Pub Date : 2026-02-11DOI: 10.1007/s10699-026-10029-4
Serge Dolgikh
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Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10023-2
Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti
In this paper, we examine Newton’s concept of absolute space. We aim at clarifying: (1) the reasons that led Newton to introduce this notion; (2) the arguments he used to justify its existence; (3) the relationship between absolute space and the principle of inertia; and (4) the role of absolute space within Newtonian physics. We then analyse the criticisms raised by Leibniz and Mach, focusing on their specific arguments rather than their broader philosophical frameworks, due to the space limitations of this article. We conclude by discussing Einstein’s views, particularly how his theory of relativity ultimately ruled out the existence of absolute space and time. Nevertheless, we argue that in the context of Newtonian physics, the concept of absolute space was not at all absurd, even if it presented certain conceptual difficulties. The paper ends with an appendix highlighting noteworthy annotations from the editors of the Geneva Edition to Proposition XIX of the third book of Newton’s Principia .
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Pub Date : 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10028-x
Andreu Ballús Santacana
This paper reconstructs the philosophical genesis of a foundational motif— difference that preserves —emerging at the intersection of ontology, logic, and mathematics. Through a genealogical arc spanning Fichte’s theory of self-positing, Hegelian mediation, Bergsonian duration, and the anti-psychologism of Bolzano and Frege, we identify a deep tension in modern foundations: how can a logic of differentiation account for identity across transformation? We propose that this unresolved tension structures both historical and contemporary foundational programs. To address it, we articulate a new meta-theoretical framework— Mnēmaic logic —which grounds preservation not in static identity, but in recursive genesis. This paper provides the philosophical foundation and conceptual justification for that framework; its formal development appears in a companion article (Ballús Santacana, 2025). We conclude by suggesting that difference-that-preserves offers a powerful alternative to existing models of identity, continuity, and foundation in mathematical logic.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10011-6
Marcello Barison
This essay interrogates the Freudian conception of the Unheimliche by reinterpreting it through the dual categories of perturbance and animation. Taking Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as a privileged site of analysis, it argues that the film not only stages but radically exposes the very dimension that Freud’s text systematically dissimulates: the nexus between ocularity, animation, and the death drive. Whereas Freud sublimates the perturbing into the castration complex, Corman dramatizes its irreducible link with blinding, thereby rendering visible the removed of psychoanalysis. The essay proposes “Perturbance” as the ontological oscillation immanent to beings, the universal radiation that makes them appear mysteriously alive. From this perspective, psychoanalysis is constituted precisely by its removal of perturbance, whereas cinema, by externalizing psychic nexuses in representation, fulfills the repressed possibility of psychoanalysis without removal. Through a dialogue between Freud, Hoffmann’s Sandman , the Oedipal paradigm, and Corman’s visionary film, the study delineates a psychophysical ontology in which animation is no longer confined to the living subject but revealed as the fundamental energetic quality of all that is.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1
Yang Yang
{"title":"The Interface Theory of Perception: A Review and Discussion","authors":"Yang Yang","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10024-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145808086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10012-5
Claudio J. Rodríguez Higuera, Juan R. Coca
In the following article, we will use a biosemiotic perspective to consider the emergence of social phenomena, applied specifically to joint agency. Subjectivity and meaning-making are two central capacities of living organisms, and taking these capacities into account allows us to better understand how organisms join in seemingly-end directed, cooperative activities to reach certain goals. By framing the emergence of joint agency as a biosemiotic process, we see how sociality can be taken, in principle, as a biological phenomenon, dependent on the interpretive capabilities of organisms and their communicative properties towards their environments. The usage of signs in organisms, both in perception and production, against the backdrop of persistence of meaningful interactions within the environment and the self, informs how joint agency can be formed. The upshot is a novel proposal to treat how organisms, even simple ones, interact in their communities through semiotic processes.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z
Maurizio Esposito
{"title":"Darwin’s “Horrid” Doubt Revisited: A Critical Reassessment of Evolutionary Arguments against Truth","authors":"Maurizio Esposito","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10018-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"262 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3
J. A. Nescolarde-Selva, L. Segura-Abad, H. Gash
{"title":"Gabriel Ciscar y Ciscar and the Decimal Metric System","authors":"J. A. Nescolarde-Selva, L. Segura-Abad, H. Gash","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10022-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2
Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti, Elisa Belotti
{"title":"The Structure of the Newton’s Principia Geneva Edition ([1739–1742] 1822), Special Issue","authors":"Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti, Elisa Belotti","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-10007-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145651531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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