Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science
Author: Massimiliano Simons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1350247871

Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.

Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time

Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472065486

Illuminating conversations with one of France's most respected--and controversial--philosophers

Reading with Michel Serres

Reading with Michel Serres
Author: Maria L. Assad
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791442296

Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.

The Birth of Physics

The Birth of Physics
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786606267

Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres’ distinctive philosophy of science.

The Troubadour of Knowledge

The Troubadour of Knowledge
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780472065516

A meditatation on the nature of education and the necessity of cross-disciplinarity

Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science
Author: Massimiliano Simons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135024788X

Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, he argues, organizes great parts of Serres's work into a promising philosophy of science as well as a challenge to the narrower field of French epistemology, to which it has often been limited. Simons highlights how the concept encompasses Serres's commitment to positive relations between science and culture and his rejection of pleas to purify the scientific self from imaginative and cultural elements. It helps to situate Serres between the distinct traditions of Bachelard and Latour as well as progressing the innovative aspects of Serres's philosophy for current debates in the philosophy, history and sociology of science. Showing how Serres's philosophy can serve as a normative approach to science and technology, Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science takes in themes of materiality, religiosity, modernity and ecology to advance a timely alternative to philosophy of science for contemporary life.

The Five Senses

The Five Senses
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474299962

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix MĂ©dicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.

French Philosophy Today

French Philosophy Today
Author: Christopher Watkin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474414745

Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this comparative, critical analysis shows the promises and perils of new French philosophy's reformulation of the idea of the human.

Rome

Rome
Author: Michel Serres
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472590163

Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation the roots of scientific knowledge to set theory and aesthetics. He explores the themes of violence, murder, sacrifice and hospitality in order to urge us to avoid the repetitive violence of founding. Rome also provides an alternative and creative reading of Livy's Ab urbe condita which sheds light on the problems of history, repetition and imitation. First published in English in 1991, re-translated and introduced in this new edition, Michel Serres' Rome is a contemporary classic which shows us how we came to live the way we do.