Browsing Archive: February, 2016

On the Very Idea of Medieval Physics

Posted by Edward Willatt on Sunday, February 28, 2016, In : Medieval Philosophy 


Having just attended a conference on medieval physics I am struck by the difficulty in defining the activities of these thinkers.  On the one hand universities in this era insisted on a training in physics, informed by classical texts and Aristotle in particular, before students could study theology.  The medieval physics that developed sought a rational understanding of nature and thus distinguished itself from inward looking  Augustinian and Platonic notions of study.  A drive to mathematic...
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More on what Walter Watson means by Architectonics

Posted by Edward Willatt on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, In : Architectonics 


Above is Water Watson's Archic Matrix.  You can view a larger version by clicking here.  In my previous post I sought to outline his conception of architectonics and give a critical assessment of its claims to include all philosophies in a relation of 'reciprocal priority'.  Although I criticised his approach on a number of points the table above does show the sheer insight and clarity of his understanding of the basic possibilities of thought.  He is able to draw unheard of connections betwe...

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What is the Meaning of Architectonics? On Walter’s Watson’s The Architectonics of Meaning

Posted by Edward Willatt on Sunday, February 21, 2016, In : Architectonics 




Walter Watson’s The Architectonics of Meaning: Foundations of the New Pluralism (1985, second edition 1993) is at once modest and hugely ambitious in its project.  In this work of less than two hundred pages the history of Western philosophy, plus that of natural science and elements of literature and Eastern philosophy, are synthesised within an architectonic.  The range of thinkers which span the extremes of opposing views is wide indeed.  Yet Watson proclaims the standpoint of ‘the new...

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Revitalising Phenomenology

Posted by Edward Willatt on Tuesday, February 16, 2016,

I have just reviewed Claudo Romano's There Is: The Event and the Finitude of Appearing for Phenomenological Reviews. This was an engaging read and encounter with this rigorous exploration of phenomenology. Romano is really insightful in his commitment to phenomenology and resolute in seeking to find answers here to contemporary problems.  Rather than a turn to the pre-critical era of philosophy or to natural science we find a thorough engagement with phenomenology that reveals its vital and l...


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Browsing Archive: February, 2016

On the Very Idea of Medieval Physics

Posted by Edward Willatt on Sunday, February 28, 2016, In : Medieval Philosophy 


Having just attended a conference on medieval physics I am struck by the difficulty in defining the activities of these thinkers.  On the one hand universities in this era insisted on a training in physics, informed by classical texts and Aristotle in particular, before students could study theology.  The medieval physics that developed sought a rational understanding of nature and thus distinguished itself from inward looking  Augustinian and Platonic notions of study.  A drive to mathematic...
Continue reading ...
 

More on what Walter Watson means by Architectonics

Posted by Edward Willatt on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, In : Architectonics 


Above is Water Watson's Archic Matrix.  You can view a larger version by clicking here.  In my previous post I sought to outline his conception of architectonics and give a critical assessment of its claims to include all philosophies in a relation of 'reciprocal priority'.  Although I criticised his approach on a number of points the table above does show the sheer insight and clarity of his understanding of the basic possibilities of thought.  He is able to draw unheard of connections betwe...

Continue reading ...
 

What is the Meaning of Architectonics? On Walter’s Watson’s The Architectonics of Meaning

Posted by Edward Willatt on Sunday, February 21, 2016, In : Architectonics 




Walter Watson’s The Architectonics of Meaning: Foundations of the New Pluralism (1985, second edition 1993) is at once modest and hugely ambitious in its project.  In this work of less than two hundred pages the history of Western philosophy, plus that of natural science and elements of literature and Eastern philosophy, are synthesised within an architectonic.  The range of thinkers which span the extremes of opposing views is wide indeed.  Yet Watson proclaims the standpoint of ‘the new...

Continue reading ...
 

Revitalising Phenomenology

Posted by Edward Willatt on Tuesday, February 16, 2016,

I have just reviewed Claudo Romano's There Is: The Event and the Finitude of Appearing for Phenomenological Reviews. This was an engaging read and encounter with this rigorous exploration of phenomenology. Romano is really insightful in his commitment to phenomenology and resolute in seeking to find answers here to contemporary problems.  Rather than a turn to the pre-critical era of philosophy or to natural science we find a thorough engagement with phenomenology that reveals its vital and l...


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