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Master 2 MADELHIS

Maël — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:50:09 +0000

I am presently attending (since sept. 2022) the MASTER Epistemology, History of Science and Technology (MADELHIS) at the University of Lorraine (Nancy) : it is a Master 2 where everything (teaching, evaluation, students’ monitoring,…) is organized to be followed at distance (distance learning) . Unlike a ‘classic’ Master 2, the training is stretched over 2 years. Technically, I am not a student (again) since I am registered in the context of professional training.

My first peer-review (in HPS)

Maël — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 09:52:56 +0000

This summer, I had the pleasant surprise of being contacted by the editor of the “Journal for General Philosophy of Science” asking me if I would be willing to review a manuscript dealing with one of the Zenon paradoxes. I did not at all expect to be (already) solicited for this kind of activity since I have only one publication to my credit in the field of history and philosophy of science (HPS) and I have no (current) academic affiliation.

I gladly agreed to give my opinion on the manuscript in question; but as it was not exactly the Zenon paradoxes that I had already examined in detail, I had to (re)immerse myself in the bibliography concerning specifically the paradox under discussion (i.e. either read again in detail articles that I had previously read diagonally, or discover other articles). In short, after a full week of work on this subject, I have produced 8 pages of comments (which I tried to be as constructive as possible)!

This little experience encourages me well to continue my (solitary) work in HPS, with as a bonus a thanks from the editor (below) that I see as a little extra encouragement.

“Dear Mael, thanks so much for your detailed referee report on the Zeno manuscript for JGPS. Your comments are very much appreciated and will greatly help the author(s). Thanks for the efforts you have put into this.”

First quotation of my 1st article

Maël — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:05:16 +0000

This is not a fresh piece of information since I had noticed it in September 2019 (that is to say before the creation of this site): the first quote of my article on Zeno’s motion paradoxes can be found in a book… of math!!

It is in the ‘Notable Writings’ section of the book ‘The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019’ : https://books.google.fr/books?id=9yaWDwAAQBAJ (direct access to the quote here)

It is quite surprising that my article is cited in this type of book, given that I am explaining that mathematics is absolutely useless for solving the paradoxes in question. It is thus necessary to believe that the purely logical aspect of my resolution of the paradoxes pleased the mathematicians who proposed my article.