Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72220-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 16 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Reihe: Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies

This volume is the first systematic study of the style of reasoning specific to the field of philosophy in nineteenth-century France. The chapters analyze the often dispersed responses to the fundamental question of the division of the sciences based on the reciprocal relationships of inclusion or exclusion, of adversity or sorority, between metaphysics and the positive sciences. In line with the arrhythmic progress of the different forms of knowledge, these responses renew the Condillacian criticisms of the Cartesian order of the relationships between metaphysics and physics. Between a pronounced divorce and a successful marriage, this volume traces the philosophical history of the various attempts at divorce or union, which, as the century progressed, resulted in original hybridizations that aspired to define a new and ever-problematic “French philosophy.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Antoine-Mahut, Delphine

Lézé, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notices Biographique

Introduction: French Style Philosophy in the 19th Century: a Non-Pronounced Divorce between Metaphysics and the Sciences Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Samuel Lézé

PART 1: Attempting to Redefine Metaphysics

1 The Misfortunes of Metaphysics in France at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Bernard Baertschi

2 Maine de Biran, la causalité, la force et l’énergie Sarah Carvallo

3 Thomas Henri Martin et la philosophie spiritualiste de la Nature Laurent Clauzade

4 Frédéric Morin (1823–1874): a Metaphysical History of Sciences Catherine König-Pralong

5 Une Bifurcation du Spiritualisme. La Métaphysique et la Science d’Étienne Vacherot Pierre-François Moreau

PART 2: Scientistic Attempts

6 Le remplacement de la philosophie par la médecine au XIXe siècle Jean-François Braunstein

7 Le positivisme, adversaire de la métaphysique Annie Petit

8 Métaphysique: le mot et la chose selon Théodule Ribot (1839–1916) Stéphanie Dupouy

9 La part métaphysique de la physiologie selon Claude Bernard François Duchesneau

PART 3: From the Sciences to Metaphysics

10 Quelques échos de la physiologie de Helmholtz et de la Psychophysique: du Positivisme Scientiste au Réalisme Spiritualiste Renzo Ragghianti

11 Duration, Long and Short: Sketches of a Genealogy of a Bergsonian Concept Giuseppe Bianco

12 D’une métaphysique à l’autre. Science et théorie de la connaissance chez Léon Brunschvicg Pietro Terzi

13 The Philosophers of the Année sociologique and the Status of Sociology as a Science Daniela S. Barberis

14 Pierre Boutroux: réalisme intrinsèque, métaphysique et mathématique Sébastien Gandon

PART 4: From Metaphysics to the sciences

15 La philosophie de Pierre Leroux: science de la Vie et doctrine de l’Idéal Lucie Rey

16 Questions(s) de caractère: le destin de l’éthologie millienne chez les psychologues Français fin-de-siècle Vincent Guillin

17 A Metaphysical Concept for Medical Science: the Vital Sense Romain Hacques

18 Between Neocriticism and Spiritualism: The Conflicting Influences of Renouvier and Janet on Durkheim’s Sociology Warren Schmaus

19 Writing on the History of the Philosophies of Psychiatry: the Cambridge Approach Ivana S. Marková

PART 5: Hybridizations

20 L’Habitude et l’inertie au XIXe siècle en France: de Comte et Ravaisson à Lemoine et Dumont Mark Sinclair

21 The Physiological and Psychological Unconscious: a History of the Term Inconscient in Nineteenth-Century France Denise Vincenti

22 Réductionnisme scientifique et métaphysique vitaliste: Claude Bernard lu par Dumas et Canguilhem Pierre F. Daled

23 La métaphysique spiritualiste: un outil pour approcher les maladies chroniques en 1850? Les cas d’Hermann Pidoux et de Paul Émile Chauffard Grégoire Sanchez

24 Qu’Est-ce que la métaphysique positive ? Larry S. McGrath

25 Le problème méthodologique des lignes de faits: étude critique sur la refondation bergsonienne de la métaphysique Laurent Fedi

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor in History of Modern Philosophy at ENS de Lyon (UMR 5317-IHRIM). Her research focuses on Descartes and his reception in nineteenth-century French philosophical historiography. Her latest book is on canon formation in French philosophy (Paris, 2021).

Samuel Lézé is Associate Professor in Anthropology of Sciences at ENS de Lyon (UMR 5317-IHRIM). He has written articles on the relationship between French philosophers and doctors in the 19th century concerning the treatment of madness and the metaphysical problem of the causality of the Will.