Dialogue
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISSN | 0012-2173 / 1759-0949 |
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| Website | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/dialogue-canadian-philosophical-review-revue-canadienne-de-philosophie |
| Total publications | 3.057 |
| Coverage period | 1962 - 2025 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 784 |
| Impact factor | 0.114 |
| SJR | 0.159 (Q2) |
| SNIP | 0.345 |
| CiteScore | 0.5 |
| h-index | 8 |
| i10-index | 6 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.0263 |
| Female authorship share | 25.6% |
Dialogue is a general philosophy journal, publishing on various philosophical topics. While social theory has philosophical underpinnings, this journal's broad philosophical scope means anthropological content is occasional rather than structural
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Démocratie insurgeante et mouvements sociaux. Sur l’apport démocratique des conflits sociaux et politiques
Dans la foulée des différentes vagues de mobilisation et de contestation des années 2010, les théories de la démocratie radicale ont permis de réfléchir à nouveaux frais au rapport des mouvements sociaux à la démocratie en les associant à un idéal d’insurrection populaire. Or, il découle de cette association une conception particulière de la conflictualité politique qui est susceptible de renoncer aux promesses pratiques et normatives de la démoc…
Le boys club en action
Dans cet article, je soutiens que les dynamiques de boys club peuvent être comprises comme des instances d’actions collectives, même en l’absence d’intentions partagées. Il n’est pas satisfaisant de penser ces phénomènes comme de simples accumulations d’actions individuelles isolées. Une théorie minimaliste de l’action collective nous permet de considérer qu’il s’agit bien d’un phénomène d’action collective : l’ordre social patriarcal offre un pl…
The Harm of Unreciprocated Labour
This article addresses two objections by Samuel Kahn to my argument for a living wage for life-sustaining workers. First, it refutes the charge that my position is patronising for asserting that low wages impede a worker’s ability to thrive. Second, it responds to a challenge regarding the claim that individuals have a right to a monetary equivalent of their fair share of natural resources, and that this right can be used to determine the justice…
A General Conception of Justice
I argue for a general conception of justice that aims to identify what is common to multiple complementary types of justice. John Rawls agrees that there are multiple types (or “levels” or “subjects”) of justice, each needing its own principles, but he opposes a general conception in favour of “unity by appropriate sequence.” I present my general conception — justice as environment-shaping responsibility — as a different path to theoretical unity…
Cooperation, Fair Play, and the Non-Struggle Point
In Julia Maskivker’s recent “Justice and Contribution,” she argues that, under normal circumstances, the failure to guarantee that life-sustaining workers are above the non-struggle point is not merely disrespectful and a failure of beneficence, but a violation of the norms of fair play and, as such, a “low blow.” In this article, I offer a critical reply to Maskivker. I begin by explaining her reasoning. Then I turn to critique, focusing on two …
Maurizio Ferraris lecteur de Kant. Le nouveau réalisme et le renversement de l’architectonique kantienne
Le nouveau réalisme développé par Maurizio Ferraris fait de Immanuel Kant son adversaire privilégié. Celui-ci aurait mis à distance le réel au travers de schèmes conceptuels et ouvert la postmodernité qui ne pense qu’à l’aune du corrélationisme et du constructivisme. Pourtant, Kant est essentiel à sa pensée et plus que d’une opposition, il s’agit pour Ferraris de renverser l’oeuvre kantienne en trouvant dans la Critique de la faculté de juger une…
The Weight of Sedimentation: From Husserl to Foucault
In this article, I will discuss the metaphoric “weight” of sedimentation in phenomenology. I will delineate the Husserlian epistemic and dynamic conceptual frame within which a sediment acquires a weight through its possibility of being reactivated by consciousness. Working from that, I will show how Maurice Merleau-Ponty implements a dialectical, linguistical, and historical institution of sedimentation that essentializes the problem of its weig…
Hume and Darwin: Epicurean Systems of Godless Naturalism
Comparative scholarship on David Hume and Charles Darwin narrowly focuses on the irreligious implications of their thought for intelligent design metaphysics. I frame their contributions to a perennial system of godless naturalism , exposited in antiquity by Epicurean philosophy, which is not reducible to intellectual influence but stems from shared commitments to the naturalist horizon of inquiry itself. From Epicurus and Lucretius to Hume and D…
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Between Theory and Transformation
