Personality and mental time travel: A differential approach to autonoetic consciousness.Jordi Quoidbach,MichelHansenne &Caroline Mottet -2008 -Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4):1082-1092.detailsRecent research on autonoetic consciousness indicates that the ability to remember the past and the ability to project oneself into the future are closely related. The purpose of the present study was to confirm this proposition by examining whether the relationship observed between personality and episodic memory could be extended to episodic future thinking and, more generally, to investigate the influence of personality traits on self-information processing in the past and in the future. Results show that Neuroticism and Harm Avoidance (...) predict more negative past memories and future projections. Other personality dimensions exhibit a more limited influence on mental time travel . Therefore, our study provide an additional evidence to the idea that MTT into the past and into the future rely on a common set of processes by which past experiences are used to envision the future. (shrink)
Personality modulation of (un) conscious processing: novelty seeking and performance following supraliminal and subliminal reward cues.Gaëlle M. Bustin,Jordi Quoidbach,MichelHansenne &Rémi L. Capa -2012 -Consciousness and Cognition 21 (2):947-952.detailsThis study provides evidence that personality traits associated with responsiveness to conscious reward cues also influence responsiveness to unconscious reward cues. Participants with low and high levels of Novelty Seeking performed updating tasks in which they could either gain 1 euro or 5 cents. Gains were presented either supraliminally or subliminally at the beginning of each trial. Results showed that low NS participants performed better in the high-reward than in the low-reward condition, whereas high NS participants’ performance did not differ (...) between reward conditions. Interestingly, we found that low NS participants performed significantly better when rewards were presented unconsciously, whereas high NS participants’ performance did not differ whether reward cues were presented subliminally or supraliminally. Our findings highlight the necessity of taking personality into account in unconscious cognition research. They also suggest that individual differences might determine whether implicit and explicit motives have similar or complementary influences. (shrink)
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.Michel Foucault -1972-1977 - Vintage Books.detailsIn this remarkable bookMichel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance.
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews.Michel Foucault -1977 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.detailsBecause of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historianMichel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France; the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze; and an interview with Foucault (...) that appeared in the journal Actuel. Professor Bouchard has divided the book into three closely related sections. The four essays in Part One examine language as a "perilous limit" of what we know and what we are. The essays in the second part suggest the methodological guidelines to which Foucault subscribes, and they record, in the editor's words, "the penetration of the language of literature into the domain of discursive thought." The material in the last section is more obviously political than the essays. It treats language in use, language attempting to impart knowledge and power. Translated by the editor and Sherry Simon into fluent and lucid English, these essays will appeal primarily to students of literature, especially those interested in contemporary continental structuralist criticism. But because of the breadth of Foucault's interests, they should also prove valuable to anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and psychologists. (shrink)
Developing Global Leaders: Insights From African Case Studies.Michel Foucault -2019 - Springer Verlag.details“What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the juridical act, the process or the procedure in the broad sense, is the regulated development of a dispute. And the intervention of judges, their opinion or decision, is only ever an episode in this development. What defines the juridical order is the way in which one (...) confronts one another, the way in which one struggles. The rule and the struggle, the rule in the struggle, this is the juridical.” -Michel Foucault Penal Theories and Institutions is the titleMichel Foucault gave to the lectures he delivered at the Collège de France from November 1971 to March 1972. In these lecturesMichel Foucault presents for the first time his approach to the question of power that will be the focus of his research up to the writing of Discipline and Punish (1975) and beyond. His analysis starts with a detailed account of Richelieu’s repression of the Nu-pieds revolt (1639-1640) and then goes on to show how the apparatus of power developed by the monarchy on this occasion breaks with the system of juridical and judicial institutions of the Middle Ages and opens out onto a “judicial State apparatus”, a “repressive system”, whose function is focused on the confinement of those who challenge its order.Michel Foucault systemizes the approach of a history of truth on the basis of the study of “juridico-political matrices” that he had begun in the previous year’s lectures (Lectures on the Will to Know) and which is at the heart of the notion of “knowledge-power”. In these lectures Foucault develops his theory of justice and penal law. The appearance of this volume marks the end of the publication of the series Foucault’s courses at the Collège de France (the first volume of which was published in 1997). (shrink)
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Politics, philosophy, culture: interviews and other writings, 1977-1984.Michel Foucault -1988 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman.detailsPolitics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the lateMichel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution.
