Dr. Philippe Gagnon PhD; D.Ph.; D.Th.
Chargé de recherches, Chaire Sciences, technosciences et foi à l'heure de l'écologie intégrale
ETHICS Laboratory EA 7446 (i.e.: Ethics on experiments, Transhumanism, Human Interactions, Care & Society) at Lille Catholic University
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
Biography
Principal researcher of the Chaire 'Sciences, technosciences et foi à l'heure de l'écologie intégrale,' at the Université Catholique de Lille; Scientific Director of the Vaillant/Whitehead Archives; and Researcher at the ETHICS laboratory (EA 7446). (EA stands for "équipe d'accueil," a State-certified research unit.)
Biography
Born in Hull, Quebec, Canada. High school studies at Collège Saint-Alexandre. Collégial (pre-university) at Séminaire Saint-Augustin and Collège de l'Outaouais. Studied theology and philosophy at Collège Dominicain de Philosophie et de Théologie in Ottawa. Further studies at the Université Laval in Quebec City. M.A. from Collège Dominicain de Philosophie et de Théologie, with a thesis on the use of the concept of information in the philosophical theology of Claude Tresmontant (1925-1997). PhD in Theology in 2000, with a dissertation on New horizons of thought for a theology of nature between information theory and philosophy of science. Canonical doctorate in Theology (D.Th.) in 2002. Doctor in Philosophy (D.Ph.) in 2005, with a dissertation on the axiological interpretation of cybernetics, and the isomorphic understanding of the structuration of life by the French philosopher of science and of nature Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987). I was Post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Sherbrooke under Prof. Jean-François Malherbe (Ethics after the Masters of Suspicion), and at the Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg II under Dr. Miguel Espinoza (Ontology and Philosophy of Nature).
Taught at the Institut de formation théologique de Montréal; École polytechnique de Montréal; Saint Paul University; Université de Sherbrooke; Gustavus Adolphus College; St. Catherine University; and University of St. Thomas.
I also taught at Bethel University, in the College of Adult & Professional Studies, offering—in the general studies unit—classes on the scientific method, the philosophy of technology, mathematics, and academic research and research writing.
I am member of the coordination committee of the French science and religion network 'Réseau Blaise Pascal,' a member of the council of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) as elected representative of France and the French-speaking European countries, and I was also in the organising committee for ECST XVII, the 17th European Conference on Science and Theology which took place in Lyon in April 2018. I was Research Fellow at the Chaire Science et Religion of the Université Catholique de Lyon, and also researcher at the Chaire Jean Bastaire, as well as the Centre interdisciplinaire d'éthique, and a collaborator/scientific moderator for the French science and religion website project , also in partnership with the Association Science et Sens.
I was also Maître de conférences at the École Supérieure de Biologie - Biochimie - Biotechnologies (ESTBB) of the Université Catholique de Lyon (UCLy), giving lectures in the 'Licence Sciences de la vie et humanités' and in the Master's in Biological Engineering programs.
I am qualified as Maître de Conférences at the national level with the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), in section #17, Philosophy (No 19217166184), in section #72, Epistemology and History of Science and Technology (No 19272166184), as well as section #76, Catholic Theology (No 19276166184).
My areas of primary interest are: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature, along with Fundamental and Philosophical Theology.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Information Technology
Website
https://lillethics.com/philippe-gagnon/
Publications
La réalité du champ axiologique : cybernétique et pensée de l'information chez Raymond Ruyer [The reality of the axiological field: Cybernetics and information thinking in Raymond Ruyer]
Éditions Chromatika 2018
https://www.academia.edu/1255293/
Claude Tresmontant, métaphysicien de l’inachevé (1925-1997). Actes de la journée d’étude du 2 février 2019
L'Harmattan November 29, 2022
Co-authors: Yves Tourenne; Fabien Revol; Brunor; Frédéric Crouslé; Bertrand Souchard; Emmanuel Gabellieri.
Editors:Philippe Gagnon (ed.)
Volume:Series "Cahiers Disputatio" No 7.
https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=75126
La théologie de la nature et la science à l'ère de l'information
Éditions du Cerf 2002
Volume:Series 'Cogitatio Fidei,' No 223
https://www.academia.edu/243601/
Teilhard de Chardin. Les terres inconnues de la vie spirituelle
Fides 2002
https://www.academia.edu/243610/
L'expérience de Dieu avec Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Fides 2001
https://www.academia.edu/243606/
Christianisme et théorie de l'information. Science et théologie dans l'œuvre de Claude Tresmontant
François-Xavier de Guibert 1998
https://www.academia.edu/243604/
"Does Pluralism itself need to be Plural?" in 'Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism?'
