Desbois, Henri et Philippe Gervais-Lambony. 2017. « Les lieux que nous avons connus… ». Deux essais sur la géographie, l’humain et la littérature. Paris : Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre.
Olivier Lazzarotti | 08.03.2018
Following a theoretical approach leading to inscribe their point of view in the current of thought of "humanist geography", then following its application to a few cases, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in particular, the authors propose to reflect on a quest for the "human" in geography. [...]
Recension croisée de Guenancia, Pierre, Maryvonne Perrot et Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (dirs.). 2016. Bachelard et Canguilhem. Dijon : Cahiers Gaston Bachelard (n°14) et de Barreau, Aurélien. 2016. De la vérité dans les sciences. Paris : Dunod.
Hervé Regnauld | 19.04.2017
What does truth mean for science ? Bachelard, Canguilhem and Dagognet, French philosophers who are also mathematicians and doctors, produced some important ideas about truth : it is not something that exists as a quality of the scientific object, it is something that the scientist creates according to its own likings, and not in relation with some objective characteristics of the world. More recently, a philosopher who is also an astrophysicist, Barrau, has elaborated an original epistemic approach, stating [...]
Paola Rebughini | 09.09.2013
In contemporary social sciences, the notion of subject has an ambivalent position : on the one hand it is a central concept, especially in relation to existentialist and political interpretations ; on the other hand it is a controversial notion that some authors have decided to forsake. The aim of this article is to show why — in spite of the critiques, the adjustments and the retrenchments — the notions of subject and subjectivity remain indispensable to speak about [...]
