Michel Bitbol
Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Centre de Recherches en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA/Ecole Polytechnique)
New address : ENSTA/CREA, 32, Boulevard Victor, 75015 Paris, France
Philosophy
of modern physics, Philosophy of mind
History of physics
in the twentieth century, Philosophy of science
michel.bitbol@polytechnique.edu
Short Biography :
Born in 1954, I was educated at several universities
in Paris, where I received successively a M.D. in 1980, a Ph.D. in physics in
1985, and an “Habilitation”
in philosophy in 1997. I first worked as a research scientist in biophysics
from 1978 to 1990. From 1990 onwards, I turned to the philosophy of physics,
where I developed a neo-Kantian approach. I edited texts by Erwin Schrödinger,
and published books in French about quantum mechanics for which I received an
award from the "Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques". A few
years ago, I focused on the relations between the philosophy of quantum
mechanics and the philosophy of mind and consciousness, working in close
collaboration with Francisco Varela. I also have a long-term interest for the
philosophy of the Madhyamika school, and learned some Sanskrit to have access
to it.
On this web-site:
Programs of
seminars, conferences, and lectures
Abstracts of my
books and translations
Some articles in
French available online
A selection of articles in English
available online:
The concept of
measurement and time symmetry in quantum mechanics
Some steps towards a
transcendental deduction of quantum mechanics
A debate between Carnap
and Schrödinger on the problem of Other Minds
Science as if situation
mattered
Non-representationalist
theories of knowledge and quantum mechanics
Perspectival realism and
quantum mechanics
Autopoiesis with and
without Cognition: Defining Life at its Edge (with P.L. Luisi) 
Ontology, Matter, and
Emergence 
Heat,
Temperature and Phenomenal Concepts (with I. Peschard) [Also available
on I.Peschard’s homepage] 
Is Consciousness
Primary ? [Also
directly on the website of the Journal NeuroQuantology] 
Consciousness,
Situations, and the Measurement Problem of Quantum Mechanics [Also
directly on the website of the Journal NeuroQuantology] 
M. Bitbol, « Downward
causation without foundations », Synthese 
The validity of
first-person descriptions as authenticity and coherence (With C.
Petitmengin) 
Reflective
metaphysics : understanding quantum mechanics from a kantian standpoint
Books in English:
E. Schrödinger, The
interpretation of quantum mechanics
M. Bitbol, Schrödinger's
philosophy of quantum mechanics