Trois idées sont proposées ici : 1° L’explication scientifique, que Descartes regardait comme une extension logique progressive du point de vue mathématique aux différents plans du savoir, doit céder aujourd’hui la place à une explication chronologique de l'ordre d’apparition des diverses sciences. 2° Cet ordre suit un rythme qui débute par la physique, pour descendre à la mathématique, et remonter ensuite à la biologie, 3° Cette succession correspond au rythme analogue de la vie de la pensée : intuition, abaissement vers (...) l'analyse, conversion vers la synthèse qui ést un etat d’équilibre intermédiaire. (shrink)

Cet article présente les paradigmes de la cécité au changement. J'y identifie et évalue les interprétations perceptives et cognitives des déficits induits par des manipulations de l'attention, et critique le critère épistémique proposé par Dretske en faveur de la conception cognitive. Mon argument souligne l'influence de l'attention sur le contenu de l'expérience perceptive.

The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century is a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores philosophy, biography, and texts about and by disabled people living in the eighteenth century. The book, which introduces and affirms the notion that disability studies predates most United States and United Kingdom findings by more than a hundred years, will be of interest to philosophers, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars.

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This paper attempts to reintegrate the concept of plasticity into educational philosophy. Although John Dewey used the concept in Democracy and Education it has not generated much of a critical or practical legacy in educational thought. French philosopher, Catherine Malabou, is the first to think plasticity rigorously and seriously in a contemporary philosophical context and this paper outlines her thinking on it as well as considering its applicability to education. My argument is that her definition not only successfully reintroduces the (...) concept in a way which is generative for contemporary educational philosophy and practice but that it also significantly extends the remit of educational plasticity as previously conceived by Dewey. This paper will examine the concept of educational plasticity as providing an opportunity as well as ‘the feeling of a new responsibility’ towards the plastic subject in philosophical approaches to education. (shrink)

Volume 51, Issue 10, September 2019, Page 1061-1062.

This special issue of Studies in Philosophy and Education neither rejects, nor offers outright alternatives to the dominant contemporary model of education, but instead explores its margins and the possibilities they might offer for administrators, teachers and students within institutions and broader social contexts. The intention of the editors and contributors has been to tweak the focus from a critique of an oppressive system to a mapping of that system and the opportunities that exist within it–or on its margins–in spite (...) of itself. (shrink)

Résumé – Les diverses définitions communément admises pour caractériser le raisonnement par analogic sont tout d'abord discutées et critiquées – ceci relativement aux sciences biologiques. Puis, à propos notamment de la taxomonie, de la cytologie et de la physiologie, l'importance relative de l'analogie est commentée à l'aide de quelques exemples. Il est ensuite fait état de l'analogie‐conclusion, de l'analogie‐hypothèse et de l'analogie‐invention – divers aspects du raisonnement analogique, qui ont joué un rôle essentiel dans les découvertes les plus marquantes de (...) la biologie descriptive et dans la biologie expérimentale de ces dernières années. (shrink)

Book Reviews in this ArticlePaul GochetMaurice BoudotKlaus‐Henrik JacobsenLèon BrunschvicgAndrè Bièler.