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Ranging from pre-Socratic philosophers to contemporary popular science writers, I analyze seven instances in which fable-like scenarios have been utilized in the exposition and/or promotion of philosophy and/or science. I examine the motives and strategies that propel such novel uses of fabling gestures and also explore the ironies and pitfalls that the genre poses when invoked in scientific discourse. For example, one pervasive assumption of the fable genre is that the animal characters are really humans; might this genre conceit subtly introduce a bias when a fable-like scenario of animal behavior, such as a crow confronting a pitcher, is examined by animal cognition specialists attempting to understand the relationship of human and nonhuman animal intelligence?, IN THE LAST few decades I have been exploring the ways in which expositors of science, especially popular science writers, tap into folkloric forms in order to make science appealing [...]

Although drawn from the historical fact of modern science, Peirce's concept of science is unusual, radical, and difficult: he defined it not by its alleged method—scientific discovery is also of methods—but by its 'spirit', viz., of restless dissatisfaction with what already is known. Endless inquiry replaces the classical ideal of a body of knowledge in which inquiry comes to rest. This modifies how "The Fixation of Belief" is to be understood. The advent of modern science created a new kind of person, the specialist researcher, with novel ambitions, pleasures, and values, and a new kind of community, of diverse specialists. It entailed a linear view of history and it required a faith in the future like that which Christianity had introduced to Europe. This concept of science is fundamental to Peirce's philosophy, but that theme is not here developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peirce once claimed seriousness in irony. He practiced other forms of literary indirection as well. And he explored conjectures without being committed to any one formulation of them. To take everything he said seriously is to miss what he was serious about. This applies most to his two most famous essays, ‘The Fixation of Belief’ and ‘How to Make Our Ideas Clear’. The first is ironic in structure and purpose. The second poses a multitude of interpretative problems of which some, evidently intended, point us toward an irony, not of literary style but in a basic thrust of Peirce’s thought, opposing modern science to modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper elaborates on Romano's landmark book as a paradigm extension from philosophy as a doctrine to philosophy as a personal disposition to think reflectively. Romano's pragmatism highlights philosophy as a reflective tendency in the service of the relevant and for the benefit of a better life as it is actually lived. Rather than staying within its own territory, the point is to enter what might seem like non-philosophical realms of action with the idea of cultivating them. Breaking away from the overtly academic boundaries of philosophy, Romano's book paves the way for a positive philosophy movement and for philosophy that contributes to people's actual conduct of their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This response to Davidson's article stresses the point that the introductory lines of the Treatise on Logic tell us nothing about its author's identity. Examining Ibn al-Qifṭī's use of the term ʿilm al-awāʾ il and the place of logic in the curriculum of the Aristotelian school tradition, it demonstrates the improbability that any serious student of philosophy would presume to embark on the study of philosophy without having mastered the study of logic. This response therefore upholds the claim that Ibn al-Qifṭī's entry on Maimonides may give us valuable information concerning Maimonides' authorship of this Treatise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the writings of American philosophers Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett and their contributions in the field of philosophy. It discusses the papers written by Cabot between 1887 and 1902 which focuses on her response to the lecture given by Josiah Royce at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College. It states that Cabot's works focuses on wholeness, growth, spontaneity, and creativity with considerations on the natural and social spheres. Meanwhile, Follet's works were written in the early 1900s dedicated for her friend and mentor Cabot and other philosophers.

The article discusses Charles S. Peirce's mathematical and philosophical concept of continuity. The author examines the manuscripts written by Peirce, including "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," "A Guess at the Riddle," and "The Simplest Mathematics," which were written in five different periods, including the Pre-Cantorian Period until 1884, Cantorian Period from 1884-1894, and Kantian Period from 1895-1908. It reveals that considering Peirce's view on continuity plays essential role in understanding continuity by mathematicians and philosophers.

