Ernst Cassirer’s scientific contributions

... P. [2][3]. By contrast, the functional concept is not a quality of individual things but becomes a function that determines the order of moments in the series 4 . It means that moments are the inner components of relation, and there is nothing outside of relation. ...

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From Monism to Pluralism: Cassirer’s Interpretation of Kant

... 3, neo-Kantians value systematicity whereby scientific concepts are placed within a broader framework of science. Causes are important to neo-Kantians because they can be used to connect different parts of science together, producing a system of science (Cassirer 1957(Cassirer [1927Kant 1998 A663/B691;2000 5:183-184;Kitcher 1989, p. 436;Massimi 2008, p. 33). 5 Rather than having any two parts of science being unconnected they can be connected together by specifying one part as the cause of another part. Relating different parts of a science together in a causal manner significantly increases the epistemic goal of building a system of science. ...

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Neo-Kantianism and Causes

... It is essential to maintain that cultural psychology has managed to integrate the theory of time in phenomenology (Bergson, 2012(Bergson, , 2016Heidegger, 1962Heidegger, , 1992Husserl, 2002;Merleau-Ponty, 1945) with the symbol formation process in developmental psychology (Bühler, 1933(Bühler, , 1934Cassirer, 1944Cassirer, , 1955Langer, 1953Langer, , 1957Langer, , 1982Werner, 1955Werner, , 1956, however, this has not been explicitly stated. In this article, the integrative model between the static dimension of symbol formation with the continuity and fluidity of time in consciousness is discussed, allowing dynamism and evolutionary development to be given to symbols in culturalsemiotic psychology. ...

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The experience of time in symbol formation process

... One can hold its " unity " (Skarda andFreeman), " autonomy " (Ruiz-Mirazo and Moreno) or " totality " (Goldstein) to be real without positing an essence, an ineffable " something " threatened by a universe of measures and formalizations. Even the convinced reductionist should be able to accept the existence of a rudimentary teleology which " pulls " the organism towards a desirable state, like homeostasis, and this opens onto a " systems " perspective: von Bertalanffy felt that it was " hardly be a matter of dispute " that " phenomena in the organism are chiefly " wholeforming " or " system-forming " in character and that it is the task of biology to establish whether and to what extent they are so " ; however, he acknowledged that the interpretive difficulty arises as soon as observers portray such forms of organization as embodying " will, " " purpose, " and " goals " (vonBertalanffy 1932, in Cassirer 1950). To repeat a formulation I suggested above, one theorist " s " homeostasis " is another theorist " s " homeostat " , that is, for every purportedly irreducible – and real – form of organismic unity, there will be a model which seeks to reproduce it. ...

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Do Organisms Have An Ontological Status?

... Perceptions and their corresponding prehensions are required. But as Cassirer observes (Cassirer, 2020) p. 121 "Perception is the only thing that discloses reality. . . Perception gives us the only (immediate) insight concerning reality , something which can never be obtained from conceptual, logical means" Without the information provided by our perceptions, the acts we refer to would have no meaning. ...

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Self-consciousness and personal identity in quantum panprotopsychism

... There is a wealth of publications on Goethe's science, especially on his morphology and theory of color (cf. the extensive bibliographies in Amrine, et al., 1987;Amrine, 1996;Danneberg, 2018). Goethe's morphological studies have been discussed by distinguished biologists, philosophers, and literary scholars (Arber, 1950;Cassirer, 1950;Heisenberg, 1968;Kuhn, 1988;Portmann, 1987;Russell, 1916;Simmel, 1906;Troll, 1925;Weinhandl, 1932;Weizsäcker, 1987;Wenzel, 1982Wenzel, , 1983; see also the collection in Engelhardt, 2024 of essays on Goethe from Carus, Cuvier, Du Bois-Reymond, Haeckel, Helmholtz, T.H. Huxley, Virchow, and others). Biologists who applied Goethe's method have provided suggestions for understanding life, comparative morphology, development, and evolution (Bockemühl, 1985;Bockemühl & Suchantke, 1995;Bradley, 2011;Brady, 1984;Cornell, 1990;Ebach, 2005;Grohmann, 1959;Hoffmann, 2007;Holdrege, 2013;Holdrege, 2021;Hueck, 2023a;Kranich, 1999;Landman-Reiner, 2021aRiegner, 2013;Sassoon, 2018Sassoon, , 2020Schad, 1982Schad, -1985Schad, 2021;Stockmar, 1998;Suchantke, 2011; see also the extensive bibliography of Goethean science publications under https://science.goetheanum.org/forschung/eine-bibliographie). 5 Both books appeared at the Easter Book Fair in Leipzig, 1790 (Förster, 2012:166;FA 24:937). ...

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Understanding Organisms by Intuiting Life - Kant, Goethe, and Steiner