How Can Sciences of History Be Real?
Wednesday sessions, from January to summer 2021: ‘hard’ sciences and sciences of history, Wagner’s Ring, ‘from signal to sign’, ‘artificial intelligence’ with Christophe Denis, Nerval and Baudelaire.
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9 #11 How can sciences of history be real?
How can sciences of history, that is, sciences of the human subject, attain a rigor really comparable to that of the sciences of nature?
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9 #12 How can sciences of history be real?
How can understanding, the faculty of the sciences and of the "if… then," axiologically neutral, be put to the service of evil, and how does Wagner's Das Rheingold show this?
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9 #13 How can sciences of history be real?
How can sciences of history have a rigor with nothing to envy in the hard sciences, and what does Wagner's Das Rheingold show on this subject?
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9 #14 How can sciences of history be real?
How can sciences of history be real, if the determinism of the natural sciences seems to exclude freedom?
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9 #15 How can sciences of history be real?
How does a mythic narrative such as Wagner's Ring, taken at its midpoint, reveal a rigorous logic, an "algebra" of gold and love, that the sciences of history and culture can bring out?
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9 #16 How can sciences of history be real?
How can sciences of history be real, and how has the relation of the sciences to philosophy evolved since Aristotle's philosophical imperialism?
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9 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani
Under what conditions is a discourse scientific, and how does science turn into scientism when applied to the human world?
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9 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation
How does Wagner's Twilight of the Gods move from the circular time of fate, in which everything repeats, to the freedom of the world of men?
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9 #19 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation • Part 2
How does the last act of Twilight of the Gods move from the cyclical repetition of myth to a woman's knowledge and the reign of man?
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9 #20 From SIGNAL to SIGN • Einstein
How can one cross the abyss between the natural sciences and the historical sciences, and how is it that statements drawn from language alone apply to the world?
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9 #21 Science and/or philosophy of "Artificial Intelligence"
What should be understood by "artificial intelligence," and what separates a machine that simulates intelligence from a being who speaks, doubts, and sets itself ends?
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9 #22 Science and/or philosophy of "artificial intelligence" - Part 2
What distinguishes man from an "intelligent" machine, and how do debates on artificial intelligence take up problems already posed by Descartes?
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9 #23 "Ruled like music paper!" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss
How can it be shown that the historical sciences have an object as rigorously determinable as that of the natural sciences?
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9 #24 "Ruled like music paper!" • Nerval • Baudelaire • Part 2
What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?