Bien que l’informatique ait connu un succès foudroyant depuis sa création, et que de moins en moins de personnes puissent désormais s’en passer, elle continue à être mal perçue par beaucoup de gens. Nous cherchons à analyser les raisons conjointes de ce succès et de la mauvaise perception de l’informatique.

Popper's short essay about the rationality principle has been the target of many criticisms which have raised serious doubts about its consistency. How could the well-known promoter of falsificationism suggest that we not reject a principle that he himself describes as false? Nonetheless, the essay can be read in a way that makes it appear much more consistent. Better sense can be made of Popper's own examples (the flustered driver, the pedestrian, etc.), by taking seriously his view that the rationality (...) principle might be "approximately true" and falsified only in very rare cases, while also giving proper attention to his four rather elliptical arguments. (shrink)

The paper proposes a distinction between ethical problems internal to the practice of a discipline and ethical problems external to it. It argues that ethical problems encountered in architecture are typically of the former kind, in contrast, for example, to bioethical problems. From this point of view, it discusses the state of other arts and surveys various 19th and 20th century positions concerning ethics in architecture. It illustrates that, where architecture is concerned, ethics is closely related to aesthetics and frequently (...) tied to a philosophy of history, a point which is explained with the help of the above-mentioned distinction. (shrink)

Qu’on la conçoive comme pensée, conscience ou volonté, l’âme semble évidemment irréductible en essence au corps. La physique rejette l’action d’une âme sur un corps comme contraire au principe d’inertie, l’épistémologie comme entachée de magie. On montre que, sous un autre aspect, cette évidence apparaît entièrement retournée et que les deux concepts s’impliquent manifestement. Que deux intelligibilités différentes sont ici en cause et que l’âme peut être la raison du corps.

The third and concluding volume of Maurice Cowling's magisterial sequence examines three related strands of English thought - latitudinarianism, the Christian thought which has assumed that latitudinarianism gives away too much, and the post-Christian thought which has assumed that Christianity is irrelevant or anachronistic. As in previous volumes, Maurice Cowling conducts his argument through a series of encounters with individual thinkers, including Burke, Disraeli, the Arnolds, Tennyson and Tawney in the first half, and Darwin, Keynes, Orwell, Leavis and (...) Berlin in the second. Central to the whole is Mr Cowling's contention that the modern mind cannot escape from religion. Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England represents a massive contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern England, of interest to historians, literary and cultural critics, theologians, philosophers, economists, as well as to that broader reading public with a serious interest in the making of the English mental landscape. (shrink)

This is a basic work for students specializing in philosophy & for any scholar studying the works of Sartre.