Philippe GOUJON PhD, Assistant Professor

ADDRESS

Computer Science Institute University of Namur (FUNDP) rue Grandgagnage, 21 B-5000 Namur Belgium

Office : 325 +32/(0)81/72 41 08 Fax : +32/(0)81/72 49 67 E-mail : philippe.goujon@fundp.ac.be URL : http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~pgo

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Philippe Goujon is a Doctor of Philosophy. After obtaining a degree in philosophy, his interest in science encouraged him to undertake epistemological studies. His thesis, under the supervision of Professor Jean Gayon, analyzed the scientific and philosophical work of Professor Jacques Monod. It was presented in 1993 at the University of Burgundy (Dijon) and was entitled "Along thePaths of Information and Communication to Complexity". It provided a historical-critical analysis of information and communication concepts, their various rationalizations and evolution, as well as their scientific, socio-economic and ideological implications.
Philippe Goujon authored several articles on artificial life, self-organization, thermodynamics, the complexity, biotechnology, genomics and also the connection between science, techniques, education and culture. He authored books about the autoorganisation concept(1) and about the ethics of technology(2). After his first appointment as qualified researcher at the University of Burgundy, then at the Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres (IUFM) in Bourg-en-Bresse, he spent three years in post-doctorate studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) under the mentorship of Bernard Feltz from the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie. He has been teaching epistemology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Lille from 1995 to 2003. In 2004 he is appointed has a “chargé de cours” at the FUNDP (Namur Belgium).
One aspect of his research concerned the history and the socio-economic impacts of the European yeast genome sequence project(3) carried out in the context of the biotechnology programs known as BAP - BRIDGE - BIOTECH 1 and 2. He wrote a book about the history of biotechnology, genomic and the European genome sequence projects. He has addressed the epistemological and ethical problems of this new scientific field which is named genomic and of GMO. His research now concerns the epistemology of complexity as well as the interaction between science, technology and culture, the cultural impact of informatics, the philosophy of informatics and the epistemology of computing.
He has taken part in a European biotechnology research program entitled "The Industrial Use of Genome Resources in Europe"(4).
In 1989, he was honored by the Bleustein-Blanchet foundation and in 1991, he received the medal of honor from the University of Burgundy (Dijon)
In 1997, in addition to teaching at the Higher Institute of Agriculture, the Free Faculty of Science, the Higher School of Enterprise Management (ESPEME), he was a member of the Contemporary Ethical Center where he was responsible for coordinating a project concerning ethics in engineering, sponsored by the European SOCRATES program. He has organised various seminars and symposia, an international symposium on ethics and sociotechnic complexity and has written a book on the GMO controversy (ed world scientific 2001)
In 1998, he was qualified as "Maître de Conférences" and Professor in Epistemology and History of Science and in 2004 he obtained the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (director of investifgation).
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(1) Feltz, M.Crommelinck et Ph. Goujon, Auto-organisation et emergence dans les sciences de la vie, ed. Ousia, 1999.
(2) P. Goujon and B. Hériard, Technology and ethics, A European quest for responsible Engineering, ed. Peeters, 2000.
(3) From biotechnology to genomes : the meaning of the double helix - World Scientific - 2000 - 700 pages.
(4) The Industrial Use of Genome Ressources in Europe by S.M. Thomas, Pierre Benoît Joly and Philippe Goujon - Report for the European Commission - Contract N°BIO4-CT96-0686 - December 1999 - Report published by the European Commission

LECTURES

French is the teaching language.

Course attributed during academic year on 2004-2005 :
- INFO B111 – Introduction à la pensée philosophique (30 h.)
- INFO 2112 – Information, informatique et sciences (30 h.)
- INFO 2211 – Informatique et rationalité : approche épistémologique (30 h.)
- INFO 2301 – Informatique et société (30 h.)

Course attributed until academic year on 2005-2006 :
- INFO B111 – Introduction à la pensée philosophique : modernité et rationalité (30 h)
- INFO 2112 – Information, informatique et sciences : approche historique (INFO 2112 - 30 h)
- INFO 2111 – Informatique et rationalité : approche épistémologique (30 h).

