Les origines de la philosophie du comme si

Nous traduisons l’article de Vaihinger « Wie die Philosophie des Als Ob entstand », paru dans Die deutsche Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Raymund Schmidt (éd.), Leipzig, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1921, tome 2, pp. 1–29. Cet article autobiographique retrace le parcours intellectuel de Hans Vaihinger dont la « philosophie du comme si », qui prend sa source majeure dans la pensée de Kant, connaît aujourd’hui une grande vitalité sous la figure du fictionalisme.Today Vaihinger’s philosophy of “as if” enjoys wide interest as part of the renaissance of fictionalism. We have translated Vaihinger’s article “Wie die Philosophie des Als Ob entstand” which appeared in Die deutsche Philosophie der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Raymund Schmidt (ed.), Leipzig, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1921, vol. 2, 1–29. This autobiographical article traces the intellectual development of Vaihinger, whose major inspiration was the philosophy of Kant

Extrait du chapitre XXVI de la Philosophie du comme si

Nous proposons une traduction française d’un extrait du chapitre XXVI de l’édition populaire de Die Philosophie des Als Ob de Hans Vaihinger (édition populaire, 1923). L’enjeu de ce texte est de manifester, d’une part, que l’utilisation de fictions est nécessaire au traitement de certains problèmes théoriques et pratiques. D’autre part, il montre qu’utiliser des fictions afin de résoudre certains problèmes théoriques (en l’occurrence, mathématiques) ne conduit pas à l’erreur, pourvu que l’on adopte “la méthode des erreurs antithétiques.”We propose a French translation of an extract from chapter XXVI of Vaihinger’s Philosophie des Als Ob (popular edition, 1923). The stake of this text is to manifest, on the one hand, that using fictions is necessary to deal with several theoretical and practical problems. On the other hand, it shows that using fictions in order to solve theoretical problems (here, mathematical ones) doesn’t lead to mistake, if we resort to “the method of opposite errors.

The Logic of the ‘As If’ and the Existence of God: An Inquiry into the Nature of Belief in the Work of Jacques Derrida

The religious thematics at play in the work of Jacques Derrida have often provided an ongoing platform from which to struggle with the entire scope of his work, thus moving the seemingly peripheral discourses on religion within his oeuvre to the center stage. Despite repeated attempts to come to terms both theologically and philosophically with the conditional nature of representations, the problematics of representation are perhaps nowhere more forcefully demonstrated than in the work of Derrida. Indeed, for Derrida, the ‘as if’, as a regulative principle directly appropriated and modified from its Kantian context, becomes the central lynchpin for understanding, not only Derrida’s philosophical system as a whole, but also his numerous seemingly enigmatic references to his ‘jewishness’, as I intend to demonstrate in what follows. Through an analysis of the function of the ‘as if’ within the history of thought, from Greek tragedy to the poetry of Wallace Stevens, I hope to show how Derrida can only appropriate his Judaic roots as an act of mourning that seeks to render the lost object as present, ‘as if’ it were incorporated by the subject for whom this act nevertheless remains an impossibility. As Derrida discerns within the poetry of Paul Celan, bringing a sense of presence/presentness to our experiences, and as a confirmation of the subject which the human being struggles to assert, is the poetic task par excellence. It is seemingly also, if Derrida is to be understood on this point, the only option left to a humanity wherein poetry comes to express what religious formulations can no longer justify

El nacimiento de la filosofía contemporánea

Departamento de Filosofí

El nacimiento de la filosofía contemporánea

Departamento de Filosofí