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Aux Rives de l'île de la raison Meyerson et la physique quantiqueCorpus: Revue de philosophie 58 81-97. 2010.
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43Panpsychism in the First PersonIn Harald A. Wiltsche & Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (eds.), Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 231-246. 2016.
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23Néo-pragmatisme et incommensurabilité en physiquePhilosophia Scientiae 8 (1): 203-234. 2004.On distingue trois strates interdépendantes dans les paradigmes kuhniens : le savoir-faire expérimental, le formalisme, et les engagements ontologiques. Seul le niveau ontologique se trouve intégralement et explicitement exprimé dans le cadre du langage courant. Il semble donc qu’assimiler l’« incommensurabilité » des paradigmes à une intraductibilité revient à esquiver une partie du problème. Afin de compenser cette apparente incomplétude, une conception néo-pragmatiste et structuraliste de la …Read more
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36Constituting Objectivity. Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics (edited book)Hal Ccsd. 2009.In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant. The usual excuse for skipping this task is that the historical form given by Kant to transcendental epistemology has been challenged by Relativity and Quantum Physics. However, the true challenge is not to force modern p…Read more
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L'Alter-ego et les sciences de la nature: Autour d'un débat entre Schrödinger et CarnapPhilosophia Scientiae 3 (2): 203-214. 1998.
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136Some Steps Towards a Transcendental Deduction of Quantum MechanicsPhilosophia Naturalis 35 253-280. 1998.The two major options on which the current debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics relies, namely realism and empiricism, are far from being exhaustive. There is at least one more position available, which is metaphysically as agnostic as empiricism, but which shares with realism a committment to considering the structure of theories as highly significant. The latter position has been named transcendentalism after Kant. In this paper, a generalized version of Kant's method is used. Thi…Read more
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366Downward causation without foundationsSynthese 185 (2): 233-255. 2012.Emergence is interpreted in a non-dualist framework of thought. No metaphysical distinction between the higher and basic levels of organization is supposed, but only a duality of modes of access. Moreover, these modes of access are not construed as mere ways of revealing intrinsic patterns of organization: They are supposed to be constitutive of them, in Kant’s sense. The emergent levels of organization, and the inter-level causations as well, are therefore neither illusory nor ontologically rea…Read more
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18PhenoneurologyConstructivist Foundations 12 (2): 150-153. 2017.Open peer commentary on the article “Enaction as a Lived Experience: Towards a Radical Neurophenomenology” by Claire Petitmengin. Upshot: Petitmengin’s strategy of dissolution of the “hard problem” of consciousness is shown to rely on some radical phenomenological premises that are listed and analyzed. It presupposes a starting point of research in a state of epoché ; it unfolds into a participatory conception of truth; and it ends in a quest for non-dual pristine experience. Each one of these m…Read more
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32On Life Beneath the Subject/Object DualityJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (2): 125-27. 2011.
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Coming into Contact with Experience A Reply to Jesse ButlerJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (2): 146-149. 2011.
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8Mécanique quantique: une introduction philosophiqueFlammarion-Pere Castor. 1996.Le présent tome traite de la mécanique quantique non relativiste. Il comprend, outre ses fondements, de multiples applications de la mécanique quantique dans une plus large mesure que dans les cours généraux. Dans leur exposé des questions générales, les auteurs dégagent au maximum l'essence physique de la théorie, à partir de laquelle ils développent l'appareil mathématique. Contrairement au schéma habituel allant des théorèmes mathématiques relatifs aux opérateurs linéaires, les auteurs déduis…Read more
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96The problem of other minds: A debate between schrödinger and Carnap (review)Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (1): 115-123. 2004.This paper reviews the debate between Carnap and Schrödinger about Hypothesis P (It is not only I who have perceptions and thoughts; other human beings have them too)–a hypothesis that underlies the possibility of doing science. For Schrödinger this hypothesis is not scientifically testable; for Carnap it is. But Schrödinger and Carnap concede too much to each other and miss an alternative understanding: science does not depend on an explicit hypothesis concerning what other human beings see and…Read more
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185Six arguments against the view that conscious experience derives from a material basis are reviewed. These arguments arise from epistemology, phenomenology, neuropsychology, and philosophy of quantum mechanics. It turns out that any attempt at proving that conscious experience is ontologically secondary to material objects both fails and brings out its methodological and existential primacy. No alternative metaphysical view is espoused (not even a variety of Spinoza’s attractive double-aspect th…Read more
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Relations, syntheses, backgrounds-Transcendental philosophy and modern physicsArchives de Philosophie 63 (4): 595-620. 2000.
