Oral history of philosophy: written format

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Radiocarbon test for demographic events in written and oral history.

We extend an established simulation-based method to test for significant short-duration (1-2 centuries) demographic events known from one documented historical and one oral historical context. Case study 1 extrapolates population data from the Western historical tradition using historically derived demographic data from the catastrophic European Black Death/bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis). We ...

Children's Written and Oral 1 Running Head: Written and Oral Spelling Children's Written and Oral Spelling

For adults, written spelling is generally superior to oral spelling. To determine whether the same holds true for children in kindergarten through second grade, we compared children’s ability to spell real words (Experiment 1) and nonsense words (Experiment 2) orally and in writing. Building on the work of Tangel and Blachman (1992, 1995) and others, we developed a reliable system to assess the...

Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of History

mathematical and one philosophical. In the first, Socrates leads the slave boy to correct, refine, and extend his intuition of a pair of geometrical diagrams by examining his presuppositions in the light of certain background knowledge (about arithmetic), as they solve a problem together. In the second, Socrates leads Meno to correct, refine, and extend his intuition about virtue as well as abo...

History/Philosophy

Several physicians, born in Empoli area, have an outstanding position in the history of medicine. First of all, we have to stress the great insights into anatomy and physiology that Leonardo (Vinci 1452 – Cloux 1519) realized about five centuries ago. The second scientist we want to introduce is Michele Mercati, who was born in San Miniato on 1541. He was educated at the University of Pisa, whe...