John Cooper contends that ancient philosophers shared certain fundamental assumptions about the “motivating power” of truth and knowledge that have been abandoned by post-Renaissance philosophers. Consequently, he claims that those seeking philosophy as a guide to the good life can only find it in the works of ancient philosophers. I challenge that conclusion by arguing that philosophy as a way of life has not disappeared but has evolved. A key i…
Early Activities of the Svishtov City Council (July 1877–December 1878)
This study examines the diverse activities of the Svishtov City Council's activities during a short, but significant, period that played an important role in the history of the city. The research is based mainly on previously unused archival documents. It is proven that the first mayor of Svishtov was Yani D. Stanchov, and not Dimitar G. Anev, as previously believed. The enormous work of the two councils headed by Stanchov (July-December 1877) an…
A Reconstruction of Korsgaard on Autonomy’s Objective Value in Light of Sangiovanni, Guyer, and Langton
Christine Korsgaard avers that the value we place on specific personal choices — understood as goals or ends — involves committing to them, or forming a care, which is itself conditioned by the value-conferring ability of the valuer. In other words, personal autonomy implies the objective value of the agent’s autonomous choosing and their coeval cares projects. Commentators like Andrea Sangiovanni, Paul Guyer, and Rae Langton criticize Korsgaard’…
Negative Entities: Modes of Being or Degrees of Being
Negative entities such as holes, cavities, and shadows are metaphysically puzzling. Despite evidence supporting their existence, their nature as absences of positive entities raises questions about their ontological status. How can negative beings exist while differing fundamentally from positive entities? To address this issue, Kris McDaniel’s ontological pluralism offers a solution by granting negative entities “being by courtesy.” This article…
Abortion, Infanticide, and Choosing Parenthood
Some responses to analogies between abortion and infanticide appeal to Judith Jarvis Thomson's argument for the permissibility of abortion. I argue that these responses fail because a parallel argument can be constructed for the permissibility of infanticide. However, an argument on the grounds of a right to choose to become a parent can maintain that abortion is permissible but infanticide is not by recognizing the normative significance and nat…
The Constitution of Virtual Objects
David Chalmers argues that virtual reality is a genuine kind of reality. In one of its readings, this “virtual realism” states that virtual entities ontologically depend on real digital entities. This article explores that suggestion and offers a novel account of the dependence of the virtual on the digital. Drawing on Lynne Rudder Baker's theory of constitution, we contend that virtual objects should be seen as constituted by digital objects, wh…
Leibniz's Moral Psychology of an Evil Person
Our focus in this article concerns Leibniz's views on evil. Our goal is to examine which are the consequences of his conception of moral agency for the moral psychology of the genuinely evil person. For Leibniz, moral failure is an epistemic error since it involves some false practical judgement. Moral maxims may be represented in blind or symbolic cognitions, but then moral agents can misrepresent the evil consequences of their behaviour. Finall…
Spinoza's Early Modern Eudaimonism: Corporeal and Intellectual Flourishing
This article explores Spinoza's distinctive contribution to the eudaimonistic tradition, which considers happiness (eudaimonia) to be the highest good. Most (if not all) ancient eudaimonists endorse some sort of hierarchy between mind and body, where one is always dependent on, or subordinate to, the other. In particular, many of them endorse ethical intellectualism, where mental things are considered more valuable than bodily ones. I argue that …
Loneliness, Solitude, and Philosophic Contemplation
Creating conditions that facilitate sociality and friendship is an important way to address loneliness. But it is not sufficient in itself, as shown by philosopher Anca Gheaus in a recent article. After highlighting the need for alternative ways to address chronic loneliness, Gheaus offers a promising approach: “[c]reating favourable conditions for the appreciation of solitude [...]” (Gheaus, 2022, p. 242). In this article, I first expand Gheaus’…
Égalité politique et croissance économique, quelle relation
Cet article porte sur le limitarisme économique. Nous y explorons la possibilité d’établir une relation entre deux éléments abordés séparément dans cette littérature, soit les incitatifs économiques négatifs que l’application de la théorie peut générer et sa capacité à défendre l’égalité politique. Sur la base de cette relation, nous formulons une nouvelle objection contre le limitarisme. Finalement, nous envisageons deux pistes de solution pour …
Quel sujet pour l’épistémologie des savoirs situés ? Leçons de Haraway et Code
