Plenitude and contingency: modal concepts in nineteenth century french philosophy

For I shall want to reinforce my thesis that dramatic narrative is the crucial form for the understanding of human action and I shall want to argue that natural science

In Diderot’s metaphysics of the senses, all the different senses “are just a diversifi ed touch” and sight, the eidetic sense, is the idealist sense: “How deceptive the eye

Mientras que un programa computacional es un proceso causalmente relacionado que tiene lugar en una computadora física, la especificación es una unidad de análisis más bien abstrac-

Concept is therefore not a free creation of the human spirit (as certain math- ematicians have affirmed, Cantor and Dedekind in particular). Concept, or expression, or meaning, is

39 Precisely for these two points, see Alain Corbin, ‘‘Les paysans de Paris: Histoire des Limousins du bâtiment au XIXe siècle,’’ Ethnologie française 10 (1980): 169–76;

Car la volonté est l’acte qui permet à la conscience de rejoindre son principe, l’élan qui l’anime : la « torsion du vouloir sur lui-même 2 », l’effort douloureux

In the Southern variety, the absence of low-mid (half-open) front vowels in final open syllables (in words like béquet, Bobet), and the lack of high-mid (half-closed) vowels in

French sociologist Bruno Latour is another, who argues the examination of science in a sociological context has not yet transcended the "fact position"–that factors such