim, and the positivist roots of the sociology of knowledge
Durkheim's philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge
Kant's Reception in France
It has been said that Kant's critical philosophy made it impossible to pursue either the Cartesian rationalist or the Lockean empiricist program of providing a foundation for the sciences (e.g., Guyer 1992). This claim does not hold true for much of nineteenth century French philosophy, especially the eclectic spiritualist tradition that begins with Victor Cousin (1792–1867) and Pierre Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and continues through Paul Janet (…
Commentary and Debate, Rawls, Durkheim, and Causality
Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychologists cite Durkheim's sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be largely the product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. The author argues that on the contrary, his sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities, taking causal cognition as his example. Whether and to what extent there are such innate ca…
A manifesto
Functionalism and the Meaning of Social Facts
This paper defends a social functionalist interpretation, modeled on psychological functionalism, of the meanings of social facts. Social functionalism provides a better explanation of the possibility of interpreting other cultures than approaches that identify the meanings of social facts with either mental states or behavior. I support this claim through a functionalist reinterpretation of sociological accounts of the categories that identify t…
Fraud and the Norms of Science
According to the prevailing public image, scientists are supposed to be disinterested seekers after truth. Any scientist who commits fraud or willfully misrepresents experimental results, to gain some unjust advantage or to cause some injury to another, is therefore perceived as acting out of pure self-interest, pursuing his or her own career at the expense of the growth of knowledge. Indeed, many of the reports on recent cases of scientific frau…
O conceito de posição social na sociologia do conhecimento
Os sociólogos do conhecimento tentam explicar as crenças dos agentes epistêmicos por meio da posição social destes no interior de uma hierarquia de relações de poder. O artigo propõe um modo alternativo de conceber a posição social dos agentes epistêmicos. Inspirado nas noções durkheimianas de integração social e de densidade social, o autor define a posição social de um agente com base na densidade de suas relações no interior de redes sociais. …
Durkheim, Jamesian pragmatism and the normativity of truth
In his lectures on pragmatism presented in the academic year 1913—14 at the Sorbonne, Durkheim argued that James’s pragmatist theory of truth, due to its emphasis on individual satisfaction, was unable to account for the obligatory, necessary and impersonal character of truth. But for Durkheim to make this charge is only to raise the question whether he himself could account for the morally obligatory or normative character of truth. Although rej…
Explanation and Essence in The Rules of Sociological Method and The Division of Labor in Society
In The Rules of Sociological Method, Durkheim tried to remove the ambiguity of The Division of Labor in Society that arose from his essentialist model of explanation, in which causes and effects are both necessary and sufficient conditions of each other. The resulting confusion of effects with causes made possible the materialist interpretation of the latter work, in which increasing population density was mistaken for the cause rather than the s…
Reasons, Causes, and the 'Strong Programme' in the Sociology of Knowledge
A Reappraisal of Comte's Three-State Law
Misconceptions about Comte's three-state law abound in the historical and philosophical literature. It is usually believed that Comte claims that societies as a whole pass through the theological, metaphysical, and positive states, with each of these states representing some sort of organic whole including all aspects of society. Transitions from one state to the next are seen as representing historical discontinuities.' Commentators also hold th…
Fundamenta Scientiae, Vol. 1, No. 1
A Reappraisal of Comte's Three-State Law
Misconceptions about Comte's three-state law abound in the historical and philosophical literature. It is usually believed that Comte claims that societies as a whole pass through the theological, metaphysical, and positive states, with each of these states representing some sort of organic whole including all aspects of society. Transitions from one state to the next are seen as representing historical discontinuities.' Commentators also hold th…
Fraud and the Norms of Science
According to the prevailing public image, scientists are supposed to be disinterested seekers after truth. Any scientist who commits fraud or willfully misrepresents experimental results, to gain some unjust advantage or to cause some injury to another, is therefore perceived as acting out of pure self-interest, pursuing his or her own career at the expense of the growth of knowledge. Indeed, many of the reports on recent cases of scientific frau…
Reasons, Causes, and the 'Strong Programme' in the Sociology of Knowledge
Modern Science and Human Values . William W. Lowrance
Fact and Method
Theories of Explanation . Joseph C. Pitt
Whither Social Epistemology? A Reply to Fuller
A manifesto
Durkheim's philosophy of science and the sociology of knowledge
Explanation and Essence in The Rules of Sociological Method and The Division of Labor in Society
In The Rules of Sociological Method, Durkheim tried to remove the ambiguity of The Division of Labor in Society that arose from his essentialist model of explanation, in which causes and effects are both necessary and sufficient conditions of each other. The resulting confusion of effects with causes made possible the materialist interpretation of the latter work, in which increasing population density was mistaken for the cause rather than the s…
Emile Durkheim
Paulo Ceri, Torino University Hans-Peter Muller, Heidelberg University W. S. F. Pickering, Cambridge Howard Andrews, Toronto W. Paul Vogt, New York Philippe Besnard, GEMAS, Paris Jean-Claude Filloux, Paris Robert Alun Jones, University of Illinois Hans Joas, Free University of Berlin Francois-Andre Isambert, France
The Empirical Character of Methodological Rules
Critics of Laudan's normative naturalism have questioned whether methodological rules can be regarded as empirical hypotheses about relations between means and ends. Drawing on Laudan's defense that rules of method are contingent on assumptions about the world, I argue that even if such rules can be shown to be analytic in principle (Kaiser 1991), in practice the warrant for such rules will be empirical. Laudan's naturalism, however, acquires nor…
Durkheim on Religion
Lévy-Bruhl, Durkheim, and the positivist roots of the sociology of knowledge
Introduction
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science . Pierre Duhem, Roger Ariew, Peter Barker
Commentary and Debate, Rawls, Durkheim, and Causality
Functionalism and the Meaning of Social Facts
This paper defends a social functionalist interpretation, modeled on psychological functionalism, of the meanings of social facts. Social functionalism provides a better explanation of the possibility of interpreting other cultures than approaches that identify the meanings of social facts with either mental states or behavior. I support this claim through a functionalist reinterpretation of sociological accounts of the categories that identify t…
Clarity, charity and criticism, wit, wisdom and worldliness
Durkheim Reconsidered
Is Durkheim the Enemy of Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary psychologists cite Durkheim's sociology as an exemplar of an approach that takes the human mind to be largely the product of social and cultural factors with negligible contributions from biology. The author argues that on the contrary, his sociological theory of the categories is compatible with the possibility of innate cognitive capacities, taking causal cognition as his example. Whether and to what extent there are such innate ca…
Kant's Reception in France
It has been said that Kant's critical philosophy made it impossible to pursue either the Cartesian rationalist or the Lockean empiricist program of providing a foundation for the sciences (e.g., Guyer 1992). This claim does not hold true for much of nineteenth century French philosophy, especially the eclectic spiritualist tradition that begins with Victor Cousin (1792–1867) and Pierre Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and continues through Paul Janet (…
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The c…
The Value of Values
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