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Vincent Descombes

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January 01, 1943 in France

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http://rll.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/descombes....

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Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Vincent Descombes is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about the brain.

Descombes has also written an introduction to modern French philosophy (Le même et l'autre) focused on the transition, after 1960, from a focus on the three H's, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger to the "three masters of suspicion", Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.

Vincent Descombes teaches at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron, part of the École des...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 22 ratings · 3 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Modern French Philosophy 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Proust: Philosophie Du Roman 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	My rating:
	Le Meme Et L'autre: Quarante Cinq Ans De Philosophie Francaise (1933 1978) (Collection Critique) (French Edition) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	complément de sujet: enquête sur le fait d'agir de soi-même 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Le Raisonnement De L'ours 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Philosophie Par Gros Temps (Collection "Critique") 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Les Institutions Du Sens 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	La Denrée Mentale 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	Le Platonisme 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating: