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On Logic & the Theory of Science

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On Logic & the Theory of Science

SKU: 9781733628105 Category: Product ID: 153783

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Title: On Logic & the Theory of Science
Author: CAVAILLES JEAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/02/2020
Imprint: URBANOMIC
Price: $37.99
Publishing status: Active

A new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavailles.

In this short, dense essay, Jean Cavailles evaluates philosophical efforts to determine the origin-logical or ontological-of scientific thought, arguing that, rather than seeking to found science in original intentional acts, a priori meanings, or foundational logical relations, any adequate theory must involve a history of the concept.

Cavailles insists on a historical epistemology that is conceptual rather than phenomenological, and a logic that is dialectical rather than transcendental. His famous call (cited by Foucault) to abandon \”a philosophy of consciousness\” for \”a philosophy of the concept\” was crucial in displacing the focus of philosophical enquiry from aprioristic foundations toward structural historical shifts in the conceptual fabric.
This new translation of Cavailles’s final work, written in 1942 during his imprisonment for Resistance activities, presents an opportunity to reencounter an original and lucid thinker. Cavailles’s subtle adjudication between positivistic claims that science has no need of philosophy, and philosophers’ obstinate disregard for actual scientific events, speaks to a dilemma that remains pertinent for us today. His affirmation of the authority of scientific thinking combined with his commitment to conceptual creation yields a radical defense of the freedom of thought and the possibility of the new.

ISBN: 9781733628105
Dimension: 178mm X 114mm
Pages: 120

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Dimensions 178 × 114 mm