Note su Gérard Lebrun e la sua ricezione della Critica del giudizio: un’influenza sulla filosofia biologica francese contemporanea?

Abstract

With a few exceptions, it can hardly be said that the Kantian conception of the organism has been a frequent model for explanations of organismal functioning in twentieth-and twenty-first-century philosophy of biology. However, the French philosopher of biology
Philippe Huneman referred to this kind of conception in some works devoted to the philosophy of organism. Taking in analysis some passages from the writings of the philosopher Gérard Lebrun, who was the supervisor of Huneman’s PhD thesis, this paper aims to investigate the possible influences that Lebrun’s reading of Kant may have had on contemporary French biology, in particular on Huneman.

Keywords: Kant; Lebrun; philosophy; biology; organism.