Georges Canguilhem: Una filosofía de lo biológicamente posible

María Luisa Bacarlett Pérez

Resumen


Georges Canguilhem: a philosophy of what is biologicaly possible

Georges Canguilhem defined his philosophical work on life science as an epistemological history of concepts; its virtue being that these can be better seen when associated with the phenomena of life, itself fluctuating and plastic. A concept does not merely fulfill a nominal role, but has an axiological and normative function, inasmuch as it expresses what must be true and possible. Thus, each concept delimits what will be assumed as possible within a certain parcel of reality that the concept intends to declare as truth. What is possible to conceive and observe within one concept is not the same as what is accessible from another.

 

Key words: Epistemology, history of sciences, life sciences, conceptual dynamics, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of biology, normative concepts, biological possibility, error in science.

 

 


Texto completo:

PDF

Referencias


Badiou, Alain (1997), Deleuze. “El clamor del ser”, Buenos Aires: Manantial.

Braunstein, Jean-François (2000), “Canguilhem avant Canguilhem”, Revue d’histoire des sciences vol. 53, no. 1: 9-26.

Canguilhem, Georges (1967), “Le vivant”, Revue de l’enseignement philosophique vol. 18, no. 2: 65-72.

Canguilhem, Georges (1977), La formation du concept de réflexe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Paris: Vrin.

Canguilhem, Georges (1978), “Une pédagogie de la guérison est-elle possible?”, Nouvelle revue de psychanalyse no. 17: 13-26.

Canguilhem, Georges (1990), La santé. Concept vulgaire et question philosophique, Toulouse: Sables.

Canguilhem, Georges (1992), La connaissance de la vie, Paris: Vrin.

Canguilhem, Georges y Alain Badiou (1993), “Philosophie et science”, entrevista en Cahiers Philosophiques, Hors Série: 21-31.

Canguilhem, Georges (1994), Etudes d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences concernant les vivants et la vie, Paris: Vrin.

Canguilhem, Georges (1998), Le normal et le pathologique, Paris: PUF.

Dagognet, François (1997), Georges Canguilhem. Philosophe de la vie, Le Plesis-Robinson: Institut Synthélabo.

Debru (1998), “Georges Canguilhem et la rationalité du pathologique”, Annales d’histoire et de philosophie du vivant vol. 1: 39-58.

Deleuze, Gilles (1968), Différence et repetition, Paris: PUF.

Foucault, MIchel (1971), L’ordre du discours, Paris: Gallimard.

Foucault, MIchel (2001), Dits et écrits, 1976–1988, Paris: Gallimard.

Grene, Marjorie (2000), “The philosophy of science of Georges Canguilhem”, Revue d’histoire des sciences vol. 53, no. 1: 47-63.

Huet, Marie-Hélène (1993), Monstrous Imagination, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Jacob, François (1981), Le jeu des possibles. Essai sur la diversité du vivant, Paris: Fayard.

Latour, Bruno (1989), La science en action. Introduction à la sociologie des sciences, Paris: La Découverte.

Le Blanc, Guillaume (1998), Canguilhem et les normes, Paris: PUF.

Roger, Jacques (1993), Las sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIII siècle: la génération des animaux de Descartes à l’Encyclopédie, Paris: Albin Michel

Saint-Sernin, Bertrand (1985), “Une épistémologie du concept: Georges Canguilhem”, Cahiers Philosophiques no. 23: 7-14.

Shildrick, Margrit (2000), “Maternal imagination: reconceiving first impressions”, Rethinking History vol. 4., no. 3: 243-260.

Todd, Dennis (1995), Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth Century England, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


Enlaces refback

  • No hay ningún enlace refback.


Revista semestral editada por el Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos
y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano
de la Secretaría de Educación Pública,
la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa y Edicions UIB de la Universitat de les Illes Balears.

Lombardo Toledano 51, Col. Ex-Hda. Guadalupe Chimalistac,
Del. Alvaro Obregón, C.P. 01050, México, D.F.
Tels. (5255) 5661-4679 y 5661-4987
Fax: (5255) 5661-1787