Anne Fagot-Largeault


Anne Fagot-Largeault is a French philosopher, honorary professor at the Collège de France, psychiatrist at the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, and a member of the French Academy of sciences since 2002.
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Biography

Training and education

A former student of the École normale supérieure de Jeunes Filles in the literary field, Anne Fagot-Largeault decided to pursue philosophy, obtaining a certificate in general and physical mathematics and an agrégation in philosophy in 1961. She became a philosophy teacher at the girls' high school in Douai for four years, and then at the Hélène Boucher high school in Paris for one year. She was chosen by Professor Gilbert Simondon to become his assistant at the Sorbonne from 1966 to 1967. She was seconded to Stanford University from 1967 to 1971, where she studied the philosophy of science in 1971. At the University of Paris 12-Val de Marne, Fagot-Largeault was an assistant, assistant professor, and lecturer. She received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Paris, her doctorate in psychiatry, and her doctorate in literature and human sciences from the University of Paris Ouest in 1986.

Academic background

Anne Fagot-Largeault was a professor at the University of Paris 10 from 1987 to 1995, and an associate professor at Laval University in Québec, Canada, from 1993 to 1995. She was also a professor at the University of [Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne|University of Paris 1] from 1995 to 2000, and had a UFR in philosophy, with concurrent parallel hospital activity. She was a member of the Institut universitaire de France. In February–March 1998 she was visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels. At the University of Paris 1, she was Director of the IHPST, and head of the DEA in History and Philosophy of Science.
Fagot-Largeault was a professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences from 2000 to 2009. Since then, she has been an honorary professor at the same institution. She was elected correspondent on May 3, 1999, and then member on November 12, 2002, at the French Academy of Sciences of the Institut de France, section: Human Biology and Medical Sciences.

Professional and philosophical background

Since 1979 Anne Fagot-Largeault has been an attached doctor from 1979 to 1984, and an attached specialist from 1984 to 2003 at the Henri Mondor Hospital in Créteil, France.
Her work focuses on themes in the history and philosophy of life sciences, approached from a theoretical or practical perspective. They follow three main directions:
Her research on the logic of medical reasoning and the nature of causal explanations originated in relation to Stanford University's program in logic and philosophy of science, and was developed through fruitful contacts with clinical and epidemiological research. Its moral reflection has been enriched and tested by the experience of various Data and Safety Monitoring Committees and by participation in the work of the National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life and Health Sciences.
Fagot-Largeault is a founding member of the International Network of Women Philosophers sponsored by UNESCO, which was created on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day on March 8, 2007.

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