Sylvain Lavelle has a PhD in Philosophy (Paris-Sorbonne, 2000) and also studied Political Sciences and Natural Sciences. He is a Professor-Researcher in Philosophy at ICAM and CETS (Centre for Ethics, Technology and Society) within the Polytechnicum of Lille, France. His research areas are : post-critical philosophy, contemporary rationalism, philosophy of technology and engineering (analytical and phenomenological perspectives), governance of technology, science, technology and ethics, gene, energy and cyber technology, discourse ethics and politics, technological democracy, participative and deliberative democracy, public debates.
Selective bibliography
Books
| * | GOUJON Philippe, LAVELLE Sylvain,
DUQENOY Penny, KIMPA Kai, LAURENT Véronique, The Information
Society : Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy, Springer,
2007 |
| * | GOUJON Philippe, LAVELLE Sylvain, Technique,
communication et société : à la recherche d’un
modèle de gouvernance. Les technologie de l’information
et de la communication et les limites du paradigme de la raison
communicationnelle, Presses Universitaires de Namur, 2007 |
| * |
FELTZ Bernard, GOUJON Philippe, HERIARD
DUBREUIL Bertrand, LAVELLE Sylvain, LESCH Walter, Ethique, technique
et démocratie, Academia, Louvain, 2007 |
| * | LAVELLE Sylvain, Science, technologie et éthique. Conflits de rationalité et discussion démocratique, Ellipses, Paris, 2006 |
Articles
| * | LAVELLE Sylvain, ‘La politique
de la discussion. La dynamique du débat public, entre conversation
et négociation’, Le débat public, La Découverte,
2007 |
| * | LAVELLE Sylvain, ‘Le rationalisme critique
et le rationalisme dialectique. La rationalité à l’épreuve
de l’Autre : du paradigme de la communication au paradigme
de la relation’, Technique, communication et société
: à la recherche d’un modèle de gouvernance,
Presses Universitaires de Namur, 2007 |
| * | LAVELLE Sylvain, ‘The philosophies
of Pragmatism and the Relations between Theory, Practice and Technology’,
Philosophy in Engineering, Academica, Aarhus, 2006 |
| * | LAVELLE Sylvain, ‘Science, Technology
and Ethics. From Critical Perspective to Dialectical Perspective’,
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2005, vol. 8, n°3, pp 217-238 |
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