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Result of the research : 'comments'
1981
- Australian kin classification , Paul Jorion, Man, 16, 1 : 141-142
- Lacan , Paul Jorion, Quarto, 19 : 20
- comments relative to F.E. Tjon Sie Fat. More complex formulae of generalized exchange , Paul Jorion, Current Anthropology, 22, 4 : 393
1982
- comments relative to D.H. Turner. Leiden anthropology and the reinterpretation of Australian Aboriginal social organization. , Paul Jorion, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 138, 1 : 161- 162
- On moieties and historical reconstruction , Paul Jorion, Man, 17, 2 : 347-348
- Anthropologie et histoire , Paul Jorion, Le Monde, paru le 19 février 1982, 17
1983
- comments relative to E. Cooper. Ten-section systems. Omaha kinship and dispersed alliance among the Ancient Chinese , Paul Jorion, Current Anthropology, 24, 3 : 336-337
- Du danger des enzymes gloutons. Réponse à "La grande lessive" , Paul Jorion, L'Homme, XXIII, 4 : 75-76
- The importance of masks , Paul Jorion, The New Statesman, paru le 04 mars 1983, 22
1984
- "Le regard éloigné" , Paul Jorion, Times Literary Supplement, 4,231 : 495-496
- Belief and Knowledge , Paul Jorion, Times Literary Supplement, 4,256 : 1215
1986
- La France en état de manque , Paul Jorion, Le Nouvel Observateur, paru le 11 juillet 1986, 18
1987
- Réponse à Michel Agier , Paul Jorion, L'Homme, 104 : 148
- comments relative to David H. Spain. The Westermarck-Freud Incest-Theory Debate. An evaluation and ref
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Paul JORION
paul_jorion@msn.com
What do mathematicians teach us about the World? An anthropological perspectivein Dialectical Anthropology 24, 1: 45-98, 1999
« Aristotle was a thorough-paced scientific man such as we see nowadays, except for this, that he ranged over all knowledge. As a man of scientific instinct, he classed metaphysics, in which I doubt not he included logic, as a matter of course, among the sciences, - sciences in our sense, I mean, what he called theoretical sciences, - along with Mathematics and Natural Science, - natural science embracing what we call the Physical Sciences and the Psychical Sciences, generally. This theoretical science was for him one thing, animated by one spirit and having knowledge of theory as its ultimate end and aim » (Peirce 1992 [1898] : 107)
I did not train as a mathematician, I trained as a Social Scientist. I had chosen however Mathematics as my main subject when at the « Athénée », the equivalent of High School in Belgium, the country where I was born and where I was raised up to graduate level. At the Free University of Brussels, I learnt mathematics for economics as part of the curriculum for sociology undergraduates. As a Graduate student I had the privilege of being one of Georges Théophile Guilbaud's students at his seminar called « Mathematics for Social Scientists » hosted by the Ecole des Haut
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Paul J. M. Jorion
Comments in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Comment on Byrne, R.W. & Russon, A.E. Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach.
abstract:
Byrne & Russon's text displays all the difficulties involved in approaching imitation in a non- methodological behaviourist perspective. Their conceptual apparatus is grounded in a mix of introspection and folk psychology. Their distinction between action level and program level imitation falters on goal imputation for sequential acts. An alternative
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Overview of research
The order of sub-fields
below is somewhat arbitrary it reflects however the current focus of my
research :
1. Cognitive Anthropology
2. Economic Anthropology
3. Kinship studies
4. Critique of anthropology
5. Maritime anthropology
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Dialectical Anthropology, 1999, Vol. 23, No3, 247-280
Aristotle's theory of
price revisited
Aristotle proposed a theory
of price formation in terms of a proportion reflecting the relative status of
buyer and seller. This little understood theory is first exposed within its
mathematical framework. Its plausibility is then examined both in commerce and
in finance. It is first shown that current « rating » as performed by
« rating agencies » on the financial markets expresses relative
status of institutional debt issuers in terms of the credit risk they
represent. It is then shown that the equation of status with credit
risk can be extended from institutions to persons. The overall and
contemporary validity of Aristotle's model becomes apparent. Since a person's credit
risk is determined by
- The risk of having to
interrupt one's activity due to death or incapacity,
- The unreliability of
one's earnings,
- The competitive
pressure between practitioners of the same professional activity,
Aristotle's model of price formation
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Paul Jorion & Geneviève Delbos
Is there any such thing as local traditional knowledge?
Paper presented at the April 15, 2005, UNESCO Conference, Safeguarding the Transmission of Local and Indigenous Knowledge of Nature (AichiPrefectureUniversity, Nagoya)
One can speak of “applied knowledge” but not of “applied belief”
When we talk of salvaging local traditional knowledge we have something very specific in mind. First, we’re not saying here “traditional beliefs” but “traditional knowledge” and we’re intentionally using the second term rather than the first. Sometimes we call “belief” what someone else holds to be true and that we don’t; in that case “belief” might just be a polemical label we use for some views we regard to be false and that we could just as well call by anther term, such as “superstition” (Jorion & Delbos 1985; Jorion 1990: 148-150). We may not be so definite though about whether a “belief” is true or false and we may simply tend to call
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