La Formation De L Esprit Scientifique {ReadingNotes}

La formation de l'esprit scientifique: contribution à une psychanalyse de la connaissance objective by Gaston Bachelard - ISBN 2711611507 - Vrin 1975 (9th edition)

Motivation

Interested in epistemology, head the dedicated week on France Culture, remembered seeing and selecting it from the house shelves.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• Discours préliminaire
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• I - La notion d'obstacle épistémologique - Plan de l'ouvrage
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• II - Le premier obstacle: l'expérience première
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• III - La connaissance générale comme obstacle à la connaissance scientifique
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• IV - Un exemple d'obstacle verbal : l'éponge - Extension abusive des images familières
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• V - La connaissance unitaire et Pragmatique comme obstacle à la connaissance scientifique
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• VI - L'obstacle substantialiste
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• VII - Psychanalyse du Réaliste
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• VIII - L'obstacle animiste
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• IX - Le mythe de la digestion
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• X - Libido et connaissance objective
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• XI - Les obstacles de la connaissance quantitative
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• XII - Objectivité scientifique et Psychanalyse
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See also

• Philosophy
• Wikipedia:Gaston Bachelard
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Bachelard
• http://web.rollins.edu/~jsiry/Bacelard'sParadox.html#note
• Autour de La formation de l'esprit scientifique by Michèle Pichon, Bulletin de l'Association des Amis de Gaston Bachelard, n°9, 2007

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

Despite the vocabulary of the time relating to psychoanalysis rather than psychology or even cognitive science, the question remain actual. Much progresses has been done including from the English analytical philosophy tradition but also sociology of science including from Latour, yet the idea of a scientist enclaved in his time and thus with a set of bias will probably keep on making sense.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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