El objetivo del artículo es aclarar lo que es propiamente común del bien común y sustentar su irreductibilidad como garantía de la superación de una concepción atomista de sociedad civil. Se comienza abordando la noción de libertad individual y el cuestionamiento de la condición egoísta del ser humano, para luego profundizar en las posibilidades no...
This is a short note to show how big G can be derived from dimensional analysis by assuming that the Planck length [1] is much more fundamental than Newton's gravitational constant.
Published in Studies in history and philosophy of science
The universal acceptance of atomism in physics and chemistry in the early 20th century went along with an altered view on the epistemic status of microphysical conjectures. Contrary to the prevalent understanding during the 19th century, on the new view unobservable objects could be 'discovered'. It is argued in the present paper that this shift ca...
Published in History of science
This paper highlights the significance of sensory studies and psychophysical investigations of the relations between psychic and physical phenomena for our understanding of the development of the physics discipline, by examining aspects of research on sense perception, physiology, esthetics, and psychology in the work of Gustav Theodor Fechner, Her...
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Published in Continental Philosophy Review
According to François Laruelle, French thought has been unduly influenced by corpuscular or atomist thinking, yet Laruelle has himself employed key atomist terms—in particular, that of the clinamen or swerve—in framing his own style of thought. This essay looks at this tension between atomism and anti-atomism in Laruelle’s thought, taking the measu...
Published in Foundations of Science
The first half of the 17th century was a time of intellectual ferment when wars of natural philosophy were echoes of religious wars, as we illustrate by a case study of an apparently innocuous mathematical technique called adequality pioneered by the honorable judge Pierre de Fermat, its relation to indivisibles, as well as to other hocus-pocus. An...
Published in Elenchos
The paper compares the thought of Democritus and that of Colotes. It is argued that the two thinkers diverge at least in three noteworthy respects: 1) they disagree about the nature of knowledge, for Democritus identifies it with a process which goes from raw (and untrustworthy) sensation to intellectual understanding, whereas Colotes affirms the t...
