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From Epistemology to Anthropology and Back Again

Crossed Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Patrick Tort  and
Jean-Luc Jamard
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In order to leave our debate open, it is important to end with a potentially crucial encounter between two domains whose representatives have not yet engaged in direct dialogue. Epistemology and anthropology, indeed, have many ideas to exchange and interactions to stimulate, particularly insofar as both of them consider the relations between a science of nature and a science of humankind.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 45 , Issue 180 , December 1997 , pp. 155 - 181
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Copyright © 1997 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

Notes

1. Patrick Tort, ed., Dictionnaire du darwinisme et de l'évolution, 3 vols. (Paris, 1996); Pour Darwin (Paris, 1997).

2. Patrick Tort, La Raison classificatoire (Paris, 1989).

3. Jean-Luc Jamard, Anthropologies françaises en perspective. Presque-Sciences et autres Histoires (Paris, 1993).

4. Patrick Tort, La pensée hiérarchique et l'évolution: Les complexes discursifs (Paris, 1983).

5. Edmund Husserl, Formal Logic and Transcendental Logic, tr. Dorion Cairns (The Hague, 1969) [Formale und transzendentale Logik (Halle, 1929), p. 52]. Cited by Pierre Bourdieu, Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, précédé de Trois études d'eth nologie kabyle (Genève, 1972), p. 167.

6. These specialities may overlap to some degree, ethnoscience being the com parative, cross-cultural study of local forms of knowledge especially having to do with the physical and natural world, and cognitive anthropology is the study of the ways in which a culture is taught and passed down, with partic ular attention to all of the culture's forms of knowledge; as for "cultural tech nology" ("technologie culturelle"), it is the anthropology of the technique, and it is readily apparent that this discipline is capable of forging a link between the two previously mentioned ones (as well as with ecological anthropology).

7. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le Cuit (Mythologiques I) (Paris, 1964), p. 21; tr. John and Doreen Weightman (New York, 1975; 1st ed. 1969).

8. Patrick Tort, La Pensée hiérarchique et l'évolution (Paris, 1983), p. 13.

9. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York, 1959), a revised, cor rected and augmented translation of Logik der Forschung (Vienna, 1935).

10. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago, 1962,1970).

11. K. Hübner, Die Wahrheit des Mythos (Munich, 1985).

12. Bruno Latour, Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d'anthropologie symétrique (Paris, 1991); tr. Catherine Porter, We Have Never Been Modern (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993).

13. See for example Raymond Boudon and Maurice Clavelin, eds., Le Relativisme est-il irrésistible? Regards sur la sociologie de sciences (Paris, 1994). This book grew out of a colloquium held at the Sorbonne in January 1993.

14. Charles Darwin, "Essay of 1844", in The Foundations of the "Origin of Species": Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844, ed. Francis Darwin (Cambridge, 1909).

15. Patrick Tort, Pour Darwin.

16. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (London, 1871).

17. Patrick Tort, Pour Darwin, pp. 1-2.

18. Thomas Pavel, Le Mirage linguistique. Essai sur la modernisation intellectuelle (Paris, 1988).