Special Issues

The latest special issue of Synthese on "The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy", edited by Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser, has been published.

Contributions include:

1. Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser: The uses and abuses of mathematics in early modern philosophy: introduction
2. Mark Wilson: What I've learned from the early moderns
3. Alan Nelson: Descartes on the limited usefulness of mathematics
4. Mary Domski: Imagination, metaphysics, mathematics: Descartes's arguments for the Vortex Hypothesis
5. Alison Peterman: Empress vs. Spider-Man: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics
6. Jonathan L. Shaheen: Part of nature and division in Margaret Cavendish's materialism
7. Gábor Áron Zemplén: Diagrammatic carriers and the acceptance of Newton's optical theory
8. Steffen Ducheyne: Constraining (mathematical) imagination by experience: Nieuwentijt and van Musschenbroek on the abuses of mathematics
9. Tamás Demeter: Hume on the social construction of mathematical knowledge
10. Charles T. Wolfe: Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of emerging life-sciences: from Mandeville to Diderot

The Journal of Scottish Philosophy has published a symposium on Eric Schliesser's book Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker. The symposium, edited by Tamás Demeter, is based on the papers presented at our research group's book discussion on the 3rd of March 2018.

Contributions include:

1. Tamás Demeter: On Smith's Method

2. László Kontler: Smith/Schliesser's Enlightenment

3. Craig Smith: Comment on Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith

4. Spiros Tegos: Independent and Servile Manners in Adam Smith

5. Crola Freiin von Villiez: Emotional Configuration and Intellectual Duty

6. Charles T. Wolfe: Smithian Vitalism?

7. Eric Schliesser: Author Meets Critics

The latest special issue of Studies in East European Thought on The Life and Work of Philipp Frank, edited by Adam Tamas Tuboly, has been published.

2016 marked the 50th anniversary of Philipp Frank’s (1884–1966) death. As a physicist-turned-philosopher, Frank played an important role in developing the Vienna Circle’s scientific world-conception [wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung] in Vienna and later in Prague with Rudolf Carnap. He was also responsible for the dissemination of the ideas of logical empiricism and modern scientific thought for the layman, which task he continued in the United States through the institutionalization of the unified science movement. This special issue aims to bring new perspectives to the texts and contexts of Frank, originating in a special Eastern- European context, to understand the rise and decline of his thinking, (meta-) philosophical commitments, and projects.

1. Adam Tamas Tuboly: Editorial Introduction: Philipp Frank, a physicist-turned philosopher.
2. Gerald Holton: Philipp Frank and the Wiener Kreis: from Vienna to Exile in the USA
3. Anne Siegetsleitner: Philipp Frank on relativity in science and morality
4. George Reisch: Pragmatic engagements: Philipp Frank and James Bryant Conant on science, education, and democracy
5. Amy Wuest: Simplicity and scientific progress in the philosophy of Philipp Frank
6. Adam Tamas Tuboly: Philipp Frank’s decline and the crisis of logical empiricism