Jacques Bouveresse

Jacques Bouveresse ( born August 20, 1940 in Épenoy ) is a French philosopher who was known among other things for his work on Wittgenstein and his Inbezugsetzungen of analytic and continental, especially discourse analysis and deconstructive methods and theoretical approaches, in which he often theses French Philosopher as Michel Foucault, Lyotard or Derrida criticized, much like Richard Rorty's pragmatism about the.

Life

Bouveresse was born in Épenoy in Doubs, France, the son of farmers who completed his secondary education at the seminary of Besançon and then prepared in Faverney in Haute -Saône two years on an undergraduate degree in philosophy and scholastic theology before. He attended the präliminaren literary courses at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and in 1961 admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His dissertation was ibid. under the theme " Le mythe de l' interiorite. Expérience, signification et langage chez Wittgenstein privé ". Already in the 1960s Bouveresse had begun to read texts of analytical theorists, what its environment was at least as unusual as his employment with Robert Musil. His analytical interests because he attended lectures at Jules Vuillemin and Gilles Gaston Granger (* 1920) - there, almost the only ones who pursued such topics. With both it combines a lasting friendship. From 1966-1969 was Bouveresse logic courses at the Sorbonne, from 1969-1971 he was a lecturer ( Maître - Assistant) at the Faculty of Philosophy ( Unités d' enseignement et de recherche ed philosophy ) at the University of Paris I, then until 1975 at the CNRS, then to 1979 teaching lecturer ( Maître de conférences ) at the University of Paris I, then to 1983 professor at the University of Geneva and subsequently to 1995 professor at the University of Paris I.

Since 1995 he has held the chair of philosophy of language and epistemology ( philosophy du langage et de la connaissance ) at the Collège de France, which the chair of epistemology ( philosophy de la connaissance ) of Jules Vuillemin ( 1962-1990 ) and the comparative epistemology of Gilles - Gaston Granger (1986-1990) succeeded.

Research priorities

Bouveresse worked intensively with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil and Karl Kraus. Thematically, he was primarily concerned with philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language and analytic philosophy. He sat very critical look at the Nouvelle philosophy.

Philosophy of Religion

Bouveresse defends a non-religious, non-relativistic, rationalist philosophy of religion position. He has responded to theses by Jacques Ellul and Régis Debray in 2007. This had argued: any attempt to overcome religions by non-religious substitute forms must fail because this replacement is either directly religious or religiously necessary. Bouveresse performs several counter-arguments to the field:

Instead, the initial findings for Bouveresse by the following hypotheses will be explained better:

This results in a different perspective for the future than for Debray, who said that the European " free-thinker " other countries " parochial " " lagging behind ". Rather, whatever be Jean Bricmont has already asserted against Debray, just " ... responsible the lack of a secular and anti-religious tradition in the United States for the backwardness of this country in regard to religion " - and even if we are such a " theological (r ) dynamism " would be imminent in time nor, for it had simply to " regression ". Conversely proposes Bouveresse with Bertrand Russell as a consequence of it: a society must learn to " think in a non- religious way " about their guiding principles. Particular, the Company will only be competitive as Sinngebungsinstanz if it overcomes the current " sense of social lostness ". Therefore Bouveresse agrees to Bricmont in recognition " for the skeptics, reconnaissance and scientists ... that big risks have taken it upon themselves, so that we can live free from religious beliefs today."

Work (selection)

• Prodiges vertiges et de l' analogy. De l' abus des belles lettres dans la pensée - 1999
• Peut -on ne pas croire? Sur la vérité, la la foi et croyance, Marseille: agone 2007, ISBN 2748900685

Secondary literature

• Manfred Frank: Familiarité psychique et auto- attribution épistémique. A propos du livre de Jacques Bouveresse: Le mythe de l' interiorite, in: Critique, Août - septembre 1994, Jacques Bouveresse: Parcours d'un combattant, 593-624 ( " faulty French translation by André Combes " )