Charles T Wolfe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96414 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles T Wolfe |
| PRENOMES | Charles T |
| SOBRENOME | Wolfe |
| ASSINATURA | WOLFE C T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7956-9085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Social minds, social brains
A striking feature of Martin Lenz’s wonderful contribution to the stories we tell each other in our form of ancestor worship but also about sociability more generally, is that it takes an intellect
A Note on the Situation of Biological Philosophy
Dans un court article rarement discuté intitulé « Note sur la situation faite en France à la philosophie biologique » (publié en 1947 dans la Revue de métaphysique et de morale ), Canguilhem dénonce la « situation » de ce qu’il appelle la philosophie biologique en France, par rapport à une tradition germanique plus développée. Il explique que la réflexion française sur les questions biologiques est à l’arrêt, à la fois en raison de son héritage c…
Materialism from Hobbes to Locke, written by Duncan, Stewart
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The Political Ontology of Enlightenment Materialism
What is the politics of Enlightenment materialism? Or, less ambiguously put, what politics does early modern materialism yield? After examining some misconceptions, including older ideas about the necessary link between materialism and the (French) Revolution, I discuss what one might call the implicit politics of ontology in some examples of thoroughgoing ‘materialist political ontology’. Consideration is given to specific cases, like those of M…
Le parti pris des choses
Avec le mouvement théorique nommé New Materialism, apparu à partir du début des années 2000, on assiste non seulement au retour de l'ontologie mais à une affirmation d'un matérialisme dans lequel toutes les oppositions, toutes les contradictions viendraient se dissoudre. Poussant plus loin la prise en compte de l'agentivité des non-humains suggérée notamment par Haraway et Latour, les courants néomatérialistes en viennent à considérer l'ensemble …
The History and Philosophy of Materialism
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The life of matter
Matter smiled at man with poetic sensuous brightness' (Karl Marx, The Holy Family) 1 There has been a recent surge of interest in the early modern 'vital matter' tradition, centring notably on figures such as Cavendish, Bacon, Digby and Leibniz (and, thanks to the work of Guido Giglioni, who is also featured in this issue, Francis Glisson). 2 In some cases this new focus is part of bringing these figures to the fore (e.g.Cavendish); in others, it…
Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology
Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
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Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Natural Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
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Knowledge from Below
This special issue is situated at the intersection of a number of active discourses in the history and philosophy of science, including historical epistemology, the more recently emerged political epistemology, and the various versions and offspring of ‘science studies’ including STS, social epistemology, and social history of science overall. We seek in this special issue to tie together the turn towards the study of vernacular knowledge and the…
Lire le matérialisme
Ce livre étudie, à travers une série d’épisodes allant de la philosophie des Lumières à notre époque, le problème du matérialisme dans l’histoire de la philosophie et l’histoire des sciences. Comment comprendre les spécificités de l’histoire du matérialisme, des Lumières à nos jours, au sein de la grande histoire de la philosophie et de l’histoire des sciences ? Quelle est l’actualité de l’opposition classique entre le corps et l’esprit ? Qu’est-…
Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
Entretien sur l'histoire du matérialisme
Charles Wolfe vient de publier Lire le matérialisme (ENS Éditions, 2020), où il esquisse une histoire des différentes formes de matérialisme, y compris le matérialisme vitaliste et les versions du XXe et du XXIe siècle. Pierre-François Moreau, auteur de la préface de l'ouvrage, entame ici une discussion sur les problèmes et les ressources d'une telle histoire
Conclusion
This chapter investigates the role of a conceptual framework–indeed, several such frameworks–in the coming together of the science we now call ‘biology’. The philosophical side, one of the points we hope emerges from these chapters is that the face of philosophy of biology looks rather different depending on which elements of the history of this science it chooses to emphasize. But, interestingly, this distinction, Philippe Huneman suggests, also…
The idea of ‘philosophy of biology before biology’
We argue for a conception of “philosophy of biology before biology” that is neither an internalist study of biological doctrines nor a reconstruction of the role philosophical concepts might have played in the constitution of biology as science but rather a kind of interplay between metaphysical and empirical issues. This should have an impact both on our present understanding of philosophy of biology, given that it is necessarily conditioned by …
Philosophy of Biology Before Biology
Joseph Priestley
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From the logic of ideas to active-matter materialism
Empiricism is a claim about the contents of the mind: its classic slogan is nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu, “there is nothing in the mind (intellect, understanding) which is not first in the senses.” As such, it is not a claim about the fundamental nature of the world as material. I focus here on in an instance of what one might term the materialist appropriation of empiricism. One major component in the transition from a purely…