The article discusses the relationship of Charles S. Peirce's semiotics with the existing philosophy of language established by contemporary philosophers including David Lewis, Helmut Pape, and Risto Hilpinen. The author explores Peirce's accounts of signs and provides information on how the signs play essential role in answering the two puzzles of reference, which are The Problem of Cognitive Significance and The Same-Saying Phenomenon for Indexicals. Furthermore, the author discusses how Peirce's accounts of signs differ with the philosophy of language by other philosophers.

The article discusses the view of theorist Charles Sanders Peirce concerning miracles and explores how philosophers David Hume and Plato influenced him in addressing the nominalistic and anti-miracle prejudices in the field of history and science. The author considered several manuscripts related to miracles and provide a discussion on their relationship with the published assays, "Philosophy and the Conduct Life" and "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents, Especially from Testimonies." In addition, he examines on why Plato was mentioned in most of Peirce's writings and his use of Plato's metaphysics to enhance his knowledge concerning miracles.

The article examines a possible connection between metaphor and cognition. In his article "Peirce and The Interaction View of metaphor," author Carl R. Hausman said that philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce had no theory of metaphor and provided only a few explicit remarks about the topic. He also said that even if a metaphor is one out of three possibilities by which a symbol can emerge, it takes up a prominent place among these. According to the article, if a metaphor can have a cognition creating function, its meaning is not constituted independently of the body's meeting with the world.

The author responds to papers that examined his book "A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years of the American Philosophical Association." The author believes in the reconsideration of the works of forgotten American philosophers in order to benefit other people's philosophical thinking. He intends to help other American philosophers by presenting the history of the American Philosophical Association.

The article discusses how philosophers Max H. Fisch, James J. Liszka, Lucia Santella, Anne Friedman and Mats Bergman brought focus on why Charles S. Peirce took speculative rhetoric to be the highest and most living branch of logic. The author studied how these scholars assessed the unfinished trajectory of Peirce's realization of the importance of speculative rhetoric. He argues for a more pragmaticist and rhetorical approach in the shift from the formalist and taxonomic emphasis of many commentators.

The article presents an argument that civilization plays two seemingly contradictory functions in Mordecai Kaplan’s thought. Kaplan's general inclusive concept of Judaism as a "civilization" remains one of the most influential contributions to modern Jewish thought. However, his interest in civilization has enabled him to pursue the conflicting pulls toward acculturation and differentiation by exploiting the multiple valences of civilization. Furthermore, the author concludes that the ultimate function of the term was its ability to advocate mutually exclusive and often contradictory objectives. Nonetheless, the author acknowledges Kaplan’s sustained effort to reconfigure American nationalism.

The article discusses Mordecai M. Kaplan’s proposal of the most original and far-reaching program for revitalizing Jewish life in America. Furthermore, he also offered the most penetrating analysis of the challenges facing Jews in 20th century America. He envisions America to be a country where in Jews are ensured of the health and survival of democracy. According to the philosopher, though the Jews depended on the democratic system to guarantee their religious and communal freedoms, the country has also benefited from them by improving the country’s democracy by asserting their individuality and ethnic distinctiveness.

The article talks about the personal history Mordecai Kaplan, a philosopher who was deeply influenced as he was by John Dewey. Kaplan was seasoned by the different cultures that surrounded him. His first and greatest influence was the European culture. Then, he came to experience the republican Paris, as well as the intrusive world of New York. The philosopher had also looked up to different philosophers ahead of him. However, one of them has the greatest influence on Kaplan. That was Ahad Ha'am. Kaplan realized how influenced he was by Ahad Ha'am. Kaplan tried to move away from a strict adherence to many of his most central teachings. However, the influence was persistent that it became the very identity of his philosophies.

The article focuses on philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce. In this paper, Peirce is described as a theoretical philosopher. Moreover, views of Peirce on morality are presented. His philosophy of religion is also highlighted in this paper. In addition, Peirce's pragmatic epistemology, philosophy of science and theory of signs are also discussed.

The article focuses on the analytic philosophy of philosopher Charles S. Pierce. This article mentions the association of Peirce with analytic philosophers. Moreover, the theory of signs of Peirce is highlighted. The article also discusses the concept of analytic naturalism. In this paper, the differences between pragmatic naturalism and analytic naturalism are provided.

