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9Dispositions and essencesIn Gnassounou Bruno & Kistler Max (eds.), Dispositions and Causal Powers, Ashgate. pp. 81--101. 2007.
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148La métaphysique et l'analyse conceptuelleRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 4 (4): 529-554. 2002.Le but de l’article est de proposer de suivre en métaphysique la voie de l’analyse conceptuelle par intuition de cas possibles. Pour une part empirique et a posteriori, reposant sur des intuitions dont elle exploite autant les contradictions que les points communs, avant de les tester dans une perspective faillibiliste, l’analyse conceptuelle comporte aussi une partie a priori qu’elle élabore en recourant à la méthode des cas possibles, permettant ainsi de repenser les liens entre nécessité conc…Read more
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28Bouveresse dans le rationalisme françaisRevue Agone 48 (48): 11-34. 2012.Après avoir dégagé quelques incarnations du rationalisme dont Bouveresse se démarque, j’indique quelques aspects qui ancrent son œuvre dans la tradition de l’Aufklärung (mais en la renouvelant), avant d’insister sur ce qui me semble plus distinctif de ce rationalisme dans lequel parviennent miraculeusement à cohabiter des sources philosophiques, littéraires et scientifiques : Cournot, Vuillemin, Carnap, Peirce, Wittgenstein, Russell, Frege, Sellars, Bolzano, Boltzmann ou Helmholtz, mais aussi De…Read more
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42The fixation of knowledge and the question-answer process of inquiryGrazer Philosophische Studien 77 (1): 23-44. 2008.The aim of the paper is to present some important insights of C. Hookway's pragmatist analysis of knowledge viewed less in the standard way, as justified true belief, than as a dynamic natural and normative question-answer process of inquiry, a reliable and successful agent-based enterprise, consisting in virtuous dispositions explaining how we can be held responsible for our beliefs and investigations. Despite the merits of such an approach, the paper shows that it may be inefficient in account…Read more
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24Peirce's realism is a sophisticated realism inherited from the Avicennian Scotistic tradition, which may be briefly characterized by its opposition to metaphysical realism (Platonism) and various forms of nominalism. In this chapter, I consider how Peirce's realism fits his approach to mathematics, which is often presented as a somewhat incoherent mixture of Platonistic and conceptualistic elements. Without denying these, I claim that Peirce's subtle position not only helps to clear up some of t…Read more
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Le raisonnement et la logique des chosesRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 188 (2): 263-264. 1998.
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35Ramsey's pragmatismDialectica 58 (4). 2004.For C.S. Peirce, who had a well‐known influence on many aspects of Ramsey's thought, pragmatism was viewed as inseparable from realism. The aim of this paper is to challenge the view according to which Ramsey's reflexions on universals are of a mere linguistic and logical nature. Not only is this view controversial, but it may be argued that some elements in Ramsey's analyses suggest a possibly realist answer to the problem of universals. By drawing comparisons with Peirce's own position, it is …Read more
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36Philosophers and the Moral LifeTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 38 (1/2). 2002.Part of the obvious revival of pragmatism, at least in Europe is linked with the present success or "boom" of moral philosophy and the increasing tendency to identify the classical pragmatists as a common group of writers who, much better than any philosophers from other traditions, knew how to define scientific inquiry as an inquiry submitted to norms and principels, and realized that "what applies to investigation in general equally applies to ethical investigation ". The paper examines such c…Read more
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1Le problème des universaux: aperçus historiques et perspectives contemporainesIn Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), La Structure du Monde, Vrin, Paris. pp. 329--353. 2004.
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7Comment donner un visage humain à la vérité sans la défigurer: sur le pragmatisme de H. PutnamRevue Internationale de Philosophie 207 (1): 37-60. 1999.
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2The aim of the text is to present Peirce's relevance for cognitive science,especially in terms of his views in semiotic, logical machines, and the psychology of iconic reasoning.
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15Peirce's semiotic version of the semantic tradition in formal logicIn Neil Cooper & Pascal Engel (eds.), New Inquiries Into Meaning and Truth, St. Martin's Press. pp. 187--213. 1991.The aim of the text is not so much to stress the importance of Peirce's formal contributions to the semantic view in formal logic as to argue that Peirce's semantic trend is part and parcel of his semiotic treatment of a general theory of meaning, understanding, and interpretation, a theory of how signs function which enables him to classify different sorts of signs in a natural way.
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36Metaphysics without Ontology?Contemporary Pragmatism 3 (2): 55-66. 2006.This symposium contribution discusses some issues of ontology involved in the metaethics of Hilary Putnam's book Ethics without Ontology
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How can we give a the truth a human face without disfiguring it? Remarks on the pragmatism of Hilary PutnamRevue Internationale de Philosophie 53 (207): 37-60. 1999.
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Pragmatisme et pragmaticisme, Œuvres I, coll. « Passages »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 193 (2): 243-244. 2003.
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57Peirce's Objective Idealism: A DefenseTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1). 1998.
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5La pensée-signe: études sur C.S. PeirceEditions Jacqueline Chambon. 1993.Introduit à certains aspects de la pensée de Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), le philosophe américain fondateur du pragmatisme et de la sémiotique, avec, notamment, une analyse des liens que Peirce établit entre la logique (ou sémiotique), la psychologie et la philosophie de la connaissance.