C.I. Lewis: The A Priori and the Given - Hardcover
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This edited collection explores the philosophy of C.I. Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The essays in this volume probe Lewis's new account of the relation between the a priori and the given in dialogue with other notable figures in twentieth-century philosophy.
Quentin Kammer is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, and member of the research center "Sciences, Philosophie, Humanites." Defended in 2018, his PhD dissertation focuses on Nelson Goodman's conception of the rightness of projection. He, along with Henri Wagner, translated in French, Lewis's "A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori " and Goodman's "Snowflakes and Wastebaskets" devoted to Lewis's pragmatism.
Jean-Philippe Narboux is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. His recent articles include "Is Self-Consciousness Consciousness of One's Self?," in Wittgenstein and Phenomenology (Routledge, 2018), "Anscombe's Account of Voluntary Action in Intention " ( Enrahonar , 2020), and "Conceptual Truth, Necessity, and Negation" ( The Monist , 2020).
Henri Wagner is Lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. He mainly works on philosophy of logic and language. He is the editor of Hilary Putnam (Klēsis , no. 47, 2020) and has recently published "The Significance of the Division of Linguistic Labor" ( The Monist , volume 103, Issue 4, October 2020, 381-390).
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