Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology

Charles T. Wolfe is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Université de Toulouse-2 Jean-Jaurès. He works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a particular interest in materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), La philosophie de la biologie: une histoire du vitalisme (2019) and Lire le matérialisme (2020), and has edited or coedited volumes on monsters, brains, empiricism, biology, mechanism and vitalism, including most recently (w. D. Jalobeanu) the Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (2019-2022) and (w. J. Symons, in progress) The History and Philosophy of Materialism. He is co-editor of the book series ‘History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences’ (Springer). Papers available at [https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe]

Giuseppe Bianco is researcher at Cà Foscari University, Venice. He was awarded his PhD in philosophy from Lille3 University and workedin several European and American Universities. His area of interest is 19th and 20th century history of European philosophy and the history of the relation between philosophy, psychology, sociology and medicine. He has worked on the history of concepts, problems, authors, texts, intellectual clusters, chairs, educational systems and, in general, cultural objects that have to do with philosophy. He is the author of Après Bergson (Puf, 2015), he edited books on the history 20th century French philosophy and a monographic issue of the Revue philosophique on Georges Canguilhem (Georges Canguilhem. Les traces du métier).  He was part, along with Gertrudis Van de Vijver and Charles T. Wolfe of two research projects dealing with the relation between philosophy and the life-sciences (both funded by the Flanders Research Foundation and based at Ghent University): "Vitalism. A counter-history of biology" (2019-2022) and "Human life? From philosophy of life to philosophical anthropology" (2022-225). He was the recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual grant for his research project INTERPHIL, “The international congresses and the transnational shaping of philosophy (1900-1948).” The project will start in 2023 and will involve the collaboration between Cà Foscari University and the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM). He is currently writing a book on Gilles Deleuze.