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Books published

• Pourquoi la science ? Impact et limites de la recherche, Meulders M., Crommelinck M., Feltz B eds. - ed. Champ Vallon – 1997 – 261 pages – Fonction : Ph. Goujon co-directeur et concepteur scientifique.
• The industrial use of genome ressources in Europe, S.M. Thomas, Pierre Benoît Joly and Philippe Goujon - Report for the European Commission - Contract N°BIO4-CT96-0686 - December 1999 - Report published by the European Commission – Fonctions : partenaire du programme, concepteur scientifique.
• Auto-organisation et émergence dans les sciences de la vie, Feltz B., Crommelinck M., Goujon Ph., eds.- édition OUSIA – 2000 – 511 pages – Fonctions : co-organisateur et co-directeur scientifique.
• From biotechnology to genomes : the meaning of the double helix, Philippe Goujon – ed. World Scientific - 2001 - 782 pages.
• Technology and ethics – A European quest for responsible engineering, ed. Philippe Goujon and Bertrand Hériard – 2001 – 616 pages – Fonctions : co-directeur scientifique, membre du comité éditorial international, co-directeur éditorial, responsable opérationnel.

Books to be published

Articles

Articles published in collective books

• « Sous le signe d'Hermès », colloque international sur la philosophie de l'éducation intitulé "Philosophie de l'éducation et formation des maîtres", Pour une philosophie de l'éducation, in les actes du colloque "Philosophie de l'éducation et formation des maîtres - Dijon, Octobre 1993, sous la direction de H. Hannoun et Anne Marie Drouin-Hans, CNDP/CRDP de Bourgogne, 1994, pp. 53-60.
• « Aux origines des espoirs d'une vie artificielle », 14ème Congrès International de Cybernétique de Namur - 1995 - Symposium N°17 - Les systèmes biologiques -actes du colloque - 1996 - pp. 909-914.
• « Les rêves de la raison et les illusions des images artificielles », 14ème Congrès International de Cybernétique de Namur - 1995 - Symposium N°17 - Les systèmes biologiques -actes du colloque - 1996 - pp. 920-925.
• « Existence, culture et technique : considérations inactuelles sur un crépuscule culturel », in les actes du colloque « Pourquoi la science? Impacts et limites de la recherche », organisé par Messieurs les Professeurs Meulders, Crommelinck, Feltz et Philippe Goujon à l'Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique) - 30, 31 mai et 1er juin 1995, parus aux éditions Champ Vallon, collection milieux, 1997, pp. 91-108.
• « La re-création de la vie ou l'illusion des phantasmes artificiels », in Estudios en historia y filosofia de la biologia, volumen 2, editores Raul Gutierrez Lombardo, Jorge Martinez Contreras, Jose Luis Vera Cortes, Centro de Estudios Filosoficos, Politicos y Sociales, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, 1999, pp. 209-235.
• « De la logique à l’auto-organisation – l’apprentissage de la complexité », in les actes du colloque Self-Organisation and Emergence in Life Sciences, organisé par Messieurs les Professeurs Crommelinck et Feltz et Philippe Goujon à l'Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique) - 10, 11 12 Avril 1995, ed. Ousia, 1999, pp. 103-134.
• « OGM et éthique - Limites de l’exploitation, limites de la recherche, principe de précaution », in Compte rendu des actes du colloque « Les OGM en question », 18 ET 19 Novembre 1999, édition Université verte, Lille.
• « The regulation of biotechnology : The case of rDNA (ethics and the complexities of decision) », in Engineering and ethics – a European quest for responsibility in a technological - eds. Philippe Goujon and Bertrand Hériard – édition Peeters - 2001
• « Technology and ethics – A European quest for responsible engineering », in A European Quest For Responsible Engineering (avec Ch. Didier, B. Hériard-Dubreuil et CH. Hogenhuis), in Engineering and ethics – a European quest for responsibility in a technological - eds. Philippe Goujon and Bertrand Hériard – edition Peeters – 2001 – pp. 1-14.
• « Épilogue », in Engineering and ethics – a European quest for responsibility (with B. Hériard-Dubreuil, J.M .Lhote, E. Thévenin, M.Veys), in A technological - eds. Philippe Goujon and Bertrand Hériard – edition Peeters – 2001 – pp. 555-604.
• « Los OGM y la etica : Estatutos, impactos y limites de una nueva biologia », in Technologia etica y futuro, Joseph Maria Esquirol (ed.), desclée, 2001 – pp. 34-61.

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