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The aim of this paper is to examine Leibniz' theory of knowledge in terms of its relationship to the aesthetic universe inaugurated by Baumgarten. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) is well known for having used the concept of Aesthetica as the name of a new and independent discipline focusing on a “special" type of knowledge (concerning with sensitivity), that is characteristic of art and artistic beauty. Baumgarten was trained in the Wolffian school, but he had to return to the works of Leibniz to find an epistemology that would serve as the basis for an approach to sensible knowledge science, that could become a philosophical knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relationship between science, technology and women. Thus, it resorts to the history of science and gender as a theorethical instrument because it provides a new way to interrogate reality, visualizing new analytical categories in order to explain aspects of reality that had not been taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

in this paper we analize a third period in Russell's ethics, from 1940 to 1970. Representative of this phase is his Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954). In his Autobiography Russell does not seem to be aware of the existence of this third phase, a fact that makes more valuable this investigation. In his 1954 book Russell tries to find a middle ground between reason and passion, subjectivity and objectivity in ethics, as well as between science and ethics. This period can also be characterized as a transition from ethical realism (19001914) to emotivism (1915-1940). We contend that Russell's answer to the problem of the relations between reason and passion are not entirely satisfactory. In addition, doubts and contradictions can be found in his writings of this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]