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    J’examine pourquoi et dans quel sens l’imagination est présente dans un récit portant sur des faits ou des événements réels. Je présente le problème tel qu’il est énoncé par Paul Ricœur lorsqu’il introduit les trois genres du « Même », de « l’Autre » et de « l’Analogue » afin d’expliquer comment un récit peut rendre des faits et des événements « tels qu’ils se sont réellement passés ». J’en appelle, pour la solution, à la notion de « phantasma » d’Edmund Husserl, qu’il considère comme le support…Read more
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    Edmund Husserl
    In Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.
    As the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl occupies a special place in the development of hermeneutics. He provided many of the concepts hermeneutics later used. The special relation between Husserl and hermeneutics explains why his connections to the movement have to do with how his views have been “interpreted”. Husserl took the discovery of the correlation between consciousness and object to be the breakthrough performed by his phenomenology. Such a correlation avoids the traditional pro…Read more
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    This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the process of interpretation. The author calls this intervention the "ethical" aspect of interpretation and argues that interpreters are neither neutral nor necessarily activists. He examines three models of interpretation, all of which recognize…Read more
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    The Romantic Hermeneutic Ideal of “Understanding Better” as an Ethical Imperative
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 94 91-107. 2020.
    I argue that the romantic notion of “understanding better,” as the ideal of interpretation according to Schleiermacher and Schlegel, is not a “meliorative” understanding, retrospectively situating the work in a broader conceptual or historical context and thus surpassing what the original author meant. The qualification “better” is ethical insofar as it indicates a future-oriented task of responding for the authors and contributing to the continued life of their work. What guides interpreters in…Read more
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    The Romantic Hermeneutic Ideal of “Understanding Better” as an Ethical Imperative
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 94 91-107. 2020.
    I argue that the romantic notion of “understanding better,” as the ideal of interpretation according to Schleiermacher and Schlegel, is not a “meliorative” understanding, retrospectively situating the work in a broader conceptual or historical context and thus surpassing what the original author meant. The qualification “better” is ethical insofar as it indicates a future-oriented task of responding for the authors and contributing to the continued life of their work. What guides interpreters in…Read more
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    Charity in Interpretation: Principle or Virtue? A Return to Gregory the Great
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (3): 505-526. 2021.
    I defend the view that charity in interpretation is both an epistemic and a moral virtue. In the first part, I examine Donald Davidson’s version of his principle of charity and question his ascription of beliefs by raising a phenomenological objection: beliefs themselves, before being ascribed, need to be interpreted when interpreters and the subjects they try to understand do not share the same cultural and historical background. In the second section, I examine the notion of epistemic virtue a…Read more
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    Karl‐Otto Apel
    In Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.
    Karl‐Otto Apel entertains a relationship with hermeneutics that is both somewhat marginal, because he does not consider himself part of the movement, and somewhat fundamental, because he has been deeply influenced by it and tries to retain the key acquisitions of hermeneutics while striving toward a transcendental project. While his first important work deals with how language has been treated in the tradition from Dante to Vico, his main work of 1973 involves, as the title states, a “transforma…Read more
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    Following some remarks of Jacques Taminiaux on Gadamer, I examine the permeating presence of history and alterity in interpretation by contrasting Gadamer’s views with Davidson’s notion of “radical interpretation.” I start by examining the debate they held with each other on several occasions. I then analyze Gadamer’s understanding of interpretation as a “hermeneutic experience” and Davidson’s method of “triangulation.” They both agree that interpretation should be free from the psychological tu…Read more
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    Hermeneutics
    In Jeffrey Di Leo (ed.), Bloomsbury Handbook to Literary and Cultural Theory, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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    Sens et langue chez Heidegger
    Études Phénoménologiques 19 (37): 149-174. 2003.
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    The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Three Volumes) (edited book)
    with Arun Iyer
    e-Publications@Marquette. 2018.
    The project consists of editing and translating fifty-four essays by the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) in three volumes. The editors and translators have selected and organized these essays of the Gesammelte Werke (‘Complete Works’) published by J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) in Tübingen (from 1986 to 1995) in three volumes. These three volumes will complete the translation of Gadamer into English.
  • The Task of the Interpreter. Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (review)
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3): 651-653. 2006.
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    Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into the perennial philosophical problem of ‘truth'.Starting with an historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserl's methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book goes on to explore and extend the …Read more
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    Le modèle de la traductibilité chez Husserl et Ricœur
    Studia Phaenomenologica 8 159-175. 2008.
    The essay is an examination of two models that have been used to think what “meaning” or “sense” is. Husserl offers the first model in which there is an exchange between the sense that is made in experience and the meaning that is articulated at the linguistic or logical level. The second model is offered by Paul Ricoeur in his theory of narratives. A narrative has a link to what took place that Ricoeur calls “représentance” or “lieutenance”: the narrative configures but at the same time does ju…Read more
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    What is the ethics of interpretation
    In Jeff Malpas & Santiago Zabala (eds.), Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer's Truth and Method, Northwestern University Press. pp. 288--305. 2010.
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    The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation
    University of Pittsburgh Press. 2005.
    The Task of the Interpreter offers a new approach to what it means to interpret a text, and reconciles the possibility of multiple interpretations with the need to consider the author’s intention. Vandevelde argues that interpretation is both an act and an event: It is an act in that interpreters, through the statements they make, implicitly commit themselves to justifying their positions, if prompted. It is an event in that interpreters are situated in a cultural and historical framework and co…Read more
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    The Notions of “Discourse” and “Text” in Postmodernism
    Philosophy and Theology 6 (3): 181-200. 1992.
    I address a simple question: How are the notions or “discourse” and “text” to be understood, and what does it mean that they “create” their own object? A historical reconstruction seems to be required, if we are to make some sense of the provocative postmodern statements. In order to understand how a discourse can create its own object, three features need to be examined: (1) the inheritance of F. de Saussures’s structuralism, (2) the influence of the Freneh NouvelIe Critique, and (3) Heidegger’…Read more