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44"Teilhard de Chardin et la question du mal"Mélanges de Science Religieuse 81 (1): 99-120. 2024.In this article, we shall first show the dynamic cosmology present in Teilhard de Chardin’s work, as well as the ways in which he revives a tradition that puts philosophizing at the heart of living. Then, we shall show how he thinks of the problem of evil as the dismembering of a movement towards unity that he deems identical to the process of creation. Teilhard’s peculiar perspective distances him from catastrophic visions based on a Fall or original transgression. We will then show that Teilha…Read more
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98"L’ancrage cosmique de la personne dans la pensée d’A.N. Whitehead"Connaître : Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientifique 60 52-68. 2023.This is the outline: 1. Introduction : organicisme et personnalisme 2. Un effort pour philosopher sur tout 3. La théologie et la question de l’infra-substantiel 3.1 Un schème de pensée qui pose problème 3.2 Le statut de l’immortalité 4. Substance, personne et cosmos
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163"Hasard hypostasié et hasard réprimé : pour en finir avec certains mythes"In Philippe Quentin (ed.), Hasard et création. Actes du colloque 7 et 8 mars 2022, Presses Universitaires De L'ices. pp. 155-175. 2023.This is the outline : I - Quelques étapes aux avancées significatives II - La pensée chrétienne et le hasard d’ignorance III - De quelques difficultés de raisonner sur le probable IV - Téléologie et évolutionnisme V - Où est l’« étage » qui permette de parler d’indépendance ? VI. Qu’y a-t-il à la base de nos concepts d’ordre ? VII - Quelle place pour le hasard ? VIII. Le hasard appréhendé de dos ?
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9Physics in CatholicismIn Anne Runehov & Lluis Oviedo (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer. pp. 1718-1729. 2013.
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144Are Sustainability and Governance grounded in any World?Reviews in Science, Religion and Theology 2 (2): 17-30. 2023.The need to act in networks and to function in a society where we relate in complex fashions has fostered the use of data in accordance with distributed models. In a big data context, the individual is often overcome with the sentiment that one’s life does not matter, nor does it make a difference. What are sought are trends, and since there is no detached observer, those change things as much as they measure them. Where can we find a vantage point, a ‘topsight’ necessary before the conception o…Read more
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7Transhumanism as a glimpse in the beyond: A case for its ventriloquy and narrative substitutionIn Adrian Lemeni & Nichifor Tănase (eds.), Transhumanism in the Light of Theology, Philosophy and Science: Critical Perspectives and Christian Metaphysical Implications (Timişoara, 26-29 May, 2022), . pp. 29-41. 2023.Transhumanism first offers itself as a means to save oneself from an embodiment that is judged as being far from perfect. One needs to ask in its wake what comes of desires to escape limitations that come from the body, as they are means of an overcoming of the self. The AI project seems to be governed by norms for what the mind is, that could easily be judged inconsistent. Religious and theological traditions have looked at what the meaning of an ineliminable image of God could mean. We try to …Read more
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186Claude Tresmontant, métaphysicien de l’inachevé (1925-1997). Actes de la journée d’étude du 2 février 2019 (edited book)L'Harmattan. 2022.(Back Cover:) « La pensée métaphysique renaîtra demain. Ce sont des savants qui ont le goût et le sens de la pensée conduite jusqu’au terme de ses exigences internes, et des philosophes initiés aux sciences expérimentales qui, en commun, la feront. » L’œuvre de Claude Tresmontant (1925-1997) illustre parfaitement cette recherche de la métaphysique d’un monde en devenir, qui sait écouter et se modeler sur la transformation – la métamorphose – promise à une Création finalisée. Le trait commun a…Read more
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108"L'énergie en science et la théorie de l'information"Connaître : Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientifique 58 (December): 5-30. 2022.This is the Outline: 1. Introduction 2. L’information en première approche 3. L’information-Janus 4. À quoi sert l’information? 5. Les usages que l’on fit de la théorie de l’information 6. L’information dite de « second ordre » 7. Doit-on mettre l’information au service d’une vision théologique ? 7.1 Une incidence à partir de nos images de Dieu
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112"Teilhard de Chardin, de la cybernétique à la vie en passant par l’information"Mélanges de Science Religieuse 79 (No. 4): 25-39. 2022.What we read in the major synthetic writings of Teilhard shows a thought aware of the incessant interaction between natural entities and the organizing power which exerts an attraction on them that becomes practically infallible beyond a tipping point. This testifies of a prescient view that has many connections to the mode of thinking of cybernetics.
