H Van Den Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 361409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Van Den Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BERG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6078-9558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kant and the tradition of axiomatic chemistry
Induction and certainty in the physics of Wolff and Crusius
In this paper, we analyse conceptions of induction and certainty in Wolff and Crusius, highlighting their competing conceptions of physics.We discuss (i) the perspective of Wolff, who assigned induction an important role in physics, but argued that physics should be an axiomatic science containing certain statements, and (ii) the perspective of Crusius, who adopted parts of the ideal of axiomatic physics but criticized the scope of Wolff's ideal …
Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800
This paper investigates conceptions of explanation, teleology, and analogy in the works of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Richards (2000, 2002) and Zammito (2006, 2012, 2018) have argued that Kant's philosophy provided an obstacle for the project of establishing biology as a proper science around 1800. By contrast, Russell (1916), Outram (1986), and Huneman (2006, 2008) have argued, similar to suggestions from Lenoir (1…
The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology
Are psychiatric disorders natural kinds? This question has received a lot of attention within present-day philosophy of psychiatry, where many authors debate the ontology and nature of mental disorders. Similarly, historians of psychiatry, dating back to Foucault, have debated whether psychiatric researchers conceived of mental disorders as natural kinds or not. However, historians of psychiatry have paid little to no attention to the influence o…
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder
This paper provides a historical analysis of a shift in the way animal models of mental disorders were conceptualized: the shift from the mid-twentieth-century view, adopted by some, that animal models model syndromes classified in manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), to the later widespread view that animal models model component parts of psychiatric syndromes. I argue that in the middle of the twentie…
Kant's theory of scientific hypotheses in its historical context
This paper analyzes the historical context and systematic importance of Kant's hypothetical use of reason. It does so by investigating the role of hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science. We first situate Kant's account of hypotheses in the context of eighteenth-century German philosophy of science, focusing on the works of Wolff, Meier, and Crusius. We contrast different conceptions of hypotheses of these authors and elucidate the different t…
Animal languages in eighteenth-century German philosophy and science
This paper analyzes debates on animal language in eighteenth-century German philosophy and science. Adopting a history of ideas approach, I explain how the study of animal language became tied to the investigation into the origin and development of language towards the end of the eighteenth century. I argue that for large parts of the eighteenth century, the question of the existence of animal languages was studied within the context of the philo…
Kant’s Ideal of Systematicity in Historical Context
This article explains Kant’s claim that sciences must take, at least as their ideal, the form of a ‘system’. I argue that Kant’s notion of systematicity can be understood against the background of de Jong and Betti’s Classical Model of Science (2010) and the writings of Georg Friedrich Meier and Johann Heinrich Lambert. According to my interpretation, Meier, Lambert and Kant accepted an axiomatic idea of science, articulated by the Classical Mode…
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
Within eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition we can distinguish at least three main theoretical positions: (i) Buffon's mechanism, (ii) Reimarus' theory of instincts, and (iii) the sensationalism of Condillac and Leroy. In this paper, I adopt a philosophical perspective on this debate and argue that in order to fully understand the justification Buffon, Reimarus, Condillac, and Leroy gave for their respective theories, we must pay specia…
A blooming and buzzing confusion
The Wolffian roots of Kant’s teleology
Kant’s conception of proper science
Kant is well known for his restrictive conception of proper science. In the present paper I will try to explain why Kant adopted this conception. I will identify three core conditions which Kant thinks a proper science must satisfy: systematicity, objective grounding, and apodictic certainty. These conditions conform to conditions codified in the Classical Model of Science. Kant’s infamous claim that any proper natural science must be mathematica…
The Myth of 'Unemployable' People
In an era characterised by vast unemployment it is widely believed that certain categories of people are essentially 'unemployable'. In most Western European countries, for instance, immigrants and other minority groups are considered to belong to the 'hard core' unemployed. While standard methods of the employment service have largely failed in assisting such individuals, a new method has been developed in the Netherlands referred to as the 'tai…
Ideologies in the news
In this article, we discuss recent developments within the field of text-analysis from a socio-cultural point of view. In the first part attention is paid to the relation between dominant research traditions in communication studies such as the tradition of content analysis and new approaches which are often labeled as discourse analysis. The main methodological and theoretical problems within the tradition of content analysis are exposed. Perspe…
Kirche als Institution, Enführung in die Religionssoziologie
Journal Article Kirche als Institution, Enführung in die Religionssoziologie, by W. Goddijn and H. P. M. Goddijn; trans, by Egom Colomb. Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, 1963. 192 pp., 24,80 DM Get access H. van den Berg, S.M.A. H. van den Berg, S.M.A. Queen of Apostle's SeminaryDedham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 1964, Pages 59–60, https…
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
Within eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition we can distinguish at least three main theoretical positions: (i) Buffon's mechanism, (ii) Reimarus' theory of instincts, and (iii) the sensationalism of Condillac and Leroy. In this paper, I adopt a philosophical perspective on this debate and argue that in order to fully understand the justification Buffon, Reimarus, Condillac, and Leroy gave for their respective theories, we must pay specia…
The Wolffian roots of Kant’s teleology
Ideologies in the news
