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Charles Wolfe

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Je suis professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurès, et membre associé de l'IHPST (Paris), fMOD (Dépt. de philosophie, U. de Turin) et CFCUL (U. de Lisbonne). Mon domaine de spécialisation est l'histoire et la philosophie des sciences de la vie (particulièrement la biologie et la médecine) aux 17e-18e siècles, autour des notions de matérialisme et de vitalisme, et accessoirement le mécanisme ; je travaille aussi sur des thèmes dans la philosophie de la biologie européenne du 20e siècle tel que la notion d'organisme, et sur l'histoire de l'empirisme.

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Smithian vitalism?

Charles T. Wolfe
Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 2018, 16, ⟨10.3366/jsp.2018.0211⟩
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Davide Tarizzo, Life: A Modern Invention,Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2017

Charles T. Wolfe
Early Science and Medicine, 2018
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Canguilhem and the Logic of Life

Arantza Etxeberria , Charles T. Wolfe
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, 2018, 4, pp.47. ⟨10.24117/2526-2270.2018.i4.06⟩
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Metaphysics, Function and the Engineering of Life: the Problem of Vitalism

Cécilia Bognon , Bohang Chen , Charles T. Wolfe
Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science, 2018, 20 (1), pp.113-140. ⟨10.2478/kjps-2018-0006⟩
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Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of the emerging life sciences: from Mandeville to Diderot

Charles T. Wolfe
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Models of Organic Organization in Montpellier Vitalism

Charles T. Wolfe
Early Science and Medicine, 2017, 22 (2-3), pp.229-252. ⟨10.1163/15733823-02223P06⟩
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The organism as reality or as fiction: Buffon and beyond

Boris Demarest , Charles T. Wolfe
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2017, 39 (1), ⟨10.1007/s40656-016-0128-8⟩
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MATERIALISM NEW AND OLD

Charles T. Wolfe
Antropología Experimental, 2017
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The ‘physiology of the understanding’ and the ‘mechanics of the soul’: reflections on some phantom philosophical projects

Charles T. Wolfe
Quaestio, 2016
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Materialism and “the soft substance of the brain”: Diderot and plasticity

Charles T. Wolfe
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2016
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Le cerveau est un « livre qui se lit lui-même ». Diderot, la plasticité et le matérialisme.

Charles T. Wolfe
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 2014, 49, pp.135-156. ⟨10.4000/rde.5163⟩
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Diderot et l'approche déterministe de l'esprit : un autre déterminisme ?

Charles T. Wolfe
Dix-Huitième Siècle, 2014, 46, pp.132-146. ⟨10.3917/dhs.046.0501⟩
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Teleomechanism redux? Functional physiology and hybrid models of life in early modern natural philosophy.

Charles T. Wolfe
Gesnerus, 2014, 71 (2), pp.290-307
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The organism as ontological go-between: Hybridity, boundaries and degrees of reality in its conceptual history

Charles T. Wolfe
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2014, 48, pp.151-161. ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.06.006⟩
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The organism – reality or fiction?

Charles T. Wolfe
The Philosophers' Magazine, 2014, 67, pp.96-101. ⟨10.5840/tpm201467119⟩
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HOLISM, ORGANICISM AND THE RISK OF BIOCHAUVINISM

Charles T. Wolfe
Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umana, 2014
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Vitalism and the Resistance to Experimentation on Life in the Eighteenth Century

Charles T. Wolfe
Journal of the History of Biology, 2013, 46 (2), pp.255-282. ⟨10.1007/s10739-012-9349-1⟩
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Chance between holism and reductionism: Tensions in the conceptualisation of Life

Charles T. Wolfe
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2012, Chance at the heart of the cell, 110 (1), pp.113-120. ⟨10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.05.005⟩
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Une biologie clandestine ? Le projet d’un spinozisme biologique chez Diderot

Charles T. Wolfe
La Lettre clandestine, 2011, 19, pp.183-199. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08074-9.p.0195⟩
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RETHINKING EMPIRICISM AND MATERIALISM:THE REVISIONIST VIEW

Charles T. Wolfe
Annales Philosophici, 2010, 1, pp.101-113
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Endowed Molecules and Emergent Organization: The Maupertuis-Diderot Debate

Charles T. Wolfe
Early Science and Medicine, 2010, 15 (1-2), pp.38-65. ⟨10.1163/138374210X12589831573063⟩
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ORGANISATION OU ORGANISME ? L'individuation organique selon le vitalisme montpellierain

Charles T. Wolfe
Dix-Huitième Siècle, 2009, 41, pp.99-119. ⟨10.3917/dhs.041.0099⟩
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L'anomalie du vivant. Réflexions sur le pouvoir messianique du monstre

Charles T. Wolfe
Multitudes, 2008, 33 (2), pp. 53-62 ⟨10.3917/mult.033.0053⟩
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Le rêve matérialiste, ou « Faire par la pensée ce que la matière fait parfois »

Charles T. Wolfe
Philosophiques, 2007, 34 (2), pp.317-328. ⟨10.7202/016993ar⟩
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De-ontologizing the brain (from the fictional self to the social brain)

Charles T. Wolfe
CTHEORY, 2007
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La catégorie d' « organisme » dans la philosophie de la biologie.

