- Vincent Descombes
Vincent Descombes (born 1943) is a contemporary French
philosopher . His major work has been in thephilosophy of language andphilosophy of mind . He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he callscognitivism , and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about thebrain . Descombes has also written an introduction to modern French philosophy ("Le même et l'autre") focused on the transition, after 1960, from a focus on the three H's,Hegel ,Husserl andHeidegger to the "three masters of suspicion",Marx ,Nietzsche andFreud .Vincent Descombes teaches at the
Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron , part of theÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . He holds an appointment in theCommittee on Social Thought at theUniversity of Chicago .Works
*"Le platonisme", 1970
*"L'inconscient malgré lui", 1977
*"Le même et l'autre. Quarante-cinq ans de philosophie française" (1933-1978), Editions de Minuit, 1979. Trans. "Modern French Philosophy", Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-521-29672-2.
*"Grammaire d'objets en tous genres", 1983. Trans. "Objects of All Sourts: A Philosophical Grammar", Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2551-2.
*"Proust: philosophie du roman", Editions de Minuit, 1987. Trans. "Proust: Philosophy of the Novel", Stanford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8047-2000-2
*"Philosophie par gros temps", 1989 Trans. "The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophie of Current Events", Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-506681-2.
*"La denrée mentale", 1995. Trans. "The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism", Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-691-00131-6.
*"Les Institutions du sens", 1996
*"Le Complément de sujet", 2004External links
* [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/www.kaloskaisophos.org/rt/rtdac/rtdactf/rtdacftp&kblogstatement3.html Soutien du travail jaune?/Support of Scab Labor? (Vincent Descombes, Sparta Castoriadis, Zoé Castoriadis, Pierre Dumesnil, Cybèle Castoriadis, Philippe Caumières, Daniel Ferrand, Nicolas Poirier, Olivier Fressard, Chantal Bégaud) au sujet des/concerning "Figures of the Thinkable" de/by Cornelius Castoriadis (David Ames Curtis, le 17 décembre 2006)]
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