Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard
Born(1884-06-27)27 June 1884
Bar-sur-Aube, France
Died16 October 1962(1962-10-16) (aged 78)
Paris, France
Education
EducationUniversity of Paris
(B.A., 1920;[1] Dr. ès L., 1927)
Doctoral advisorAbel Rey
Léon Brunschvicg
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy[3]
French historical epistemology[4]
InstitutionsUniversity of Dijon[2]
University of Paris
Main interestsHistorical epistemology
constructivist epistemology, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of art, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, education
Notable ideasEpistemological break, the poetics of space, rational materialism,[5] technoscience
(techno-science)[6][7]
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Gaston Bachelard (/bæʃəˈlɑːr/; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.[8] He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique and rupture épistémologique). He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.

For Bachelard, the scientific object should be constructed and therefore different from the positivist sciences; in other words, information is in continuous construction. Empiricism and rationalism are not regarded as dualism or opposition but complementary, therefore studies of a priori and a posteriori, or in other words reason and dialectic, are part of scientific research.[9]

  1. ^ Chimisso, Cristina (2013) Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination. Routledge. p. 51. ISBN 9781136453885
  2. ^ Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998): "Bachelard, Gaston (1884-1962)".
  3. ^ Mullarkey, John and Lord, Beth eds. (2009). The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. London: Continuum. p. 211. ISBN 0826498302
  4. ^ Reck, E. ed. (2016) The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy. Springer. Ch. 2.1. ISBN 978-0230201538
  5. ^ Mary Tiles, Bachelard: Science and Objectivity, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 173.
  6. ^ A term for the combination of technology and science as disciplines coined in 1953 by Bachelard; see: Bachelard, Gaston (1953) La materialisme rationel. Paris: PUF
  7. ^ Ihde, Don (1999) Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science, Northwestern University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0810116065
  8. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers. London: Routledge. 1996. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-415-06043-5.
  9. ^ Lima, Marcos Antonio Martins; Marinelli, Marcos (13 July 2011). "A epistemologia de Gaston Bachelard: uma ruptura com as filosofias do imobilismo". Revista de Ciências Humanas. 45 (2). doi:10.5007/2178-4582.2011v45n2p393.

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