Delaporte, "Foucault, Epistemology, and History"

 We began with questions:

p.288 - Delaporte mentions the idea of an “internally normative project”.

p. 291 - Delaporte distinguishes the current and the present and says that for Foucault the present was bracketed.

p. 287 - Delaporte describes Broussais as inventing a whole series of relations among disparate entites (287).  To what extent does archaeology require looking outside of a discipline.  Is Delaporte claiming that this is essential to (important for) archaeology?

p. 287 – Delaporte defines history of science in terms of history of veridical discourse.  Would this definition apply to different kinds of history?  Or is this definition specific just for history of science?  Is the focus on “the true and the false” central to science specifically

p. 290 – Delaporte discusses the status of the concept of rupture (p. 292) and origin  in Foucault and uses it in unexpected ways, or potentially unexpected ways.

p. 285 – Delaporte sketches four different levels of epistemography. What are the relations among these levels? How would we apply these levels to Delaporte’s own works?

Why is Delaporte focusing this analysis more on the early Foucault rather than the later Foucault?  Why is there no discussion here of HSv1?  How would we extend the analysis to later Foucault?

 

 Some items in discussion:

Four levels of epistemography

The epistemonomic – The identification of “internal epistemological controls”, which are standards and rules for saying, seeing, inquiring based on accepted epistemological foundations.  The identification of  internal structure.  Are these rules presumed to be explicit?

The epistemocritical - An analysis that “would put” to a historical figure “the question of the truth of his assertions”.  (Rorty’s “rational reconstruction”.)

The epistemological – Analysis of “theoretical structures” and “concepts” and “rules governing their use” (p. 286).  Delaporte is here referring to Canguilhem.  This differs from epistemonomic in that the epistemological is focused on the history of our epistemological concepts today.

The archaeological – The identification of transformations, or “historicity”.

 All three levels make use of the epistemonomic but establish different relations  to it.  [Image on board]