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{"title":"John Dewey in China: YESTERDAY AND TODAY","authors":"Sun Youzhong","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417766","url":null,"abstract":"Almost eight decades have passed since John Dewey lectured, traveled and completed the \"cycle\" of world cultural exchange in China. The other cycle, to the completion of which he did not contribute, is the cycle of his fame in China, The two years and two months from 1919-1921 when he was in China saw the zenith of his influence there. From the end of the 1930s on, Dewey's name was either forgotten or lost its brilliance. Then, in the mid 1950s, Dewey's fame dropped to its nadir, and the condemning instead of the eulogizing of his philosophy became the fad. His fate did not change","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123613357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Selections from Shaw's Appendix to the Second Part of the Instauration","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417775","url":null,"abstract":"The Author purposely left many Parts of his New Engine untouched, to go in quest of proper Materials whereon to employ it; and, being prevented by Death, did not return from prosecuting the latter design, to fmish the former. Whence tho' the Parts that are treated, appear perfect, as Parts; yet the Whole of this grand Engine wants much of being compleated. 1 The contrivance itself has, by the greatest Masters in science, been thought the best adapted, and most serviceable, of all those at any time proposed, for the Advancement of Philosophy and Arts; so that to perfect and fit it for general Use, may deserve more than ordinary Care and Concern. And tho' to bring it so forward as we fmd it, was the Labour of a Master-Builder; tho' the Work, in its own Nature, is difficult, and to vulgar philosophers, somewhat paradoxical; yet, perhaps, the Author has left such Instructions concernmg it, as may enable Workmen of a lower Class to fmish it, and render the Method of using it generally intelligible: which seems rather to reqUire sedulous Application, than any extraordinary Learning, or uncommon Abilities. In order, therefore, to promote the fmishing thereof, it may be proper to indicate the more considerable Attempts that have hitherto been made, with a View to something of the kind; and shew what farther remains to be done, with regard to the perfecting of this noble Invention, and bringing it into familiar Use. Aristotle has left us four book of Anafytics: the two first whereof, shew how to construct the Forms of Reasoning; and the two latter, deliver the Art of Discovering and Judging of Things. These Books of Anafytics appear to have been little understood, till they were illustrated and explain'd by Gunther; with the Addition of what is found to the same purpose in Plato2 and Galen.3 Gunther has Two Treaties upon the Subject: from whence many later Writers upon Methods, seem to have drawn their Doctrine; only illustrating it with Examples derived from Mathematics, Algebra, and Physics.4 7. This Work of Gunther was many Years after succeeded by another of the great mathematician Weigelius; wherein he endeavours to deduce the Art of Demonstration from mathematical Principles; and farther to explain, illustrate, and shew the use of Aristotle's Analytics.s 8. The celebrated M. des Cartes wrote an express Treatise de methodo; wherein he reduces the whole Art to four Rules, that seem contain'd in Aristotle's Anafytics; and will be found to coincide with the Medicina Mentis, mentioned below. This method of des Cartes, is deliver'd, with considerable Improvements, in the fourth Part of the Art of Penser; where the Author constitutes two Methods; t'tz. the Anafytical, and Syntheticaf, the former for Discovering, and the latter for Teaching. And he illustrates the Whole with a Variety of Examples, as well physical as mathematical. 9. Upon the same foundation, in the Year 1687, the excellent M. Tschirnhaus, a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris,","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128956432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Francis Bacon's Originality","authors":"G. Rees","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417771","url":null,"abstract":"While preparing the massive Oxford critical edition of Francis Bacon's Norum Organum, I became increasingly aware of the seriousness with which he made the claim that he had made an original and momentous contribution to the advancement of the sciences and human welfare. I also became acutely conscious of the fact that while his philosophy had been treated with critical reverence in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, its reputation suffered a severe decline in the 20th. On the whole historians, philosophers, scientists, . and critics in the last century were impressed by a number of conventional charges cumulatively laid at Bacon's door, charges whose egregious tenacity may destine them to be repeated until the crack of doom. 2 In fact, I hesitate to mention them for fear of giving them renewed and undeserved vigour. But here goes: Bacon paid insufficient attention to Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Harvey; he misunderstood or rejected many of the most important theories and discoveries of his day; he failed utterly to understand the importance of mathematics in the emergence of the new sciences of the 17th century; his inductive 'method' was unworkable; and he had absolutely no discoveries whatever to his credit. When they are not anachronistic junk, the counts in this dismal indictment are misleading or plain wrong. They spring from an outmoded historiography, which persuaded its practitioners to search for 'founders' or 'fathers' of modern science-a drearily retrospective exercise if ever there was one. To qualify as a 'father' a philosopher","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125360058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Announcements","authors":"John Henry, B. Mazlish, C. Nederman, J. Mason, L. Koetsier, Catherine Labio, J. Levine, R. Martensen, Wiep van Bunge, F. Waquet, R. Weikart","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417778","url":null,"abstract":"Jean Femel (ca. 1497-1558) wrote an important and comprehensive series of compendious medical textbooks, beginning with the Physiologia of 1542 and culminating with the Pathologia and Therapeutice of 1554, but it is generally acknowledged that his most important, and most original, work was the De abditis rerum causis. Reprinted numerous times from presses in France, Germany and the Netherlands over the following century, either singly or as part of the collection of his medical works, Unit'ersa meditina, it was widely read and highly influential. Femel's claims, both in natural philosophy and medicine, were frequently examined in university disputations, and even stimulated other writers to publish commentaries upon his work. The importance of the De abditis tausis is by no means confmed to the history of medicine. The first of its two books is concerned entirely with natural philosophy, and there is much here on the nature of generation and growth, the nature of life and the soul. Moreover, it is evident, from the title no less than the contents, that Femel was concerned not just with the occult diseases that form the main focus of the second book, but with occult causes in