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86Immunity and the Emergence of IndividualityIn Frédéric Bouchard & Philippe Huneman (eds.), From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality, Mit Press. pp. 77. 2013.Since, it has become clear that individuality is not to be considered as a given, but rather as something which needs to be explained. How has individuality emerged through evolution, and how has it subsequently been maintained? In particular, why is it that multicellular organisms appeared and persisted, despite the obvious interest of each cell of favoring its own replication? Several biologists see the immune system as one of the key components for explaining the maintenance of multicellular …Read more
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Apport de la philosophie à la question de lâimmunogénicitéla Presse Médicale 39 (7): 747--752. 2010.
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496Toolbox murders: putting genes in their epigenetic and ecological contexts: P. Griffiths and K. Stotz: Genetics and philosophy: an introduction (review)Biology and Philosophy 31 (1): 125-142. 2016.Griffiths and Stotz’s Genetics and Philosophy: An Introduction offers a very good overview of scientific and philosophical issues raised by present-day genetics. Examining, in particular, the questions of how a “gene” should be defined and what a gene does from a causal point of view, the authors explore the different domains of the life sciences in which genetics has come to play a decisive role, from Mendelian genetics to molecular genetics, behavioural genetics, and evolution. In this review,…Read more
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Réponse de lâauteur à la correspondance à propos de lâarticle:«Apport de la philosophie à la question de lâimmunogénicité»la Presse Médicale 40 (1): 116--117. 2011.
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13Identité, la Part de L’Autre (L'): Immunologie Et PhilosophieOdile Jacob. 2010.EN BIOLOGIE AUSSI, L'AUTRE EST EN NOUS La biologie nous montre que, dans des conditions physiologiques normales, quelque chose de l'autre est en nous. Nous avons déjà parlé de la greffe tissulaire où évidemment le tissu ou ...
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117Organisms or biological individuals? Combining physiological and evolutionary individualityBiology and Philosophy 31 (6): 797-817. 2016.The definition of biological individuality is one of the most discussed topics in philosophy of biology, but current debate has focused almost exclusively on evolution-based accounts. Moreover, several participants in this debate consider the notions of a biological individual and an organism as equivalent. In this paper, I show that the debates would be considerably enriched and clarified if philosophers took into account two elements. First, physiological fields are crucial for the understandi…Read more
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Lâimmunité et lâinteractionnisme biologiquele Tout Et les Parties Dans les Systèmes Naturels, Paris, Vuibert. forthcoming.
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39Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, by Peter Godfrey-SmithMind 120 (479): 863-870. 2011.
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47The Speed of Change: Towards a Discontinuity Theory of Immunity?Nature Reviews Immunology 13 (10). 2013.Immunology — though deeply experimental in everyday practice — is also a theoretical discipline. Recent advances in the understanding of innate immunity, how it is triggered and how it shares features that have previously been uniquely ascribed to the adaptive immune system, can contribute to the refinement of the theoretical framework of immunology. In particular, natural killer cells and macrophages are activated by transient modifications, but adapt to long-lasting modifications that occur in…Read more
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4L'individu: Perspectives ContemporainesVrin. 2008.Qu'est-ce qu'un individu? Tentative de réponse grâce aux apports de la métaphysique, de la philosophie du langage, de la philosophie des sciences du vivant, de la philosophie des sciences cognitives, de la philosophie politique et de la philosophie des sciences sociales.
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4Précis de Philosophie des SciencesVuibert (Paris). 2011.Le Précis de philosophie des sciences vise à présenter, de manière pédagogique, l'état actuel des grandes questions et des grands domaines de la philosophie des sciences. C'est un ouvrage de niveau "intermédiaire", entre les ouvrages d'initiation et les ouvrages de recherche. Il peut être utilisé comme manuel pour des cours de philosophie des sciences au niveau Master, ainsi que dans le cadre de la préparation aux nouvelles épreuves d'épistémologie des CAPES scientifiques. Il a notamment pour vo…Read more
Thomas Pradeu
CNRS & University Of Bordeaux
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CNRS & University Of BordeauxProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |