Jean-Michel Salanskis is professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Lille III and has been known as a philosopher of sciences, especially of mathematics, since the publication of his Herméneutique formelle (1991, CNRS Editions).

In this book, Jean-Michel Salanskis exposes effects of interpretation that introduce to a real mathematical hermeneutics which then opens itself to other fields. Starting from an ongoing confrontation to the history of philosophy, Jean-Michel Salanskis goes through philosophy of sciences (issues of the infinite and the continuous in mathematics, of general relativity or of quantum physics), he examines cognitive sciences (from the Gestaltheorie to connectionist models or the cognitive theory of spatial intuition) and even philosophy of religions (problem of the intellectual characterization in the Jewish law tradition).

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