The year 2023 marks the 550th anniversary of birth Polish scholar Nicolaus Copernicus. Usually deemed one most emblematic examples scientific revolution and theory paradigm shift in history science, heliocentric proposed by Copernicus 1543 has fed minds philosophers historians for centuries. Recently, increasing attention been put on recognition sources that might have influenced Copernicus’s c...

war and war-related concepts constitute a considerable portion of key words in political literature and strategic-security studies. apart from its theoretical significance, war is a palpable term for the individuals and political players. it is a serious threat to humanity that has been paid due attention in the course of history by the political philosophers, strategists and even ordinary peop...

The article introduces the special issue dedicated to “The Philosophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments.” It outlines the origins of the information society and then briefly discusses the definition of the philosophy of information, the possibility of reconciling nature and technology, the informational turn as a fourth revolution (after Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud), and the...

This work describes how the concept of time and the correlated concept of causation evolved during the last centuries: the way we look at time and causation has important implications on the way we do science and on the tools we choose to use. 1. Mechanical causality and Newton's universe: the life-machine model During the fifteen and sixteen centuries, the scientific revolution radically chang...

A discussion of Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century edited by Rivka Feldhay F. Jamil Ragep. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 Matjaž Vesel Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37603/28608 Corresponding Author: Vesel, Research Centre Slovenian Academy Sciences ArtsE-Mail: matjaz.vesel...

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) marks a turn in human perspective parallel to and as significant as the turn from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican angle of vision. The Ptolemaic way of viewing the world is named after Claudius Ptolemy, one of the great geographers and astronomers of the Graeco-Roman period, who was active in Alexandria, Egypt, in the Second Century of the Christian Era. In Ptolemy’s...

For the title of his latest epic, The Road to Reality , Roger Penrose has selected a metaphor that appears frequently in popular expositions of physics. It is no wonder that the phrase has become a favorite among physicists, for it suggests a single-minded pursuit of the ultimate destination: an understanding of all the underlying principles that govern the behavior of our universe. Perhaps tha...