Introduction: A Neglected Philosopher—Canguilhem Beyond Epistemology and the History of Science

Testa, Federico (2024) Introduction: A Neglected Philosopher—Canguilhem Beyond Epistemology and the History of Science. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 307 (1). pp. 5-26. ISSN 0048-8143

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Abstract

In his 1989 book Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason, Gary Gutting links Foucault to the so-called French school of historical epistemology. He proposes to read Foucault as a philosopher of science, aiming to transform the then dominant Anglophone reception of this thinker as a social critic. The two key figures Gutting mobilizes in his reading are Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem; whereas Bachelard was fundamentally “a philosopher of science who based his conclusions on historical studies, Canguilhem is primarily a historian of science, though one extremely sensitive to the philosophical presuppositions and implications of his work.”

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
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Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2024 01:35
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2025 17:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97845
DOI:	10.3917/rip.307.0005

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