Conventions in geometry and pragmatic reconstruction in Poincaré : a problematic reception in logical empiricism

Workshop : Logic and rational Reconstruction of Science from a Pragmatic point of view, 25-26 mars 2010, MSH Lorraine, Nancy UniversitéThe main thesis of this paper is that Poincaré conventionalism must be ranked among these sources of the logical empiricists, that seem to be at the same time a source of Quine's criticism of the two dogmas of the logical empiricism and survives consequently Quine's criticism