This article focuses on environmental philosophy. This concept emerged as a series of investigations into the question of whether an ethic of the environment was necessary and possible. But a few philosophers reject environmental philosophy. Because they thought that the real business of philosophy dwells far away from environmental concerns in Platonic and Cartesian questions about knowledge, truth and mind. The grounding of knowledge that this collection proposes make epistemology more earth-bound and attentive to the ecologies in which it takes place.

The article discusses the validity and significance of final causation in the context of modern theories of casual explanation and pragmatism by philosopher Charles Peirce. It identifies the difference between the Aristotelian and modern concepts of causation and its relevance to final causation in Peirce's pragmatism and developmental teleology. Aristotle views final causes as responsible for the explanation of the being of individuals and substances. The modern concept of causation is concerned with the physical events and the principle of motion governing such events.

The article analyzes how American philosopher Charles Peirce understands the concept of reality. He identifies the real as that which is independent of what any individual thinks about it and as a type of cognition and as the object of inquiry. Obtrusive realism and projective realism are the two central elements in Peirce's thoughts on reality. A set of problems relating to Peirce's assumption that inquiry must ultimately focus on true beliefs about reality is also presented.

Criticizes the book "Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity," by Vincent Colapietro. Views on Miller's philosophy; Information on Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy; Discussion on Miller's of philosopher Rene Descartes.

Discusses several points of disagreement with accounts of history and philosophy of John William Miller. Information on the philosophy of Miller through the perspective of Vincent Colapietro; Views of Colapietro on Miller's work; Information on the book "Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom," by Colapietro.

Examines the perversity and debauchery in the thinking of philosopher Charles S. Peirce. Comments on the form of perversity of thought that Peirce identifies in "How to Make Our Ideas Clear." Pattern of healthy thought for Pierce; Problems with the methods of fixing a belief that essentially perverse.

Talks about pragmatism and the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Details on the complexities of pragmatism; Dependence of Vico's thought and pragmatism on the open texture of his tropos on which he grounds the truth of mathematics; Discussion on Vico's rejection of the myth of the given and spectator theory of knowledge.

Presents a response to comments concerning an article on the theory of pragmatism according to philosopher John Dewey. Background on claims of a lack of the tragic aspects of human existence in the pragmatism of Dewey; Views on the compatibility of tragedy and pragmatism; Importance of developing competent methods for social inquiries.

Discusses a document that features an address delivered by philosopher John Dewey, on March 30, 1930, which deals with the works of philosopher Josiah Royce. Details of the text of the speech; Background of the document; Information on Dewey's dissents from Royce.

Discusses the relationship of the philosophy of philosopher Charles Peirce with Kantianism. Details on the semiotic transformation of Kantian philosophy; Views of Peirce on philosopher Immanuel Kant's noumena/phenomena distinction; Information on Kant's characterization of logic.

Discusses the views of philosopher William James and former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on the philosophy of strenuous mood and strenuous life. Background of James; Details of the exploration on strenuous mood conducted by James; Comparison of the views of James and Roosevelt on strenuous life.

Discusses the views of philosophers John Dewey on intellectualism and the views of philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Information on Dewey's essay 'The Philosophy of Whitehead'; Details of Whitehead's philosophical approach; Views of Dewey on Whitehead's philosophical method.

Discusses the Roman influence on the philosophy of philosopher George Santayana. Influence of stoicism on Santayana's philosophy; Effect of the poetry of Lucretius and Virgil on Santayana; Information on Santayana's works, including the book 'Reason on Religion.'

Focuses on philosopher Charles Peirce's theory of truth. First step in the development of a theory of truth; Relation between truth and reality; Classes of counterexamples.

Examines whether philosopher Charles Pierce's logic was intensionalist or extensionalist. Distinction between an extensionalist and an intensionalist logic; Information on the method of extension and intension; Definition of nominalism.

Talks about the pragmatic philosophy of philosopher Frederick L. Will. Information on his contribution to the pragmatic canon; Details on his career as an analytic ordinary language philosopher; Analysis of the meaning of knowledge from the book 'Is There a Problem of Induction.'

