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35Les arguments de Zénon d’après le Parménide de PlatonDialogue 53 (3): 393-434. 2014.After presenting the rules of Eleatic antilogic, i.e., dialectic, I argue that Zeno was a practitioner, and, on the basis of key passages from Plato’s Parmenides (127e-128e and 135d-136c), that his paradoxes of divisibility and movement were notreductio ad absurdum, but simple derivation of impossibilities (adunaton) meant to ridicule Parmenides’ adversaries. Thus, Zeno did not try to prove that there is no motion, but simply derived this consequence from premises held by his opponents. I argue …Read more
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58Gadamer and Collingwood on temporal distance and understandingHistory and Theory 50 (4): 81-103. 2011.
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26Vie et œuvre d’un rationaliste engagé : Louis Rougier(1889-1982)Philosophia Scientiae 10 11-90. 2006.J’ai souvent songé que le propre du clerc dans l’âge moderne est de prêcher dans le désert. Je crois que j’y suis passé maître.Julien Benda Faute de savoir dans quelle catégorie vous classer, on ne vous inscrit dans aucune.Louis Rougier.
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23F. P. Ramsey, Universals. A reprint of 2954. Philosophical papers, by F. P. Ramsey, edited by D. H. Mellor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc. 1990, pp. 8–30 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (3): 1177-1180. 1998.
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48Dynamic Formal Epistemology (edited book)Springer. 2010.This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory of knowledge and belief, that we call “dynamic epistemology”. It brings the works of these researchers under a single umbrella by highlighting the coherence of their current themes, and by establishing connections between topics that, up until now, have been investigated independently. It also illustrates how the new analytical toolbox unveils questions about the theory of knowledge…Read more
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34Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of PrimesVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 10 171-188. 2003.We will discuss a mathematical proof found in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, a constructive version of Euler’s proof of the infinity of prime numbers. Although it does not amount to much, this proof allows us to see that Wittgenstein had at least some mathematical skills. At the very last, the proof shows that Wittgenstein was concerned with mathematical practice and it also gives further evidence in support of the claim that, after all, he held a constructivist stance, at least during the transitiona…Read more
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22On the Unity of Collingwood's Philosophy: From Process to Self-CreationCollingwood and British Idealism Studies 12 (2): 125-157. 2006.
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54L’idéalisme britannique : histoire et actualitéPhilosophiques 36 (1): 3-34. 2009.L’idéalisme britannique est un mouvement qui a dominé les universités britanniques pendant une cinquantaine d’années à la fin du xixe siècle et au début du xxe siècle, mais qui est passé presque totalement inaperçu dans le monde francophone. Rejetés en bloc par les philosophes analytiques, ces auteurs ont aussi été ignorés pendant longtemps dans leur pays, mais certains d’entre eux, notamment Bradley et Collingwood, jouissent d’un regain d’intérêt à la faveur d’un renouveau des études sur les or…Read more
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117John Cook WilsonStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.John Cook Wilson (1849–1915) was Wykeham Professor of Logic at New College, Oxford and the founder of ‘Oxford Realism’, a philosophical movement that flourished at Oxford during the first decades of the 20th century. Although trained as a classicist and a mathematician, his most important contribution was to the theory of knowledge, where he argued that knowledge is factive and not definable in terms of belief, and he criticized ‘hybrid’ and ‘externalist’ accounts. He also argued for direct real…Read more
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86Ludwig Wittgenstein and Friedrich Waismann. The Voices of Wittgenstein. The Vienna CirclePhilosophia Mathematica 12 (3): 291-293. 2004.
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11The Later Collingwood on Method: Re-Enactment and AbductionIn Karim Dharamsi, Giuseppina D'Oro & Stephen Leach (eds.), Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology, Springer Verlag. pp. 229-248. 2018.In this chapter, Kobayashi and Marion first provide reasons to reject the many readings of Collingwood that sought to draft him as a participant in the Hempel-Dray debate about the status of covering laws in history. After all, this debate was not part of Collingwood’s context and, although one can pry from his writings a contribution to it, one may simply, by doing so, misunderstand what he was up to. In the second part, they present the Gabbay-Woods Schema for abductive reasoning, as it occurs…Read more
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30Cette publication, la trois cent vingt-troisième de la série, a été rendue possible grâce à la contribution financière du FQRSC (Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture)
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53Radical anti-realism and substructural logicsIn A. Rojszczak, J. Cachro & G. Kurczewski (eds.), Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 235--249. 2003.According to the realist, the meaning of a declarative, non-indexical sentence is the condition under which it is true and the truth-condition of an undecidable sentence can obtain or fail to obtain independently of our capacity, even in principle, to recognize that it obtains or that fails to do so.1 In a series of papers, beginning with “Truth” in 1959, Michael Dummett challenged the position that the classical notion of truth-condition occupied as the central notion of a theory of meaning, an…Read more
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Coréférentialité, sens frégéen et reconstruction doctrinale: Le cas de la syllogistique d&aposAristoteRevue Philosophique De Louvain 118 (1): 1-30. 2021.
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