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192"Que peut offrir la philosophie d’A.N. Whitehead pour penser les questions technosciences et foi ?"Mélanges de Science Religieuse 79 (No 4): 55-67. 2022.This article offers a summary of Whitehead’s life, along with bibliographical indications, and it additionnally gives reference markers to help understand how Whitehead renewed cosmology by unearthing a new understanding of a subject that would not be detached from its corporeal rootedness. Then, a more particular understanding of Whitehead’s criticism of the technoscentific project is sought, as to its absence of self-scrutiny. An additional consideration of ecology, and then religion, are offe…Read more
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290Does Pluralism Itself Need to Be Plural?In M. Fuller, D. Evers & A. Runehov (eds.), Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism?, Springer Nature. pp. 187-197. 2022.Theology used to be the discipline that arbitrated and ‘said’ the truth. Some argued that its methodical engagement had to make it a search-driven experimentation with an inductive outlook intended at tracking truth through practice and praise, in short conversion. The empirico-formal sciences have sought canonical norms of knowledge away from any regimentation. Neopositivism had for a time entertained a fact-derived language and, as such, it banned metaphor as mingling problems by perpetuating …Read more
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126"La vérification en science et en théologie : qui valide quoi ?"Connaître : Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientifique 57 (March): 59-74. 2022.Très souvent, on compte sur la science pour nous sauver. Le rapport qu'on établit avec elle peut donner à penser que la science parlerait ainsi de choses, validerait quelque chose comme des évidences immédiates. La connaissance scientifique est inférentielle. Si elle a un objet, ce qu'en rigueur de termes la philosophie n'a pas, elle doit néanmoins se mettre à distance de lui pour se faire science. Elle valide ainsi des schèmes abstraits, qui ne sont scientifiques que dans cette mesure. Nous pre…Read more
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151"Les raisons du refus de l'Émergentisme principiel chez Ruyer"In Philippe Quentin (ed.), Émergence : Actes du colloque 21 et 22 mars 2019, Presses Universitaires De L'ices, Series "colloques". pp. 139-162. 2021.This is the outline: I. Remarques introductives sur l'émergence. 1 Le problème de l'émergence. 2. L'émergence en acte. a) En physique. b) Dans les sciences naturelles. II. Ruyer et la critique de l'émergentisme. III. Le dilemme épistémologique que pose l'émergence. IV. La présence du propos de Meyerson derrière celui de Ruyer. Pour conclure.
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228"Le dialogue entre science et foi à l’épreuve de l’observation et de l’expérimentation"In Michel Mazoyer & Paul Mirault (eds.), Claude Tresmontant. Pour un réalisme intégral (1925-1997) « La Vérité ne fait pas violence », in series « Cahiers Disputatio » no 6., . pp. 73-84. 2020.
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269Acquisition of Autonomy in Biotechnology and Artificial IntelligenceIn B. Leybourne & P. Poszytek N. Lace S. Hashimoto N. Callaos (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2020, Volume II, International Institute For Informatics and Systemics. pp. 168-172. 2020.This presentation discusses a notion encountered across disciplines, and in different facets of human activity: autonomous activity. We engage it in an interdisciplinary way. We start by considering the reactions and behaviors of biological entities to biotechnological intervention. An attempt is made to characterize the degree of freedom of embryos & clones, which show openness to different outcomes when the epigenetic developmental landscape is factored in. We then consider the claim made in p…Read more
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660A Contingency Interpretation of Information Theory as a Bridge between God’s Immanence and TranscendenceIn Michael Fuller, Dirk Evers, Anne L. C. Runehov, Knut-Willy Sæther & Bernard Michollet (eds.), Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond, Springer. pp. 169-185. 2020.This paper investigates the degree to which information theory, and the derived uses that make it work as a metaphor of our age, can be helpful in thinking about God’s immanence and transcendance. We ask when it is possible to say that a consciousness has to be behind the information we encounter. If God is to be thought about as a communicator of information, we need to ask whether a communication system has to pre-exist to the divine and impose itself to God. If we want God to be Creator, and …Read more
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5L'expérience de Dieu avec Pierre Teilhard de ChardinÉditions Fides. 2001.Teilhard de Chardin is a fascinating character! Born in 1881 and deceased in 1955, he remains strikingly contemporary. In response to a world shattered by the atrocities of World War I, he progressively elaborates the vision of a world entirely unified through a Center beyond itself. This perception is inserted at the heart of an intellectual endeavor wherein faith and scientific pursuit call onto each other, intertwined in a dialogue of a rare fruitfulness. Books such as The Phenomenon of Man, …Read more
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4Teilhard de Chardin. Les terres inconnues de la vie spirituelleÉditions Fides. 2002.This book proposes to set out conquering the unknown lands of the spiritual life by revisiting some of the great insights of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). We are lead to consider these problems by taking distance from the pitfalls usually associated with the interpretation of the engaging work of the French paleontologist and priest. In the panoply of Christian spiritualities, that of Teilhard occupies a place of its own. In it, the greatest prayer becomes abandonment in the palms of t…Read more
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309Description courte (Électre, 2019) : Une étude d'un des principaux axes de réflexion du philosophe des sciences et de la nature Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987). À la lumière des découvertes de l'embryogenèse et en s'appuyant par ailleurs sur la théorie de l'information, il proposa une interprétation des concepts unificateurs de la cybernétique mécaniste. Short Descriptor (Electre 2019): A study of one of the main axes of reflection of the French philosopher of science and of nature Raymond Ruyer (190…Read more
