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

Pierre-Olivier Méthot editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:26th May '24

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

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 Drawing on published and unpublished sources, the book explores some of Gayon’s most significant contributions to the philosophy, history, and social studies of biology.

“The book Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon, edited by Pierre-Olivier Méthot with an introduction by Méthot and Philippe Huneman, gathers scholarly contributions and personal testimonies from some of Gayon’s colleagues and journey companions. … all the essays follow the common thread of portraying Gayon as a mediator between supposed oppositions—philosophy-history and continental-analytic philosophy—they offer a unique perspective … . This breadth of positions gives the volume a sufficiently wide scope … .” (Emiliano Sfara, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 47 (1), 2025)

ISBN: 9783031281594

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329 pages

2023 ed.