Cristina Chimisso
Biographic Data
| ID | 1085248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Chimisso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Chimisso |
| SIGNATURE | CHIMISSO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0960-6450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historical Epistemology
This article examines the French tradition in philosophy of science called historical epistemology. It considers not only the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, but also the diverse positions of Léon Brunschvicg, Hélène Metzger, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Abel Rey, Alexandre Koyré, and Émile Meyerson on a number of epistemological and historiographical questions, including epistemological breaks, epistemological obstacles, scientifi…
Individuals and their Environments in Georges Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Medicine
Georges Canguilhem s’est opposé à la médecine positiviste qui cherche à établir la normalité une fois pour toutes. Il a en revanche mis au centre de la médecine les individus, avec leurs variations et leurs subjectivités. D’un côté, il s’est concentré sur l’individu dans sa globalité, par opposition à ses organes et tissus ; d’un autre côté, il a soutenu qu’un individu n’est normal que par rapport à un milieu donné. Dans cet article, je soutiens …
Individuals and their Environments in Georges Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Medicine
Intuition and discursive knowledge
In this paper, I discuss Gaston Bachelard’s criticism of Henri Bergson’s employment of intuition as the specific method of philosophy, and as a reliable means of acquiring knowledge. I locate Bachelard’s criticism within the reception of Bergsonian intuition by rationalist philosophers who subscribed to the Third Republic’s ethos. I argue that the reasons of Bachelard’s rejection of Bergsonian intuition were not only epistemological, but also eth…
Scp>B achelard, G aston (1884–1962)
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher who wrote on science and the imagination. He is the main representative of the French tradition in the philosophy of science that has been named historical epistemology. Of particular importance for subsequent scholars have been his concepts of epistemological break, epistemological obstacle, and regional rationalism. His views of knowledge as rectified error, and of scientific object as sharp…
Narrative and epistemology
Gaston Bachelard
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the 'Teacher of Happiness'. Such a projecte…
Gaston Bachelard
Fleeing Dictatorship
The emotions that brought Mieli to write that autobiographical article can only be imagined. On the one hand, the previous September, Italy had signed the unconditional armistice with the Allies: Italian Fascism had fallen at last. On the other, Fascism had not disappeared; Italy was partly occupied by the Germans and partly ruled by Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. The war was still raging, he did not know whether his friends were safe, his …
The Five Senses
Michel Serres Translated by Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley London, Continuum, 2008 xiv + 348 pp., ISBN 9780826459848, £65.00 (hardback); 9780826459855, £19.99 (paperback) Michel Serres’s The Five...
From phenomenology to phenomenotechnique
The identity and routes of philosophy of science
Constructing narratives and reading texts
In inter-war France, history of philosophy was a very important academic discipline, but nevertheless its practitioners thought it necessary to defend its identity, which was threatened by its vicinity to many other disciplines, and especially by the emergent social sciences and history of science. I shall focus on two particular issues that divided traditional historians of philosophy from historians of science, ethnologists and sociologists, an…
The tribunal of philosophy and its norms
A Mind of Her Own
In May 1933 the historian of chemistry Hélène Metzger addressed a letter to the renowned historian and philosopher of science Emile Meyerson, a cri de coeur against Meyerson's patronizing attitude toward her. This recently discovered letter is published and translated here because it is an exceptional human document reflecting the gender power structure of our discipline in interwar France. At the age of forty-three, and with five books to her cr…
Hélène Metzger
Gaston Bachelard
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life during the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into a mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the 'Teacher of Happiness'. Such a projected image is…
The mind and the faculties
This article deals with some aspects of the study of the mind between the 1920s and 1940s at the University of Paris. Traditionally the domain of philosophy, the study of the mind was encroached upon by other disciplines such as history of science, ethnology, sociology and psychology. These disciplines all had weak institutional status and were struggling to constitute themselves as autonomous. History of science did not as a rule reject its rela…
From phenomenology to phenomenotechnique
Hélène Metzger
The mind and the faculties
This article deals with some aspects of the study of the mind between the 1920s and 1940s at the University of Paris. Traditionally the domain of philosophy, the study of the mind was encroached upon by other disciplines such as history of science, ethnology, sociology and psychology. These disciplines all had weak institutional status and were struggling to constitute themselves as autonomous. History of science did not as a rule reject its rela…
