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I am now being regularly invited by journal editors to give my opinion on submitted articles. Not surprisingly, these articles are more or less directly related to Zeno’s Paradoxes. Journal title Date Topic Advice given Journal for General Philosophy of Science Sep 2020 Zeno’s metrical paradox of extension Accepted with major revision Open Philosophy Oct […]
A new interpretation, closer to the original Greek text, of the ‘Flying Arrow’ argument will be proposed. The complex dialectic formed by the 4 arguments concerning motion will be exposed. Source of illustration image: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9non_d%27%C3%89l%C3%A9e#/media/Fichier:Zeno_of_Elea_Tibaldi_or_Carducci_Escorial.jpg
This summer, I had the pleasant surprise of being contacted by the editor of the “Journal for General Philosophy of Science” asking me if I would be willing to review a manuscript dealing with one of the Zenon paradoxes. I did not at all expect to be (already) solicited for this kind of activity since […]
This is not a fresh piece of information since I had noticed it in September 2019 (that is to say before the creation of this site): the first quote of my article on Zeno’s motion paradoxes can be found in a book… of math!! It is in the ‘Notable Writings’ section of the book ‘The […]
Thus, 6 years will have passed between the idea of exploring the possible link between Zeno’s paradoxes and thermal motion and the final acceptance of the article resulting from this idea. It’s certainly rather long, but it should be remembered that I was starting from almost nothing (i.e. that I had a big bibliographical research […]
UPDATE 05/05/20 : the scientific events being cancelled “until further notice” at the Sorbonne, this study day is also cancelled My participation proposal was selected for the “Illusion and Disillusionment” Study Day on June 16, 2020 organized by the Philo’Doctes association more info here (french) : http://philo-doctes.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article236 and there : http://philo-doctes.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article239 Source of illustration image: […]
Draft article in response to the article “When Science Confronts Philosophy: Three Case Studies” by Eric Dietrich: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10516-019-09472-9. It seems to me that including the case of the paradoxes of Zeno is not really wise compared to my own work (which E. Dietrich does not seem to have read) Connections between mathematics and the paradoxes […]
I am happy to have had the opportunity to present part of my research work during the conference on March 3 of the HiPhiS 2020 seminar cycle more info here (french) : https://epistemologie.umontpellier.fr/hiphis/conferences.html#4634 The main content of this presentation comes largely from my first article (Foundations of Science 2018) to which was added results from […]
The logical solution of Zeno’s paradoxes of motion The results of my work concerning the famous paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, where I conclude that they are in reality paradoxes of immobility! Why Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion are Actually About Immobility. Foundations of Science, 2018, 23 (4), pp.649-679. ⟨10.1007/s10699-017-9544-9⟩ Published on-line on Nov. 8th 2017 […]