From Locke to Materialism
Smithian Vitalism
I am not a scholar of Smith, but a scholar of vitalism. In seeking to connect the two themes, it turns out that some recent literature dealing partly with Smith makes this connection, unsuccessfully in my view. Vitalism is used carelessly. However, Schliesser’s work is an indication of how certain issues in ‘substance and property’ relations, including of the Newtonian sort, can be expanded in a vitalistic direction
Introduction
Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of the emerging life sciences
Models of Organic Organization in Montpellier Vitalism
The species of vitalism discussed here is a malleable construct, often with a poisonous reputation (but one which I want to rehabilitate), hovering in between the realms of the philosophy of biology, the history of medicine, and the scientific background of the Radical Enlightenment (case in point, the influence of vitalist medicine on Diderot). This is a more vital vitalism, or at least a more 'biologistic,' 'embodied,' medicalized vitalism. I d…
The organism as ontological go-between
Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of the emerging life sciences
Endowed Molecules and Emergent Organization
In his Systeme de la nature ou Essai sur les corps organises (originally published in Latin in 1751 as Dissertatio inauguralis metaphysica de universali naturae systemate , under the pseudonym Dr Baumann), Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, President of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and a natural philosopher with a strong interest in the modes of transmission of 'genetic' information, described living minima which he termed molecules, "endowed w…
Introduction
Despite the renewed attention paid in recent years to the doctrine or doctrines associated with the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montpellier in the second half of the eighteenth century, and known as "vitalism" - chiefly Roselyne Rey's 1987thèse d'État, which only appeared in print in 2000, and works by François Duchesneau, Elizabeth Williams, Timo Kaitaro, and Dominique Boury, some of whom have contributed to this volume - the existe…
Models of Organic Organization in Montpellier Vitalism
The species of vitalism discussed here is a malleable construct, often with a poisonous reputation (but one which I want to rehabilitate), hovering in between the realms of the philosophy of biology, the history of medicine, and the scientific background of the Radical Enlightenment (case in point, the influence of vitalist medicine on Diderot). This is a more vital vitalism, or at least a more 'biologistic,' 'embodied,' medicalized vitalism. I d…
Materialism new and old
New materialism is not a clear-cut set of theses, or a firmly unified school of thought. It crosses discourses and theoretical commitments, but, as its name indicates, seems consistently to oppose 'new' materialism to an older form, or perhaps several older forms of this doctrine. The latter are typically associated with 'mechanistic' standpoints, with 'reductionism', with the denial of life, agency, embodiment, meaning, value ... What happens wh…
Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle,” or
In selected texts by Diderot, including the Encyclopédie article “Cabinet d'histoire naturelle” (along with his comments in the article “Histoire naturelle”), the Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature and the Salon de 1767, I examine the interplay between philosophical naturalism and the recognition of the irreducible nature of artifice, in order to arrive at a provisional definition of Diderot's vision of Nature as “une femme qui aime à se t…
Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
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Introduction
Empiricism contra Experiment
Dans cet article nous suggérons une réévaluation du statut de l’empirisme chez deux figures majeures de la science médicale et de la philosophie classique, William Harvey et John Locke. Harvey, le découvreur de la circulation du sang, est souvent cité comme un des rares représentants des « sciences de la vie » au sein de la Révolution Scientifique. Quoique ce statut lui-même pose problème, nous aimerions attirer l’attention sur une question diffé…
The Animal Economy as Object and Program in Montpellier Vitalism
ArgumentOur aim in this paper is to show the importance of the notion oféconomie animalein Montpellier vitalism as a hybrid concept which brings together the structural and functional dimensions of the living body - dimensions which hitherto had primarily been studied according to a mechanistic model, or were discussed within the framework of Stahlian animism. The celebrated image of the bee-swarm expresses this structural-functional understandin…
La catégorie d' « organisme » dans la philosophie de la biologie
La catégorie d’organisme a un statut ambigu : scientifique ou philosophique ? Elle a longtemps en tout cas servi de « caution » scientifique à une argumentation philosophique qui refuse la tendance dite « mécaniste » ou « réductionniste » perçue comme dominante depuis le dix-septième siècle, que ce soit au sein de l’animisme stahlien, de la monadologie leibnizienne, du néo-vitalisme de Hans Driesch, ou encore de la « phénoménologie du vivant » au…
From the logic of ideas to active-matter materialism
Empiricism is a claim about the contents of the mind: its classic slogan is nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu, “there is nothing in the mind (intellect, understanding) which is not first in the senses.” As such, it is not a claim about the fundamental nature of the world as material. I focus here on in an instance of what one might term the materialist appropriation of empiricism. One major component in the transition from a purely…
