Gideon Freudenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Freudenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Freudenthal |
| SIGNATURE | FREUDENTHAL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
Chapter 13: My Initial Aversion to Belle Lettres and My Ensuing Conversion.Departure from Berlin
Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza
The Missing Core of Cassirer’s Philosophy
Maimon’s Philosophical Program. Understanding versus Intuition
Interkultureller Kommentar als Methode systematischen Philosophierens bei Salomon Maimon
Moses Mendelssohn, des hiéroglyphes à l’idolâtrie1
Mendelssohn consacre la deuxième partie de son Jérusalem à une apologie du judaïsme. Après avoir soutenu que la « religion naturelle » partagée par tous les hommes suffit à atteindre la félicité éternelle, le judaïsme (comme du reste toutes les autres religions déterminées) peut en effet apparaître comme inutile ou dépassé. Une thèse qui aujourd’hui encore n’a pas perdu de sa vigueur. En réponse à cette critique, Mendelssohn maintient que le juda…
The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution
"The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessen's "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" (1931), Henryk Grossmann's "The Social Foundation of Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture" (1935) and his Descartes' New Ideal of Science. Universal Science vs. Science of an Elite, published here for the first time. These three papers, along with two very short pieces, present t…
The Hessen-Grossman Thesis
The work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman on the emergence of early modern science is an attempt at a historical sociology of science and a historical epistemology of scientific knowledge. One of their theses is elaborated here, namely that early modern mechanics developed in the study of contemporary technology. In particular I discuss the thesis that the replacement of the Aristotelian concept of motion by the modern general and mathematical…
Salomon Maimon
Perpetuum mobile
Controversy
Controversies are pervasive in the history of science. History is thus here also at odds with science's images. According to both traditional and contemporary views of science, there are no scientific controversies sui generis. In traditional images of science controversies are external to science proper; in some contemporary views nothing about controversies in science specifically distinguishes them from controversies in other domains. Accordin…
Marx's Critique of Economic Reason
The Argument In this paper I argue first that Marx's Critique of Political Economy employs “critique” in the Kantian meaning of the term—i.e., determining the domain of legitimate application of the categories involved and maintaining that outside these borders understanding is led into error and entangled in metaphysics. According to Marx, his predecessors in political economy transgressed these boundaries of application, and therefore conceived…
Pluralism or Relativism
Elkana's paper “Two-Tier Thinking” (1978) contains the thesis that became the foundation of all his later work. This thesis is best summarized by the author himself: The thesis of this paper is that this distinction [between realists and relativists] is not a logical necessity but a historical situation in Western scientific culture. It is claimed here that the distinction is spurious: every problem has a realist and a relativist dimension, and t…
On the Shoulders of Merchants
Introductory Note
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Adam Smith's analytic-synthetic method and the ‘system of natural liberty’
In the present paper I shall deal with Adam Smith's application of the analytic-synthetic method, which he considered to be the scientific method par excellence. I shall concentrate on some shortcomings in Smith's arguments and endeavour to explain them as resulting from a particular interpretation of the aforesaid method. The peculiarity of Smith's interpretation was that he omitted the analysis and that he thought the synthesis reflects the com…
The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution
"The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessen's "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" (1931), Henryk Grossmann's "The Social Foundation of Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture" (1935) and his Descartes' New Ideal of Science. Universal Science vs. Science of an Elite, published here for the first time. These three papers, along with two very short pieces, present t…
Controversy
Controversies are pervasive in the history of science. History is thus here also at odds with science's images. According to both traditional and contemporary views of science, there are no scientific controversies sui generis. In traditional images of science controversies are external to science proper; in some contemporary views nothing about controversies in science specifically distinguishes them from controversies in other domains. Accordin…
The Hessen-Grossman Thesis
The work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman on the emergence of early modern science is an attempt at a historical sociology of science and a historical epistemology of scientific knowledge. One of their theses is elaborated here, namely that early modern mechanics developed in the study of contemporary technology. In particular I discuss the thesis that the replacement of the Aristotelian concept of motion by the modern general and mathematical…
Perpetuum mobile
Adam Smith's analytic-synthetic method and the ‘system of natural liberty’
In the present paper I shall deal with Adam Smith's application of the analytic-synthetic method, which he considered to be the scientific method par excellence. I shall concentrate on some shortcomings in Smith's arguments and endeavour to explain them as resulting from a particular interpretation of the aforesaid method. The peculiarity of Smith's interpretation was that he omitted the analysis and that he thought the synthesis reflects the com…
Introductory Note
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
On the Shoulders of Merchants
Pluralism or Relativism
Elkana's paper “Two-Tier Thinking” (1978) contains the thesis that became the foundation of all his later work. This thesis is best summarized by the author himself: The thesis of this paper is that this distinction [between realists and relativists] is not a logical necessity but a historical situation in Western scientific culture. It is claimed here that the distinction is spurious: every problem has a realist and a relativist dimension, and t…
Marx's Critique of Economic Reason
The Argument In this paper I argue first that Marx's Critique of Political Economy employs “critique” in the Kantian meaning of the term—i.e., determining the domain of legitimate application of the categories involved and maintaining that outside these borders understanding is led into error and entangled in metaphysics. According to Marx, his predecessors in political economy transgressed these boundaries of application, and therefore conceived…
Controversy
Controversies are pervasive in the history of science. History is thus here also at odds with science's images. According to both traditional and contemporary views of science, there are no scientific controversies sui generis. In traditional images of science controversies are external to science proper; in some contemporary views nothing about controversies in science specifically distinguishes them from controversies in other domains. Accordin…
Perpetuum mobile
Salomon Maimon
The Hessen-Grossman Thesis
The work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman on the emergence of early modern science is an attempt at a historical sociology of science and a historical epistemology of scientific knowledge. One of their theses is elaborated here, namely that early modern mechanics developed in the study of contemporary technology. In particular I discuss the thesis that the replacement of the Aristotelian concept of motion by the modern general and mathematical…
Moses Mendelssohn, des hiéroglyphes à l’idolâtrie1
Mendelssohn consacre la deuxième partie de son Jérusalem à une apologie du judaïsme. Après avoir soutenu que la « religion naturelle » partagée par tous les hommes suffit à atteindre la félicité éternelle, le judaïsme (comme du reste toutes les autres religions déterminées) peut en effet apparaître comme inutile ou dépassé. Une thèse qui aujourd’hui encore n’a pas perdu de sa vigueur. En réponse à cette critique, Mendelssohn maintient que le juda…
The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution
"The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessen's "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" (1931), Henryk Grossmann's "The Social Foundation of Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture" (1935) and his Descartes' New Ideal of Science. Universal Science vs. Science of an Elite, published here for the first time. These three papers, along with two very short pieces, present t…
Interkultureller Kommentar als Methode systematischen Philosophierens bei Salomon Maimon
Maimon’s Philosophical Program. Understanding versus Intuition
The Missing Core of Cassirer’s Philosophy
Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon
Chapter 13: My Initial Aversion to Belle Lettres and My Ensuing Conversion.Departure from Berlin
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)