Charles T. Wolfe
Multitudes, 2004, Multitudes, 16 (2), pp.27-40. ⟨10.3917/mult.016.0027⟩
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L'évolution du statut de la connaissance dans le traité du serf-arbitre de Luther 1

Charles T. Wolfe , Fabrice Stroun
Archives de Philosophie, 2003, 66 (2), pp.279-302
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Machine et organisme chez Diderot

Charles T. Wolfe
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 1999, 26, pp.213-231. ⟨10.4000/rde.1832⟩
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The Social Brain: a Spinozist Reconstruction

Charles T. Wolfe
ASCS 2009, John Sutton et al, Sep 2009, Sydney, Australia. ⟨10.5096/ASCS200956⟩
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Philosophy of biology before biology

Cécilia Bognon , Charles T. Wolfe
Routledge, 2019, 9781138652873
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LA PHILOSOPHIE DE LA BIOLOGIE AVANT LA BIOLOGIE : UNE HISTOIRE DU VITALISME

Charles T. Wolfe
Garnier. 2019
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Physique de l'esprit

Céline Cherici , Jean-Claude Dupont , Charles T. Wolfe
Sous la direction de Céline Cherici, Jean-Claude Dupont, Charles T. Wolfe. Hermann, 2018, Histoire des sciences
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Physique de l'esprit: empirisme, médecine et cerveau, XVII e -XIX e siècles

Charles T. Wolfe , Jean-Claude Dupont , Céline Cherici
2018
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Brain Theory

Charles T. Wolfe
Charles Wolfe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, Brain Theory, 9780230369573
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Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

Charles T. Wolfe
Charles Wolfe & Sebastian Normandin. Springer, 2013, collection History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 978-94-007-2445-7. ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-2445-7⟩
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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Charles T. Wolfe , Ofer Gal
Springer, 2010, STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, Stephen Gaukroger, 978-90-481-3686-5
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Monsters and Philosophy

Charles T. Wolfe
Charles Wolfe. College Publications, 2005, Monsters and Philosophy, 1904987303
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The Renewal of Materialism

Charles T. Wolfe
Charles Wolfe. , 22 (1), 2000, The Renewal of Materialism, ⟨10.5840/gfpj200022120⟩
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Introduction [LA PHILOSOPHIE DE LA BIOLOGIE AVANT LA BIOLOGIE : UNE HISTOIRE DU VITALISME]

Charles T. Wolfe
LA PHILOSOPHIE DE LA BIOLOGIE AVANT LA BIOLOGIE : UNE HISTOIRE DU VITALISME, Garnier, inPress
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The idea of "philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocation

Cécilia Bognon , Charles T. Wolfe
Cécilia Bognon; Charles Wolfe. Philosophy of biology before biology, Routledge, 2019, 9781138652873
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From Locke to Materialism: Empiricism, the Brain and the Stirrings of Ontology

Charles T. Wolfe
What does it mean to be an empiricist? Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Science, pp.235-263, 2018, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-69860-1_13⟩
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Boundary crossings. The Blurring of the Human/Animal Divide as Naturalization of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy

Charles T. Wolfe
Human and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine, 2017
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Man-Machines and Embodiment: From Cartesian Physiology to Claude Bernard’s ‘Living Machine'

Charles T. Wolfe , Philippe Huneman
Embodiment, Oxford University Press, 2017, ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190490447.003.0011⟩
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Automata, man-machines and embodiment: deflating or inflating Life?

Charles T. Wolfe
Critical and Clinical Cartographies; Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g051s6.16., 2017
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The embodied Descartes: Contemporary readings of L’Homme

Charles T. Wolfe , Barnaby Hutchins , Christoffer Basse Eriksen
Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception, Springer, 2016
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MATERIALISM: A HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION

Charles T. Wolfe
MATERIALISM: A HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL, Springer International Publishing, 2016, Springer Briefs, 978-3-319-24818-9. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-24820-2⟩
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MONSTER -SAMMLUNG UND ALLEGORIE

Charles T. Wolfe , Métraux Alexandre
Sarah Schmidt. Sprachen des Sammelns. Literatur als Medium und Reflexionsform des Sammelns, Fink, pp.487-495, 2016
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Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia: Neuronormativity Meets the Social Brain

Charles T. Wolfe
Matteo Pasquinelli. Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas,, Meson Press, pp.173-184, 2015, Alleys of Your Mind: Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas,, 978-3-95796-065-8. ⟨10.14619/014⟩
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Was Canguilhem a Biochauvinist? Goldstein, Canguilhem and the Project of Biophilosophy

Charles T. Wolfe
Darian Meacham. Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, 120, Springer, pp.197-212, 2015, Philosophy and Medicine 978-94-017-9870-9. ⟨10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9_12⟩
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Brain Theory Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy

Charles T. Wolfe
Brain Theory Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 978-0-230-36958-0
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The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Nobility of Sight to the Materialism of Touch

Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers , Charles T. Wolfe
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance, 2014
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On the Role of Newtonian Analogies in Eighteenth-Century Life Science VITALISM AND PROVISIONALLY INEXPLICABLE EXPLICATIVE DEVICES

Charles T. Wolfe
Newton and Empiricism, 2014
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Éléments pour une théorie matérialiste du soi

Charles T. Wolfe
François Pépin. La circulation entre les savoirs au siècle des Lumières : Hommages à Francine Markovits, Hermann, 2011, 978-2-7056-8215-6
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From Spinoza to the socialist cortex: Steps toward the social brain

Charles T. Wolfe
Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich. Cognitive Architecture. From Bio-Politics To Noo-Politics, 010 Publishers, Delft School of Design Series, pp.184-206, 2010
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Vitalism without Metaphysics? Medical Vitalism in the Enlightenment Introduction

Charles T. Wolfe
Charles Wolfe. Vitalism without Metaphysics? Medical Vitalism in the Enlightenment, 21 (4), Cambridge University Press, 2008, Science in Context, 0269-8897. ⟨10.1017/S0269889708001919⟩
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