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La nature et les Grecs, « La clôture de la représentation »Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 183 (4): 740-741. 1993.
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7Néo-pragmatisme et incommensurabilité en physiquePhilosophia Scientiae 8 203-234. 2004.On distingue trois strates interdépendantes dans les paradigmes kuhniens : le savoir-faire expérimental, le formalisme, et les engagements ontologiques. Seul le niveau ontologique se trouve intégralement et explicitement exprimé dans le cadre du langage courant. Il semble donc qu’assimiler l’« incommensurabilité » des paradigmes à une intraductibilité revient à esquiver une partie du problème. Afin de compenser cette apparente incomplétude, une conception néo-pragmatiste et structuraliste de la …Read more
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1"The Transcendence of the Observer Discussions at the Conference" The Ethical Meaning of Francisco Varela's Thought"Constructivist Foundations 7 (3): 174-179. 2012.Context: At the conference “The Ethical Meaning of Francisco Varela’s Thought,” which took place on 28 May 2011 in Sassari, Italy, Humberto Maturana, Michel Bitbol, and Pier Luigi Luisi participated in two discussions. Purpose: In this edited transcription of the discussions, the participants talk about several aspects of autopoiesis, the observer, ontology, making distinctions and distinguishing different domains, perception and illusion, and transcendence. Results: The discussions shed light o…Read more
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6L'épistémologie française, 1830-1970 (edited book)Presses universitaires de France. 2006.Présentation de la spécificité de l'épistémologie en France, entre philosophie de la connaissance et philosophie des sciences, à travers un panorama de son histoire depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, de ses grands courants et de ses grandes figures : A. Comte, A. Cournot, C. Bernard, G. Bachelard, H. Poincaré, etc.
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99The concept of measurement and time symmetry in quantum mechanicsPhilosophy of Science 55 (3): 349-375. 1988.The formal time symmetry of the quantum measurement process is extensively discussed. Then, the origin of the alleged association between a fixed temporal direction and quantum measurements is investigated. It is shown that some features of such an association might arise from epistemological rather than purely physical assumptions. In particular, it is brought out that a sequence of statements bearing on quantum measurements may display intrinsic asymmetric properties, irrespective of the locat…Read more
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6Réalité donnée, réalité construite. À propos d’un argument de SearleCahiers de Philosophie de L’Université de Caen 45 39-62. 2008.Un argument important contre le constructivisme social a été formulé par John Searle en 1995. Il consiste non seulement à admettre, mais aussi à analyser jusqu’à ses dernières implications le concept de construction sociale d’une réalité ; puis à prouver que l’une des implications en question est l’impossibilité de généraliser ce concept à toutes les réalités que nous reconnaissons dans la vie quotidienne et dans les sciences. Mieux encore, J. Searle...
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8Toute science, admet-on, commence par détacher un objet en le rendant indépendant des sujets et des situations. Mais cette conception étroite de la connaissance scientifique laisse subsister des zones d'ombre. La conscience n'est pas un objet. Elle est ce sans quoi rien ne pourrait être pris pour objet. La conscience n'est pas détachable des sujets, car elle s'identifie à ce qui est vécu par un sujet. De façon analogue, en physique quantique, un phénomène n'est pas dissociable de son contexte ex…Read more
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On Life Beneath the Subject/Object Duality A Reply to Pierre SteinerJournal of Consciousness Studies 18 (2): 125-127. 2011.
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92Listening from withinJournal of Consciousness Studies 16 (10-12): 10-12. 2009.In this paper we list the various criticisms that have been formulated against introspection, from Auguste Comte denying that consciousness can observe itself, to recent criticisms of the reliability of first person descriptions. We show that these criticisms rely on the one hand on poor knowledge of the introspective process, and on the other hand on a naïve conception of scientific objectivity. Two kinds of answers are offered: the first one is grounded on a refined description of the process …Read more
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University of Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneDepartment for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)Researcher
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Department for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)
PhD, 1997
Paris, France
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Physical Science |