Lucie Fabry | Doktorandin Stipendiatin

Former Member
Critical Thinking in the Plural. Conceptual Approaches in Research in the Social Sciences
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
Email: lucie.fabry  ( at )  ens.psl.eu Tel: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700

Disciplines : Philosophy |

Biography

Lucie Fabry is a PhD Student in Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure of Paris, in the Mathesis section of République des Savoirs (CNRS, ENS, Collège de France). Since October 2020, she is an associate doctoral fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch.

Her research focuses on French epistemology in the 20th Century. Her doctoral thesis, prepared under the supervision of Pr. Sophie Roux (École Normale Supérieure) and Pr. Philippe Sabot (University of Lille), studies the debates which surrounded the introduction of formalization and mathematical reasoning in the human sciences. It is centered on an epistemological reading of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss and its reception, which questions the way in which this anthropologist presented formalization as what would allow human sciences to achieve scientificity.

Since her Master degree at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Lucie Fabry also studies the work of Gaston Bachelard. She was in charge of the scientific edition of Le Matérialisme rationnel at the Presses Universitaires de France, currently in press. She also took Bachelard’s epistemology as a starting point to investigate its relation to the early 20th Century philosophy of science (“Phenomenotechnique: Bachelard’s critical inheritance of conventionalism”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, june 2019) and his reception since the 1960s (with Sophie Roux, Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes en France : controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, to be published at Éditions Classiques Garnier).

 

During her stay at the Centre Marc Bloch, she will start working on a project on the reception of Max Weber’s philosophy of science in France. She will focus on the references made to Weberian concepts in the epistemological work of Jean-Claude Passeron.

Institution of thesis
École normale supérieure
Supervisor
Sophie Roux ; Philippe Sabot

Publications
  • Scholarly Edition

In Press. Bachelard, Gaston, Le Matérialisme rationnel, Lucie Fabry (ed.), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France.

  • Edited Volumes

In Press. Fabry, Lucie and Sophie Roux. Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes en France : controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, Paris, Éditions Classiques Garnier

  • Refereed Journal Articles

2019. Fabry, Lucie. "Phenomenotechnique: Bachelard’s critical inheritance of conventionalism", in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 75, june 2019, p. 34-42. DOI : 10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.09.009. Read on HAL

Forth. Fabry, Lucie. "A dialogued philosophy: Bachelard's introduction to Le Rationalisme appliqué" in Philosophical Inquieries, Special Issue on Ian Hacking directed by Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro.

  • Book Chapters

In Press. Fabry, Lucie and Sophie Roux, "Introduction", in Lucie Fabry and Sophie Roux. Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes en France : controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, Paris, Éditions Classiques Garnier

In Press. "Jean-Claude Passeron et la critique du bachelardisme naturaliste", in Lucie Fabry and Sophie Roux. Bachelardismes et anti-bachelardismes en France : controverses épistémologiques des années 1960, Paris, Éditions Classiques Garnier

  • Encyclopedia Entries

In Press. Fabry, Lucie. "Abstraction" ; "Althusser, Louis" ; "Échange (restreint, généralisé)" ; "Endogamie et exogamie" ; "Mathématiques de l'homme" ; "Matrilinéaires, patrilinéaires, cognatiques (sociétés)" ; "Murngin" ; "Organisation dualiste" ; "Régimes dysharmoniques" ; "Statistique (distribution)" ; "Structure élémentaire" ; "Structures élémentaires de la parenté, les" ; "Weil, André" in Monod, Jean-Claude (dir.), Dictionnaire Lévi-Strauss, Paris, Robert Laffont.

  • Book Reviews

2019. « L’anthropologue et l’essayiste. À propos de : Salvatore D’Onofrio, Lévi-Strauss face à la catastrophe, Paris, éd. Mimésis, 2018. », La vie des idées, ISSN : 2105-3030 http://www.laviedesidees.fr/L-anthropologue-et-l-essayiste.html

  • Manuscripts in Preparation

"Cross-perspectives on Phenomenotechnique: Sociological readings of Bachelard"