Digressions&Impressions

Machery on Science and Philosophy

How can we be responsible and savvy consumers of science, particularly when it gives us morally and politically pleasing narratives? Philosophers’ fascination with the psychology of attitudes is an object lesson. Some of the most exci...

Susan Stebbing’s critique of Marie Collins Swabey’s Logic and Nature (Guest post by Joel Katzav)

[This is an invited guest post by Joel Katzav--ES] Susan Stebbing reviewed Marie Collins Swabey’s Logic and Nature in 1930.[1] According to Stebbing, Logic and Nature’s main purpose is to vindicate the idea that logic can teach us metap...

Marie Collins Swabey’s critique of naturalism [Guest post by Joel Katzav]

[This is an invited guest post by Joel Katzav--ES] Marie Collins Swabey completed her PhD at Cornell in 1920, under the supervision of James Edwin Creighton. Her topic was the nature of laws of nature. She subsequently translated, with ...

Helen Huss Parkhurst on meaning atomism, unrestricted composition, concrete modal realism and philosophical imagination [Guest Post]

[This is a guest post by Joel Katzav (University of Queensland)--ES] Helen Huss Parkhurst (1887-1959) was an early twentieth-century, American philosopher. She completed her MA in 1913 and her PhD in 1917, both at Bryn Mawr college. He...