Ce texte explore le rôle du sujet dans la théorie des savoirs situés de Donna J.Haraway et de Lorraine Code. Il examine la tension entre l’approche individualiste et l’approche collective dans les épistémologies féministes. Nous y soutenons que les savoirs situés permettent de concilier la dimension individuelle du sujet avec une perspective politique et collective, tout en évitant une critique anti-individualiste qui nierait l’agentivité personn…
Dialogue ’s Graduate Issues Program / Programme de dossiers étudiants de Dialogue
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Amour, ludification et normativité: Les relations à Occupation double
La ludification de l’existence, c’est-à-dire l’application d’une structure ludique dans nos vies, a été critiquée par C.Thi Nguyen dans Games: Agency as Art (2020). Cette critique illustre en quoi les relations présentées dans l’émission de téléréalité Occupation double sont des exemples de ludification de l’amour. Ces relations constituent des modèles trop simplifiés de ce qui fonde, selon Hichem Naar, les raisons d’aimer quelqu’un, lesquelles c…
Les dangers de la ludification de l’existence chez C.Thi Nguyen: Présupposés capacitistes
Cet article présente une critique des conclusions auxquelles parvient C.Thi Nguyen (2020) dans le neuvième chapitre de Games: Agency As Art , qui met en garde contre les dangers de la ludification (gamification) de l’existence, c’est-à-dire le fait d’introduire des éléments fictifs de jeu dans la vie réelle . En mobilisant d’abord des recherches en neuropsychologie, afin de mettre en lumière les enjeux avec lesquels vivent les personnes neurodive…
MacIntyrean Ethics and Lessons About Teleological Ethical Theories
Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral approach is ranked among the very important formulations in contemporary philosophical ethics. Yet, MacIntyre and his commentators have overlooked basic requirements of teleological ethical theories (end- or goal-oriented ethical theories). In the article, we will see just where MacIntyre has erred in constructing his Aristotelian-Thomist teleological moral approach, the most fundamental error being his failure to pursu…
The Nun in the Parmenides: Not Another Exaiphnês
After some preliminary remarks about Plato’s use of the adverb nun , I explain what the nun is by offering a close textual analysis of the key passage in which it is explicitly addressed ( Parm . 151e3–153b7). Its metaxu nature, between duration and limit, requires one to consider another temporal notion of the second part of the Parmenides that is metaxu , namely the exaiphnês . I explain why the nun does not conceptually overlap with the exaiph…
Refining Quinean Naturalism: An Alternative to Kemp’s Stimulus Field Approach
W. V. Quine suggests that meaning derives from the stimulus, the effects of the outside world on the subject’s nerve endings. However, the idiosyncrasy of the stimulus poses challenges to the intersubjectivity of meaning. Gary Kemp proposes the stimulus field approach as a solution. The stimulus field approach focuses on the forces affecting the subject, rather than the effects on the subject. In this article, I critique Kemp’s solution. Furtherm…
Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part I: Historical and Scientific Setting
The Three Papers comprising this series, together with my earlier [34] also published in this journal, constitute an attempt to set out the major issues in the theoretical domain of reduction and to develop (tentatively) a general theory of theory reduction. The fourth paper, [34], though published separately from this trio, is integral to the presentation and should be read in conjunction with these papers. Even so, the presentation is limited i…
What Collectives Are: Agency, Individualism and Legal Theory
An account of the ontological nature of collectives would be useful for several reasons. A successful theory would help to show us a route through the thicket of views known as "methodological individualism". It would have a bearing on the plausibility of legal positivism. It would be relevant to the question whether collectives are capable of acting. The debate about the ontology of collectives is therefore important for such fields as the theor…
Why There Are No Epistemic Duties
Epistemic duties would be duties to believe, disbelieve, or withhold judgement from propositions, and they would be grounded in purely evidential considerations. I offer a new argument for the claim that there are no epistemic duties. Though people may have duties to believe, disbelieve, or withhold judgement from propositions, those duties are never grounded in purely epistemic considerations. Rather, allegedly epistemic duties are a species of …
Kant's Transcendental Deductions
In default of astounding findings - Lampe penned much of the critical corpus - it is likely that continued Kantian exegesis will perforce be featured by more pain for less gain. And since philosophical events must in many respects overtake even so monumental a figure as Kant, does not the treatment of Kantian documents in current terms court anachronism? In a fashion which encourages such musings, the contents of this handsomely produced collecti…
