As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science ...and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise of modern biology. How do transformations in biology and modern medicine shape conceptions of life? How do philosophical concepts feed into biological ideas and experimental practices, and how are they themselves transformed? How does knowledge "undo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him or outside of him?" Knowledge of Life is Canguilhem's effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other. Published at the dawn of the genetic revolution and still pertinent today, the book tackles the history of cell theory, the conceptual moves toward and away from mechanical understandings of the organism, the persistence of vitalism, and the nature of normality in science and its objects.
At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, ...and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, and Gilles Deleuze. This collection of short, incisive, and highly accessible essays on the major concepts of modern medicine shows Canguilhem at the peak of his use of historical practice for philosophical engagement. In order to elaborate a philosophy of medicine, Canguilhem examines paramount problems such as the definition and uses of health, the decline of the Hippocratic understanding of nature, the experience of disease, the limits of psychology in medicine, myths and realities of therapeutic practices, the difference between cure and healing, the organism's self-regulation, and medical metaphors linking the organism to society. Writings on Medicine is at once an excellent introduction to Canguilhem's work and a forceful, insightful, and accessible engagement with elemental concepts in medicine. The book is certain to leave its imprint on anthropology, history, philosophy, bioethics, and the social studies of medicine.
If a definition of health were possible without reference to some explicit knowledge, where would we seek its foundation? In this essay Georges Canguilhem takes up this question within philosophy, ...science, and medicine, exposing the assumptions necessary for various notions of health to be activated in relation to the human organism-notions that are at best inexact.
Descartes y la técnica Georges Canguilhem; Natalia Lorio (Trad.)
Epistemología e historia de la ciencia,
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La actividad técnica, ¿es una simple prolongación del conocimiento objetivo -como se ha dado a pensar comúnmente desde la filosofía positivista-, o bien es la expresión de un “poder” original, ...creador en el fondo, y por el cual la ciencia elaboraría, a veces después, un programa de desarrollo o un código de precauciones? La filosofía cartesiana parece haber abordado ese problema importante y haber considerado la relación de la teoría y la práctica de manera más amplia y matizada de lo que creemos generalmente, por lo que tenemos derecho a pensar que la reflexión sobre la significación de la técnica es central en el sistema cartesiano.
Descartes y la técnica Georges Canguilhem; Natalia Lorio (Trad.)
Epistemología e historia de la ciencia,
06/2018, Letnik:
2, Številka:
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La actividad técnica, ¿es una simple prolongación del conocimiento objetivo -como se ha dado a pensar comúnmente desde la filosofía positivista-, o bien es la expresión de un “poder” original, ...creador en el fondo, y por el cual la ciencia elaboraría, a veces después, un programa de desarrollo o un código de precauciones? La filosofía cartesiana parece haber abordado ese problema importante y haber considerado la relación de la teoría y la práctica de manera más amplia y matizada de lo que creemos generalmente, por lo que tenemos derecho a pensar que la reflexión sobre la significación de la técnica es central en el sistema cartesiano.
Vida = Life Canguilhem, Georges; Jaquet, Gabriela Menezes
Veritas (Porto Alegre),
01/2015, Letnik:
60, Številka:
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Em 1973, Georges Canguilhem publica, na Encyclopédie Universalis, um extenso verbete histórico do conceito Vida na biologia e nas ciências da vida. A seguinte tradução do verbete é baseada na segunda ...edição, reimpressão publicada em 1989, nas páginas 546-553
The brain and thought Canguilhem, Georges
Radical philosophy,
03/2008
148
Journal Article
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This article was first presented as a lecture at the Sorbonne organised by the Mouvement universel pour la responsabilite scientifique in December 1980. In it, Canguilhem argues that language is ...essentially a semantic function that physicalist kinds of analysis have never managed to explain. Meaning or sense is not a relation between, but a relation to. That is why it escapes every attempt to reduce it to an organic or mechanical configuration. So-called intelligent machines are machines that produce relations between sets of data that we provide to them, but they are not in relation to what he user intends to do on the basis of the relationships that the machine produces. Because meaning is a relation to, people can play with it, twist it, feign it, lie, set traps, and so on.
Georges Canguilhem Traducción del francés al español de Luis Alfonso Palau Castaño Los amigos de G. Friedmann conocen de la continuidad, la paciencia y el escrúpulo con los que él ha conducido, ...durante muchos años, sus investigaciones sobre los problemas de la racionalización técnica y del maquinismo, la probidad con la que él ha hecho el aprendizaje de la conducción de máquinas modernas. En consecuencia, la extraordinaria densidad de su obra sobre los Problemas humanos del maquinismo industrial no ha sido para ellos una sorpresa. Para todos, es una revelación.
Health Canguilhem, Georges
Writings on Medicine,
06/2012
Book Chapter
“Who among us did not speak of what is healthy and what is harmful before the arrival of Hippocrates?” This is how Epictetus, in hisDiscourses, argues for the popular pertinence of an a priori notion ...of the healthy and of health— a health whose relation to objects or behavior, moreover, he considers to be uncertain.¹ If we were to allow that such a definition of health might be possible without reference to some explicit knowledge, where would we seek its foundation?
It would be inappropriate, here in Strasbourg,² to offer you some reflections on health without recalling the definition
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