Order:
Disambiguations
Gregory B. Moynahan [5]Gregory Banfield Moynahan [1]
  1.  37
    (1 other version)Hermann Cohen's.Gregory B. Moynahan - 2003 - Perspectives on Science 11 (1):35-75.
    : Few texts summarize and at the same time compound the challenges of their author's philosophy so sharply as Hermann Cohen's Das Prinzip der Infinitesimalmethode und seine Geschichte (1883). The book's meaning and style are greatly illuminated by placing it in the scientific, political, and academic context of late-nineteenth century Germany. As this context changed, so did both the reception of the philosophy of the infinitesimal and of the Marburg school more generally. A study of this transformation casts significant light (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  2.  35
    Ernst Cassirer, Theoretical Biology, and the Clever Hans Phenomenon.Gregory B. Moynahan - 1999 - Science in Context 12 (4):549-574.
    The ArgumentBiology, understood in turn-of-the-century Germany to include psychology, held a central but enigmatic place in the philosopher Ernst Cassirer's work. From his earliest studies with Hermann Cohen through his long engagement with the theoretical biology of Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Meyer-Abich, Cassirer consistently used the history and practice of biology to examine and delineate a set of characteristic tensions between the natural and cultural sciences. This paper examines Cassirer's treatment of this theme by addressing two contrasting interpretations he (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  3.  7
    Ernst Cassirer and the critical science of Germany: 1899-1919.Gregory B. Moynahan - 2013 - New York City: Anthem Press.
    Introduction "reading a mute history": Ernst Cassirer, the Marburg School and the crises of modern Germany -- The Marburg School and the politics of science in Germany -- The twentieth-century conflict of the faculties: the Marburg School and the reform of the sciences -- Cassirer and the Marburg School in the administrative and political context of the Kaiserreich -- "The supreme principles of knowledge": Cassirer's transformation of the tenets of Cohen's infinitesimal method (1882) and system of philosophy (1902-1912) -- Critical (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation