Scientific biography
Education
Student at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris, 1965-1970.
Agrégé de philosophie, 1969.
Scientific degrees and academic titles
Master degree in philosophy, university of Paris 1, 1968.
DEUG in biophysical chemistry, university of Paris 6, 1977.
Doctorate (3rd cycle) in philosophy, university of Paris 1, 1974
Doctorate (ès lettres) in philosphy, university of Lyon III, 1982.
Scientific activity
Career in CNRS, at the Medical School of the University Claude Bernard of Lyon, at the Medical School of the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, at the University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, then at the Ecole normale supérieure Paris.
Presently Emeritus Professor of philosophy of science at the Ecole normale supérieure.
Honors, Awards and Prizes
Member of the French Academy of Sciences;
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina;
Member of the European Academy of Sciences;
Member of the Academia Europaea;
Member of the International Academy of History of Science;
Corresponding member of the French Academy of Agriculture;
Binoux Prize of the French Academy of Sciences;
Grammaticakis-Neumann of the French Academy of Sciences;
Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences;
Gustav Neuenschwander Prize of the European Society of History of Science.
Research Interests
History of Biochemistry;
History of Hematology and Hemato-immunology;
History of Neurosciences;
History of Medicine;
History of Biotechnology;
General Epistemology;
Philosophy of norms.
Professional organizations
European Society of History of Science.
Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de la vie.
Scientific Publications
The author of over 170 scientific publications.
Books:
Le sens du futur. Une science du temps au XIXe siècle. Paris, Hermann. 2012.
Le temps. Instant et durée, de la philosophie aux neurosciences (with Pierre Buser). Paris, Odile Jacob. 2011.
Le possible et les biotechnologies. Paris, PUF. 2007.
Georges Canguilhem, Science et nonSciences. Paris, Editions rue d’Ulm. 2004.
Philosophie de l’inconnu. Le vivant et la recherche. Paris, PUF. 1998.
