Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne
Philosophie
La seule source légitime de l’autorité politique est le savoir. Telle est l’une des thèses fondamentales de la pensée politique de Platon. Mais quel savoir l’homme politique doit-il posséder pour gouverner? Sur qui s’exerce-t-il? Quelles... more
Il se pourrait qu’il n’y ait pas grand chose de commun entre ce que nous nommons philosophie et ce que Platon nomme philosophia. Chez lui, la philosophie n’est encore assurée ni de sa possibilité, ni de sa réalité, ni de sa définition, ni... more
Causation can be reduced to transmission in the following way: (K) Two events c and e are linked as cause and effect iff there is a conserved quantity P which is exemplified in both events and of which an amount Q is transferred from c to... more
- by Max Kistler
The search for a nomological account of what determines the content of concepts as they are represented in cognitive systems, is an important part of the general project of explaining intentional phenomena in naturalistic terms. I examine... more
- by Max Kistler
The idea that causation can be reduced to transmission of an amount of some conserved quantity between events is spelled out and defended against important objections. Transmission is understood as a symmetrical relation of copresence in... more
Dans le but de donner un fondement naturaliste à la notion de représentation mentale, Fred Dretske (1981) a avancé et développé l'idée selon laquelle la relation intentionnelle d'une montrerai ensuite que cette relativité pose un problème... more
- by Max Kistler
In his chapter 'An Emergentist's Perspective on the Problem of Free Will', Achim Stephan asks whether new light can be shed on the free will problem by considering it from the viewpoint of different conceptions of emergence. The idea is... more
- by Max Kistler
in : Bruno Gnassounou et Max Kistler (éds.), Causes, pouvoirs, dispositions en philosophie. Le retour des vertus dormitives, PUF/Editions ENS rue d'Ulm, collection « Les rencontres de Normal'Sup », 2005, p. 115-154.
- by Max Kistler
E.J. Lowe has argued for dualism by trying to show that decisions are not only not identical to physical properties, but not even grounded in and reducible to them. His argumeknt does not warrant the conclusion.