Jules Vuillemin
| Jules Vuillemin | |
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| Born |
February 15, 1920 Pierrefontaine-les-Varans, Doubs |
| Died |
January 16, 2001 Les Fourgs, Doubs |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Collège de France |
Main interests | Logic, philosophy of science, epistemology |
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Jules Vuillemin (French: [vɥijmɛ̃]; February 15, 1920 – January 16, 2001) was a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the prestigious Collège de France, in Paris, from 1962 to 1990, succeeding to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Professor emeritus from 1991 to 2001.[1] He was an Invited Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (1968).[2]
At the Collège de France, Vuillemin introduced analytical philosophy to France.[3] Vuillemin’s thought had a major influence on Jacques Bouveresse's works.[4] Vuillemin himself vindicated the legacy of Martial Gueroult.
A friend of Michel Foucault, he supported his election at the Collège de France, and was also close to Michel Serres.
Life
After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he completed his agrégation in 1943, being received premier ex aequo alongside Tran Duc Thao. A student of Gaston Bachelard and Jean Cavaillès, he was however at first influenced by phenomenology and existentialism, before shifting towards study of logics and science. In 1962, he published a book titled The Philosophy of Algebra, dedicated to the mathematician Pierre Samuel, a member of the Bourbaki group, as well as to René Thom, to the physicist Raymond Siestrunck and to the linguist George Vallet. Vuillemin thought that any renewal of methods in mathematics influenced philosophy, thus relating the discovery of irrational numbers to platonism, algebraic geometry to cartesianism, infinitesimal calculus to Leibniz. Furthermore, he observed that philosophy had not yet taken into account the changes brought to mathematics by Joseph Louis Lagrange and Évariste Galois.
In 1968, he co-founded with Gilles-Gaston Granger the journal L’Âge de la Science.[5] He was one of the main commentators of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolph Carnap and Willard Van Orman Quine in France.[6]
Vuillemin also took an interest into aesthetics, beside writing several books on Kant, Anselm or on Diodorus's master argument (see problem of future contingents).
Jules Vuillemin’s Archives
The Jules Vuillemin's Archives are located in France at the Laboratoire d'Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré.[7]
Gilles-Gaston Granger is the president of the scientific committee of Jules Vuillemin's Archives.[8]
Bibliography
- Le Sens du destin, en collaboration avec Louis Guillermit, Neuchâtel, Éditions de La Baconnière, 1948.
- Essai sur la signification de la mort, Paris, PUF, 1948.
- L'Être et le travail. Les conditions dialectiques de la psychologie et de la sociologie, Paris, PUF, 1949.
- L'héritage kantien et la révolution copernicienne. Fichte — Cohen — Heidegger, Paris, PUF, 1954.
- Physique et métaphysique kantiennes, Paris, PUF, 1955, rééd. PUF, coll. Dito, 1987.
- Mathématiques et métaphysique chez Descartes, Paris, PUF, 1960, rééd. PUF, 1987.
- La Philosophie de l'algèbre, Vol. I : Recherches sur quelques concepts et méthodes de l'Algèbre Moderne. Paris, PUF, 1962, rééd. 1993.
- De la Logique à la théologie. Cinq études sur Aristote, Paris, Flammarion, 1967, nouvelle version remaniée et augmentée par l'auteur / editée et prefacée par T. Benatouil. - Louvain-La-Neuve, Peeters, 2008.
- Leçons sur la première philosophie de Russell, Paris, Armand Colin, 1968, in reference to The Principles of Mathematics.
- Rebâtir l'Université, Paris, Fayard, 1968.
- La logique et le monde sensible. Étude sur les théories contemporaines de l'abstraction, Paris, Flammarion, 1971.
- Le Dieu d'Anselme et les apparences de la raison, Paris, Aubier, 1971.
- Nécessité ou contingence. L'aporie de Diodore et les systèmes philosophiques, Paris, Minuit, 1984, réed. 1997.
- Éléments de poétique, Paris, Vrin, 1991.
- Trois Histoires de guerre, Besançon, Cêtre, 1992.
- Dettes, Besançon, Cêtre, 1992.
- L'intuitionnisme kantien, Paris, Vrin, 1994.
- Le Miroir de Venise, Paris, Julliard, 1995.
- « Nouvelles réflexions sur l'argument dominateur : une double référence au temps dans la seconde prémisse ». In : Philosophie 55 (1997), p. 14–30.
- Mathématiques pythagoriciennes et platoniciennes. Recueil d'études, Paris, Albert Blanchard, coll. Sciences dans l'histoire, 2001.
- English translations
- Necessity or Contingency. The Master Argument, Stanford, CSLI Publications, 1996
- What are Philosophical Systems? Cambridge University Press, 1986
References
- ↑ Collège de France.
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (1968).
- ↑ See 1962-1990. Résumés des cours et travaux, Annuaires du Collège de France, Paris.
- ↑ "Vuillemin's eulogy by Jacques Bouveresse" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved May 25, 2012.
- ↑ Bibliography
- ↑ Jules Vuillemin's Archives, "Description".
- ↑ Laboratoire d'Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré
- ↑ Jules Vuillemin's Archives.
Further reading
- G.G. Brittan Jr. (Hrsg.): Causality, Method and Modality. Essays in Honor of Jules Vuillemin. Dordrecht u.a.: Kluwer, 1991.
- Pierre Pellegrin and R. Rashed, Philosophie des mathématiques et théorie de la connaissance, l'oeuvre de Jules Vuillemin, Paris, Blanchard, 2005.
External links
- (French) Jules Vuillemin's Lectures
- (French) Jules Vuillemin’s Archives
- (French) Collège de France