Hume's Defence of Causal Inference
As is well known, the Humean account of causal inference gives a central location to inferencehabits. Some of these habits one can discipline. Thus, one can so discipline oneself as to reason in accordance with the "rules by which to judge of causes and effects" (173ff.), that is, one can discipline oneself to think scientifically, rather than, say, in accordance with the rules of prejudice (146f.), or of superstition (271). All such judgments, e…
Coordination
In the days when the Great Central and the Midland ran competitive services from Leicester to London, I agreed to meet your train when you came up from Leicester. "It arrives at 12.5", you said in your letter. But you neglected to mention which station, and only on the morning of your journey did each of us realize that this matter had been left open. You intended to travel from Leicester Central, it being more convenient for you than London Road…
Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part III: Cross-Categorical Reduction
Any theory of reduction that goes only so far as carried in Parts I and II ([165], [166]) does only half the job. Prima facie at least, there are cases of would-be reduction which seem torn between two conflicting intuitions. On the one side there is a strong intuition that reduction is involved, and a strongly retentive reduction at that. On the other side it seems that the concepts at one level cross-classify those at the other level, so that t…
Reasoning with Loose Concepts
A Man whose height is four feet is short; adding one tenthof an inch to a short man's height leaves him short; therefore, a man whose height is four feet and one tenth of an inch is short. Now begin again and argue in the same pattern. A man whose height is four feet and one tenth of an inch is short; adding one tenth of an inch to a short man's height leaves him short; therefore, a man whose height is four feet and two tenths of an inch is short…
Social Epistemology Meets the Invisible Hand: Kitcher on the Advancement of Science
Philip Kitcher's new book is very ambitious in scope, more ambitious, certainly, than any of his previous books. Unlike Kitcher's Abusing Science: The Case against Creationism (1982), this is not a book that focusses on just one single issue in contemporary science or educational policy; nor is it, like his The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (1983) and Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (1985), a book that emphasizes…
Is Thinker a Natural Kind
Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is here criticized from the perspective of a more naturalistic and less compromising form of materialism. Parallels are explored between the problem of cognitive activity and the somewhat more settled problem of vital activity. The lessons drawn suggest that functionalism in the philosophy of mind may be both counterproductive as a research strategy, and false as a substantive position
Value-Pluralism in Contemporary Liberalism
Plusieurs libéraux modernes soutiennent que le pluralisme des valeurs a d'importantes conséquences pour l'élaboration des procédures et des institutions politiques. Mais les arguments fondés sur l'incommensurability et sur I'indétermination de la rationalité ou de la délibération se révèlent tous compatibles avec le monisme; et certaines formes de pluralisme sont compatibles soit avec une hiérarchisation des valeurs soit avec une hiérarchisation …
Is It a Jungle Out There? Trust, Distrust and the Construction of Social Reality
An acquaintance who works with street teens once said to me, "They live in a completely different world." She did not mean only that they lived downtown and not in the suburbs, slept under bridges and not in beds, ate in soup kitchens instead of restaurants. She meant that street teens experienced a social reality radically different from the reality of those who have lived most of life in a relatively sheltered and stable middle-class environmen…
Interpreting Davidson
To approach the philosophical anthropology (p. 4) of Donald Davidson is to get ready for an unusually high number of laps around the hermeneutic circle. Apparently a problem-oriented philosopher, Davidson presents his views in a continuing series of dense, tightly focussed papers on narrowly circumscribed topics. The lines of the big picture are mostly implicit. Yet it is the scope and the power of this picture that has made Davidson one of the m…
Preference's Progress: Rational Self-Alteration and the Rationality of Morality
On the received theory of rational choice,(a) a choice is rational if it maximizes one's individual expected utility. However in the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), by this standard, each agent should Defect, since each maximizes no matter what the other does if he Defects. But then both will Defect, doing poorly; better for each if both had Co-operated
Towards a General Theory of Reduction. Part II: Identity in Reduction
