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Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

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Editors:
  1. Pierre-Olivier Méthot

    1. Faculté de Philosophie, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

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  • Offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of Jean Gayon’s contributions to the field of history
  • Explores and contrasts different philosophical traditions in the study of biology in Europe and the USA
  • Serves as an interdisciplinary contribution to the broader field of history, and social studies of the life sciences

Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 30)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Jean Gayon (1949–2018), Philosopher and Historian of the Life Sciences

    • Pierre-Olivier Méthot, Philippe Huneman
    Pages 1-9

  4. Perspectives on Jean Gayon’s Contributions to the History of Evolutionary Theory and French Genetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in America and France: The Contribution of Jean Gayon

      • David Depew
      Pages 107-125

    3. Local Traditions and the Death of Diffusion: Jean Gayon’s Contribution to Contemporary Narratives of ‘The Molecular Vision of Life’

      • Edna Suárez-Díaz
      Pages 127-138

    4. Jean Gayon and the French School of Population Genetics

      • Michel Veuille
      Pages 139-165

    5. Jean Gayon on the “Modes” of Cultural Evolution

      • Jorge Martínez-Contreras
      Pages 167-175

    6. On Revisiting Wallace’s 1858 Theory of Natural Selection

      • Jonathan Hodge
      Pages 177-197

  5. Case-Studies on Biological Concepts and Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Phenomenology and the Species Problem: The Need for Dialogue Between Traditions

      • Phillip R. Sloan
      Pages 201-225

    3. Vitalism and the Construction of Biology: A Historico-Epistemological Reflection

      • Charles T. Wolfe
      Pages 227-244

    4. Lamarck: Philosopher of Nature

      • Stéphane Tirard
      Pages 245-252

    5. Between Science and Ideology: The Case of Clémence Royer

      • Gérard Chazal
      Pages 253-265

    6. Is Darwin Resistible? Mill on Design and Natural Selection

      • Denis Forest
      Pages 267-277
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About this book

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the career and the thought of Jean Gayon (1949-2018), this book showcases the continued relevance of Gayon’s interdisciplinary work and illustrates his central place in the community of historians and philosophers of the life sciences.

Chapters in this book address Jean Gayon’s intellectual trajectory from historical epistemology to the philosophy of biology, the nature and scope of his philosophical approach to the history of science, and his unique contributions to the history and epistemology of biological concepts and theories. Drawing on published and unpublished sources, the book explores some of Gayon’s most significant contributions to the philosophy, history, and social studies of biology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculté de Philosophie, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

    Pierre-Olivier Méthot

About the editor

Pierre-Olivier Méthot is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Laval University, Quebec City, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Medical Humanities and History of Biological Thought. His research is in the philosophy and history of medicine and biology and in the history of historical epistemology. He has translated and edited Mirko Grmek’s Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (Fordham University Press, 2019) and is the editor of a new collection of essays on Georges Canguilhem, Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century (Hermann, 2020). He is also the coeditor of a recent volume in the philosophy of medicine on Le normal et le pathologique : des catégories périmées ? (Éditions Matériologiques, 2022). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. He is also a member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (Montréal) and the Centre nutrition, santé et société (Québec) as well as an associate researcher at the Institut des humanités en médecine (Lausanne).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

  • Editors: Pierre-Olivier Méthot

  • Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28157-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28156-3Published: 26 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28159-4Due: 26 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28157-0Published: 25 May 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1948

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 329

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Biology, History of Science, Philosophy of Science

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