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65Gestures in the MakingEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 8 (1). 2016.More than a century ago, reviewing the raging controversy over pragmatism, Jean Bourdeau wrote that “Pragmatism is an Anglo-Saxon reaction against the intellectualism and rationalism of the Latin mind […] It is a philosophy without words, a philosophy of gestures and of acts, which abandons what is general and holds only to what is particular” (Trans. William James, W:MT, 113). Bourdeau certainly missed the point of the first pragmatist revolution, but it can also be argued that, ironically,...
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875A Chronicle of Pragmatism in France before 1907: William James in Renouvier’s Critique PhilosophiqueIn Sergio Francese & Felicitas Kraemer (eds.), Fringes of Religious Experience: Cross-perspectives on William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, De Gruyter. pp. 169-200. 2007.In this paper, I'm giving an account of William James's reception in the columns of Charles Renouvier's journal, La Critique philosophique. The papers explores the discussions between James and Renouvier on Free Will, Philosophical systems, Consciousness and Pluralism.
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Department for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)
PhD, 2007
Areas of Specialization
| Epistemology |
| Philosophy of Action |
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| General Philosophy of Science |
| American Pragmatism |
Areas of Interest
| Philosophy of Action |
| General Philosophy of Science |
| Ignorance |
| American Pragmatism |