A Mind of Her Own
In May 1933 the historian of chemistry Hélène Metzger addressed a letter to the renowned historian and philosopher of science Emile Meyerson, a cri de coeur against Meyerson's patronizing attitude toward her. This recently discovered letter is published and translated here because it is an exceptional human document reflecting the gender power structure of our discipline in interwar France. At the age of forty-three, and with five books to her cr…
The tribunal of philosophy and its norms
Narrative and epistemology
The mind and the faculties
This article deals with some aspects of the study of the mind between the 1920s and 1940s at the University of Paris. Traditionally the domain of philosophy, the study of the mind was encroached upon by other disciplines such as history of science, ethnology, sociology and psychology. These disciplines all had weak institutional status and were struggling to constitute themselves as autonomous. History of science did not as a rule reject its rela…
Hélène Metzger
Gaston Bachelard
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life during the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into a mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the 'Teacher of Happiness'. Such a projected image is…
The tribunal of philosophy and its norms
A Mind of Her Own
In May 1933 the historian of chemistry Hélène Metzger addressed a letter to the renowned historian and philosopher of science Emile Meyerson, a cri de coeur against Meyerson's patronizing attitude toward her. This recently discovered letter is published and translated here because it is an exceptional human document reflecting the gender power structure of our discipline in interwar France. At the age of forty-three, and with five books to her cr…
Constructing narratives and reading texts
In inter-war France, history of philosophy was a very important academic discipline, but nevertheless its practitioners thought it necessary to defend its identity, which was threatened by its vicinity to many other disciplines, and especially by the emergent social sciences and history of science. I shall focus on two particular issues that divided traditional historians of philosophy from historians of science, ethnologists and sociologists, an…
The identity and routes of philosophy of science
From phenomenology to phenomenotechnique
The Five Senses
Michel Serres Translated by Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley London, Continuum, 2008 xiv + 348 pp., ISBN 9780826459848, £65.00 (hardback); 9780826459855, £19.99 (paperback) Michel Serres’s The Five...
Fleeing Dictatorship
The emotions that brought Mieli to write that autobiographical article can only be imagined. On the one hand, the previous September, Italy had signed the unconditional armistice with the Allies: Italian Fascism had fallen at last. On the other, Fascism had not disappeared; Italy was partly occupied by the Germans and partly ruled by Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. The war was still raging, he did not know whether his friends were safe, his …
Gaston Bachelard
In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the Patriarch and the 'Teacher of Happiness'. Such a projecte…
Gaston Bachelard
Narrative and epistemology
Scp>B achelard, G aston (1884–1962)
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher who wrote on science and the imagination. He is the main representative of the French tradition in the philosophy of science that has been named historical epistemology. Of particular importance for subsequent scholars have been his concepts of epistemological break, epistemological obstacle, and regional rationalism. His views of knowledge as rectified error, and of scientific object as sharp…
Intuition and discursive knowledge
In this paper, I discuss Gaston Bachelard’s criticism of Henri Bergson’s employment of intuition as the specific method of philosophy, and as a reliable means of acquiring knowledge. I locate Bachelard’s criticism within the reception of Bergsonian intuition by rationalist philosophers who subscribed to the Third Republic’s ethos. I argue that the reasons of Bachelard’s rejection of Bergsonian intuition were not only epistemological, but also eth…
Historical Epistemology
This article examines the French tradition in philosophy of science called historical epistemology. It considers not only the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, but also the diverse positions of Léon Brunschvicg, Hélène Metzger, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Abel Rey, Alexandre Koyré, and Émile Meyerson on a number of epistemological and historiographical questions, including epistemological breaks, epistemological obstacles, scientifi…
Individuals and their Environments in Georges Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Medicine
Georges Canguilhem s’est opposé à la médecine positiviste qui cherche à établir la normalité une fois pour toutes. Il a en revanche mis au centre de la médecine les individus, avec leurs variations et leurs subjectivités. D’un côté, il s’est concentré sur l’individu dans sa globalité, par opposition à ses organes et tissus ; d’un autre côté, il a soutenu qu’un individu n’est normal que par rapport à un milieu donné. Dans cet article, je soutiens …
Individuals and their Environments in Georges Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Medicine
Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy of science (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works)