Part I of this trilogy, Historical and Scientific Setting , set out a general context for selecting a certain subclass of inter-theoretic relations as achieving appropriate explanatory and ontological unification – hence for properly being labelled reductive. Something of the complexity of these relations in real science was explored. The present article concentrates on the role which identity plays in structuring the reduction relation and so in…
Is Epistemic Normativity Value-Based
What is the source of epistemic normativity? In virtue of what do epistemic norms have categorical normative authority? According to epistemic teleologism, epistemic normativity comes from value. Epistemic norms have categorical authority because conforming to them is necessarily good in some relevant sense. In this article, I argue that epistemic teleologism should be rejected. The problem, I argue, is that there is no relevant sense in which it…
Authenticity and the Limits of Philosophy
Almost everyone has had an intuitive experience of authenticity that seems to reveal a glimmer of one's true identity. Yet by positing the existence of a 'true self,' authenticity introduces metaphysical challenges that resist systematic solutions. I argue that authenticity properly analyzed demands an essentialist structure that strains to be applied to personal identity. I then assess the three most influential types of accounts in modern philo…
Plato on the Nature of the Sudden Moment, and the Asymmetry of the Second Part of theParmenides
In this paper, Plato's notion of the sudden moment is fully explored. In theParmenides, the "now" (nun) and the "sudden" (exaiphnês), it is argued, refer to one and the same entity from the distinct perspectives of timeless Being and temporal Becoming, respectively. This interpretation tallies well with, and enriches, the Platonic views on time and eternity found in theTimaeus. Finally, the paper highlights the pivotal role of the third deduction…
The Life of Plants and the Limits of Empathy
This article examines the possibility of an ethical treatment of plants grounded in empathy. Upon considering whether an empathetic approach to vegetal life is compatible with the crucial features of plant ontology, it is concluded that the feeling of empathy with plants disregards their mode of being and projects the constructs and expectations of the human empathizer onto the object of empathy. Vegetal life, thus, reveals the limits of empathy,…
Miracles and Larmer
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Miracles, Evidence, and God
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What Makes Induction Rational
In this paper I put forward what I think is a new approach to the problem of induction. I sketched the approach in brief sections of a book published in 1983 (chap. 4, sec. 5 and chap. 6, sec. 7). The same idea had occurred to the English philosopher John Foster and he presented it in a paper at about the same time (1983
Two Gauthiers
In outline, at least, the major argument of David Gauthier's,Morals By Agreementis quite clear: it is rational to acquire a disposition to moral behaviour with those similarly disposed because having it gives one the highest practically attainable utility in interactions with them. Once one has acquired such a disposition, a disposition which constrains one's individual maximization of the satisfaction of one's preferences (i.e., a Constrained Ma…
The Value of Analogical Models in Science
No one denies that scientists frequently use bodies of knowledge from already-explored fields of inquiry as models as they argue analogically in the attempt to build new theories in other fields; however, there appears to be considerable controversy about the values of the analogical models when once the new theories are complete. One school of thought has it that although acquaintance with a theory's analogical models might serve a useful pedago…
Filiation et universalité: Questions à partir du Québec
Cet article se penche sur l'examen de récentes lois québécoises sur l'institution de l'union civile, l'établissement de nouvelles règles de filiation (2002) et la procréation assistée (2009). Promues dans un souci de contrer toute apparence d'« égalité séparée », ces lois se dégagent maladroitement d'une biologisation outrancière et paradoxale de la procréation. Cet article questionne la possibilité que, en dépassant le recouvrement de « parenté …
Are There Unresolvable Moral Disputes
Those who uphold what is commonly called the “emotive” theory of ethics are apt to maintain, as a consequence of that theory, that at least some moral disputes, if not all, may be in principle unresolvable, no matter how much time is allotted to the disputants to enable them to try and come to an agreement. The reason is this: Moral judgments, according to the emotive theory, in its most extreme form at any rate, do not assert anything but merely…
Note sur le langage philosophique
