Chères et chers collègues
Sami Pihlström (Université d’Helsinki) donnera deux conférences, qui complètent celles données lors de son invitation au département de philosophie de l’ENS (2019-2020). Elles peuvent être suivies indépendamment. Si le Professeur Pihlström reviendra pour quelques séances « en présentiel », lorsque les conditions seront plus clémentes, ces deux conférences auront lieu en visio et les liens vous seront envoyés la veille de chaque conférence, il suffit de renseigner le formulaire suivant : https://forms.gle/tWTcFUoE3PZZSqxn6 J’espère avoir le plaisir de vous y accueillir et reste à disposition pour toute question bien cordialement Mathias GIREL 23 novembre, 16-18h. James’s Children: Post-factualism as a Descendant of the Pragmatist Conception of Truth? It has been suggested that postmodern relativist philosophers may be partly responsible for the emergence of what is today called the "post-truth" or "post-factualist" era. The role played by pragmatism as a background factor in this development should also be investigated. The worry that there might be something like a slippery slope from William James – via Richard Rorty – to Donald Trump's and his supporters' irresponsible post-factualism is to be taken seriously: are post-factualists “James’s children”, and if so, in what sense exactly? 26 novembre 2020, 16-18h. Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities This talk proposes that we should develop a comprehensive philosophy of the humanities, analogously to well-established fields such as the philosophy of social science, and argues that the pragmatist tradition provides uniquely promising resources for doing this. I will sketch important topics for pragmatist philosophy of the humanities in selected case study areas (i.e., philosophy of literary theory and criticism, philosophy of historiography, and philosophy of theology and religious studies) and will primarily focus on the problem of realism and truth concerning the objects of humanistic scholarship as a key issue for pragmatist philosophy of the humanities, arguing that a distinctively pragmatic form of realism can be formulated. Mathias Girel Maitre de conférences, département de philosophie Ecole normale supérieure - PSL mathias.gi...@ens.fr * Directeur du Centre Cavaillès, USR République des Savoirs (CNRS-ENS-Collège de France). *Directeur de l’UMS 3610 Centre d’archives en Philosophie, Histoire et Edition des Sciences (CAPHES, CNRS-ENS), http://www.caphes.ens.fr -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
