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Debru . - L'esprit des protéines (review)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 177 (n/a): 71. 1987.
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79Vitalisme 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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20Functions: 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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22The 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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300À 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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20Genetics 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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21The 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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20Animalité et végétalité dans les représentations de l’héréditéRevue de Synthèse 113 (3-4): 423-438. 1992.
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37De 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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109The individuality of the species: A Darwinian theory? — From Buffon to Ghiselin, and back to Darwin (review)Biology and Philosophy 11 (2): 215-244. 1996.Since the 1970s, there has been a tremendous amount of literature on Ghiselin's proposal that species are individuals. After recalling the origins and stakes of this thesis in contemporary evolutionary theory, I show that it can also be found in the writings of the French naturalist Buffon in the 18th Century. Although Buffon did not have the conception that one species could be derived from another, there is an interesting similarity between the modern argument and that of Buffon regarding the …Read more
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98Chance, Explanation, and Causation in Evolutionary TheoryHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (3/4). 2005.Chance comes into plays at many levels of the explanation of the evolutionary process; but the unity of sense of this category is problematic. The purpose of this talk is to clarify the meaning of chance at various levels in evolutionary theory: mutations, genetic drift, genetic revolutions, ecosystems, macroevolution. Three main concepts of chance are found at these various levels: luck (popular concept), randomness (probabilistic concept), and contingency relative to a given theoretical system…Read more
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31On the Uses of the Category of Style in the History of SciencePhilosophy and Rhetoric 32 (3). 1999.
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6L'épistémologie française, 1830-1970 (edited book)Presses universitaires de France. 2006.Présentation de la spécificité de l'épistémologie en France, entre philosophie de la connaissance et philosophie des sciences, à travers un panorama de son histoire depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, de ses grands courants et de ses grandes figures : A. Comte, A. Cournot, C. Bernard, G. Bachelard, H. Poincaré, etc.
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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 |