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Vinciane Despret | |
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![]() Belgian
philosopher of science | |
Born | 12 November 1959
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Occupation | Associate professor at University of Liège |
Notable work | Our emotional Makeup. Ethnopsychology and Selfhood |
Vinciane Despret (born November 12, 1959) is a Belgian philosopher of science. She is an associate professor at the University of Liège and also teaches at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Vinciane Despret first graduated in philosophy before studying psychology. She graduated in 1991 and is now most known for having provided a reflexive account on ethologists, observing babblers in the Negev desert and the way they would interpret those birds' complex dance moves. [a]
She is considered to be a foundational thinker in what has now become the field of animal studies. [b] More generally, at the heart of her work lies the question of the relationship between observers and the observed during the conduct of scientific research.
Despret affiliates herself to such critical thinkers in philosophy and anthropology of science as Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. She undertakes a critical understanding of how science is fabricated, following scientists doing fieldwork and the way they actively create links and specific relationships to their objects of study.
Despret was born in Brussels.
She is married to Jean-Marie Lemaire, a psychiatrist who works partly in Turin. They have one child, Jules-Vincent.
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liège. She is the author of several reference books on animal issues, including Bêtes et hommes (Gallimard, 2007) and Penser comme un rat (Quae, 2009). She has also published, with Isabelle Stengers, Les Faiseuses d'histoires. Que font les femmes à la pensée? (La Découverte, 2011) and Que diraient les animaux... si on leur posait les bonnes questions? (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond; La Découverte, 2012, 2014).
— Translated from the French (machine translation).
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Vinciane Despret | |
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![]() Belgian
philosopher of science | |
Born | 12 November 1959
[1] |
Occupation | Associate professor at University of Liège |
Notable work | Our emotional Makeup. Ethnopsychology and Selfhood |
Vinciane Despret (born November 12, 1959) is a Belgian philosopher of science. She is an associate professor at the University of Liège and also teaches at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Vinciane Despret first graduated in philosophy before studying psychology. She graduated in 1991 and is now most known for having provided a reflexive account on ethologists, observing babblers in the Negev desert and the way they would interpret those birds' complex dance moves. [a]
She is considered to be a foundational thinker in what has now become the field of animal studies. [b] More generally, at the heart of her work lies the question of the relationship between observers and the observed during the conduct of scientific research.
Despret affiliates herself to such critical thinkers in philosophy and anthropology of science as Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. She undertakes a critical understanding of how science is fabricated, following scientists doing fieldwork and the way they actively create links and specific relationships to their objects of study.
Despret was born in Brussels.
She is married to Jean-Marie Lemaire, a psychiatrist who works partly in Turin. They have one child, Jules-Vincent.
Vinciane Despret is a philosopher and researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liège. She is the author of several reference books on animal issues, including Bêtes et hommes (Gallimard, 2007) and Penser comme un rat (Quae, 2009). She has also published, with Isabelle Stengers, Les Faiseuses d'histoires. Que font les femmes à la pensée? (La Découverte, 2011) and Que diraient les animaux... si on leur posait les bonnes questions? (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond; La Découverte, 2012, 2014).
— Translated from the French (machine translation).