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• Cinematographic Mechanism of Thought

  Bergson's name (Chapter IV of Creative Evolution) for the structural way the human intellect falsifies movement and becoming: it extracts immobile snapshots ("views," vues) from the moving real and then recomposes movement by running the s…

• Creative Evolution (true vs. false evolutionism)

  Beyond the title of Bergson's book and the doctrine of the élan vital, "creative evolution" names a method and a thesis about reality: that evolution is a genuine creation of the unforeseeable, and that grasping it requires pursuing the th…

• Crisis of the European Sciences

  Husserl's diagnosis, in the Crisis (1936/1954), of a crisis that is not a crisis of the sciences' rigour or success but of their meaning for human life. The positive sciences flourish; what has collapsed is their bearing on the "problems o…

• Galileo Galilei

  Italian physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (1564–1642). In this wiki Galileo appears almost entirely through Husserl's Crisis §9, where he is the protagonist of the mathematization of nature — and the emblem of Husserl's most influen…

• Georges Canguilhem

  French philosopher, physician, and historian of science (1904–1995), author of The Normal and the Pathological (1943), and one of the central pedagogical and institutional figures of twentieth-century French thought — a "point of contact"…

• Gesetz der Erscheinung (Law of Appearance, Hegel)

  The Gesetz der Erscheinung — law of appearance — is a sub-doctrine of the Erscheinung-section of the Doctrine of Essence (GW 11 raw 5488–5544). Hegel's cardinal characterization: a Newtonian-style law (e.g., spaces traversed in fall as squ…

• Juan Manuel Garrido

  Chilean philosopher of science and technology, working at the intersection of philosophy of biology, phenomenology of life, and political theory of techno-science. Linked to the Granel circle (Granel was his teacher) and the late-Nancean o…

• Lee Smolin

  Theoretical physicist (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario) and philosopher of physics. Author of Time Reborn (2013), The Trouble with Physics (2006, not in raw/), and The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time (2015, with Roberto Ma…

• Mathematization of Nature

  The operation, analysed in the Crisis §9 (Husserl's single most influential section), by which Galileo reinterprets nature as a mathematical manifold — and, in doing so, surreptitiously substitutes a mathematically idealized world for the…

• Patrick Heelan

  Philosopher of science (1926–2015) whose hermeneutic-phenomenological account of scientific interpretation supplies the diagnostic vocabulary that Heinbokel adopts for redescribing scientific medicine within Merleau-Pontian expression theo…

• Science as Coherent Deformation

  The application of Merleau-Ponty's coherent-deformation to the scientific gaze itself — and to scientific writings such as neuropsychological case reports — as a styled deformation of the world that opens a new field of investigations with…

• The Ideal Genesis of Matter (détente / inversion)

  The metaphysical core of Creative Evolution Chapter III: Bergson's account of how intellectuality and materiality are engendered together from a higher "Consciousness in general," such that matter is the inversion-by-interruption of spirit…