Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baronne de Chantal (1572—1641) Canonized a Catholic saint in 1767, Jeanne de Chantal (Jane of Chantal) has rarely been the object of philosophical analysis. Jusque récemment, her influence has largely confined itself to the Visitation order she founded and to the network of schools sponsored by the Visitation nuns. Contemporary theologians, cependant, have studied her works from the perspective of spirituality. Her extensive

L'éthique et l'épistémologie de la confiance La confiance est un sujet d'intérêt philosophique de longue date car elle est indispensable au succès de presque tous les types d'activités humaines coordonnées., de la politique et des affaires au sport et à la recherche scientifique. Encore plus, la confiance est nécessaire à la diffusion réussie des connaissances, et, par extension, pour presque toute forme de délibération et de planification pratique qui nous oblige à

Aesthetic Taste Taste is the most common trope when talking about the intellectual judgment of an object’s aesthetic merit. This popularity rose to an unprecedented degree in the eighteenth century, which is the main focus of this article. Taste became a major concept in aesthetics. This prominence was so pronounced that it might seem that taste as an aesthetic idea developed from nothing during this

Cognitive Penetrability of Perception and Epistemic Justification Perceptual experience is one of our fundamental sources of epistemic justification—roughly, justification for believing that a proposition is true. The ability of perceptual experience to justify beliefs can nevertheless be questioned. This article focuses on an important challenge that arises from countenancing that perceptual experience is cognitively penetrable. The thesis of cognitive penetrability of perception states that the