The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French thinkers—Jean-Luc Nancy, François Laruelle, Catherine Malabou, and Bernard Stiegler. Situating their writings within both contemporary scientific debates and the philosophy of science, Ian James elaborates a philosophical naturalism that is notably distinct from the Anglo-American tradition. The naturalism James proposes also diverges decisively from the ways in which continental philosophy has previously engaged with the sciences. He explores the technical procedures and discursive methods used by each of the four thinkers as distinct “techniques of thought” that approach scientific understanding and knowledge experimentally.
Moving beyond debates about the constructed nature of scientific knowledge, The Technique of Thought argues for a strong, variably configured, and entirely novel scientific realism. By bringing together post-phenomenological perspectives concerning individual or collective consciousness and first-person qualitative experience with science’s focus on objective and third-person quantitative knowledge, James tracks the emergence of a new image of the sciences and of scientific practice.
Stripped of aspirations toward total mastery of the universe or a “grand theory of everything,” this renewed scientific worldview, along with the simultaneous reconfiguration of philosophy’s relationship to science, opens up new ways of interrogating immanent reality.
5 有用 养鸡场客卿 2024-12-20 22:24:43 四川
复读一遍后大陆哲学如何转向科学探讨,做来做去也只是重复老爷念经童子听经的永劫轮回。这个题目想要做出生机,就需要把科学的钢钉一层一层打进法国思想史的各个关键环节之间,以科技重新切入法←的问题意识,显示出哲学/语言/伦理/政治等传统视角的未及之处。这类做法类似许煜对德古的重新发明,在法国思想传统里面的难度实际更低
0 有用 非行少女神乃襞 2024-12-22 13:16:14 日本
阅读量惊人,但行文和《新法国哲学》那本简直不像一个人
0 有用 莉亚猫 2025-07-08 20:21:37 上海
当代思想家如何重新思考科学与哲学的关系?选读马拉布。