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Space is ubiquitous. So are spatial concepts. Scholars in architecture, art history, mathematics, cosmology, ecology, neuroscience, sculpture, chemistry, and geography employ concepts of space and articulate concepts with spatial components. It would be hopeless to list them all, and equally fruitless to search for patterns among them, or for their common node. One needs a specific focal point. In our case, the history of philosophy—and the ways in which philosophers in different eras have pondered space—is our focus. We will also consider some of the myriad intersections between philosophical discussions of space and treatments in other disciplines and enterprises. Some of these intersections are obvious: philosophers and scientists in the nineteenth century were deeply influenced by and played important roles in articulating the new non-Euclidean geometry developed by mathematicians like Bolyai and Lobachevsky. The intertwining of ... |
