Anne Fagot-Largeault

Anne Fagot-Largeault (born on September 22, 1938, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris)[1] is a French philosopher, honorary professor at the Collège de France (chair of philosophy of biological and medical sciences), psychiatrist at the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris,[2] and a member of the French Academy of sciences since 2002.

She was also a professor at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) from 1995 to 2000, and had a UFR in philosophy, with concurrent parallel hospital activity.

[4] Fagot-Largeault was a professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences from 2000 to 2009.

Her work focuses on themes in the history and philosophy of life sciences, approached from a theoretical (epistemology, biological ontology) or practical (ethics) perspective.

They follow three main directions: Her research on the logic of medical reasoning and the nature of causal explanations originated in relation to Stanford University's program in logic and philosophy of science, and was developed through fruitful contacts with clinical and epidemiological research.