Pascal Engel

Pascal Engel ( born January 17, 1954) is a French philosopher.

Life

Engel studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. He received his doctorate in 1981 with the work Identité et référence and his habilitation in 1990 ( Doctorat d' Etat) with the work Davidson et la sémantique formal pour les langues naturelle. From 1992 to 1998 he was professor at the University of Caen and from 1998 to 2006 at the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 2006 he is professor at the University of Geneva. He is co-founder of the ESAP. From 1993 to 1997 he was president of the SOPHA ( Société de philosophie Analytique ). Since 2005 he has been editor of the journal Dialectica.

Services

Pascal Engel is known for his work in the field of philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and the philosophy of mind as well as a translator of works by Donald Davidson.

Writings

Monographs

• Identité et référence la théorie of noms propres chez Frege et Kripke. Presses de l' Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 1985.
• La Norms du vrai, philosophy de la logique. Gallimard, Paris 1989.
• Etats d'esprit, questions de philosophie de l' esprit. . Alinéa, Aix -en- Provence 1992 2nd Edition: Introduction à la philosophie de l' esprit. La Découverte, Paris 1994.
• Davidson et la philosophie du langage. PUF, Paris 1994.
• Philosophy, psychology, et. Gallimard, Paris 1996.
• La dispute, une introduction à la philosophie Analytique. Minuit, Paris 1997.
• La verite, reflexions sur quelques truismes. Hatier, 1998.
• With Jérôme Dokic: Ramsey. Vérité et succès. PUF, Paris, 2001.
• Truth. Bucks, Acumen, 2002
• Richard Rorty: A quoi bon la verité. Grasset, Paris, 2005.
• Va savoir! De la connaissance en général. Hermann, Paris, 2007.

Editorship

• Précis de philosophie Analytique. you, Paris 2000.
• With Julien Dutant: Philosophie de la connaissance: Croyance connaissance, justification. you, Paris, Vrin 2005.

Translations

• With C. Tiercelin: Thomas Nagel: Questions mortelles. PUF, Paris 1983.
• Daniel Dennett: La stratégie de l' interprète. Gallimard, Paris 1990.
• Donald Davidson: Paradoxes de l' irrationalité. Ed. de L' Eclat, Combas 1991.
• John von Neumann: L' ordinateur et le cerveau. La Découverte, Paris, 1992 reprint. Flammarion, 1996.
• Donald Davidson: Actions et les événements. PUF, Paris 1993.
• Donald Davidson: Enquêtes sur la vérité et l' interprétation. Jacqueline Chambon, Nîmes 1993.
• Daniel Dennett: La conscience expliquée. Odile Jacob, Paris 1993.
• Michael Walzer: Spheres de justice. Seuil, Paris 1997.
• Daniel Dennett: Darwin est il dangereux? L' évolution et les sens de la vie. Odile Jacob, Paris 2000.
• With Mathieu Marion: Frank Plumpton Ramsey: Logique, philosophy et probabilites. you Vrin 2003.

Weblink

• Literature by and about Pascal Engel in the catalog that German national library
• Pascal Engel on the website of the University of Geneva

• University teachers ( Sorbonne )
• University teachers ( Geneva )
• Philosopher ( 20th century)
• Philosopher of language
• Representative of the philosophy of mind
• Epistemologists
• Frenchman
• Born in 1954
• Man