Beyond the Death of Philosophy
Beyond the Death of Philosophy
This chapter shows how it is possible to go beyond the theme of the death of philosophy. The law of self-reference brings to light an a priori principle that was not thematized by Immanuel Kant nor by the logical positivists. This a priori, which does not fall under simple formal logic, makes possible judgments about the consistency of a system or a certain type of proposition and thereby enables the creation, from itself, of a logic of production structured by a revived transcendental argument. This principle of self-referentiality makes it possible to avoid the oscillation so characteristic of contemporary philosophy between skepticism and positivism. Thanks to the reflexive a priori, a definition of philosophy as science became possible without indexing its methods and problems to a given existing science. The chapter also examines a theory of signification, which can be understood either in terms of the semantic triangle or from a consideration of saying within the said, which can take the form of a pragmatic theory of the utterance or else the form of a phenomenological theory of signification.
Keywords: death of philosophy, self-reference, Immanuel Kant, transcendental argument, contemporary philosophy, skepticism, positivism, reflexive a priori, theory of signification
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