Abstracts
Abstract
The global climate change controversy is arguably the most important problem currently facing humankind. It involves seemingly insurmountable, conflicting issues of economics, science, politics, and philosophy. This essay suggests that, on the pathway to modernity, a kind of “wrong turn” was taken in these disciplines, involving problematic presumptions about phenomenology, logic, and metaphysics. A possible correction for current disfunctions, notably in the relation of economics to the physical sciences and political action, may found in the semiotic and pragmatist perspectives of the scientist/logician/philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).
Keywords:
- Climate Change,
- Economics,
- Logic,
- Pragmatism,
- Science,
- Semiotics
Résumé
La controverse sur le changement climatique mondial est sans doute le problème le plus important auquel l’humanité est actuellement confrontée. Cela implique des problèmes apparemment insurmontables et contradictoires d’économie, de science, de politique et de philosophie. Cet essai suggère que, sur le chemin de la modernité, une sorte de « fausse direction » a été prise dans ces disciplines, impliquant des présomptions problématiques sur la phénoménologie, la logique et la métaphysique. Une correction possible des dysfonctionnements actuels, notamment dans le rapport de l’économie aux sciences physiques et à l’action politique, peut se trouver dans les perspectives sémiotiques et pragmatistes du scientifique/logicien/philosophe Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).
Mots-clés :
- Changement climatique,
- économie,
- logique,
- pragmatisme,
- science,
- sémiotique
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