Claudine Tiercelin
New challenges for metaphysics
In 2010, Claudine Tiercelin brought metaphysics to the Collège de France. In this book, she clearly and precisely describes the metaphysical approach she has developed.
We thought metaphysics was outdated, or even dead ? Claudine Tiercelin has never ceased to defend the possibility of metaphysics, building a scientific realist metaphysics heir to American pragmatism and the French rationalist tradition.
She demonstrates that this undertaking remains indispensable if we are to speak of " truth " and " reasons ". Nevertheless, metaphysics today faces new challenges : to avoid the excesses of modalism, to guard against the risk of scientism and to avoid the intrusions of theology.
It's a vast undertaking, then, to give metaphysics back both its legitimacy and its weapons, while inviting us to draw strength from philosophy to continue breathing.
Tiercelin C., De nouveaux défis pour la métaphysique, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Leçons de clôture ", 2025, 104 p.
ISBN : 978-2-7226-0850-4
Price :10 €
Publication : 23 october 2025
