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Keaton, I agree with what you're saying that Einstein is completely shattering the concept of one universal point of reference, as we can see in the muon experiment (118). He is similarly dismissing t ...

What everyone has been saying is great. This reading left me really dizzy and disoriented, not just in its cerebral material, but its affects on science as well. I’ll try to make sense of some of it h ...

Rachel, completely agree with your distinction that without Darnton, we wouldn't get Contat's point. Also, without the extensive base of knowledge that Darnton drew from (aka medieval folklore, etc.), ...

that's 8

is supposed to be 88. sry.

I think for now, Keaton and Hannah, I'm going to disagree with you, if not simply by virtue of wanting to be devil's advocate. At first glance, I would agree that Contat is not an historian, because h ...

Rachel, I agree with your description of science as linear and cumulative, but I don’t exactly agree that science, at this point, is the only one of the two disciplines that builds off itself. As we m ...

Hegel is important to science because his dialectic method gives a new perspective on empirical data.

Kant is important to history because his powerful connection between man and nature changed the ...

Ziz and Hannah are both touching on something that make Kant and Hegel so imperative to this class: If there are certain necessities that are a priori, doesn’t this denote that there is some objective ...

A priori is knowledge that exists within the mind before exposure to experience. It is knowledge that is not gained through empirical data. I think it’s appropiate to call it “intuition”, but we have ...

Galileo writes “Hence I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on are no more than mere names…But since we have imposed upon them special names, distinct from those of the other and real qualities p ...

Karl, I think that both Herodotus and Thucydides are subjective. Both had to, at some point, rely on their own interpretations in their works (especially in the oratio recta and the oratio obliqua). T ...

Emily brings up an interesting point about the relevance of what Herodotus had to say. I don’t think that his concept of “hard” and “soft” theories are currently relevant (as the international atmosph ...

It's interesting to note that Aristotle's theories are used a lot in Catholic apologetics (that is, the process of defending the Catholic faith). I think Aristotle really brings into question how reli ...

I want to address Rachel’s point of how philosophy affects everyday interactions. On page 6, it is mentioned that Aristotle, although a staunch empiricist, never performed any kind of controlled exper ...