In this article, we discuss recent developments within the field of text-analysis from a socio-cultural point of view. In the first part attention is paid to the relation between dominant research traditions in communication studies such as the tradition of content analysis and new approaches which are often labeled as discourse analysis. The main methodological and theoretical problems within the tradition of content analysis are exposed. Perspe…
A blooming and buzzing confusion
The Myth of 'Unemployable' People
In an era characterised by vast unemployment it is widely believed that certain categories of people are essentially 'unemployable'. In most Western European countries, for instance, immigrants and other minority groups are considered to belong to the 'hard core' unemployed. While standard methods of the employment service have largely failed in assisting such individuals, a new method has been developed in the Netherlands referred to as the 'tai…
Kirche als Institution, Enführung in die Religionssoziologie
Journal Article Kirche als Institution, Enführung in die Religionssoziologie, by W. Goddijn and H. P. M. Goddijn; trans, by Egom Colomb. Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, 1963. 192 pp., 24,80 DM Get access H. van den Berg, S.M.A. H. van den Berg, S.M.A. Queen of Apostle's SeminaryDedham, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 1964, Pages 59–60, https…
Ideologies in the news
In this article, we discuss recent developments within the field of text-analysis from a socio-cultural point of view. In the first part attention is paid to the relation between dominant research traditions in communication studies such as the tradition of content analysis and new approaches which are often labeled as discourse analysis. The main methodological and theoretical problems within the tradition of content analysis are exposed. Perspe…
The Myth of 'Unemployable' People
In an era characterised by vast unemployment it is widely believed that certain categories of people are essentially 'unemployable'. In most Western European countries, for instance, immigrants and other minority groups are considered to belong to the 'hard core' unemployed. While standard methods of the employment service have largely failed in assisting such individuals, a new method has been developed in the Netherlands referred to as the 'tai…
Kant’s conception of proper science
Kant is well known for his restrictive conception of proper science. In the present paper I will try to explain why Kant adopted this conception. I will identify three core conditions which Kant thinks a proper science must satisfy: systematicity, objective grounding, and apodictic certainty. These conditions conform to conditions codified in the Classical Model of Science. Kant’s infamous claim that any proper natural science must be mathematica…
The Wolffian roots of Kant’s teleology
A blooming and buzzing confusion
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
Within eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition we can distinguish at least three main theoretical positions: (i) Buffon's mechanism, (ii) Reimarus' theory of instincts, and (iii) the sensationalism of Condillac and Leroy. In this paper, I adopt a philosophical perspective on this debate and argue that in order to fully understand the justification Buffon, Reimarus, Condillac, and Leroy gave for their respective theories, we must pay specia…
Kant’s Ideal of Systematicity in Historical Context
This article explains Kant’s claim that sciences must take, at least as their ideal, the form of a ‘system’. I argue that Kant’s notion of systematicity can be understood against the background of de Jong and Betti’s Classical Model of Science (2010) and the writings of Georg Friedrich Meier and Johann Heinrich Lambert. According to my interpretation, Meier, Lambert and Kant accepted an axiomatic idea of science, articulated by the Classical Mode…
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder
This paper provides a historical analysis of a shift in the way animal models of mental disorders were conceptualized: the shift from the mid-twentieth-century view, adopted by some, that animal models model syndromes classified in manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), to the later widespread view that animal models model component parts of psychiatric syndromes. I argue that in the middle of the twentie…
Kant's theory of scientific hypotheses in its historical context
This paper analyzes the historical context and systematic importance of Kant's hypothetical use of reason. It does so by investigating the role of hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science. We first situate Kant's account of hypotheses in the context of eighteenth-century German philosophy of science, focusing on the works of Wolff, Meier, and Crusius. We contrast different conceptions of hypotheses of these authors and elucidate the different t…
Animal languages in eighteenth-century German philosophy and science
This paper analyzes debates on animal language in eighteenth-century German philosophy and science. Adopting a history of ideas approach, I explain how the study of animal language became tied to the investigation into the origin and development of language towards the end of the eighteenth century. I argue that for large parts of the eighteenth century, the question of the existence of animal languages was studied within the context of the philo…
The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology
Are psychiatric disorders natural kinds? This question has received a lot of attention within present-day philosophy of psychiatry, where many authors debate the ontology and nature of mental disorders. Similarly, historians of psychiatry, dating back to Foucault, have debated whether psychiatric researchers conceived of mental disorders as natural kinds or not. However, historians of psychiatry have paid little to no attention to the influence o…
Induction and certainty in the physics of Wolff and Crusius
In this paper, we analyse conceptions of induction and certainty in Wolff and Crusius, highlighting their competing conceptions of physics.We discuss (i) the perspective of Wolff, who assigned induction an important role in physics, but argued that physics should be an axiomatic science containing certain statements, and (ii) the perspective of Crusius, who adopted parts of the ideal of axiomatic physics but criticized the scope of Wolff's ideal …
Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800
This paper investigates conceptions of explanation, teleology, and analogy in the works of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Richards (2000, 2002) and Zammito (2006, 2012, 2018) have argued that Kant's philosophy provided an obstacle for the project of establishing biology as a proper science around 1800. By contrast, Russell (1916), Outram (1986), and Huneman (2006, 2008) have argued, similar to suggestions from Lenoir (1…
Kant and the tradition of axiomatic chemistry
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