PhD student, Université de Paris, SPHère (UMR7219)
Member of the bureau of the French National Platform for end-of-life research
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EDUCATION
• Since September 2018 : PhD in Philosophy of science under Marie Gaille’s supervision (DR2 CNRS 35). Translated PhD title: "The concept of aging: an interface between biology and approaches based on human experience? An epistemological and ethical analysis". Thesis funded by an AMX grant (École Polytechnique).
• 2017-2018: Master’s dégrée in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science. ENS Ulm - Université Paris-Diderot. Master’s thesis translater title: "What conception of aging can we formulate in the light of biological knowledge on aging and death?". Under Marie Gaille’s supervision.
• 2016-2017: MSc in Genetics. Magistère européen de Génétique, Université Paris-Diderot.
• 2013-2017: École Polytechnique (Major : biology)
PhD
• Translated PhD title: "The concept of aging: an interface between biology and approaches based on human experience? An epistemological and ethical analysis"
My research topic, which is based on an epistemological and conceptual approach, focuses on representations of aging that are elaborated and conveyed by life sciences (biology) and clinical practice.
The aim is to understand the orientations of contemporary research on aging and the occurrence of death in biology and to compare what such orientations say about aging with a philosophical reflection on the nature of the aging process but also with the lived experience of aging.
From a methodological point of view, my work is based on a review of the literature in biology, informed by my initial training in this discipline, but also by the realization of an observation "field" in a specialized research unit in the field, as well as by a series of interviews conducted with biologists whose research focuses on aging.
In addition, the lived meaning of ageing is understood through a corpus of personal, literary and philosophical testimonies, and a philosophical literature rich in ethical and existential reflection on the experience of old age and ageing and contemporary debates on "anti-ageing", regenerative and even transhumanist medicine.
Through these testimonies, I will try to examine, on the one hand, the individual perception of ageing: the entry into dependence, the stake of the relationship to one’s own death, the place of identity in the great old age. On the other hand, this should lead to the identification of the main ethical issues of the state of biological knowledge for the relationship experienced with ageing.
