Sean Winkler
Biographic Data
| ID | 460176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Winkler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Winkler |
| SIGNATURE | WINKLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Redlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8369-2238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Creativity in the Age of Information
In this paper, I explicate twentieth-century French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s paper, “What is the Creative Act?” as a response to the “crisis of creativity” in the Age of Information. I contend that for him, the creative act does not consist of circulating information, but of eliciting the experience of “defamiliarization”. This thesis will be developed over the course of five sections: first, on Deleuze’s lecture, “What is the Creative Act?”…
Boris Hessen and Philosophy
In 1931, Soviet philosopher, Boris Hessen presented a paper at the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London, England. It was a watershed moment, marking the founding of the 'externalist' approach to the history and philosophy of science. Five years after this talk, however, Hessen was executed in what became Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Nearly a century after his death, we still know all too li…
Individuals and collectives in the philosophy of Boris Hessen
Argument This paper provides an introduction to three translations of articles by Soviet philosopher Boris Hessen: “Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics,” “On Comrade Timiryazev’s Attitude towards Contemporary Science” and “Marian Smoluchowski (On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death)”. It begins by presenting a central tension in Hessen’s work; namely, how even though he is better known for the externalism of his 1931 Newton paper, much of hi…
The Materialist Dialectic in Boris Hessen’s Newton Papers (1927 and 1931)
Boris Hessen’s ‘The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia ’ (see https://doi.org./10.1163/1569206X-00002041 ) is considered a pioneering work in the historiography of the natural sciences. For some, it marks the founding moment of the ‘externalist’ approach to this field of study. Previously, Hessen published another paper on Newton entitled ‘Preface to Articles by A. Einstein and J.J. Thomson’, which, some maintain, bears a stronger re…
Practice and Ideology in Boris Hessen's “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia”
Introduction In this paper, I will examine the meaning of and relationship between “practice” and “ideology” in Boris Hessen's “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia” (hereafter, the “Newton paper”). Hessen (1893–1936), a Soviet physicist, philosopher, historian of science, and professor at Moscow State University, is best known for the “Hessen theses,” four claims about the socioeconomic roots of Sir Isaac Newton's mechanistic natu…
Self-Identity in Spinoza’s Account of Finite Individuals
The Problem of Generation and Destruction in Spinoza’s System
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The Problem of Generation and Destruction in Spinoza’s System
Self-Identity in Spinoza’s Account of Finite Individuals
The Materialist Dialectic in Boris Hessen’s Newton Papers (1927 and 1931)
Boris Hessen’s ‘The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia ’ (see https://doi.org./10.1163/1569206X-00002041 ) is considered a pioneering work in the historiography of the natural sciences. For some, it marks the founding moment of the ‘externalist’ approach to this field of study. Previously, Hessen published another paper on Newton entitled ‘Preface to Articles by A. Einstein and J.J. Thomson’, which, some maintain, bears a stronger re…
Practice and Ideology in Boris Hessen's “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia”
Introduction In this paper, I will examine the meaning of and relationship between “practice” and “ideology” in Boris Hessen's “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia” (hereafter, the “Newton paper”). Hessen (1893–1936), a Soviet physicist, philosopher, historian of science, and professor at Moscow State University, is best known for the “Hessen theses,” four claims about the socioeconomic roots of Sir Isaac Newton's mechanistic natu…
Individuals and collectives in the philosophy of Boris Hessen
Argument This paper provides an introduction to three translations of articles by Soviet philosopher Boris Hessen: “Mechanical Materialism and Modern Physics,” “On Comrade Timiryazev’s Attitude towards Contemporary Science” and “Marian Smoluchowski (On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death)”. It begins by presenting a central tension in Hessen’s work; namely, how even though he is better known for the externalism of his 1931 Newton paper, much of hi…
Boris Hessen and Philosophy
In 1931, Soviet philosopher, Boris Hessen presented a paper at the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London, England. It was a watershed moment, marking the founding of the 'externalist' approach to the history and philosophy of science. Five years after this talk, however, Hessen was executed in what became Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Nearly a century after his death, we still know all too li…
Creativity in the Age of Information
In this paper, I explicate twentieth-century French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s paper, “What is the Creative Act?” as a response to the “crisis of creativity” in the Age of Information. I contend that for him, the creative act does not consist of circulating information, but of eliciting the experience of “defamiliarization”. This thesis will be developed over the course of five sections: first, on Deleuze’s lecture, “What is the Creative Act?”…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Marxism and Critical Theory (2 works)