Charles Wolfe
- Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)
- Equipe de Recherche sur les Rationalités Philosophiques et les Savoirs (ERRAPHIS)
- Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)
Présentation
Charles Wolfe est Professeur de Philosophie moderne et contemporaine à l’Université de Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès et directeur du département de philosophie. Il travaille sur les rapports entre la philosophie de l’âge classique (17e-18e siècles) et l’histoire et la philosophie des sciences de la vie, avec un intérêt particulier pour le matérialisme et le vitalisme, ainsi que pour l’épistémologie chez des figures comme Georges Canguilhem. Il est l’auteur de monographies dont La philosophie de la biologie avant la biologie et Lire le matérialisme, et récemment, de volumes collectifs codirigés dont The History and Philosophy of Materialism (dir. avec J. Symons) et Canguilhem face à la biopolitique (dir. avec G. Gandolfi et G. Ienna). Il co-dirige les collections ‘History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences’ et Political Epistemology chez Springer.
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Publications
Taking Stock of Medieval Materialism: A Decontextualized ViewMaterialism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Aurélien Robert, Sep 2024, Paris, France |
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Organisms as material agents, organisms as meaning-makersThe Organic and the Normative, July 30-August 1 2024, Sebastjan Vörös, Jul 2024, Ljubljana, France |
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Vitalist Newtonianism?Newtonianism and its Global Reception, Derya Gurses Tarbuck, Nov 2024, Istanbul, Turkey |
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Material-cosmic plasticity and other new materialist mantras: on some ontological aporias of New MaterialismSFSIA 2024 The Brain Without Organs: Planetarity, Plasticity, and Eco-cosmotechnics in Cognitive Capitalism, Warren Neidich, Oct 2024, Paris, France |
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The Social Brain: a Spinozist ReconstructionASCS 2009, John Sutton et al, Sep 2009, Sydney, Australia. ⟨10.5096/ASCS200956⟩ |
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Un matérialisme intelligentLa raison au travail, 1 : Pour une histoire rationnelle des idées, ENS Editions, 2024, 979-10-362-0762-4 |
Stephen Gaukroger and the Neutrality of Historical EpistemologyScience and the Shaping of Modernity,, Springer, pp.291-299, 2024, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 978-3-031-76036-5 |
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Jouer avec le hasard au 18e siècleAnne Duprat; Fiona Mcintosh-Varjabédian; Anne-Gaëlle Weber; Alison James. Figures du hasard, CNRS éditions, A paraître |
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1670-1814 Playing With ChanceAnne Duprat; Fiona Mcintoch-Varjabédian; Anne-Gaëlle Weber; Martyn Back. Figures of Chance I. Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries), Routledge, In press |
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Le vitalisme entre archaïsme et avant-garde : retour sur un motif hippocratiqueR. Khazam. Objets vivants, Mimesis, pp.23-41, 2023 |
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The Case of Life in the Historiography of Modern Science: Canguilhem’s “Biophilosophy”M. Condé, M. Salomon. Handbook for the Historiography of Science, Springer International Publishing, pp.63-82, 2023, Historiographies of Science, 978-3-031-27509-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-27510-4_4⟩ |
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“Eliminating Life: From the early modern ontology of Life to Enlightenment proto-biology.”S Howard and J Stetter. The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, In press |
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“Varieties of organicism – a critical analysis”M. Mossio. Organization in Biology, Springer, pp.41-58, 2023, 978-3-031-38967-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-38968-9_3⟩ |
“Canguilhem and the promise of the flesh”Giuseppe Bianco; Charles Wolfe; et Gertrudis Van de Vijver. Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology, Springer, pp.181-191, 2023, 978-3-031-20528-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-20529-3_10⟩ |
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Expanded mechanism and/or structural vitalism: further thoughts on the animal economyMechanism, Life and Mind in early modern natural philosophy, Springer, pp.201-233, 2022, Archives internationales d’histoire des idées |
Science et métaphysique : le problème du vivant, de la Révolution Scientifique au vitalismeR Künstler. Sciences et métaphysiques, Editions Hermann, pp.375-387, 2022 |
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Sui fondamenti onto-politici del Nuovo Materialismo : Dagli studi scientifici femministi alla metafisicaGerardo Ienna, Flavio D’Abramo, & Massimiliano Badino. Expertise ed epistemologia politica, Meltemi, pp.267-297, 2022, 978-8855196611 |
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“Galen’s contribution to the history of materialism”Matteo Favaretti & Emanuela Scribano. Galen and the Early Moderns, 236, Springer International Publishing, pp.175-191, 2022, International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 978-3-030-86307-4. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-86308-1_10⟩ |
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Unsystematic Vitality: From Early Modern Beeswarms to Contemporary Swarm IntelligenceActive Materials, De Gruyter, pp.259-298, 2021, ⟨10.1515/9783110562064-013⟩ |
Le corps matérialisteG. Di Liberti & P. Léger. La cognition incarnée, Mimesis, 2021, 978-88-6976-321-2 |
