Jean Petitot

Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow
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2013-2014
Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Born in 1944, Jean Petitot is a philosopher of science. He is full Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science. He is the author of ten books and 257 papers, and editor of 18 volumes.

SHC Project

New Cognitive Trends in Philosophy of Science: Phenomenology and Structuralism

Petitot's project belongs to the field of philosophy and aims to bring together two philosophical trends: the philosophical problems raised by the foundations of contemporary physics and the transformation of epistemology resulting from the advances in cognitive neuroscience and naturalized phenomenology.

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