Science and Technology in Contemporary French Thought
20 September 2013, Downing College, Cambridge
The University of Cambridge Department of French, with the generoussupport of the French Embassy, will be hosting a one-day conference: 'Science and Technology in Contemporary French Thought'. Speakers include Professor Christopher Johnson of the Science, Technology andCulture Research Centre at the University of Nottingham and Dr Marion Vorms of the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et Techniques at the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne).
Speakers
Dr Martin Crowley (University Of Cambridge), Dr Henry Dicks (Universityof Lyon 3), Dr Ian James (University of Cambridge), ProfessorChristopher Johnson (University of Nottingham), Dr John Marks (University of Nottingham), Dr Gerald Moore (University of Durham), Dr Marion Vorms (University of Paris 1, La Sorbonne)
Venue: The Music Room, Downing College, University of Cambridge
Programme
9.15-9.30 Welcome
9.30-11.00 - Panel 1
Martin Crowley, ‘How many Ecologies? How many worlds?’
Gerald Moore, ‘Bernard Stiegler’s “Post-Darwinism”’
11.00 Coffee
11.30-1.00 – Panel 2
Dr Marion Vorms, Title tbc
Dr Ian James, ‘Thinking neuroplasticity: Catherine Malabou and a meeting of traditions’
1.00-2.00 - Lunch
2.00-4.15 – Panel 3
Christopher Johnson, 'Science, technology and the human sciences: Leroi-Gourhan and the Groupe des Dix'
John Marks, ‘Edgar Morin & Henri Atlan: Complexity as a New Paradigm’
Henry Dicks , ‘Edgar Morin and Michel Serres’s 1977 Publications: Physics, Philosophy, and Poetry at the End of the Groupe des Dix’
4.15 Coffee
4.45-5.30 Round table discussion