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Vitalism and the Metaphysics of Life: the discreet charm of eighteenth-century vitalismSusan James. Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University Press, pp.292-314, 2021, 9780192843616. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780192843616.003.0016⟩ |
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“Locke and projects for naturalizing the mind in the 18th century”Jessica Gordon-Roth and Shelley Weinberg. The Lockean Mind, Routledge, pp.152-163, 2021, 9781032055794 |
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“Diderot and materialist theories of the self”Gábor Boros, Judit Szalai and Oliver Istvan Toth (eds.). The Self and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University Press, pp.37-52, 2020, 978-963-489-228-1 |
“Is The Normal and the Pathological Vitalist?”P.O. Méthot. Vital Norms. Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century, Hermann, pp.219-250, 2020, 9791037005571 |
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Introduction [LA PHILOSOPHIE DE LA BIOLOGIE AVANT LA BIOLOGIE : UNE HISTOIRE DU VITALISME]LA PHILOSOPHIE DE LA BIOLOGIE AVANT LA BIOLOGIE : UNE HISTOIRE DU VITALISME, Garnier, A paraître |
The idea of "philosophy of biology before biology": a methodological provocationCécilia Bognon; Charles Wolfe. Philosophy of biology before biology, Routledge, 2019, 9781138652873 |
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Introduction. De l’empirisme acérébral au cerveau : parcours, détours, et retoursCharles T. Wolfe, Céline Cherici, Jean-Claude Dupont (dir.). Physique de l'esprit, Hermann, pp.5-16, 2018 |
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From Locke to Materialism: Empiricism, the Brain and the Stirrings of OntologyWhat 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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Man-Machines and Embodiment: From Cartesian Physiology to Claude Bernard’s ‘Living MachineEmbodiment, Oxford University Press, 2017, ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190490447.003.0011⟩ |
Automata, man-machines and embodiment: deflating or inflating Life?Critical and Clinical Cartographies; Architecture, Robotics, Medicine, Philosophy www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g051s6.16., 2017 |
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Boundary crossings. The Blurring of the Human/Animal Divide as Naturalization of the Soul in Early Modern PhilosophyHuman and Animal Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy and Medicine, 2017 |
The embodied Descartes: Contemporary readings of L’HommeDescartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception, Springer, 2016 |
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MONSTER -SAMMLUNG UND ALLEGORIESarah Schmidt. Sprachen des Sammelns. Literatur als Medium und Reflexionsform des Sammelns, Fink, pp.487-495, 2016 |
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MATERIALISM: A HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTIONMATERIALISM: 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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Brain Theory Between Utopia and Dystopia: Neuronormativity Meets the Social BrainMatteo 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 BiophilosophyDarian 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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The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Nobility of Sight to the Materialism of TouchA 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 DEVICESNewton and Empiricism, 2014 |
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Brain Theory Essays in Critical NeurophilosophyBrain Theory Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 978-0-230-36958-0 |
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Éléments pour une théorie matérialiste du soiFrançois 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 brainDeborah 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 IntroductionCharles Wolfe. Vitalism without Metaphysics? Medical Vitalism in the Enlightenment, 21 (4), Cambridge University Press, 2008, Science in Context, 0269-8897. ⟨10.1017/S0269889708001919⟩ |
Review of Anik Waldow, Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20202022 |
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Review-interview of Stephen Gaukroger on The Natural and the Human – Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)2016, pp.Vol 5, n° 10 4-13. ⟨10.13135/2280-8574/1989⟩ |
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Flesh, Soul and Steel: Aporias of Materialist Embodiment2022 |
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« Corps matériels et économies animales : de la complexité du mécanisme aux modèles organismiques dans la pensée du vivant, 1650-1800 »Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences. ENS Lyon, 2017 |
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ANIMISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: SOUL-BASED EXPLANATIONS IN EARLY MODERN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINEHOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 11 (2), pp.494-501, 2021, ⟨10.1086/715975⟩ |
Joseph Priestley: materialism and the science of the mind. Foundations, controversies, receptionIntellectual History Review, 30 (1), 2019 |
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Sketches of a Conceptual History of EpigenesisHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 40, 2017 |
“Organicism, holism and biochauvinism: some shyly deflationary thoughts”2022 |
VITALISMOnline Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature, 2022, ⟨10.11588/oepn.2022.2.87350⟩ |