Jean Gayon (gayon)
professeur émérite à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
My contributions to Philosophie.ch
Bibliography
Brenner, Anastasios and Gayon, Jean, eds. 2009. French Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Contemporary
Research in France. Boston Studies in
the Philosophy of Science n. 276. Dordrecht: Springer.
Gayon, Jean. 1996. “The Individuality of the Species: A Darwinian Theory? –
from Buffon to Ghiselin, and Back to Darwin.” Biology
and Philosophy 11(2): 215–244.
Gayon, Jean. 2003. “From Darwin to Today in Evolutionary
Biology.” in The Cambridge
Companion to Darwin, edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, 1st ed., pp. 240–263. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Gayon, Jean. 2005a. “Chance, Explanation, and Causation in Evolutionary
Theory.” History and Philosophy of the Life
Sciences 27(3–4): 395–405.
Gayon, Jean. 2005b. “Bergson’s Spiritualist Metaphysics and the
Sciences.” in Continental
Philosophy of Science, edited by Gary M. Gutting, pp. 43–58. Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470755501.
Gayon, Jean. 2007. “The Concept of the Gene in Contemporary Biology:
Continuity or Dissolution?” in The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary
Thinking, edited by Anne Fagot-Largeault, Shahid Rahman, and Juan Manuel Torres, pp. 81–96. Logic,
Epistemology, and the Unity of Science n. 6. Dordrecht: Springer.
Gayon, Jean. 2013. “Does Oxygen Have a Function, or Where should the Regress
of Functional Ascriptions Stop in Biology?” in Functions: Selection and Mechanisms, edited
by Philippe Huneman, pp. 67–81.
Synthese Library n. 363. Dordrecht: Springer.
Gayon, Jean. 2015. “Philosophy and History of Science in Sober: Comments on
Did Write the Origin Backwards?” Philosophical
Studies 172(3): 803–811.
Gayon, Jean. 2017.
“Darwinisme et philosophie.”
Philosophie.ch, the Swiss Portal for Philosophy, https://www.philosophie.ch/fr/2017-02-14-gayon.
Gayon, Jean. 2022.
“Darwinismo e filosofia.” Philosophie.ch,
the Swiss Portal for Philosophy, https://www.philosophie.ch/it/2022-04-06-gayon.
Gayon, Jean and Montévil, Maël. 2017. “Repetition and Reversibility in Evolution: Theoretical
Population Genetics.” in Time of
Nature and the Nature of Time. Philosophical Perspectives of Time in
Natural Sciences, edited by Christophe Bouton and Philippe Huneman, pp. 275–314. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of
Science n. 326. Dordrecht: Springer.
Gayon, Jean and Ricqlés, Armand J. de, eds. 2010. Les
fonctions: Des organismes aux artefacts. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France.
Gayon, Jean, Ricqlés, Armand J. de and Dussault, Antoine C., eds. 2023. Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life
Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31271-7.