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65Vitalisme et philosophie de la biologieRÉPHA, revue étudiante de philosophie analytique 2 7-18. 2010.
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1Knowledge of Life Today presents the thoughts of Jean Gayon, a major philosopher of science in France who is recognized across the Atlantic, especially for his work in philosophy and the history of life sciences. The book is structured around Gayon's personal answers to questions put forward by Victor Petit. This approach combines scientific rigor and risk-taking in answers that go back to the fundamentals of the subject. As well as the relationship between philosophy and the history of science,…Read more
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17Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects. This book confronts the debates on function with the use of the notion in a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, psyc…Read more
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5Bergson's Spiritualist Metaphysics and the SciencesIn Gary Gutting (ed.), Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains section titled: Introductory Remarks: Not a “Philosopher of Science” “Positive Metaphysics” “Confrontation” Bergson's Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.
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21The Contributions – and Collapse – of Lamarckian Heredity in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 1. Lysogeny, 1900–1960Journal of the History of Biology 50 (1): 5-52. 2017.This article shows how Lamarckism was essential in the birth of the French school of molecular biology. We argue that the concept of inheritance of acquired characters positively shaped debates surrounding bacteriophagy and lysogeny in the Pasteurian tradition during the interwar period. During this period the typical Lamarckian account of heredity treated it as the continuation of protoplasmic physiology in daughter cells. Félix d’Hérelle applied this conception to argue that there was only one…Read more
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288À propos de l'article de Juliette Grange dans Cités 58Cités 60 (4): 199-204. 2014.Réponses à Juliette Grange sur ses remises en cause peu argumentées d'une partie de la philosophie en France.
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9Genetics after World War II: The Laboratories at GifCahiers Pour l'Histoire du CNRS 6 108-110. 1989.Ire partie.
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Cybernétique enzymatique: un inédit de Jacques MonodIn Claude Debru, Michel Morange, Frédéric Worms & Laurent Loison (eds.), Une nouvelle connaissance du vivant: François Jacob, André Lwoff et Jacques Monod, Editions Rue D'ulm. 2012.
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4Inquiring into Animal Enhancement (edited book)Springer. 2015.Can the age-old practices of animal selection and breeding and the more recent biotechnological interventions on animals, far more intrusive and systematic than any present form of human enhancement, enlighten us as to the future of enhancement practices? This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern bo…Read more
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Population genetics, economic theory, and eugenics in R.A. FisherIn R. Paul Thompson & Denis Walsh (eds.), Evolutionary biology: conceptual, ethical, and religious issues, Cambridge University Press. 2014.
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11François Dagognet: philosophe, épistémologue (edited book)Éditions Matériologiques. 2019.François Dagognet (1924-2015) nous a laissé une oeuvre immense et foisonnante : près de soixante-dix ouvrages, sur les thèmes les plus divers, de l'épistémologie à l'art contemporain, de la politique au droit, de l'argent à la morale, de la peau au trouble, sans oublier le paysage, ou l'agronomie, les déchets ou les musées, parmi bien d'autres sujets. Sa curiosité universelle et inassouvie égalait, voire dépassait, celle de son maître Bachelard. Montrer comment Dagognet a illustré…Read more
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24French Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Research in France (edited book)Springer. 2009.The series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science was conceived in the broadest framework of interdisciplinary and international concerns.
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J. Proust, Questions de forme: logique et proposition analytique de Kant à Carnap (review)Société Française de Philosophie, Bulletin 80 (4): 489. 1989.
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Repetition and Reversibility in Evolution: Theoretical Population GeneticsIn Philippe Huneman & Christophe Bouton (eds.), Time of Nature and the Nature of Time: Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences, Springer. 2017.
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20The Modern Synthesis: Theoretical or Institutional Event?Journal of the History of Biology 52 (4): 519-535. 2019.This paper surveys questions about the nature of the Modern Synthesis as a historical event : was it rather theoretical than institutional? When and where did it actually happen? Who was involved? It argues that all answers to these questions are interrelated, and that systematic sets of answers define specific perspectives on the Modern Synthesis that are all complementary.
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19Animalité et végétalité dans les représentations de l’héréditéRevue de Synthèse 113 (3-4): 423-438. 1992.
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18Évolution et philosophieRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 194 (3). 2004.Les questions que le philosophe peut aujourd'hui se poser sur l'évolution sont de deux ordres. Les unes relèvent de la philosophic des sciences (de quel genre de science s'agit-il ?). Les autres regardent la philosophic en général: dans quelle mesure l'évolution conduit-elle à réexaminer certaines grandes questions philosophiques traditionnelles, comme celles des fondements de l'épistémologie (théorie de la connaissance) et de l'éthique ? The questions a philosopher may raise today about evoluti…Read more
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62The singular fate of genetics in the history of French biology, 1900?1940Journal of the History of Biology 21 (3): 357-402. 1988.In this study we have examined the reception of Mendelism in France from 1900 to 1940, and the place of some of the extra-Mendelian traditions of research that contributed to the development of genetics in France after World War II
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21Literally speaking, "Philosophy of biology" is a rather old expression. William Whewell coined it in 1840, at the very time he introduced the expression "philosophy of science". Whewell was fond of creating neologisms, like Auguste Comte, his French counterpart in the field of the philosophical reflection about science. Historians of science know that a few years earlier, in 1834, Whewell had generated a small scandal when he proposed the word "scientist" as a general term by which "the students…Read more
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Edited volumes-Bachelard dans le mondeHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (3): 453. 2000.
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32De la croissance relative à l'allométrie (1918-1936)/From relative growth to allometry (1918-1936)Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 53 (3): 475-498. 2000.
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University of Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneDepartment for Teaching and Research in Philosophy (UFR10)Regular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
20th Century Philosophy |