The organism as reality or as fiction
L'anomalie du vivant
La philosophie rencontre la figure du monstre d'abord comme un défi à l'ordre - ordre naturel ou ordre moral, la distinction est secondaire. Ce défi peut également être porteur de sens, comme une malédiction. Puis la philosophie «naturalise » cette figure, soit pour effacer toute dimension potentiellement chaotique dans l'univers, soit pour construire une ontologie (un « roman métaphysique», comme on disait au dix-huitième siècle) du vivant et de…
Le rire matérialiste
Il existe une figure classique du philosophe matérialiste qui rit du reste de l'humanité, de ses craintes, ses superstitions et même ses valeurs. On peut retrouver au choix cette figure sous les traits de Démocrite, Épicure, Spinoza, Rabelais, La Mettrie, etc. Mis à part l'intérêt que l'on peut avoir pour cette figure du philosophe, assez éloignée des bancs de l'école, le texte présent vise à décrire ou (re)définir ce personnage conceptuel afin q…
Machine et organisme chez Diderot
I. Le problème du rapport entre matérialisme et mécanisme. Modèles mécaniques du vivant. Est-ce possible de différencier radicalement entre une explication mécanique de la vie et une explication matérialiste ? Spécificité des Lumières à cet égard (entre cartésianisme et réductionnisme contemporain). Mais même dans la vision mécanique, il y a une formule de compromis ; le matérialisme ne serait plus seulement abstrait mais réellement vivant sur le…
Réflexions sur le temps
Wolfe Charles T. Réflexions sur le temps. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°37, automne 1999. Gilles et Félix sur le fil du rasoir. pp. 99-103
Rural Black String Band Music
The first time I think I ever seen Arnold Schultz ... this square dance was at Rosine, Kentucky, and Arnold and two more colored fellows come up there and played for the dance. They had a guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Arnold played the guitar but he could play the fiddle-numbers like Sally Goodin. People loved Arnold so well all through Kentucky there; if he was playing a guitar they'd go gang up around him till he would get tired and then maybe he'…
Country Music in the Modern Era, 1940s-1970s
Going down the Valley
Country
Gospel Boogie
It has become a truism to say that most forms of traditional music in the American South were to some extent 'commercialised' by the end of the 1920s: certainly this is true of fiddle and instrumental traditions, country singing, the blues and jazz. By the middle of the Depression most of these musics had gained access to the mass media, either through phonograph records or radio. Throughout the Depression amateur musicians gave way to semi-profe…
"Art Galbraith, James River Fiddler, "Dixie Blossoms
Georgia Grassroots Music Festival
M. Hulôt in the archives
Lucy Fischer, ed. Jacques Tati: A Guide to References and Resources. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1983. 160 pp. $26.00 cloth
What's entertainment? Recent writing on the musical
Rick Altman, ed. Genre: The Musical. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 228 pp. $9.95 paper. Jane Feuer. The Hollywood Musical. Blooming‐ton, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. 131 pp. $7.95 paper. Clive Hirschhorn. The Hollywood Musical. New York: Crown, 1981. 456 pp. $17.95 cloth. Ted Sen nett. Hollywood Musicals. New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981. 384 pp. $50.00 cloth. Ethan Mordden. The Hollywood Musical. New York: St. Martin's…
Bluegrass Breakdown
Rural Black String Band Music
The first time I think I ever seen Arnold Schultz ... this square dance was at Rosine, Kentucky, and Arnold and two more colored fellows come up there and played for the dance. They had a guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Arnold played the guitar but he could play the fiddle-numbers like Sally Goodin. People loved Arnold so well all through Kentucky there; if he was playing a guitar they'd go gang up around him till he would get tired and then maybe he'…
We'll Understand It Better By and By
Hallucination simplex
Materialism
Mémento agrégatif de recherches d'histoire naturelle
Concupiscence politique
Wolfe Charles T. Concupiscence politique. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°32, hiver 1997. Retour vers le futur. pp. 131-140
Matérialisme et Monstres
Kant and the Capacity to Judge
The Devil's Box
Le tableau vivant sera toute la loi (Sur la philosophie de la nature de Sade)
Wolfe Charles T. Le tableau vivant sera toute la loi (Sur la philosophie de la nature de Sade) . In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°35, hiver 1998. L'enfant emblématique. pp. 149-160
Machine et organisme chez Diderot
I. Le problème du rapport entre matérialisme et mécanisme. Modèles mécaniques du vivant. Est-ce possible de différencier radicalement entre une explication mécanique de la vie et une explication matérialiste ? Spécificité des Lumières à cet égard (entre cartésianisme et réductionnisme contemporain). Mais même dans la vision mécanique, il y a une formule de compromis ; le matérialisme ne serait plus seulement abstrait mais réellement vivant sur le…
Réflexions sur le temps
Wolfe Charles T. Réflexions sur le temps. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°37, automne 1999. Gilles et Félix sur le fil du rasoir. pp. 99-103
Gilles Châtelet. Vivre et penser comme des porcs
Wolfe Charles T. Gilles Châtelet. Vivre et penser comme des porcs. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°37, automne 1999. Gilles et Félix sur le fil du rasoir. pp. 83-86
Who's Afraid of the Sophists? Against Ethical Correctness 1
Kant and the Capacity to Judge
Pas de passeport, pas de Finlande
Rubinstein Ammon, Wolfe Charles T. Pas de passeport, pas de Finlande. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°39, été 2000. Les enjeux du sensible. pp. 177-179
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