000 01887cam a2200241 4500500
005 20250121124755.0
041 _afre
042 _adc
100 1 0 _aFedi, Laurent
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aThe Psychology of the Scientific Mind in the Works of Bachelard and his Predecessors
260 _c2017.
500 _a14
520 _aThis article puts the psychology of the scientific mind back in its rightful context, after having been obscured when epistemology diverged from psychology. At the intersection of genetic psychology and the history of science, some of the philosophers who dealt with the scientific mind before Bachelard approached it from the viewpoint of behavioural studies. Gaston Bachelard adopts the latter perspective in order to show how scientific practice is a situated, embodied activity. He takes over from now-forgotten philosophers such as Louis Gérard-Varet, who presented scientific knowledge as a prohibition of primitive assertions. Pursuing in his own way the constructivist epistemology of his predecessors, Bachelard does not identify his approach with that used in empirical psychology. He responds to the charge of psychologism in the same way as Léon Brunschvicg, his precursor, and as Jean Piaget, his contemporary. The purpose of this study is to shed light on and to contextualise Bachelard’s thinking, avoiding the distortion brought about by retrospective patterns of interpretation.
690 _aconstructivist epistemology
690 _ascientific mind
690 _apsychology
690 _aLouis Gérard-Varet
690 _aGaston Bachelard
690 _aLéon Brunschvicg
690 _aJean Piaget
786 0 _nRevue d’histoire des sciences | Volume 70 | 1 | 2017-07-11 | p. 175-216 | 0151-4105
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-des-sciences-2017-1-page-175?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
999 _c563819
_d563819