Philosopher of Science, Specialist in the Science/Society Relationship
Philippe Huneman
Philippe Huneman is a philosopher and research director at CNRS at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, where he was recruited in 2002 after studying mathematics and then philosophy. He has published on evolutionary biology and ecology, as well as on the relationships ...
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About Philippe Huneman
Philippe Huneman is a philosopher and research director at CNRS at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, where he was recruited in 2002 after studying mathematics and then philosophy. He has published on evolutionary biology and ecology, as well as on the relationships between metaphysics and biology, with around a hundred academic articles or book chapters on these subjects, and several books — such as Metaphysics and Biology, Kimé, 2008 — or collective volumes, including the reference work (in French and English) Darwinian Worlds (2011). Since 2004, he has been teaching philosophy at the University of Paris I Sorbonne, a former visiting professor at the University of Chicago, he is an affiliated professor at the University of Toronto and now coordinates a CNRS research group “Environmental Knowledge” (SAPIENV), which studies ethical, political, legal, and economic issues related to the environment and ecology. He has also been co-director since 2011 of the collection History, Philosophy & Theory in Life Sciences at the international publisher Springer.
He also regularly contributes to the written press (Slate, Libération, Le Monde, Philosophie Magazine, etc.) and audiovisual media (France Inter, France Culture, BFMTV, Radio Canada).