general. Indeed, it is the association of this work with the occult, and our modem ill-conceived notion of the meaning of the term \"occult\", which has resulted in the eclipse of Femel's great work. It is hoped that this new edition and translation will not only help us to recover the crucial significance of occult qualities in Renaissance natural philosophy and medicine, but","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123993754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Les Libertins Érudits au Pied du Volcan: L'eruption du Vésuve de 1631","authors":"S. Taussig","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417768","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article fait suite a un premier travail que j'ai propose, pour rendre compte d'un opuscule ecrit par Gabriel Naude qui se trouvait en Italie lors de !'eruption du Vesuve de decembre 1631.1 Mon analyse m'a alors conduite a quelques conclusions: dans Ia maniere dont Naude tache de l'expliquer, on constate d'une part un processus de «naturalisation» des phenomenes extraordinaires, et d'autre part Ia distinction que le libertin erudit opere entre les parties descriptive et interpretative de son temoignage, qu'il articule cependant pour produire un sens, une interpretation, non pas physique ou geologique (celle-la lui echappe et ne trouve une formulation qu'en 1668, dans le livre de Hooke, Dismurs sur les tremblements de terre et les eruptions souterraines); cette methode, qui consiste a commencer par fournir une description, avant de remonter aux causes encore largement inconnues de ces effets constitue une nouveaute fondamentale; ainsi le volcan et son etude ont-ils joue un role fondamental dans Ia diffusion des nouveaux savoirs et dans Ia modification des donnees epistemologiques; enfm s'il s'agit pour Naude, dans une dimension morale, de liberer les hommes des terreurs et des superstitions, son entreprise ne releve cependant pas, ou du moins pas essentiellement d'une polemique anti chretienne. Cette eruption de 1631 est en fait assez bien connue parce qu'elle a fait !'objet de tres nombreuses descriptions et de tres nombreux volumes;2 pour en rester au domaine strict du recit, et sans considerer les textes qui relevent de Ia superstition ou de l'apologetique religieuse, l'evenement, ses differentes phases et ses aspects ont interesse au plus haut point les savants qui y ont vu a juste titre le lieu meme ou leur observation, a replacer dans !'horizon de Ia nouvelle science, pouvait et devait s'exercer. Dans le cadre d'une etude sur les rapports entre les representations de l'instabilite naturelle et","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133023685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"General Preface","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134589588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Russian Society for Intellectual History","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17496977.2004.11417762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2004.11417762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126368723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Libertinage — a new definition for intellectual history","authors":"J. Cavaillé","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2003.10427202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2003.10427202","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract L'objectif est ici de produire une analyse à la fois descriptive et critique des travaux les plus recents cons acres au libertinage, à l'irréligion et à l'athéisme (des mots pour ouvrir au plus large l'eventail de la recherche historique, non de vagues synonymes), en se fondant sur la litterature publiée depuis la parution de la bibliographie de Sergio Zoli. Je me limiterai donc presque exclusivement aux ouvrages, articles (originaux ou traductions), comptes rendus, notes critiques et bibliographiques publies entre 1998 et 2002, sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, mais en essayant de couvrir les diverses disciplines concernees (histoire des idées, histoire de la littérature, de la philosophie, et — au moins virtuellement étant donnée la rarete des travaux — histoire sociale), en refusant a priori de ne prendre en compte que la littérature réputée «scientifique» (ce refus ayant une incidence sur l'appréhension meme du libertinage: de fait, une partie du corpus de texte est jugée indigne ou du moins demeure très negligee par la recherche patentée, parce que relèguèe au rayon des curiosa). En outre, la masse de travaux concernant Ie XVIIIe siècle est telle que j'ai renoncé à l'intégrer, me contentant de citer quelques études portant sur la transition du libertinage aux Lumieres, car l'un des objectifs de cette note est de mettre en évidence la relative pénurie de travaux de fond traitant des continuites et des ruptures entre la culture libertine (ou prétendue tell e) et Ie développement des Lumières radicales, et méme au-delà, celui de la libre pensee du XIXe et du XXe siècle.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129951260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"C. Blackwell","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2003.10427190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2003.10427190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125159966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking about modernity - in satire and economics","authors":"Serguei Zenkine","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2003.10427200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2003.10427200","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The history of the structuralist and post-structuralist theory, in France and the United States, is marked by two famous discussions (it is tempting to consider them as its beginning and end … ): the fIrst is the polemics between Raymond Picard and Roland Barthes in 1965-6 about “la nouvelle critique”; the second, the international controversy around Alan Sokal's anti-postmodern mystification published in 1996. The two discussions were unusually abrupt and violent, mixing intellectual reasons with moral accusations. It is sufficient to say that the two books resuming the “anti-theoretical” views were containing in their titles the same word imposture: Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture? by Raymond Picard and Impostures intellectuelles by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. And those who defended the “theoretical” approach to culture utilised non-academic arguments too, trying to discover under the attacks against the theory a self-interested tendency: thus for example Roland Barthes, opening his response to Picard and his supporters in periodicals, talked about “something primitive” which “began to move”, that is to say the corporate solidarity of the “university criticism” threatened by the new methods of literary studies. And in the course of Sokal's debate, which took an exceptionally wide scope thanks to Internet, some authors pretended Sokal's aim to be an anti-French attack from the direction of American scholarships or a public relations device with the purpose of regaining financial credits for exact sciences, diminished after the end of the Cold War.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"54 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125136674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}