Mosconi Jean

Biography

Born in 1942 in Besançon, former student of ENS Ulm, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Jean Mosconi is a State Doctor in Philosophy. After a period of secondary education, his academic career took place in Paris I, where he contributed, following Roger Martin and Jacques Bouveresse, to the organization and operation of the course of logic. His works are devoted to the history and philosophy of the formal sciences, considered mainly in their developments in the twentieth century.

Research Interest

The research activity of Jean Mosconi proceeds from a double conviction. On the one hand, thinking that philosophy learns from a reflection on the great concepts and results of modern logic and research on the fundamentals of mathematics, he considers that it must aim to conform to the high standards of mathematics. argumentative rigor instituted by the works of major logicians, from Frege and Russell to Gödel, Carnap, Quine and beyond. On the other hand, following the example of a French philosophical tradition in which he was formed, he believes that this reflection is enriched by the study of the history of the disciplines concerned, and that beyond the reconstitution essay From ancient conceptions, there is a true conceptual reciprocal clarification of the texts of the past and of contemporary scientific and philosophical problems.