Jacques Bouveresse (1940 -) is a French philosopher influenced by Wittgenstein, the Cercle of Vienna and the analytical Philosophie. It is in favor of an even satirical rationalist philosophy. He studied inter alia works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, of Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, the Philosophie of sciences, the Philosophie of knowledge, the Philosophie of mathematics, the logical and the language, the analytical Philosophie and the philosophy of the culture.

He is also known for critical works on what he considers intellectual Imposture S scientists and (French philosophy of years 70,80,90, and new philosophers) and on the press which controlled philosophy by producing a sensational philosophical journalism. Because of its criticisms towards Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, he was sometimes shown of resentment.

He is today professor with the Collège de France where he occupies the pulpit of Philosophie of the language and of the knowledge.

Biography

Born the August 20th 1940 with Épenoy in the Doubs (France) in a country family, Jacques Bouveresse makes his secondary studies with the seminar of Besancon. It spends two years of preparation to the baccalaureat of philosophy and philosophy scholastic to Faverney in Haute-Saône. It follows the literary preparatory classes to the Lycée Lakanal of Sceaux, and enters in 1961 to the National university (street of Ulm).

It supports its thesis of Doctorate of State of philosophy on Wittgenstein, entitled the myth of interiority. Experiment, significance and language deprived at Wittgenstein .

As of its first work, it constantly built its own intellectual and philosophical way, without following neither the modes, nor the academic boulevards. In 1976, Wittgenstein was practically unknown in France, just as Musil, logic, and analytical philosophy, than it had started to study as of the Sixties. These the last two fields were transmitted to him in particular by the courses of Jules Vuillemin and Gilles-Gaston Granger, which at the time was about the only ones to be concerned with these problems, and for which it kept a constant friendship. University career:

• 1966 - 1969: Assisting with the section of philosophy of the Sorbonne (sign the Logical )
• 1969 - 1971: Lecturer with the UER of Philosophy of the University Paris I
• 1971 - 1975: Detached with CNRS
• 1975 - 1979: University lecturer at the University Paris I
• 1979 - 1983: Professor with the University of Geneva
• 1983 - 1995: Professor with the University of Paris I
• Since 1995: Professor with the Collège de France where it is titular pulpit of philosophy of the language and knowledge .

Philosophy

Heir declared to the Rationalism of the Lights and the intellectual and philosophical tradition of Central Europe (Bolzano, Brentano, Boltzmann, Helmholtz, Frege, Cercle of Vienna, Kurt Gödel), the contemporary spirits which are close for him belong rather to the Anglo-Saxon world, where many intellectuals of Central Europe were exiled for the period Nazi.

The thought of Robert Musil

Jacques Bouveresse was interested in the thought of Robert Musil, writer Austrian (having made a thesis of philosophy) beginning of the XXe very known century for his novel the Man without qualities , like with the aversion-fascination of Paul Valéry for philosophy.

Incomplétude and philosophy

In addition to his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Bouveresse was interested in the Théorème of incomplétude of Kurt Gödel and in his philosophical consequences. They is for this reason that it rose, in Prodiges and a giddiness popularizing work of the analogy , against the use which makes Régis Debray of the theorem. Bouveress denounces there the literary distortion of a scientific concept to the profit of a thesis. This distortion does not have, according to him, an other goal to dazzle a public not having the formation making it possible to seize this complex theorem. What Bouveresse reproach in Debray is not the use of a scientific concept as a Analogie, but the use of a theorem of difficult access (it is about advanced mathematics) as attempt at absolute justification by this traditional Sophisme which is the Argument of authority.

The incomplétude of the formal system that some constitute mathematical systems does not imply of anything a incomplétude the Sociologie, which is not, by definition, a formal system.

Cycle 2006 at the Collège de France

Jacques Bouveresse gave to the Collège de France a cycle entitled: Kurt Gödel: mathematics, logic and philosophy Wednesdays, at 3 p.m., from February 1st, 2006 to May 10th, 2006.

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