Bohang Chen
Bohang Chen
This article considers the doctrine of energetical vitalism as proposed by the early twentieth-century philosopher, Eugenio Rignano. Rignano's energetical vitalism aimed to present a comprehensive biological theory, addressing distinct phen...
Conflicting minds: Immanuel Kant, Johann Daniel Metzger, and the debate about forensic psychiatry [0.03%]
矛盾的心灵：伊曼纽尔·康德、约翰丹尼尔·梅茨格与司法精神病学之辩论
Jonas Gerlings
Jonas Gerlings
This article explores the dispute between the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the physician Johann Daniel Metzger over the moral autonomy of individuals with mental illness. Situating the debate within the broader context of the evolving phil...
Defining preventable birth defects: The March of Dimes' new program of publicity, research fundraising, and advice for pregnant women (1953-1973) [0.03%]
界定可预防的先天缺陷：美国婴儿基金会的宣传、筹资和孕妇建议项目(1953-1973)
Heather Dron
Heather Dron
This article uses archival material to trace rising rhetoric about prenatal prevention of birth defects. I argue that the new philanthropic framing of "birth defects," aimed to create a coherent category and scientifically prevent a complex...
Is the Fuxi liushisi gua fangwei () diagram attributed to Shao Yong binary? Clarifying a consequence of its analogy with the binary arithmetic of Leibniz [0.03%]
伏羲六十四卦方图是二进制吗——兼论其与莱布尼茨二进制算术类同的后果
Marie-Julie Maitre
Marie-Julie Maitre
The Jesuit Joachim Bouvet established an analogy between the binary arithmetic developed by Leibniz and the diagram Fuxi liushisi gua fangwei (or FX64), attributed to Shao Yong, which organizes the sixty-four hexagrams according to the Fuxi...
Computational Rifts: Parsing the Context of Early Modern Natural Philosophy [0.03%]
计算分歧：阐释早期现代自然哲学的时代背景
Andrea Sangiacomo,Raluca Tanasescu
Andrea Sangiacomo
Ongoing debates among historians of early modern philosophy are concerned with how to best understand the context of historical works and authors. Current methods usually rely on qualitative assessments made by the historians themselves and...
The paradox of necessary uncertainty: Psychopathy, welfare and Munchausen Syndrome in 1950s England [0.03%]
必要的不确定性悖论：20世纪50年代英国的反社会人格障碍、福利和穆勒散综合征
Chris Millard
Chris Millard
The cluster of psychiatric concepts that includes "personality disorders," "psychopathy" and "moral insanity" has long been controversial and uncertain. This article investigates the concept of "psychopathy" in 1950s England and shows how t...
Elevated to the ranks of a science: Manual labor and Albert Thaer's doctrine of rational agriculture [0.03%]
升华为科学的体力劳动——阿尔伯特·泰尔的理性农业理论
Verena Lehmbrock
Verena Lehmbrock
This paper analyzes how the founding figure of German agricultural science grappled with the traditional hierarchies of knowledge undergirding the eighteenth-century agricultural improvement debates. By tracing the ways in which physical la...
Mikhail G Katz,David Sherry,Monica Ugaglia
Mikhail G Katz
The studies of Bonaventura Cavalieri's indivisibles by Giusti, Andersen, Mancosu and others provide a comprehensive picture of Cavalieri's mathematics, as well as of the mathematical objections to it as formulated by Paul Guldin and other c...
An Irish soldier perceives the stars: Philip O'Sullivan Beare's exegetic cosmology, c. 1626-30 [0.03%]
一颗士兵的心，一片诗人的天空：Philip O'Sullivan Beare的阐释宇宙论（約1626-1630年）
Kevin Gerard Tracey
Kevin Gerard Tracey
Between 1621 and 1626, the soldier-historian Philip O'Sullivan Beare authored treatises to motivate Catholic powers toward greater intervention in Ireland, and to defend his country's honor more generally. Moving beyond political theology, ...
Modernism, modernity, and politics in the general history of science: Implications of Herbert Mehrtens' work, from "Vienna 1900" to the Nazi era, and beyond [0.03%]
从“维也纳1900”到纳粹时代及以后：赫伯特·梅尔滕斯关于现代主义、现代性和政治的通史科学工作的意义
Mitchell G Ash
Mitchell G Ash
Herbert Mehrtens' work and the implications of the historical ideas he advanced went beyond the history of any single discipline. The article therefore addresses three broad issues: (1) Mehrtens' reconceptualization of mathematical modernis...