Arbor natus in paradiso… : un hymne carolingien (800) latiniforme de rythme romano-germanique.Michel Banniard -forthcoming -Rhuthmos.details« Rythmes et Croyances au Moyen-Âge » Journée d'études organisée par Marie Formarier et Jean-Claude Schmitt 23 juin 2012 – Paris Présentation : Cette journée d'études a eu pour objectif de faire dialoguer les diverses disciplines concernées par le rapport entre rythmes et croyances au Moyen-Âge. Elle a accueilli des historiens, des anthropologues, des sociologues, des philologues et des linguistes. Présents dans la langue latine et les langues vernaculaires, dans la rhétorique du sermon, la prière et (...) - Histoire – (...) NOUVELLE JOURNÉE d'ÉTUDES. (shrink)
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Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials.Michel Serres -2014 - New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.detailsThis book is an English-language translation of a bestselling book in France that explores the relationship between humans and new technologies.
Les anormaux: cours au Collège de France (1974-1975).Michel Foucault -1999 - Companyédition Gallimard/Seuil.detailsContient le résumé du cours publié dans l'"Annuaire du Collège de France", 76e année, Histoire des systèmes de pensée, année 1974-1975.
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Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993.Michel Callon -1994 -Science, Technology and Human Values 19 (4):395-424.detailsShould governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should be considered as a public good and for that reason it should be protected from market forces. This article tries to show that this result can only be maintained at the price of abandoning arguments traditionally deployed by economists themselves. It entails a complete reversal of our habitual ways of thinking about public goods. In order to bring (...) this reversal about, this article draws on the central results obtained by the anthropology and sociology of science and technology over the past several years. Science is a public good, not because of its intrinsic properties but because it is a source of diversity and flexibility. (shrink)
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Contextualizing French Multiculturalism and Racism.Michel Wieviorka -2000 -Theory, Culture and Society 17 (1):157-162.detailsDuring the last forty years, France has undergone a profound transformation, social, political, cultural and intellectual. This article locates Pierre Bourdieu's position on the French intellectual scene during these years. Analysing the relationship between general changes and Bourdieu's positions enables us to understand how the discussion of ideas can be perverted into a kind of sociological terrorism.
Life Explained.Michel Morange -2008 - Yale University Press.detailsIn this accessible and fascinating book,Michel Morange draws on recent advances in molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, astrobiology, and other disciplines to find today’s answers to the question of life.
Whitehead's Pancreativism: The Basics.Michel Weber -2006 - De Gruyter.detailsThere is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialized as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set (...) of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged. (shrink)
L'intégration : un concept en difficulté.Michel Wieviorka -2008 -Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie 125 (2):221.detailsLe concept d’intégration mérite-t-il toujours la place centrale que lui confère la sociologie classique, en particulier d’inspiration durkheimienne ou fonctionnaliste? Trois raisons d’en douter sont proposées ici : la montée en puissance des approches centrées sur le Sujet ; la crise des modèles dits d’ « intégration », anglais comme français ; la poussée d’identités collectives circulant dans d’autres espaces que celui d’État-nation.Does the concept of integration still deserve the forefront place classical sociology – particularly drawn from Durkheim or functionalism (...) – bestowed on it? The question opens up three avenues of investigation : an ever-increasing number of approaches focusing on the Subject ; the crisis of both English and French « integration » models ; the upsurge of collective identities in arenas outside the Nation-State. (shrink)
(2 other versions)Threats to academic freedom: The French case.Michel Wieviorka -2022 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (4):631-641.detailsAcademic freedom is currently threatened not only in dictatorial or authoritarian regimes but in democracies as well. Thus, this analysis of the contemporary French experience, in which we observe a destructive climate maintained by intellectuals and political actors on both the right and the left. The extremization, intolerance, and radicalization of debates have increased since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017. At the same time, university institutions often appear overwhelmed or powerless in the face of both internal and external (...) dangers. (shrink)
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Violencia Y crueldad.Michel Wieviorka -2003 -Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez 37:155-171.detailsThis w ork distinguishes bet w een violence used to attain a speci f ic purpose and violence intended or practice for itself. C r uelty is characterised as violence for violenc e' sa k e. Th e aim is to try to f ind an e xplanation for that c r uelty w hich can be described as absolute violence. F or that reason, reference is made to a series of books that h a v e dealt with the (...) subject that, in spite of allusions to other types of cruel t y , end b y speaking of militar y cr uelt y . An attempt to determine the 'functio n ' of c r uelty leads to an understanding of the conditions that ma k e it possi b le: impuni t y , fear and the culture of hate. F inal l y , the human being does not appear to be c r uel per se , but as someone w ho feels compelled to be so b y 'p o w er'. (shrink)
Replacing the Singlet Spinor of the EPR-B Experiment in the Configuration Space with Two Single-Particle Spinors in Physical Space.Michel Gondran &Alexandre Gondran -2016 -Foundations of Physics 46 (9):1109-1126.detailsRecently, for spinless non-relativistic particles, Norsen and Norsen et al. show that in the de Broglie–Bohm interpretation it is possible to replace the wave function in the configuration space by single-particle wave functions in physical space. In this paper, we show that this replacment of the wave function in the configuration space by single-particle functions in the 3D-space is also possible for particles with spin, in particular for the particles of the EPR-B experiment, the Bohm version of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiment.