Deals with the means-end continuum and the reconciliation of science and art in the works of philosopher John Dewey. Identification of the principal elements of Dewey's analysis; Discussion on the artistic potential of everyday practice; Democratization of science as a method of realizing potentials.

Profiles philosopher Ethan Allen. Details of his philosophies; Influence of his philosophies on his life; Information on his books.

Discusses the views of philosopher Charles Peirce on a three-valued system of formal logic. Details on the triadic experiments of Peirce; Details of Peirce's triadic logic; Claims of Peirce regarding the principle of excluded middle and principle of contradiction.

This article features the works of Jewish philosopher Amos Funkenstein. In Perceptions of Jewish History, Funkenstein observed that the excellence of philosophical systems is often recognizable by their ability to dig their own graves. The phenomenon of philosophical burial is one illustration of what Funkenstein called counterhistory. Writing on the question about the intricacies of the original neo-Kantian problematic, Funkenstein succeeded in elucidating the intimate bond between philosopher Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig.

Shows that philosopher Charles S. Peirce's theory of natural classes is linked to his conception of final causation. Reasons for considering Peirce's theory of natural classes; Reconstruction of Peirce's theory of natural classes; Relationship between natural classes and causation according to Peirce.

Looks at the claims made by philosopher Charles S. Peirce about the principle of excluded middle and the principle of contradiction. Types of object-indeterminacy; Forms of each of Law of Excluded Middle and Law of Non-Contradiction that can be distinguished when acknowledging the distinction between external and internal negation; Definition of the principle of excluded middle for Peirce.

Examines the views of philosopher George Santayana on aesthetic enlightenment. Information on his book 'Realms of Being'; Details on the Hellenistic philosophy of Santayana; Details on the aesthetic discipline of the sage.

Examines the early writings of philosopher Susanne Langer. Centrality of understanding in her early work; Significance the book 'Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling'; Function of philosophy according to Langer.

Discusses Susanne Langer's understanding of the nature of philosophical inquiry and of philosophical progress. Conception of philosophy; Theme of Langer as an undervalued philosopher.

Features Soviet philosopher Yuri Konstantinovich Melvil. Overview of his critical approach to pragmatism; Discussion of the development of his ideas over the course of his career; Contributions to the history of philosophy in the U.S.

Focuses on the theory of fringes of perceptual objects of philosopher William James. Dilemmas that traditional philosophical theories of perception; Overview of the metaphor of a stream of thought flowing from moment to moment; Interaction of the substantive and transitive parts of the stream of consciousness.

Examines the criticisms of author Charles Hartshorne on the doctrine of synechism by philosopher Charles Peirce. Information on the modification of Peirce's doctrine proposed by Hartshorne; Details of Peirce's doctrine of synechism; Relationship between synechism and the categories.

Reports on the contents of philosopher W. M. Urban's typescript on the philosophy of history left unpublished at the time of his death. Discussion on Urban's life and thought leading up to his final work; Details of Urban's analysis of philosophical controversy that raged between the idealists and the realists; Views of Urban on the radical difference between nature and history.

Discusses the views of philosopher Charles S. Pierce on tychism and habit-taking. Relation between the philosophy of absolute chance and habit-taking; Claims of Peirce for absolute chance and habit-taking; Presentation of absolute chance and habit-taking in Peirce's doctrine of tychism.

Examines the life and work of O.H. Mitchell, a gifted student of philosopher C.S. Peirce. Contributions of Mitchell to logic; His family and educational background; Information on his essay 'On a New Method of Logic.'

Discusses the First Rule of Reason philosophy of philosopher Charles Peirce. Criticisms of author Richard Rorty against the philosophy of Peirce; Information on the failure of the radical attacks of Rorty against the theory of knowledge; Features of the First Rule of Reason philosophy.

Discusses the theories of philosopher Charles S. Peirce on the scientific nature of belief. Analysis of several categories of believers according to Peirce; Views of Peirce on theological science; Interpretation of the laboratory-trained philosophy of Peirce against theological philosophies.