Papers by Sheldon Richmond
Philosophy in review, Feb 28, 2013
Philosophy in review, Jun 30, 2015
Philosophy in review, May 24, 2018
Philosophy in review, Dec 8, 2016
Philosophy in review, Jun 22, 2016
Philosophy in review, Oct 30, 2015
Tradition & discovery, 2003
SensePublishers eBooks, 2014
The question “Are all geniuses infant prodigies?” has in it all the attractions of glamour, schol... more The question “Are all geniuses infant prodigies?” has in it all the attractions of glamour, scholarship, and interdisciplinary studies. It is not the focus of discussion in this essay. Not that attractive questions are objectionable: on the contrary, I deem only attractive questions worthwhile, and studies concerning. Seemingly unattractive questions are greatly improved, I propose, when their proponents try to make their attractiveness as conspicuous as possible.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Feb 6, 2020
Dialogue and universalism, 2017
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Oct 21, 2015
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Nov 4, 2014
SensePublishers eBooks, 2014
New York University Professor Jerome S. Bruner, an eminent and influential educationist, is the a... more New York University Professor Jerome S. Bruner, an eminent and influential educationist, is the author of numerous papers published in professional journals as well as of several highly successful books. Bruner’s slim book titled The Process of Education is a most significant work. At the time of its publication (1960), Bruner was a professor of psychology at Harvard University, where he ran the Center for Cognitive Studies.
The British Journal for the History of Science, Jul 24, 2014
his theory of the structure of matter, which touches on ‘alchemy’. Interestingly, and characteris... more his theory of the structure of matter, which touches on ‘alchemy’. Interestingly, and characteristically, Harriot here initiated a correspondence with Kepler which concealed more than it revealed. Some idea of one of the reasons for Harriot’s reticence is revealed in Stephen Pumfrey’s discussion of Harriot’s lost Arcticon, his unpublished work on navigation. Pumfrey believes that Ralegh and Northumberland ‘were too politically compromised to advance their client properly’ (p. 141), but he also evidences the difficulties that EdwardWright experienced over his published Certaine errors in navigation, due to the intense rivalry with cartographers and other prospective authors of navigational works. Harriot, of course, knew about sea voyaging from his own experience on the expedition of 1585 to North America, and Pascal Briost gives us a detailed analysis of the technical knowledge that he acquired, and his own original solutions to the problems that arose. Several other major issues are discussed in the course of the book. Robert Fox’s Introduction provides an overall view of Harriot’s life and achievements in the context of his time. In the final chapter, Mark Nicholls proposes that Ralegh’s legend arose mainly from the remarkable way in which he faced his death. Larry E. Tise gives us a cautionary tale about how the ‘first edition’ of a book may not be all that it seems in respect of examining many copies of the De Bry edition of Harriot’s A briefe and true report. Charles Fantazzi emphasizes the high quality of Harriot’s Latin in the captions he added to this work. Finally, the artist Diccon Swan describes his experiences in painting a copy of the disputed portrait of Harriot in Oriel College, Oxford, which he thinks may well be the work of an amateur and also a self-portrait. Overall, this volume should be seen as part of an ongoing project to which we can expect many further contributions. We cannot expect a work of this kind to give a unified picture of Harriot, but we should value it for its numerous individual insights. PETER ROWLANDS University of Liverpool
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Sep 1, 1988
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Jun 1, 1974
Some scribes of late tell us that on the basis of comparative zoology, Isaiah’s prophecy is false... more Some scribes of late tell us that on the basis of comparative zoology, Isaiah’s prophecy is false. Man is a hunting and aggressive animal who must take out his viciousness in the form of combat. Hostility will always exist among nations though it need not be bloody. The ancient myth of man’s fall from Paradise and future redemption (by God, science, history, or social reform) may be replaced by the new myth that man fell out of the trees and evolved into a rational hunting animal-condemned to be an eternal warrior. This myth is written as a ’scientific research programme’ in several
SensePublishers eBooks, 2014
This book challenges the reviewer excessively; it is almost impossible to review. To take one bas... more This book challenges the reviewer excessively; it is almost impossible to review. To take one basic example, let me report on a small part of its treatment of views of scientific objectivity. Most people take science to be objective, as they hold that scientific theories evolve inductively out of a rich base of factual information (like wine out of grapes, to use Sir Francis Bacon’s delightful expression).
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Papers by Sheldon Richmond