Drouin, Jean-Marc (Author)
Éditions du Seuil
Physical Details: 256 pp.
Language: French
Young and countless insects and other terrestrial arthropods are an essential component of biodiversity and contribute decisively to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Also their study she has played a pioneering role in the revival of the classification and in the observation of animal behavior. She finds herself at the forefront in research areas such as evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, molecular genetics. Beyond the only scientific studies, philosophy in these living beings a radically different form of animal from that familiar. And fascinating forms of social life and collective intelligence that some insects have developed during evolution. It is also necessary to question the relevance of the terms used to describe the social Insects - society, sovereign monarchy, republic, workers, all of questionable images of human societies forcing us to question our spontaneous anthropomorphism. The World of Insects eventually so distant from ours, if only because of the scale effects, it forces us to rethink the very notions of people and backgrounds. Finally, thinking about insects, often inconvenient partners and fairly unpredictable opponents, causing the rejection often as compassion, contributes to the debate on the foundations of an ethically thoughtful attitude towards animals. Jean-Marc Drouin is a historian and philosopher of science, was a professor in philosophy of science at the Natural History Museum. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including The Herbarium philosophers, Seuil, 2008.
...MoreReview Thomas, Marion; Bart, Jean-Yves (2015) Review of "Philosophie de l'insecte". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 416-417).
Similar Citations
Article
Lyons, Sherrie Lynne;
(2002)
Thomas Kuhn Is Alive and Well: The Evolutionary Relationships of Simple Life Forms--A Paradigm Under Siege?
(/isis/citation/CBB000300976/)
Article
Ariel Jonathan Roffé;
Santiago Ginnobili;
Daniel Blanco;
(2018)
Theoricity, Observation and Homology: A Response to Pearson
(/isis/citation/CBB111999401/)
Book
Schmitt, Michael;
(2013)
From Taxonomy to Phylogenetics: Life and Work of Willi Hennig
(/isis/citation/CBB001321148/)
Article
Pedroso, Makmiller;
(2012)
Essentialism, History, and Biological Taxa
(/isis/citation/CBB001221601/)
Article
Futuyma, Douglas J.;
(2012)
Robert R. Sokal (1926--2012)
(/isis/citation/CBB001320465/)
Article
Stijn Conix;
(2019)
Taxonomy and Conservation Science: Interdependent and Value-Laden
(/isis/citation/CBB679160590/)
Article
Chen, Xiang;
(2002)
The “Platforms” for Comparing Incommensurable Taxonomies: A Cognitive-Historical Analysis
(/isis/citation/CBB000300474/)
Book
Schwartz, Janelle A.;
(2012)
Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism
(/isis/citation/CBB001214295/)
Chapter
Perru, Olivier;
(2008)
Symbiose et classification chez les insectes, l'école de Buchner (1886--1978)
(/isis/citation/CBB001221147/)
Article
Guido Caniglia;
(2017)
“How complex and even perverse the real world can be”: W.D. Hamilton's early work on social wasps (1964–1968)
(/isis/citation/CBB908767875/)
Chapter
Francesco Andrietti;
Carlo Polidori;
(2019)
Un'analisi storico-biologica delle indagini di Antonio Vallisneri e Diacinto Cestoni su vespe parassitoidi e galligene
(/isis/citation/CBB541267973/)
Article
Loo, Stephen;
Sellbach, Undine;
(2013)
A Picture Book of Invisible Worlds: Semblances of Insects and Humans in Jakob Von Uexküll's Laboratory
(/isis/citation/CBB001320126/)
Book
Jansen, Sarah;
(2003)
“Schädlinge”: Geschichte eines wissenschaftlichen und politischen Konstrukts, 1840-1920
(/isis/citation/CBB000550607/)
Book
Xavier Bellés;
(2013)
La metamorfosis de los insectos
(/isis/citation/CBB237736901/)
Book
Ian Endersby;
Heinrich Fliedner;
(2015)
The Naming of Australia's Dragonflies
(/isis/citation/CBB848841239/)
Article
Gibson, Abraham H.;
Kwapich, Christina L.;
Lang, Martha;
(2013)
The Roots of Multilevel Selection: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB001420758/)
Chapter
De Smet, Daniel;
(2007)
Scarabées, Scorpions, Cloportes et Corps Camphrés. Métamorphose, Réincarnation et Géneration Spontanée dans l'Hétérodoxie Chiite
(/isis/citation/CBB000930933/)
Article
Nappi, Carla;
(2007)
A Bug's Life: Change and Transformation in Early Modern China
(/isis/citation/CBB000850066/)
Article
Oddone Longo;
(2010)
Entomologia aristotelica
(/isis/citation/CBB729178109/)
Chapter
Dario Generali;
(2019)
Un fronte della battaglia contro la tesi della generazione spontanea. Gli studi di Antonio Vallisneri sull'origine degli insetti delle galle e di altri parassiti di piante e animali
(/isis/citation/CBB370305538/)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Science
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Be the first to comment!