Le philosophe, quand il parle ou écrit, suscite une œuvre philosophique. Ce que Souriau se plaît à nommer le philosophème paraît aux yeux de plusieurs fort ambigu, et dans sa nature, et dans son langage. On ne cesse de répéter que la philosophie traverse actuellement une de ses crises graves. Déjà certains proclament l'illégitimité de la discipline philosophique. D'autres s'interrogent sur le statut possible de la philosophie; J.-C. Piguet est de…
Abstractions
St. Augustine said “When you do not ask me what Time is, I know perfectly well; but when you do ask me, I cannot think what to say.” What, then, was it that he knew perfectly well, and what was it that he did not know? Obviously he knew perfectly well such things as these, that what happened yesterday is more recent than what happened a month ago; that a traveller who walks four miles in an hour, goes twice as fast as a traveller who takes two ho…
Dissimilitude, transcendance et perfection du principe divin. Apories et solutions
Au moment où il entreprend d'élaborer une preuve de l'existence de Dieu dont la force soit susceptible d'entraîner l'adhésion de tout esprit qui entend le sens des mots utilisés, s. Anselme veut faire appel à une notion de Dieu admise par tout le monde. Que signifie en effet ce mot Dieu , sinon, ce par rapport à quoi on ne saurait rien concevoir de plus parfait? La notion de Dieu et celle de la perfection la plus grande possible sont done, à ses …
Remarques Sur La Notion de cause dans la physique contemporaine
La notion de cause fait corps avec le cadre noétique du système dans lequel elle apparaît. Elle ne peut pas être plus large ou plus profonde que le système lui-même. Qui veut comprendre le sens qu'on donne au concept de cause, doit faire une étude épistémologique du contexte dont il fait partie. Une telle analyse doit éviter de s'enfermer dans le cercle vicieux auquel l'expose le rôle tout à fait fondamental que joue la notion de cause dans la fo…
Pensée concrète, Art abstrait
Les biographies de poètes et d' écrivains sont beaucoup plus nombreuses que celles de philosophes. Pour expliquer ce phénomène il se présente sûrement plusieurs raisons. Je n'en veux souligner qu'une: l'apparente objectivité du système philosophique, qui se fonderait sur la distance de l'œuvre à l'égard de son auteur et sur l'absence de marques personnelles. Pourtant on peut accepter que l'interrogation philosophique soit intemporelle ou « perenn…
Choosing and Doing
The question of what is meant by assertions like “He could have done otherwise”, where the truth of what is said is regarded as a necessary condition of holding an agent to be morally responsible for what he has done, has recently been discussed by a number of philosophers. In this paper, I wish to contribute to that discussion, taking note particularly of a commentary by Austin on Moore's and Nowell-Smith's treatment of it, the commentary being …
Note sur le caractère philosophique de la pensée de Karl Marx
On pourra s'étonner de voir reprendre la considération de la pensée de Marx après les études innombrables dont elle a été l'objet surtout depuis une quinzaine d'années. Il est permis de croire en effet que tout a été dit dans les perspectives les plus diverses et sous les formes les plus variées à propos de cette pensée dont tous s'accordent à reconnaître l'importance, non seulement au niveau des idées, mais sur le plan de la vie quotidienne de l…
Artistic Verisimilitude (I)
Some affirm, but others deny, that works of fine art, or at any rate certain sorts of them, should be true (T) or probable (P). This is the question which I investigate in the present essay. It has been debated by philosophers from Plato on, and much can still be learnt from earlier writers, particularly Aristotle. But I have found some recent discussions especially helpful; namely, what Strawson and Hart say about and in connexion with presuppos…
Entre l'Aristotélisme et le Kantisme
Né à Dijon en 1861, Maurice Blondel s'est d'abord fait connaître par deux ouvrages retentissants, L'Action de 1893 et la Lettre sur l'Apologetique de 1896. Dans ces deux oeuvres de jeunesse, qui demeurent pourtant ses chefs-d'œuvre, il prenait hardiment position aussi bien contre la philosophic scolastique que contre la philosophic moderne. Ce qui lui valut aussitôt, avec les remontrances des théologiens intégristes, les sarcasmes des philosophes…
L'Union du Corps et de l'Ame selon Saint Augustin
Le problème de l'âme a été abordé par tous les grands philosophes, depuis les premiers Grecs jusqu'aux modernes et aux contemporains. La pensée de saint Augustin sur cette question présente de l'intérêt à plus d'un titre. II est le premier grand penseur chrétien qui ait utilisé, pour une meilleure compréhension de sa foi, les données des philosophies de son temps, surtout de la tradition néo-platoni-cienne. Ce travail ne vise pas à une étude comp…
Artistic Verisimilitude (II)
We are now in a position to answer the question of importance or relevance : the question, namely, whether it is true, as it is often claimed to be, that works of fine art which are ∼ AN, in particular tragedies and novels, should be AV; and, if so, why. Briefly, it seems to me that the claim is true for a variety of reasons which I shall now detail. I pointed out earlier that a literary work is not a tragedy or a work of fiction at all unless it…
