Canguilhem’s Concepts
In the 1950s, George Canguilhem became known in France as a vocal exponent of the philosophy of the concept, an approach to epistemology that treated science as the highest expression of human rationality and scientific concepts as the necessary preconditions for the manifestation of scientific trut...
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doaj-d0c0e4ff75244c27a5f2daf499a104ac2020-11-25T01:43:16ZengUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisTransversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science2526-22702018-06-014274610.24117/2526-2270.2018.i4.05Canguilhem’s Concepts David M. Peña-Guzmán0San Francisco State UniversityIn the 1950s, George Canguilhem became known in France as a vocal exponent of the philosophy of the concept, an approach to epistemology that treated science as the highest expression of human rationality and scientific concepts as the necessary preconditions for the manifestation of scientific truth. Philosophers of the concept, Canguilhem included, viewed concepts as the key to the study of science; and science, in turn, as the key to a substantive theory of reason. This article explains what concepts are for Canguilhem, how they are extracted from the history of the sciences, and why they continue to matter for contemporary debates in the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS). http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/66/100Georges CanguilhemHistory and philosophy of scienceHistorical epistemologyConceptsPhilosophy of the concept |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
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In the 1950s, George Canguilhem became known in France as a vocal exponent of the philosophy of the concept, an approach to epistemology that treated science as the highest expression of human rationality and scientific concepts as the necessary preconditions for the manifestation of scientific truth. Philosophers of the concept, Canguilhem included, viewed concepts as the key to the study of science; and science, in turn, as the key to a substantive theory of reason. This article explains what concepts are for Canguilhem, how they are extracted from the history of the sciences, and why they continue to matter for contemporary debates in the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS).
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