Philippe Huneman

Philippe Huneman is a French philosopher. He is director of research at Institut for the history and philosophy of science and technology (CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). He specialises in the philosophy of biology, particularly evolutionary biology, and of ecology, and has published numerous academic articles on issues relating to the concept of organism, natural selection, theoretical ecology and the modalities of biological explanation, as well as conspiracy theories and mistrust of science.

The recent author of Pourquoi? Une question pour découvrir le monde (Flammarion/Autrement 2020), Death. Perspectives from the philosophy of biology (Palgrave Mc Millay 2023) and Les Sociétés du profilage. Évaluer, optimiser, prédire, (Payot/Rivages, 2023). He has also co-edited Les Mondes darwiniens (with Thomas Heams, Guillaume Lecointre, Marc Silberstein; Matériologiques, 2011), Challenging the Modern Synthesis (Oxford University Press, 2017, with Denis Walsh), and Temps de la nature, nature du temps (CNRS Éditions, with Christophe Bouton, 2018).