They Wrote on Clay

McMahon, A. Philip; Chiera, Edward; Cameron, George C.

doi:10.2307/771556

Parnassus

1938

DOI: 10.2307/771556

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They Wrote on Clay

A. Philip McMahon¹,

Edward Chiera²,

George C. Cameron³

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“…1) and largely avoided in Assyriology for a long time. 10 While the positive answers of Edward Chiera (1938) and Jean-Jacques Glassner (1989) have mostly not resonated in Assyriology,11 Van De Mieroop's treatise has provoked a vivid discussion in and after the talks during the Volkswagen Fellowship Symposium at Harvard University, which still resounds in the contributions to these proceedings of the conference (see esp. Frahm and Gabriel).…”

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Gabriel

2018

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History

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The introduction provides the theoretical framework for the volume ranging from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason via Landsberger’s concept of Eigenbegrifflichkeit (conceptual autonomy) to Assyriological research on ancient Near Eastern epistemic practices, especially Van De Mieroop’s recent volume Philosophy Before the Greeks. Then the introduction explores the field of the history of philosophy with special consideration given to those variants that focus on non-Greek and non-Western versions of philosophy. Thus, it asks whether and how ancient Mesopotamia can be investigated in such a framework. After that the structure of the volume is explained, and a brief summary of each contribution is given. The introduction concludes by thanking the many people who have helped to make this volume possible.

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Is Biology a Provincial Science?

Munson¹

1975

Philos. of Sci.

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My thesis is that biology is most plausibly regarded as a universal, as distinct from a provincial, science. First, I develop the general notion of a provincial science, formulate three criteria for applying the concept, and present brief examples illustrating their use. Second, I argue that a consideration of population genetics as a characteristic example of a basic biological theory strengthens the prior presumption that biology is not a provincial science. Finally, I examine two arguments to the effect that biology is a provincial science. The first concerns biology's exclusively terrestrial evidence base, the second the logical character of its laws. I introduce considerations that weaken the persuasiveness of the first argument and then show that the second one rests upon a false premise and so should be rejected.

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The Frankenstein Syndrome: Man's Ambivalent Attitude to Knowledge and Power

Graubard¹

1967

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