François Duchesneau

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François Duchesneau (* 1943 in Montreal ) is a Canadian historian of science and philosophy who specializes in the philosophy and history of biology from the 17th to 19th centuries and the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . He is a professor at the University of Montreal .

Duchesneau studied philosophy in Paris with the aim of agrégation and received a doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne . He was first professor of philosophy at the University of Ottawa from 1971 to 1979 and then in Montreal. There he was director of the philosophy department, vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and vice rector for planning and foreign affairs.

Duchesneau was the editor of Dialogue . He was visiting professor at the University of Leuven (Mercier Chair), at the Sorbonne, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the University of Alberta .

One of his main works is on the "History of Physiology in the 18th Century", from 1982.

In 1992 he received the Prix ​​Acfas André-Laurendeau of the Association francophone pour le savoir and in 2003 the Killam Prize . In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . He was President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science.

Fonts

  • L'empirisme de Locke . Nijhoff, Kluwer, The Hague 1973
  • La physiologie des Lumières . Empirism, models and théories. Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 95. Kluwer , The Hague 1982
  • Genèse de la théorie cellulaire. Vrin, Paris and Bellarmin, Montreal 1987
  • La dynamique de Leibniz. Vrin, Paris 1994
  • Leibniz et la méthode de la science. Presses Universitaires de France PUF, Paris 1993
  • Philosophy de la biologie , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1997
  • Les modèles du vivant de Descartes à Leibniz. Vrin, Paris 1998
  • Leibniz: le vivant et l'organisme. Vrin, Paris 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author's biography in Mathieu Marion, Robert S. Cohen (ed.), Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Part II, Essais in Honor of Hugues Leblanc, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 178, Kluwer 1996, therein his contribution: Teleological arguments from a methodological viewpoint. Pp. 1-12
personal data
SURNAME Duchesneau, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal