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    Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics: A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman.Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin & Jürgen Renn - 2011 - Springer.
    The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper (...)
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    Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton: On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View.Gideon Freudenthal - 1986 - Springer, Dordrecht.
    In this stimulating investigation, Gideon Freudenthal has linked social history with the history of science by formulating an interesting proposal: that the supposed influence of social theory may be seen as actual through its co herence with the process of formation of physical concepts. The reinterpre tation of the development of science in the seventeenth century, now widely influential, receives at Freudenthal's hand its most persuasive statement, most significantly because of his attention to the theoretical form which is charac teristic. (...)
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  3. Classical Marxist historiography of science : the Hessen-Grossmann-thesis.Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin - 2009 - In Boris Hessen, Henryk Grossmann, Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin (eds.), The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution: texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann. [Dordrecht]: Springer.
     
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  4. The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution: texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann.Boris Hessen, Henryk Grossmann, Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin (eds.) - 2009 - [Dordrecht]: Springer.
    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 ...
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    A rational controversy over compounding forces.Gideon Freudenthal - 2000 - In Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific controversies: philosophical and historical perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 125.
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    Controversy.Gideon Freudenthal - 1998 - Science in Context 11 (2):155-160.
    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. According to one traditional image, science progresses from common ground to conclusions according to secure procedures such that there (...)
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  7. Boris Hessen : in lieu of a biography.Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin - 2009 - In Boris Hessen, Henryk Grossmann, Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin (eds.), The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution: texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann. [Dordrecht]: Springer.
     
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    No Religion Without Idolatry: Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment.Gideon Freudenthal - 2012 - University of Notre Dame Press.
    Moses Mendelssohn is considered the foremost representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In _No Religion without Idolatry_, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn’s general philosophy and discusses for the first time Mendelssohn’s semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his _Jerusalem _and in his Hebrew biblical commentary. Mendelssohn emerges from this study as an original philosopher, not a shallow popularizer of rationalist metaphysics, as he is sometimes portrayed. Of special and lasting value is his semiotic theory of idolatry. From a semiotic perspective, (...)
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    The Hessen-Grossman thesis: An attempt at rehabilitation.Gideon Freudenthal - 2005 - Perspectives on Science 13 (2):166-193.
    : 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 concept developed in the study of transmission machines. In (...)
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    Overturning the Narrative: Maimon vs. Kant.Gideon Freudenthal - 2019 - Discipline filosofiche. 29 (1):47-68.
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  11. Knowledge and Politics: Case Studies in the Relationship Between Epistemology and Political Philosophy. Edited by Marcelo Dascal & Ora Gruengardand.Marcelo Dascal, Ora Gruengard, Jean-Louis Labarrière, Jean Hampton, Don Herzog, Sergio Cremaschi, Richard H. Popkin, Stephen Holmes, Myriam Bienenstock, Robert Paul Wolff, John Elster, Gideon Freudenthal, Alastair Hannay, James E. Bohman, Harry Redner & Istvàn M. Fehér - 1989 - Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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    Perpetuum mobile: the Leibniz-Papin controversy.Gideon Freudenthal - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (3):573-637.
    ‘Controversy’ is here introduced as a technical term referring to one aspect of dispute. ‘Controversy’ is here understood as referring to an ongoing antagonistic exchange over a disagreement that cannot be readily resolved by the means at hand. However, the issue is being discussed because the participants believe that the controversy will be resolveable in the framework of a more advanced view which will be generated by the dispute. It is claimed that this ‘controversy’ merits study; it is not claimed (...)
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  13. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution.Boris Hessen, Henryk Grossmann, Gideon Freudenthal & Peter Mclaughlin - 2008 - Studia Leibnitiana 40 (2):239-240.
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  14. Atom und Individuum im Zeitalter Newtons. Zur Genese der mechanistischen Natur-und Sozialphilosophie.Gideon Freudenthal - 1982 - Studia Leibnitiana 14 (1):147-149.
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  15. Towards a Social History of Newtonian Mechanics. Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann Revisited in Scientific Knowledge Socialized.Gideon Freudenthal - 1988 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 108:193-212.
     
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    Adam Smith's analytic-synthetic method and the ‘system of natural liberty’.Gideon Freudenthal - 1981 - History of European Ideas 2 (2):135-154.
    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 composition of an object out of pre-existing elements which are endowed with ‘essential (...)
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    Atom und Individuum im Zeitalter Newtons: zur Genese der mechanistischen Natur- und Sozialphilosophie.Gideon Freudenthal - 1982 - Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
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    Introductory Note.Gideon Freudenthal - 1987 - Science in Context 1 (1):103-108.
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    Marx's Critique of Economic Reason.Gideon Freudenthal - 1997 - Science in Context 10 (1):171-198.
    The ArgumentIn 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 of all different modes of production as being essentially similar to commodity production, and thus implied that commodity production (...)
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    On the Shoulders of Merchants: Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe. Richard W. Hadden.Gideon Freudenthal - 1995 - Isis 86 (4):642-643.
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    Pluralism or Relativism?Gideon Freudenthal - 1996 - Science in Context 9 (2):151-162.
    Elkana's paper “Two-Tier Thinking” 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 the two views can be, and are actually being, held simultaneously. Once (...)
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    Salomon Maimon: Essay on Transcendental Philosophy.Gideon Freudenthal - 2015 - Kant Studien 106 (1):142-145.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Kant-Studien Jahrgang: 106 Heft: 1 Seiten: 142-145.
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    Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic: Critical Assessments.Gideon Freudenthal (ed.) - 2003 - Kluwer Academic.
    Salomon Maimon (1753-1800), one of the most fascinating characters of eighteenth-century intellectual history, came from a traditional orthodox Jewish community in Eastern Europe to Berlin to seek Enlightenment. Maimon remained an outsider: an 'Ostjude' among the enlightened Jews in Berlin, a freethinker among observant Jews and a Jew among the non-Jews. His autobiography became a classic of autobiographical literature of the Enlightenment. His 'inter-cultural' experience is reflected in his philosophy. Indebted to the Maimonidean as well as to the modern European (...)
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    The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy (review).Gideon Freudenthal - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (4):661-663.
    Gideon Freudenthal - The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.4 661-663 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Gideon Freudenthal Tel-Aviv University Abraham P. Socher. The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 248. Cloth $55.00. With few philosophers are life and work (...)
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    (1 other version)The Remedy to Linguistic Skepticism. Judaism as a Language of Action.Gideon Freudenthal - 2010 - Naharaim 4 (1):67-76.
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    Letters to the Editor.John G. McEvoy, Maurice Crosland, C. Truesdell, Craig Fraser, Gideon Freudenthal & Gad Freudenthal - 1991 - Isis 82 (1):89-90.