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Marie-Hélène GORISSE |
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last updated on 07/01/2010 |
PhD-Student PhD grant (Government
Department of Education) University lecturer in Philosophy and Ancient
languages and cultures Departments Department of
Philosophy Bâtiment B, Bureau: B4-142b Domaine Universitaire du " Pont du Bois http://www.illc.uva.nl/medlogic/DDAHL/index.html http://seminaire-interpretation-lille3.blogspot.com http://pragmadial.blogspot.com/ |
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Research supervisor
: Prof. Dr. Shahid Rahman |
Research interests: Indian philosophy of logic Meaning and argumentation Sanskrit |
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Project for the PhD-Dissertation
: “The art of
non-one-sidedness : the epistemological pluralism of the Jainas”. PhD-Supervisor: Shahid Rahman The dissertation will include a traduction of
the Chapter on the nayavâda (theory
of viewpoints), on the syâdvâda (theory of knowledge statements
behavior within a debate) and on the patravâda (theory of aphorisms) of
the Prameyakamalamârtanda, Clarifications on the manifestation of the
objects of knowledge, eleventh century work from the Jain Prabhâcandra.
Our project is to propose a reading of Jain
texts in philosophy of knowledge and argumentation (that is to say Jain texts
of logic) using modern conceptual tools. This is important to stress the
motives of such a dialogue between two temporally and geographically distant
traditions. On one hand, it is a project of translation that aims at reaching
an understanding of Indian classical texts by replacing their issues in a context
in which a contemporaneous reader can posit himself. On the other hand, this is
the project of pursuing both these classical discussions and actual ones. For
example, communication and interaction form the core of Jain analysis and
draw a link between logic and theory of argumentation. One consequence of
this is the contextualized notion of truth the Jainas handle. Now, while the
occidental modern view was more used to stress derivations and proofs, an
alternative has been developed for the past decades: by making use of some
game-theoretical concepts, logic can again be thought of in terms of
interaction between agents. From this, not only most recent logics are more
fitted to express classical Indian issues; but too these well-tried ancient
texts may revealed usefull for the development of
these new approaches. Jain philosophers
develop, principally from the ninth up to the thirteenth century, a theory of viewpoints according
to which a knowledge statement can never be considered as universally valid because
it is always performed within and dependent upon a given perspective, at both
theoretical and material levels. Within the Jain global soteriological
project of dissoluting ignorance, this theory of viewpoints require another
theory which is a
tentative of epistemological closure in the sense that it amounts to the
integration of all different possible perspectives on the object of knowledge in the dialogic of an epistemological
negotiation. This theory is the theory of knowledge statements behavior within a
debate. The main import of this theory is to enable one to take the context
into account when asserting a thesis. In nowadays terms, it would
be quite natural to understand such a theory from a modal perspective. But
the conceptions of Jain philosophers do not seem to match the standard conceptions
in modal logic. First of all, the contextualisation process in Jain logic is
not about propositions but about objects that are subjects of a predication. This
is an ontology. And secondly, the contextualisation
process is performed outside the object language, on the semantical values
themselves. Our project is therefore to propose a reading of the theory of
viewpoints in order to stress what this contextualisation is really about
and, from this, to develop a logical system able to deal with the whole
theory of knowledge statements behavior within a debate. The first step
of our project is to provide the Jain theory with a formal theory of meaning
focusing on argumentative practices because their approach does not seem to
be compatible with the formal model-theoretic theory of meaning. We will do
so by means of a Dialogical implementation. The reason for this is that the
Dialogical approach stresses the importance of the choices of a player (an agent)
in the construction of meaning. And it can do so in a way that makes explicit
some ontological assumptions of this player. Hence, this approach seems to be
a good candidate to express the philosophical and technical issues involved
in the context-sensitive theory developed by the Jainas. |
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Subjects of the Masters : Master 1: “Nâgârjuna and logical
pluralism”, supervised by Shahid Rahman and Judit Törzsök. The dissertation includes an original translation
of the Vigrahavyâvartanî, the treatrise to keep one away from vain
discussions, of the Buddhist Nâgârjuna. Master 2: “Jain logical pluralism”, supervised by Shahid Rahman and Judit
Törzsök. |
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Publications :
On line version at http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/sitespersonnels/rahman/rahmantextesenligne.html [2] “The art of
