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French Philosophy of Science, Structuralist Epistemology, and the Problem of the Subject
Author(s) -
Eyers Tom
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12060
Subject(s) - vision , subject (documents) , ideology , philosophy of science , epistemology , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , relation (database) , sociology , philosophy , anthropology , law , political science , politics , chemistry , biochemistry , database , library science , computer science , gene
This article examines the multiple relations between the rationalist tradition of F rench philosophy of science exemplified by the work of G aston B achelard, and the rethinking of the relation between science and ideology undertaken by L ouis A lthusser and a young A lain B adiou in the 1960s. Both B achelard and A lthusser are interrogated for the philosophy of language that underpins their respective visions of scientificity; in turn, the problem of the subject is posed, in part through an investigation of A lthusser's inheritance and transformation of L acanian psychoanalysis.