Présentation :
The centre is based on a project by Claude Imbert and, under its current form, formerly headed by Michel Morange.
Since its creation, the Centre Cavaillès has been exploring philosophical and epistemological questions which stem from, or re-emerge through, the development of contemporary sciences. It is composed of scientists, science historians and philosophers whose aim is to draw links between science and philosophy, science and the history of science, and social sciences and exact sciences, with sustained attention to the tools, conditions and expressions of contemporary research.
The emphasis is on questions that arise at the interface of different disciplines: mathematics and biology, physics and biology, mathematics and computer science, psychology and biology, medicine and biology, theory of risk, as well as at the interface of science and society.
Centre Cavaillès
Team members
- James Peter Burgess ( ENS )
- Gaia Casillo
- Daniele Cavalli ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Areti Damala
- Omar El Mawas
- Mathilde Escudero ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Bernardo Marques ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Alice Fill ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Alexis Geisler ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Mathias Girel ( ENS )
- Anne-Sophie Godfroy ( Paris-Est Créteil University )
- Ellen Emilie Henriksen ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Claude Imbert ( ENS )
- Jean-Baptiste Joinet ( Jean Moulin Lyon III University )
- Aisha Kadiri ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Marie Kwon ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Giuseppe Longo ( CNRS )
- Maël Montévil ( CNRS )
- Rocco Monti ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- José Perez Escobar ( ENS )
- Caroline Petit ( CNRS )
- Mélanie Pinet ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Willy Hudson Ramos Delvalle ( Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales (ED540) )
- Stéphanie Ruphy ( ENS )
- Carlos Sonnenschein ( Tufts University School of Medicine )
- Ana Soto ( Tufts University School of Medicine )
- Jan Wörlein
Former team members
Alastair Abbott, Sami Biasoni, Stéphanie Dupouy, Jean-Jacques Kupiec, Roselyne Le Gall, Linda Monsees, Michel Morange, Nicole Perret, Dakota Root.
Scientific production of the team
- Le Cauchemar de Prométhée : Les sciences et leurs limites
- The pharmalogical reactivation of p53 function improves breast tumor cell lysis by granzyme B and NK cells through induction of autophagy
- Faut-il vacciner contre la détection par PCR ou contre la maladie Covid-19 ?
- D’un protocole de soin au succès d’un essai clinique Iccarre
- Prendre Soin de l’informatique et Des Générations
- The proletarianization of biological thought.
- Information, programme, signal: dead metaphors that negate the agency of organisms.
- Glycemia regulation: From feedback loops to organizational closure.
- Over a century of cancer research: Inconvenient truths and promising leads.
- Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?
Team events
- Inauguration du programme “Fondations théoriques de la biologie” le 4 October 2023 18:00
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 5 October 2023 16:00
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 12 October 2023 16:00
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 26 October 2023 16:00
- Colloque « Possibility in biology » le 9 November 2023 09:40
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 9 November 2023 16:00
- Colloque « Possibility in biology » le 10 November 2023 09:40
- Séminaire sur le vivant du Centre Cavaillès (2023-2024) le 15 November 2023 16:00
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 16 November 2023 16:00
- Séminaire « Jeudis de l’histoire et de la philosophie des sciences » – JHPS (2023-2024) le 23 November 2023 16:00