Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

Pierre-Olivier Me´thot is Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Laval University, Quebec City, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Medical Humanities and History of Biological Thought. His research is in the philosophy and history of medicine and biology and in the history of historical epistemology. He has translated and edited Mirko Grmek’s Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (Fordham University Press, 2019) and is the editor of a new collection of essays on Georges Canguilhem, Vital Norms: Canguilhem’s The Normal and the Pathological in the Twenty-First Century (Hermann, 2020). He is also the coeditor of a recent volume in the philosophy of medicine on Le normal et le pathologique : des catégories périmées ? (Éditions Matériologiques, 2022). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. He is also a member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (Montre´al) and the Centre nutrition, santé et société (Québec) as well as an associate researcher at the Institut des humanite´s en me´decine (Lausanne).