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I am a philosopher of science and technology, and Junior Professor at University Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, holding a Chair on Data and AI in Society at the ISJPS (Institut des Sciences Juridiques et Philosophiques de la Sorbonne.
My research focuses on science, technology and institutions (companies, administrations), from the perspective of the digital transformation they are currently undergoing. My working hypothesis is that explaining these transformations requires us to rework the traditional conceptual frameworks by which we have described these objects until now, and that this reworking is critical to shedding light on their political and societal implications.
Initially trained in mathematics and engineering (graduate from Ecole Polytechnique), I studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and became agrégé de philosophie (1996).
I worked afterwards twenty years in industry, energy and telecommunications as manager or consultant. I came back to academia in 2017 and obtained my doctorate in 2023 in philosophy under the supervision of Pr. Pierre Wagner, at the University Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with the following dissertation: "Reasoning with machines: is programming a form of knowledge?"
Books and edited volumes
Books and edited volumes
Systems and Machines. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
Raisonner avec les machines. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, forthcoming
Semantics and computation, co-ed. Ray Turner, special issue of Philosophies, 2025 (in process).
Papers
Papers
Les débordements de la prudence. Sens-dessous, n°35 (2025): 109-118.
La technique, entre théorie et pratique, dans Logique et épistémologie, ed. Pierre Wagner, Paris, Vrin, 2025.
« "Cette bonne vieille intelligence artificielle" : désuétude et survivance de l’hypothèse computationnelle de l’esprit ». ("Good-old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence": abandonment and Survival of the Computational Hypothesis of the Mind). Philosophia Scientiæ, 26, nᵒ 1 (2022): 3‑21.
Technique et Méthode chez Aristote (Art and Method in Aristotle). Revue de Philosophie Ancienne, 39, n°1 (2021): 25-70. DOI : 10.3917/rpha.391.0025.
About the “Trinity Thesis” Regarding the Ontology of Computer Programs. Philosophy & Technology, 33, no 2 (2020): 323‑30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-019-00368-5.
Conference Communications
Conference Communications
Systematic Problem Solving and Computing, Juin 2024, Pragmatist Trends in the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Conference, Norwich.
Automating the CEO? November 2023, AI and Transformations of Work Conference, Grenoble.
Computing, viewed from Dewey's Logic. August 2022, European Pragmatism Conference, London.
Techne between Theory and Practice: A survey, from Aristotle to Kant. June 2021, SPT Conference. (Society for the Philosophy of Technology - UTC Compiègne - Université Catholique de Lille).
The two sides of Design and Implementation. October 2019, HAPOC Conference (History and Philosophy of Computing), Bergamo.
Declarative and procedural knowledge. August 2019, 16th CLMPST (Conference for the Logic, Method and Philosophy of Science and Technology), Prag.
Epistemic Opacity and Understanding. November 2018, 4th SAS Conference (Science and Art of Simulation), Stuttgart.
Programs as Tools of Knowledge. February 2018, HAPOC Conference (History and Philosophy of Computing), Oxford.
Invitations at seminars
Invitations at seminars
Institutions et infrastructures. Février 2025, Séminaire de l'école doctorale de philosophie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
L'IA: automate ou co-pilote? Octobre 2024, Colloque Formation IAG4UPEC, Créteil.
Automation v Augmentation : the Two Forms of Technology at Work, Juin 2024, Joint Conference JAPS (Japanese Association for the Philosophy of Science) and HSSJ (History of Science Society of Japan), Tokyo.
Machine learning: the end of programming? December 2023, rencontres de l'Observatoire de l'IA, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Systematicity. November 2023, séminaire Algorythmes, IHPST - Université de de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Working Procedures and IT procedures. Foundations of a complex relationship. Février 2021, séminaire HEPIC, IHPST - Université de Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
CV
CV
2024-
Junior Professor at University of Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, holder of Chair on Data and AI in Society at ISJPS.
2018-2023
PhD at University of Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, under the supervision of Pierre Wagner: "Reasoning with machines: Is programming a form of knowledge?"
2012-2017
Essilor. Chief Operating Officer Europe, in charge of production, logistics, IT, Finance and HR.
1997-2012
Boston Consulting Group. Consultant and afterwards Managing Partner and Director at the Paris Office.
1994-1997
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Agrégation de Philosophie, 1996.
1990-1992
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau.
Other academic engagements
Other academic engagements
2021-
Member of the Council and Treasurer of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HAPOC)
2017-2023
Active Member of french National Agency Research project PROGRAMme, directed by Liesbeth de Mol (CNRS).
2013-2016
Board Member of Université Paris-IV Sorbonne
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