- The archive according to Foucault. History according to Collingwood. Reminders
- A test case for the analysis of "question-answer complexes" (QACs): the "querelle des universaux"
- The ban on nominalism in Paris. The Edict of Senlis (1474)
- The construction of the "querelle" as a historical object: the role of Victor Cousin
- Cousin's thesis: separated from theology, scholastic philosophy is "all in" the quarrel between nominalism, realism and conceptualism
- The "problem of universals" is a continuation of the "problem of Ideas" (Plato's "problem"), in other words, the "problem of philosophy"
- Cousin's reading of Porphyry's Isagoge, "Introduction" to Aristotle's Categories
- Cousin's reduction of the three Porphyrian questions to the first: do genera really exist independently of individuals, or are they pure abstractions?
- Back to original text
- Difference between the original questionnaire and the statement of the problem of universals in Porphyry's commentators: are universals words, concepts or things?
- Two fundamental archaeological facts
- the scholastic statement of the problem of universals is the effect of a retrospective projection of the problem of the skopos (object, theme) of the Categories onto the Isagoge ;
- the origin of the interpretive scheme of the Categories' skopos is the distinction made in the Peri Hermeneias (16a1-18) between voices, affections of the soul and things
- The notion of "textual feedback ".
11:30 - 13:00
