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11C. I. Lewis's Conceptual Pragmatism: The a Priori and the Given (edited book)Routledge. 2018.This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge form the core of Lewis’s masterpiece _Mind and the World-Order_. While Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism is directed against any conception of the _a priori_ as constraining the mind and experience, it also emphasizes the inalterability and the unavoidability of the given tha…Read more
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12L'argument de Quine contre les logiques déviantesDialogue 62 (1): 113-137. 2023.The aim of this article is to restore the radicality of W. V. O. Quine's argument against deviant logics, as found in Philosophy of Logic. The objective of this argument is to expose the emptiness of the concept of deviant logic, i.e., its nonsense. To give an account of this requires taking the full measure of the anti-psychological dimension of Quine's argument. Thus, I try to show that Quine's most radical challenge does not consist in pointing out to the deviant logician that changing logica…Read more
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9C.I. Lewis: the a priori and the given (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge form the core of Lewis's masterpiece Mind and the World-Order. While Lewis's conceptual pragmatism is directed against any conception of the a priori as constraining the mind and experience, it also emphasizes the inalterability and the unavoidability of the given that re…Read more
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14C. I. Lewis on the Problem of the A PrioriEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 13 (2). 2021.C. I. Lewis’s distinction between the given and the concept is often exposed as the key element of his treatment of the problem of intentionality in that the given and the concept would be necessary and sufficient conditions for objective purport. Such an account nonetheless offers a truncated picture of Lewis’s treatment of the problem of intentionality. The best way to appreciate this verdict is to state the predicament this account is confronted with: If the distinction between the given and …Read more
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10A priori, Categories and Pragmatism : C. I. Lewis’s Pathbreaking Contribution. Introduction to the French translation of “A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori” (1923) (review)Philosophia Scientiae 25 179-193. 2021.Nous traduisons, pour la première fois en langue française, l’essai célèbre de Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964), « A pragmatic conception of the a priori » (1923). Cette traduction est précédée d’une introduction revenant sur les deux moments argumentatifs clés de la refonte par Lewis des notions d’a priori et de catégorie : (1) la critique des conceptions traditionnelles de l’a priori et de la manière dont elles comprennent les deux éléments constitutifs du concept d’a priori, à savoir la néce…Read more
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10A priori, catégories et pragmatisme : la percée de C. I. Lewis. Présentation de la traduction française de « A pragmatic conception of the a priori » (review)Philosophia Scientiae 25 179-193. 2021.Nous traduisons, pour la première fois en langue française, l’essai célèbre de Clarence Irving Lewis, « A pragmatic conception of the a priori ». Cette traduction est précédée d’une introduction revenant sur les deux moments argumentatifs clés de la refonte par Lewis des notions d’a priori et de catégorie : la critique des conceptions traditionnelles de l’a priori et de la manière dont elles comprennent les deux éléments constitutifs du concept d’a priori, à savoir la nécessité et l’indépendance…Read more
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20Sean Morris: Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set TheoryJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 8 (9). 2020.Reviewed by Henri Wagner.
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25The Significance of the Division of Linguistic LaborThe Monist 103 (4): 381-390. 2020.This essay aims to explore the significance of Hilary Putnam’s reflections on the division of linguistic labor by putting them into contrast with those of Gareth Evans. Whereas Putnam’s reflections purport to uncover neglected aspects of the contribution of social environment to the meaning and the reference-fixing of conceptual terms, Evans’s reinterpretation of the division of linguistic labor results in obliterating its antisubjectivist and instrumentalist dimension. The crux of the disagreem…Read more
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7Willard Van Orman Quine. The Significance of the New Logic, traduit par W. Carnielli, F. Janssen-Lauret et W. Pickering (dir.) ; introduction par les éditeurs accompagnée d’un essai de F. Janssen-Lauret, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 168 pages (review)Philosophiques 47 (1): 239. 2020.Henri Wagner.
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42Quine’s Substitutional Definition of Logical Truth and the Philosophical Significance of the Löwenheim-Hilbert-Bernays TheoremHistory and Philosophy of Logic 40 (2): 182-199. 2018.The Löwenheim-Hilbert-Bernays theorem states that, for an arithmetical first-order language L, if S is a satisfiable schema, then substitution of open sentences of L for the predicate letters of S...
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15Greg Frost-Arnold. Carnap, Tarski and Quine at Harvard: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics and ScienceJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 5 (7). 2017.
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