Philippe Goujon is Doctor of Philosophy. He 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 and about the ethics of technology. 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). He has been teaching epistemology and philosophy at University of Lille from 1995 to 2003. In 2004 he is appointed has Professor at the Faculté Notre Dame de la paix (Namur Belgique). He has taken part in a European biotechnology research program entitled "The Industrial Use of Genome Resources in Europe”. He was partner in divers international research projects (in particular the MIAUCE project: http://www.miauce.org/). He has addressed the epistemological and ethical problems of this new scientific field which is named genomic and of GMO.. He has organised various international seminars and symposia on ethics and the relation between ethnics society and governance concept. His research now concerns the epistemology of complexity as well as the The Information Society : Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics governance and Democracy interaction between science, technology and culture, the cultural impact of informatics, the philosophy of informatics and the epistemology of computing.
He co-direct the IG3T project (Internet governance: transparency, Trust and tools (2008-2009) and will be partner of the European project ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications) (avril 2009- 2011)

Selective bibliography

Books and reports:

*	Philippe Goujon - chapitre 2: the ambient intelligence: from concept to vision (pp. 34-62) in Délivrable du programmes européen MIAUCE - 5.1.1 Ehtical, legal and social issues: from analysis to méthodology , 2007
*	Philippe Goujon - Chpaitre 3: Ambient Intelligence: ethical and societal issues (pp. 68-111) in Délivrable du programme européen MIAUCE - 5.1.1 Ehtical, legal and social issues: from analysis to méthodology, 2007
*	B. Feltz, Ph Goujon, B.Heriard, S Lavelle W. Lesch, Ethique, technique et démocratie, Academia Eds ,Sciences Ethique et Societe, numéro 1, 2007.
*	Philippe Goujon Sylvain Lavelle Penny Duquenoy, Kay Kimppa, Veronique Laurent The information society : Innovation, legitimacy, ethics and emocracy, ed by, ed Springer, 2007
*	Philippe Goujon, Charles Bienfait, Philippe Bourdeau, Marc Boutry, Arsène Burny, André Goffeau, Dirk Inzé, Jean-jacques van De Berg, Jan van Keymeulen, Marc Van Montagu, Nathalie Verbruggen, Fernand Van Hoeck, Marc Mormont, Les ogm : Le cas des plantes transgéniques - rapport du BACAS - académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2007
*	Self-Organisation and emergence in life sciences, Feltz B., Crommelinck M., Goujon Ph., eds., ed. Kluwer, 2006
*	Philippe Goujon, From biotechnology to genomes: the meaning of the double helix, ed. World scientific - 2001 - 782 pages
*	The industrial use of genome 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.
*	Engineering and ethics – a European quest for responsibility in a technological society - ed. Philippe Goujon and Bertrand Hériard – 2001 – 616 pages.

Articles

*	Critical perspective on Ambient Intelligence Technology – ethical and societal issues – AiCE -2008 – Fifth Australian institute of computer ethics conference – Melbourne, 11 february 2008, Proceedings edited by Mattew Warren, 2008, 32-56.
*	"The international regulation of biotechnology. The case of rDNA Techniques" - Revue Ludus Vitalis, (Mexique): revue internationale de philosophie des sciences de la vie - vol. 9, num. 16, 2001, pp. 135-160.
*	"De la logique à l’auto-organisation – L’apprentissage de la complexité" – Revue Cybernetica - Revue de l'association internationale de Cybernétique - Vol. 3/4 en l'honneur de Norbert Wiener, 1994, pp. 251-272.
*	"La biologie à l’ère de l’informatique : connaissance et naissance de la vie artificielle (première partie : Les racines de la vie artificielle)", Revue des questions scientifiques - 165 (1), 1994, pp. 53-84.
*	"La biologie à l’ère de l’informatique : connaissance et naissance de la vie artificielle (deuxième partie : La postérité de Von Neumann)", Revue des questions scientifiques - 165 (2), 1994, pp. 119-153.
*	"Analyses historiques et épistémologiques des relations entre entropie, néguentropie et information (des expériences imaginaires de Maxwell et Szilard à la théorie de Brilllouin)" - Revue Cybernetica - vol.XXXIX - N° 3 -1996 - pp. 167-200.
*	"Espoirs et désillusions de la communication (Critique d'une nouvelle idéologie)" - Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales - Tome XXXIV - N°106 - 1996 - pp. 219- 252.
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