The Aviary Model in the Theaetetus
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Omniscience
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A Propos de l'Omniscience divine
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Explaining away Singular Non-existence Statements
Nowhere in philosophy is there a more persistent kind of nuisance statement than the singular negative existential. Examples of this sort of statement are the descriptional statement(1) The teacher at Sleepy Hollow doesn't exist,and the referential statement(2) Ichabod Crane doesn't exist.Statements denying existence to a specific object have bothered philosophers from Parmenides to Ryle and Quine. Their high nuisance value rests in a simple para…
Other Minds
I May, at a gathering, notice that Peter is sitting very stiffly in his chair. I say to myself, “Perhaps he has a pain. Yes, I think he has some sort of pain.” I have inferred a feeling of some sort from bodily behavior. It is not an impossible thing to do, to infer sometimes a feeling from bodily behavior. But it is a puzzling thing to do, at least in a philosophieal sense. Because we ordinarily hold that we cannot “observe” the feelings of anot…
La Philosophie des Sciences de Gaston Bachelard
Quand meurt un philosophe tous les autres héritiers. La disparition rećente de Gaston Bachelard n'a donc pas seulement pour effet d'endeuiller la pensée françhise, elle est ressentie comme une invitation à dresser un premier bilan de l'ceuvre qu'il nous a léguée. Or cette oeuvre surprend autant par la profondeur de ses assises culturelles que par l'aisance avec laquelle elle s'introduit puis s'impose, en des secteurs de l'activité humaine qui par…
Classification of Ideas in Locke's Essay
The usual interpretation of Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding is that he tried to show that all of men's complex ideas were formed by a process of compounding simple ideas. Some commentators say this represents his actual approach o t human knowledge, others say that while parts of the Essay are written in this manner it does not represent his final views. All agree that if this compositionalism is Locke's position then it is inadequat…
Reasoning with Loose Concepts
A Man whose height is four feet is short; adding one tenthof an inch to a short man's height leaves him short; therefore, a man whose height is four feet and one tenth of an inch is short. Now begin again and argue in the same pattern. A man whose height is four feet and one tenth of an inch is short; adding one tenth of an inch to a short man's height leaves him short; therefore, a man whose height is four feet and two tenths of an inch is short…
Direct, Referential Realism
Only there occur certain lags in scholarship which need to be remedied. One of these is the lack of appreciation of the efforts of the American critical realists to attain a direct, referential realism which would avoid the difficulties confronting an intuitional type of naive realism and the well-recognized dilemma of Lockean representative perceptionism. In the latter case, the puzzle is, of course, that, if we perceive subjective ideas, how ca…
Le Symbole Poétique
Au moins à quelque moment de sa vie, en présence d'un paysage qui le frappe par sa beauté, à l'audition d'une mélodie qui transforme son intérieur, à la vue d'une toile qui lui transmet son message profond, à la lecture d'un poéme rayonnant d'une transcendance indéterminée, l'être humain ressent en lui-même un envoi de son âme vers un au-delà qu'il ne peut définir. Et il sent très bien que s'il s'arrêtait à le définir, il retomberait à plat dans …
The Desired and the Desirable in Dewey's Ethics
That x is desired is a necessary but not a sufficient ground for claiming that x is good or that x ought to be or that x is desirable—and these three phrases I take to be synonymous for Dewey. Everything that is desirable is desired but it is not the case that everything that is desired is desirable. What else is needed to make a desire desirable is the main burden of Dewey's ethics
Corroboration and Probability
In The Logic of Scientific Discovery, K. R. Popper says that he has A. provided "a mathematical refutation of all those theories of induction which identify the degree to which a statement is supported or confirmed or corroborated by empirical tests with its degree of probability in the sense of the calculus of probability." He tells us that "those who identify, explicitly or implicitly, degree of corroboration, or of confirmation, or of acceptab…
De Prométhée à Sisyphe Réflexions sur l'histoire de l'idée de progrès
Prométhée, dieu du Progrès parce qu'il a apporté le feu et les arts aux hommes; Sisyphe, image de la désespérance puisqu'il voit éternellement échapper à ses mains le rocher qu'il a roulé au sommet d'une colline. Trois siècles ont vécu sous le signe de Prométhée, dans une folle confiance en l'homme. La génération actuelle lui préfère Sisyphe dont Camus a interprété le drame intérieur avec tout son génie philosophique. Peut-on rêver quelques insta…