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45Taking as a starting point for his quest the teaching received from the Hebrew prophets and transmitted by the people of Israel, Claude Tresmontant identifies in it the specific moment where an entirely new and creative thought is introduced in the history of mankind. Trained in philosophy of science and conscious of the discipline involved in a rigorous experimental method as a key to valid and true knowledge, Claude Tresmontant boldly recreated bridges, long destroyed, between science and phil…Read more
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183"Milton Munitz et le concept-limite d'« illimitation » en cosmologie – Suite et fin" [Milton Munitz on unboundedness in cosmology - 2nd Part]Connaître: Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientique 49 (June): 19-30. 2018.This is the outline: 6. L'absence du concept de l'individualité 7. L'existence illimitée (boundless) Métaphore et analogie 8. L'évolution et l'existence comme durée individuelle dans le temps cosmique 9. L'option de la nécessité naturelle 10. L'inconnaissabilité ultime
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325"Milton Munitz et le concept-limite d'« illimitation » en cosmologie (1ère partie)" [Milton Munitz on unboundedness in cosmology - Ist Part]Connaître : Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientifique (46): 104-117. 2017.This is the outline: 1. Introduction 2. La compréhension théorique – 2.1 Le dynamisme conceptuel et l'a priori 2.2 L'horizon conceptuel – 3. Compréhension et singularité 4. La production de signifiance 5. La présence du mystère 6. Le problème de la substantialité : l'un et le multiple – 6.1 La notion d'un ordre implicite
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547"Utilité de la théologie naturelle pour la connaissance de Dieu aujourd’hui" [Usefulness of Natural Theology for God's Knowledge Today]Connaître : Cahiers de l'Association Foi Et Culture Scientifique (48): 83-92. 2017.In this public debate with Philippe Deterre (research director in immunology at the CNRS) – held at l'Enclos Rey in Paris' 15th district during the biennial Conference of the Réseau Blaise Pascal in March 2017 –, I defended the usefulness of natural theology. I first clarify theology's nature and understanding, then I speak about a tradition that upheld the public and exterior knowledge of God, and make an effort to show the presence of a theme reminiscent of natural theology behind attempts at …Read more
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646Ruyer and Simondon on Technological Inventiveness and Form Outlasting its MediumDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 11 (4): 538-554. 2017.A summary is provided of Ruyer's important contribution, also a reversal from some conclusions held in his secondary doctoral dissertation, about the limits inherent in technological progress, and an attempt is made to show the coherence of this position to Ruyer's metaphysics. Simondon's response is also presented, and subsequently analyzed especially as it culminates in a concept of concretizations. As Simondon indicated, and with a displacement in Ruyer's limitating framework on unconditional…Read more
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706Ruyer, la pensée de l’espace et la métaphore fondatrice de la connaissanceLaval Théologique et Philosophique 72 (3): 465-490. 2016.I present first the challenge for epistemology when it faces the dilemma between rationalism and empiricism, followed by a presentation of the ideas introduced by Ruyer in order to ask if they can be articulated to the "third way" in epistemology. I explore the consequences of Ruyer's inversion of our understanding of space which can be looked upon as psychic. I consider Ruyer's refusal to locate in pure immanence the scheme of eupraxic resolution of successful aggregates–as living forms–in our …Read more
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1536Raymond Ruyer, la biologie et la théologie naturelle [Raymond Ruyer, biology, and natural theology]In Ronny Desmet & Michel Weber (eds.), Chromatikon VIII: Annales de la philosophie en procès — Yearbook of Philosophy in Process, Éditions Chromatika. pp. 157-176. 2012.This is the outline: Introduction : le praticien d’une science-philosophie; Épiphénoménisme retourné et subjectivité délocalisée; Dieu est-il jamais inféré par la science ?; La question du panthéisme; Le pilotage axiologique et la parabole mécaniste; L'unité domaniale comme ce qui reste en dehors de la science.
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546"Claude Tresmontant, la philosophie chrétienne et les présupposés d'une métaphysique de la Charité" [Claude Tresmontant, Christian Philosophy, and the Assumptions Behind a Metaphysics of Charity]In Bertrand Souchard Fabien Revol (ed.), Réel voilé et cosmos théophanique. Le regard de l'homme sur la nature et la question de Dieu, Vrin/institut Interdisciplinaire D'études Épistémologiques. pp. 453-501. 2016.
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399Cartesianism, the Embodied Mind, and the Future of Cognitive ResearchIn Dirk Evers, Michael Fuller, Anne Runehov & Knut-Willy Sæther (eds.), Do Emotions Shape the World? Biennial Yearbook of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology 2015-2016. "Studies in Science and Theology" Vol. 15, Martin-luther-universität. pp. 225-244. 2015.In his oft-cited book Descartes' Error, Antonio Damasio claims that Descartes is responsible for having stifled the development of modern neurobiological science, in particular as regards the objective study of the physical and physiological bases for emotive and socially-conditioned cognition. Most of Damasio’s book would stand without reference to Descartes, so it is intriguing to ask why he launched this attack. What seems to fuel such claims is a desire for a more holistic understanding of t…Read more
Philippe Gagnon
Université Catholique de Lille
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Université Catholique de LilleChaire Sciences, Technosciences Et Foi À L'heure de L'écologie Intégrale
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
General Philosophy of Science |