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Title: Mr. Job Title: Egenis Research Student Tel: 01392 269140 Fax: 01392 264676 Email: pm250@exeter.ac.uk Building: Byrne House Room Number: SF10
Supervisors
Professor John Dupré and Dr Staffan Müller-Wille at Egenis, and Professor Jean Gayon at the IHPST in Paris.
Teaching experience
Academic activities
Journal Articles
Méthot, P-O., "Darwin, Evolution and Medicine" in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (forthcoming 2010).
Méthot, P-O., "French Epistemology Overseas: Analyzing the Influence of Georges Canguilhem in Québec" Humana-mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies, No. 9, 2009, pp 39–58. (PDF here.)
Book Chapter Méthot, P-O., "Darwin et la médecine: Intérêt et limites des explications évolutionnaires en médecine" In Heams, Huneman, Lecointre, and Silberstein (Eds.) Les mondes darwiniens, 2009, chapter 28. Paris: Syllepse (Advert Les mondes darwiniens).
Selected presentations
"From (neo)Darwinian medicine to evolutionary medicine: analyzing the role of evolutionary explanations in a medical context", presented at the Philosophy of Medicine Rountable, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, October 19th-20th, 2009.
"What can Darwin teach us about medicine?", presented at the ESRC Genomics Network Conference, Cardiff City Hall, October 7th-9th, 2009.
"Why does medicine need Darwin?" A Commentary on "Darwin in the Clinic" by Dorothy Porter at the Darwin, Medicine and Humanities Symposium, University of Exeter, September 18th-19th, 2009.
"General summary" of the Workshop "Life of the Cell: Philosophy and History of Cell Research", presented at Egenis, April 24th, 2009.
"Comment penser les rapports entre la médecine et l'évolution? Une approche historique et épistémologique de la question" presented at the IHPST-Paris, December 11th 2008.
"Integrating evolution to medicine: An overview of the explanatory strategies" at the 8th Vienna International Summer University School in History and Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, 8 July 2008.
“Organism, environment and the problem of normality”, University of Exeter postgraduate conference, 28 May 2008
“Classification, individuation and pluralism in biology and medicine”, Egenis seminar, University of Exeter, 5 February 2008
Comment on Mohan Matthen’s talk entitled “Selection and Causation” at the second consortium for philosophy of biology (Université de Montréal, University of Toronto, Duke University, Paris-1 Sorbonne), IHPST, Paris, 11 May 11 2007
“What is a biological individual? Or, why 'organism' and 'individual' are not (always) synonyms”, 17e symposium of department of Biological Sciences at Université de Montréal, 25 January 2007 (in French).
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