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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., "Research Traditions and Styles of Explanation in Evolutionary Studies of Medicine" in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (forthcoming 2010).
Méthot, P-O., "French Epistemology Overseas: Analyzing the Influence of Georges Canguilhem in Québec" in 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).
Report
Méthot, P-O (with Nicholson, D.), "What is HPS for- 28-29 June?" in The Reasoner, Vol. 4, No. 8, 2010, pp. 123-4.
Selected presentations
"HPS and historical epistemology: a contrast", presented at the 5th Joint Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science "What is HPS for?", University of Exeter, June 28-29th, 2010.
"Qu'est-ce qu'une maladie génétique?" (with Catherine Dekeuwer), presented at the research seminar Concepts de santé et de maladie depuis G. Canguilhem, Université Lyon 3, April 28th, 2010.
"Research traditions and explanatory styles in evolutionary studies of medicine", presented at the Progress in Medicine Conference, University of Bristol, April 13-15th, 2010.
"La médecine darwinienne: une nouvelle forme d'explication des maladies?", presented at the research seminar Concepts de santé et de maladie depuis G. Canguilhem, Université Lyon 3, March 10th, 2010.
"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 19-20th, 2009.
"What can Darwin teach us about medicine?", presented at the ESRC Genomics Network Conference, Cardiff City Hall, October 7-9th, 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 18-19th, 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, July 8th, 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, February 5th, 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 11th, 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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