Springer Nature June 28, 2022
Editors:Michael Fuller, Dirk Evers & Anne Runehov
Pages:187-197
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-06277-3_17
"Acquisition of Autonomy in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence" in Proceedings of the 11th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2020
International Institute for Informatics and Systemics 2020
Co-authors: M. Guillermin; O. Georgeon; J. R. Vidal, and Béatrice de Montera
Editors:N. Callaos; S. Hashimoto; N. Lace; B. Leybourne & P. Poszytek
Volume:II
Pages:168-172
https://www.academia.edu/42270546/
"A Contingency Interpretation of Information Theory as a Bridge between God’s Immanence and Transcendence" in Issues in Science and Theology: Nature – and Beyond
Springer Nature 2020
Editors:Michael Fuller; Dirk Evers; Anne Runehov; Knut-Willy Sæther, and Bernard Michollet
Pages:169-185
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31182-7_14?wt_mc=alerts.TOCseries
"Ruyer and Simondon on Technological Inventiveness and Form Outlasting its Medium"
Edinburgh University Press 2017
Volume:Vol. 11, No. 4
Pages:538-554
https://www.academia.edu/31865811/
Review Article on Jerry Coyne, Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible (New York: Viking, 2015).
ESSSAT March 2016
Volume:Vol. 26, No. 1
Pages:19-26
https://www.academia.edu/13957150/
Review Article on Amir D. Aczel, Why Science Does not Disprove God (New York: W. Morrow, 2014), 304 pages.
ESSSAT June 2015
Volume:Vol. 25, No. 2
Pages:22-27
https://www.academia.edu/12016072/
Review Article on William A. Dembski, Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 218 pages.
ESSSAT March 2015
Volume:Vol. 25, No. 1
Pages:17-24
https://www.academia.edu/10019958/
"Cartesianism, the Embodied Mind, and What's Best for the Future of Cognitive Research" in Do Emotions Shape the World? Biennial Yearbook of The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
Martin-Luther-Universität 2015
Editors:Dirk Evers; Michael Fuller; Anne Runehov, and Knut-Willy Sæther
Pages:225-244
https://www.academia.edu/10247712/
"An Improbable God between Simplicity and Complexity: Thinking about Dawkins's Challenge"
December 2013
Volume:Vol. 53, No. 4
Pages:409-433
https://www.academia.edu/2502186/
"Physics in Catholicism" in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Vol. 3.
Springer 2013
Editors:Anne Runehov & Lluis Oviedo
Pages:1718-1729
https://www.academia.edu/747170/
Review (in English) of Xavier Verley, Sur le symbolisme. Cassirer, Whitehead et Ruyer (Louvain-la-Neuve: Chromatika, 2013), 210 pages.
University of Illinois Press 2013
Volume:Vol. 42, No. 2
Pages:283-288
https://www.academia.edu/5215131/
"The Problem of Transhumanism in the Light of Philosophy and Theology" in Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity
Wiley/Blackwell 2012
Editors:James B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett
Pages:393-405.
https://www.academia.edu/744808/
"A Look at the Inference Engine underlying 'Evolutionary Epistemology' Accounts of the Production of Heuristics" in Is Religion Natural? Biennial Yearbook of ESSSAT
Martin-Luther-Universität 2012
Editors:Dirk Evers; Michael Fuller; Antje Jackelén, and Taede A. Smedes
Pages:161-182
https://www.academia.edu/744814/
“What we have learnt from systems theory about the things that Nature’s understanding achieves” in How do we Know? Understanding in Science and Theology. Biennial Yearbook of ESSSAT
Forum Scientiarum (Tübingen) 2010
Editors:Dirk Evers; Antje Jackelén, and Taede A. Smedes
Pages:23-42
https://www.academia.edu/248303/
"Nietzsche between the Eternal Return to Humanity and the Voice of the Many" in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
2010
Volume:Vol. 84, No. 2
Pages:383-411
https://www.academia.edu/243620/
Claude Tresmontant, métaphysicien de l’inachevé (1925-1997). Actes de la journée d’étude du 2 février 2019
L'Harmattan November 29, 2022
Co-authors: Yves Tourenne; Fabien Revol; Brunor; Frédéric Crouslé; Bertrand Souchard; Emmanuel Gabellieri.
Editors:Philippe Gagnon (ed.)
Volume:Series "Cahiers Disputatio" No 7.
https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=75126