Les secrets du vivant: contre la pensée unique en biologie.Michel Morange -2005 - Paris: Editions La Découverte.detailsAnnoncé à grand fracas, le décryptage do génome humain devait nous révéler le secret ultime de la vie et ouvrir la voie à de nouvelles thérapies miracles. Espoirs déçus : à l'ère de la post-génomique, les secrets du vivant sont maintenant recherchés dans les théories de la complexité, dans la convergence des efforts des biologistes, des physiciens et des mathématiciens. Comment comprendre la signification de cette succession rapide d'objectifs apparemment différents, de cette alternance d'espoirs et de désillusions? Dans ce livre (...) novateur,Michel Morange propose une clé pour rendre compte de ces difficultés, et de beaucoup d'autres analogues touchant toutes les branches de la biologie. Les annonces sensationnelles reflètent l'espoir toujours déçu qu'une explication unique pourrait suffire. Or les faits biologiques - comme ceux relevant de bien d'autres disciplines scientifiques -ne peuvent être expliqués par un principe d'intelligibilité unique. Exemples à l'appui et de façon très pédagogique,Michel Morange montre pourquoi des explications différentes doivent être articulées pour décrire le fonctionnement des macromolécules aussi bien que l'évolution humaine ou le développement des cancers. Admettre une idée aussi simple n'est pas évident, car tout scientifique a été formé à privilégier un principe d'intelligibilité particulier. L'articulation entre explications différentes est pourtant indispensable pour le progrès des connaissances ; elle est aussi une exigence éthique ; elle est requise pour que la science conserve sa place dans nos sociétés. (shrink)
Aristote et l'âme humaine: lectures de De anima III offertes àMichel Crubellier.Gweltaz Guyomarc'H.,Claire Louguet,Charlotte Murgier &Michel Crubellier (eds.) -2020 - Bristol, CT: Peeters.detailsEnglish summary: This volume offers a reading of Book III of De Anima, followed by thirteen chapters by leading specialists in Aristotelian philosophy. In this difficult book, which has not ceased to nourish the interpretations of commentators since antiquity, Aristotelian psychology, starting with the faculties that the human soul shares with the rest of the animals, rises to the cognitive functions by which man is distinguished from them. The thirteen studies in the form of a commentary on Book III of (...) De Anima invite us to enter into this Aristotelian exploration of the human soul. French description: Le volume Aristote et l'yme humaine. Lectures de De Anima III offertes aMichel Crubellier, propose une lecture suivie, par de grands specialistes de philosophie aristotelicienne, des treize chapitres qui composent le livre III du De Anima. Dans ce livre difficile, qui n'a cesse de nourrir les interpretations des commentateurs depuis l'Antiquite, la psychologie aristotelicienne, partant des facultes que l'yme humaine partage avec le reste des animaux, s'eleve jusqu'aux fonctions cognitives par lesquelles l'homme, cette fois, s'en distingue. Les treize etudes de ce volume, en forme de commentaire du livre III du De Anima, nous invitent a entrer dans cette exploration aristotelicienne de l'yme humaine. (shrink)
Strong Sustainability Ethics.Michel Bourban -2021 -Environmental Ethics 43 (4):291-314.detailsThis article explains how strong sustainability ethics has emerged and developed as a new field over the last two decades as a critical response to influential conceptions of weak sustainability. It investigates three competing, normative approaches to strong sustainability: the communitarian approach, the Rawlsian approach, and the capabilities approach. Although these approaches converge around the idea that there are critical, non-substitutable natural resources and services, they diverge on how to reconcile human development and environmental protection. The aim of the paper (...) is to provide a critical overview of these three perspectives, but also and mostly to show that when we put them into dialogue with each other, we can clarify the demands of sustainability. The paper concludes that the capabilities approach is the most suitable way to think about sustainability, but only if it goes beyond its dominantly anthropocentric view. (shrink)