Conference on ‘Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation’ (Oxford, 23-24 May, 2024)

At the end of this week, I will participate in a conference on ‘Michel Serres and Bruno Latour in conversation‘ at the Maison Française d’Oxford. You can participate online. My talk will be on ‘Nothing but Experience: The Empiricisms of Serres and Latour’. The abstract: “In his later work, Bruno Latour explicitly embraces the label

PhD position in Philosophy| 20th-Century French Philosophy of Science and Technology |Maastricht University

Together with Darian Meacham, I have a new PhD position open at Maastricht University. You can find the position here. The full text: The recent pace and scale of new developments in science and technology have presented our societies with an ever-expanding set of social and political challenges. At the same time, there is a

Keynote at ‘Logic and Life’ Workshop (12-14 September, Ghent University)

I will give a keynote at the workshop on ‘Logic and Life’ (starting from the essay of Georges Canguilhem) on ‘The Vitality of Concepts: From Spiritualism to the Philosophy of the Concept’ at Ghent University. My (original) abstract: The vitality of concepts: from spiritualism to the philosophy of the concept In his famous 1966 essay

NWO Veni Grant (2023-2026)

This month the results of the NWO Veni grants are in, and I am happy to say I am lucky enough to gain an NWO Veni grant of €280,000 for my project on ‘Towards an Ecology of Technoscience’ at Maastricht University. This project mobilizes a central idea within French philosophy of technology (Simondon, Serres, Latour),

Eighth workshop on Historical Epistemology (Dijon, 8-9 June)

Next Month there will be the next yearly workshop on Historical Epistemology. Whereas in the past it was often in Paris, this time it will be organized in Dijon. But you can attend all talks online for free as well. The topic for this workshop is a historical epistemology of the environmental sciences, with a

Hermitix – Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science

I was once again invited by Hermitix Podcast, this time to talk about my book on ‘Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science‘ (Bloomsbury, 2022). We talk about what characterizes the work of Michel Serres, and his view on science and its relation to society. You can find the episode here.

New Article: ‘Playing God’: Symbolic Arguments Against Technology (NanoEthics, August 2022)

In the August issue of NanoEthics, I have a paper on a type of argument that was often bothering me in discussions about technology. Not so much because I disagreed with the argument, but by the way how it was often ridiculed, yet so omnipresent: the Playing God argument. It pops up with new technologies,

Recording ‘Symbiosis as a Natural Contract: Michel Serres and the Representative Claim’ (Cambridge, 22 June 2022)

Last week we had great workshop on Michel Serres and the Social in Cambridge, organized by Christopher Watkin. He also made great recordings of the talk, including mine on ‘Symbiosis as a Natural Contract: Michel Serres and the Representative Claim’. The original abstract: “In my paper I wish to flesh out Serres’s proposal for a

Michel Serres workshops (June 2022)

I forgot to post this, but in June there are a number of workshops in the UK on the work of Michel Serres. First there is *tomorrow* the ‘Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries’ conference on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 June 2022 at the Maison Française d’Oxford. You can find more information here. Then there

Michel Serres, de l’histoire à la structure : nouvelles approches, textes inédits (1960-1968) (ENS seminar)

This semester the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris is organizing a seminar on the early work of Michel Serres. This is part of the current efforts in France to prepare and publish the complete works of Michel Serres. As part of the seminar, I will present my forthcoming book Michel Serres and French Philosophy