In this talk I discuss a significant objection that has been raised against the view of historical sciences held by Heinrich Rickert: the accusation of “fruitless formalism”. This accusation has been expressed by a large number of thinkers, including for instance Wilhelm Wundt, Edmund Husserl, Max F...

A study of the discourses on translation and pastiche in the 19th and 20th centuries serves as a basis to examine the archeology of translation thought in France and Italy, highlighting the radical difference between these neighbor territories. Articulating the political and linguistic histories of...

The gradual naturalizing process in every field of knowledge has now become a sort of watchword. Over the last forty years, more and more enterprises have been launched, such as the naturalizing of epistemology and language, of ethics, phenomenology, sociology or psychoanylisis. The transient enthus...

International audience Can an artificial agent "really" think? can it be "really" intelligent ? can it "really" have beliefs, goals, intentionality? Such questions have been plaguing AI since its inception. The solution we propose is to assert that an "artificial agent" is a virtual agent - and that...

Bernard E. Harcourt We will focus on the economic theory of crime and punishment of Gary Becker (1968) and Foucault’s analysis of Becker’s work in the course of 21 March 1979 (Foucault, 2004: 245-270). We will use this to explore in depth the relationship between, on the one hand, the Foucault texts...

In this article, the author proposes a scientific programme based on the invention of a ‘postoccidental’ space in social sciences as part of a dialogue with researchers from different Asian countries. At a time when the global turning point is being overcome at the same time there are epistemic inju...

Social constructionism can be seen as a source of the postmodern movement, and has been influential in the field of cultural studies. The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of social constructionism in modern Anglophone historiography and historical epistemology (2000-2015). The res...

The profession of physiotherapist is located at a crossroads. Ongoing reforms lead to questioning the knowledge and skills taught physiotherapists to ensure patient safety and quality of care. It was sought to know the origin of knowledge in physiotherapy devices and evaluate teaching and ownership...

The second session of the Seminar “Epistemology of Digital Humanities” (#ephn2016) focused on a reflection on heritage and how to promote it, to encourage its availability to various types of specialised and non-specialised audiences. To this end, a first contribution from Davide Gherdevich (UVSQ) r...

The main of this paper is to examine Giordano Bruno's conception of beauty his book De gli Eroici Furori. Firstly, I place Bruno's conception of beauty in the frame of his theory of knowledge, whose central problem is how we can know the divinity. Next, I connect Bruno's analysis of beauty with 'the...

National audience For this colloquium, we propose to study the trajectories after which some people diagnose themselves as hypersensitive to electromagnetic fields or chemicals. This process involves a radical transformation of their representations of the world, as well as a complete reorganisation...

We have been interested in a study among students who found that they had failed the single ministerial test in Quebec in their perception of historical science. Data analysis suggests that many of the underachievement students are disenfranchised about history and consider that their learning is di...

We want to report on some mutual contributions from information and communication sciences (CIS) and design. Some research carried out within CIS helps to better characterise the role of documentation in design projects. Reciprocally, designers make a number of constructive criticisms about the form...

For several decades, part of the scientific community has observed and denounced the magnitude of the anthropogenic environmental change. A recent concept has emerged from these concerns, which crystallises the idea of a lasting planetary transformation: the Anthropocene, the proposal to define a ne...

The spontaneous definitions that students give of history surprises by their richness. The tone is often thwarted, showing interest in the subject as soon as the initial fear of not ‘knowing to answer’ becomes blurred. There are of course reluctance, closures as well, but quite little account is tak...

Humboldt language theory may be part of an epistemology in which the general problem of knowledge is open to the (relativistic face) thesis that language is not unconnected to the formation of conceptual networks and various epistemological perspectives, but on the contrary is an indispensable condi...

The group’s question puts psychanalysis into a necessary question about the historical origins of its epistemologic fundamentals. At the hearing of the 20th century two major intellectual revolutions will fundamentally change our view on the nature of the reality and, upstream, on the subject itself...

International audience An innovative contribution to debates on the internationalization and globalization of the social sciences, this book pays particular attention to their theoretical and epistemological reconfiguration in the light of postcolonial critiques and critiques of Eurocentrism. Bringi...

Bohas Georges. Unfinished collaboration. In: Epistemology history Language, Volume 36, fascicule 2, 2014. Tribute to Djamel Eddine Kouloughli. pp. 111-118.

The Encyclopaedia of Enlightenments includes all the conceptual elements for renewing the genus encyclopaedic outside the book. In particular, I think of the concepts of viewpoint and referrals defined in the Prospectus and the Publishers’ Preliminary Speech, with references from one article to anot...

The humanities are often the subject of spiritualist intrusions, the instrument of a ‘savoury defeat’, the Trojan horse of the most unthinked theories that a plethora of irrationalist movements and currents generate in continuous floats, wishing to play a low hand on the ‘human phenomenon’. They mus...

Table of Honour of the Faculty of Higher and Post-doral Studies, 2014-2015 This thesis seeks, through the concepts of history and truth, to place two of the leading French philosophers contemporary in a position of dialogue: Paul Ricister and Michel Foucault. The assumption made is that the history...

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