Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historian[...]

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Franois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays[...]

At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of normality, the ideologization of scientific thought, and the conceptual history of biology had marked the thought of philosophers such as Michel Foucault,[...]

Pour Canguilhem, l'entrelacement de l'ideologie et de la science doit empecher de reduire l'histoire d'une science a la platitude d'un historique, c'est-a-dire d'un tableau sans ombres de relief . Le vivant, en tant qu'objet de la biologie, est lui-meme le produit d'une histoire. Or, qui s'interesse[...]