Les plantes sont régulièrement identifiées à des machines. Quelles sont les origines philosophiques de cette représentation du monde végétal ? Quelles sont les conséquences techniques et éthiques de cette conception ? L'idée trouve ses racines dans l'animal-machine de Descartes mais la thèse de la plante-machine reste aujourd'hui largement implicite. Nous faisons l'hypothèse que, bien qu'elle soit rarement discutée, cette thèse reste influente actuellement. Nous analysons comment les sciences biologiques et agricoles se sont historiquement appuyées sur la pensée des plantes vues comme des machines et comment elles continuent à le faire aujourd'hui, autour de la sélection végétale, de la production agricole et des biotechnologies. Nous discu...
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Descartes’ long-standing interest in animals had many motivations-to reinforce his dualism of mind a...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
This paper explores some of the inequities in the ways in which intellectual property has been appli...
The test of the Cartesian mechanism puts in crisis the plant analogy that had just regained momentum...
International audiencePhylogenetic classification has put an end to the ontological and scientific d...
International audienceConcern for what we do to plants is pivotal for the field of environmental eth...
Before the upheaval brought about by phylogenetic classification, classical taxonomy separated the l...
In this article, I argue that the French philosopher René Descartes was far more involved in the stu...
Addressing the question of whether machines make history, this paper links the distinction between t...
Forty two years before Descartes’ birth, in his Antoniana Margarita (Medina del Campo, 1554), Spanis...
Drawing attention to the status of plants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through a...
Plant study at the end of the Middle Ages doesn’t operate as an independent unit. It belongs rather ...
This thesis will involve an examination of Enlightenment notions of humans and nature, and how these...
How does one tell the story of a machine? Can we say that technical machines have their own genealog...
In 1852, Charles Naudin published an article in the "Revue Horticole" praising the close link betwee...
Descartes’ long-standing interest in animals had many motivations-to reinforce his dualism of mind a...
International audienceThis paper deals with the development of interpretations of plants' diseases b...
This paper explores some of the inequities in the ways in which intellectual property has been appli...