Vincent Descombes
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Vincent Descombes (born 1948) is a contemporary 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 a very approachable 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.
See John Haugeland, Jerry Fodor, John McDowell, Andy Clark, Noam Chomsky, John Searle, Tim van Gelder, Jonathan Potter, George Lakoff.
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- Le platonisme, 1970
- L'inconscient malgré lui, 1977
- Le même et l'autre. Quarante-cinq ans de philosophie française (1933-1978), Editions de Minuit, 1979. Trans. Modern French Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-521-29672-2.
- Grammaire d'objets en tous genres, 1983. Trans. Objects of All Sourts: A Philosophical Grammar, Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2551-2.
- Proust: philosophie du roman, Editions de Minuit, 1987. Trans. Proust: Philosophy of the Novel, Stanford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8047-2000-2
- Philosophie par gros temps, 1989 Trans. The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophie of Current Events, Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-506681-2.
- La denrée mentale, 1995. Trans. The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism, Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-691-00131-6.
- Les Institutions du sens, 1996
- Le Complément de sujet, 2004