non-asserting: dialogue with Nâgârjuna”, Proceedings of the third colloquium “Indian
Conference on Logic and its Applications”, in Springer Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence, Vol.5378, R. Ramanujam and S. Sarukkai (eds.), FoLLi
series, Springer, 2009, pp. 257-268. [3] (with Matthieu Fontaine & Shahid Rahman) “Dynamique
Dialogique: Lecture d'une controverse entre logiciens jaïns et grammairiens
en Inde classique”, to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop “Games,
Dialogues and Interactions”, held in Paris in September 2009. Submitted: [4] (with
Nicolas Clerbout) “Context-sensitivity in Jain strategical Dialogues”. |
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Communications:
[12] Seminar (logic and linguistic) SIGNES ‘Signification Dialogique des opérateurs temporels : lecture d’une controverse entre logiciens jaïns et grammairiens en Inde classique’. Bordeaux (France), 11 Jan.10. [11] Workshop (historical logic) “A day of Indian Logic” as part of the activities of the Lille-Amsterdam work team DDAHL. ‘Epistemic Contextualism and Jain theory of knowledge assertions’ with P.VanOrmondt (ILLC); and ‘Jain Logic: a Dialogical perspective’ with N.Clerbout (STL). Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2 Nov.09. [10] Colloquium (logic) “Games, Dialogues and
Interactions”, as part of
the ANR PRELUDE. ‘Dynamique Dialogique:
Lecture d'une controverse entre logiciens jaïns et grammairiens en Inde
classique’. Paris
(France), 28-30 Sept.09. [9] Colloquium (indianism) WSC “13th
World Sanskrit Conference”, Jain Section. ‘Prabhâcandra’s shabdanaya: criticizing the
grammarians from a logical point of view’. Kyôto (Japan), 1-5 Sept.09. [8] Colloquium (logic) ICLA “The third Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications” organized by R.Ramanujam and S.Sarukkai. ‘The art of non-asserting: dialogue with Nâgârjuna’. Chennai (India), 9-11 Jan.09. [7] Workshop
(indianism) “logiques
indiennes” organized by P.Haag (EHESS). ‘L’argumentation en contexte : dialogue avec les Jaïns’. Paris
(France), 21 Nov.08. [6] Seminar (logic) “Reference”,
organized by M.-H.Gorisse and J.Jacot. ‘Le problème de la référence
intentionnelle chez les Jainas’. Lille (France), 11 June 08. [5] Workshop (logic) “Autour de la ludique, du dialogue et des
interactions”organized by A.Lecomte as part of the ANR PRELUDE. ‘L’art de ne
pas asserter : dialogue avec Nâgârjuna’. Grenoble (France), 21-23 May 08. [4] Seminar (Indian linguistic) “La pratique du commentaire sanskrit” organized
by P.Haag (EHESS). ‘Le sabda-naya jaïn : critique des grammairiens d’un
point de vue logique’. Paris (France), 11 Febr.08. [3] Seminar (transversal : philosophico-linguistic) “Traduction” organized by
A.Balvet, F.Blaise and C.Berner (STL). ‘Traduction et spécificités du système formel d’ancrage : le cas
du sanskrit’. Lille (France), 9 Nov.07. [2] Colloquium (logic) “The Unity of Science: non
traditional Approaches”. ‘The unity of knowledge in the
epistemology and the logic of the Jainas’. Lisboa (Portugal), 25-28 Oct.06. [1] Colloquium (scientific
vulgarization) “The Second International Congress on Reciprocal Knowledge” organized by
Transcultura with U.Eco. ‘Unity in diversity: towards a dialogical
reconstruction of the epistemological pluralism of the logic of the Jainas’. Goa,
Pondichéry and New-Delhi (India), 17-24 Oct.05. |
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Teachings: - Propositional Logic (2006-07-08-09). -
Scientifical Culture (Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, Descartes’s Optique and Diderot’s Rêve de d’Alembert (2007-08-09). -
Sanskrit for DUFL, levels 1, 2 and 3 (2008-09). - Indian
Culture, on Jain philosophy of knowledge and argumentation (2008-09). - No teaching scheduled in 2010 (redaction of my Phd-dissertation). |
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Organization of events in Lille
3: - Workshop “Dialogues and Games :
Historical Roots and Contemporary Models”, 8-9 February 2010. http://www.illc.uva.nl/medlogic/DDAHL/DiG.html - A
day with Amita Chatterjee (université Jadavpur), 21 September 2009. http://astikyanastikya.blogspot.com/ - A
day with Pascale Haag and Emilie Aussant, -
Seminar “Interprétation” (with
L.Keiff), doctoral seminar, interdisciplinary and international, supported by
the MESHS (2009-10). http://seminaire-interpretation-lille3.blogspot.com/ -
Seminar “Reference” (with J.Jacot), doctoral and
international seminar, supported by the MSH (2007-08). http://seminaire-reference-lille3.blogspot.com/ |
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Personal Interests: - I organize the
Phd-students Festival « Jeunes Chercheurs dans la Cité » 5-21 Mach
in Brussels and 14-30 May 2010 in Lille. http://jcc2010.wordpress.com/
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created and continue the blog for the Association of the PhD-students in Humanities
in the North of France. http://espacedoctorants.blogspot.com/ - I
orgnized shows for children, amongst them ‘MarieGolote la marmotte’ with the
company l’Eléphant dans le Boa ; and ‘Brin de Persil’ with Anne Leviel &
Philippe Leroy. I
created and continue the blog for the Association of Gutenberg’s school
parents. http://apegutenberg.canalblog.com/ - Ensemble vocal ‘Exultate
Deo’. |
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