Application of biological and neuropsychological data to epistemology, in the light of the theories of biological autonomy. By Jean-Claude Tabary, 1990-2005.
Jean-Claude Tabary is a medical doctor, specialized in neuropsychiatry, graduated in psychology. He was resident at the Harvard Medical School, professor with the Paris-West Faculty of Medicine (University Paris V), part-time lecturer to the INETOP and in U.E.R.des Sciences of Education. He ensured 20 years the medical direction of a C.M.P.P., and worked in Handicaped Institute (IMP) near handicapped children. He led neurophysiology and neuropsychology researches in INSERM [publications]. Its epistemological thoughts started from Piaget's discoveries, were updated according to recent neuropsychology assets. They suggest that Plato's realism is not a reasonable starting point for the definition of the thought.
First chapter only has been translated in English. The other chapters are available in French: html (use Google or Babelfish automatic translating tools to get it in English), and pdf (better printout).
BOOK 2005
THESE 1993 To download the whole thesis in French (pdf version, 508 pages, 4 M)
- Introduction - (Intro. pdf)
- Chapter 1 - Realism & Epistemology (in English) - (Chap.1 pdf)
- Chapter 2 - Biological Autonomy - (Chap.2 pdf)
- Chapitre 3 - L'Autonomy Explains Development - (Chap.3 pdf)
- Chapitre 4 - Theories of Autonomy & of Knowledge - (Chap.4 pdf)
- Chapitre 5 - Neurological Assimilation of Incoming Information - (Chap.5 pdf)
- Chapitre 6 - Knowledge & Constitutional Reference - (Chap.6 pdf)
- Chapitre 7 - Knowledge & Development - (Chap.7 pdf)
- Chapitre 8 - Information Theory & Biological Autonomy - (Chap.8 pdf)
- Chapitre 9 - Autonomy & Hierarchy - (Chap.9 pdf)
- Chapitre 10 - Degenerescence, Plasticity & Variation - (Chap.10 pdf)
- Chapitre 11 - Knowledge, Conscience & Subjectivity - (Chap.11 pdf)
- Chapitre 12 - Knowledge & Discourse - (Chap.12 pdf)
- Chapitre 13 - Autonomy in Knowledge Theory - (Chap.13 pdf)
- Conclusion - (Concl. pdf)
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