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Christophe Malaterre

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Doctorat en philosophie, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne (2008)
DEA en histoire et philosophie des sciences, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne (2004)

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Président du comité de programme du congrès 2016 de la Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences (SCHPS)
Co-président du comité d'organisation du congrès 2015 de l'International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)

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Publications

Articles scientifiques
  • Bertoldi, N., Lareau, F., Pence, C. et Malaterre, C. (2024). A Quantitative Window on the History of Statistics: Topic-Modelling 120 Years of Biometrika. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 39(1), 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad072.
  • Lamirel, J.C., Lareau, F. et Malaterre, C. (2024). CFMf Topic-Model: Comparison with LDA and Top2Vec. Scientometrics, Prépublication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05017-z.
  • Malaterre, C. et Léonard, M. (2024). Epistemic Markers in the Scientific Discourse. Philosophy of Science, 91(1), 151–174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.97.
  • Malaterre, C. et Lareau, F. (2024). Inferring Social Networks from Unstructured Text Data: A Proof of Concept Detection of Hidden Communities of Interest. Data & Policy, 6, article e5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dap.2023.48.
  • Malaterre, C. (2024). Is Life Binary or Gradual? Life, 14(5), article 564. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life14050564.
  • Pavlinova, P., Lambert, C.N., Malaterre, C. et Nghe, P. (2023). Abiogenesis through gradual evolution of autocatalysis into template-based replication. FEBS Letters, 597(3), 344–379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14507.
  • Malaterre, C. et Léonard, M. (2023). Charting the territories of epistemic concepts in the practice of science: A text-mining approach. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/725656.
  • Malaterre, C., Javaux, E. et Lopez-Garcia, P. (2023). Misconceptions in science. Perspectives on Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/posc_a_00590.
  • Malaterre, C. et Lareau, F. (2023). The emergence of astrobiology: A topic-modeling perspective. Astrobiology, 23(5), 496–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0122.
  • Malaterre, C. et Lareau, F. (2022). The early days of contemporary philosophy of science: Novel insights from machine translation and topic-modeling of non-parallel multilingual corpora. Synthese, 200(3), article 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03722-x.
  • Malaterre, C., Jeancolas, C. et Nghe, P. (2022). The origin of life: What is the question? Astrobiology, 22(7), 851–862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2021.0162.
  • Muszynski, E. et Malaterre, C. (2021). A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: Introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour. Synthese, 199, 1777–1789. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02856-0.
  • Malaterre, C. et Chartier, J.-F. (2021). Beyond categorical definitions of life: A data-driven approach to assessing lifeness. Synthese, 198, 4543–4572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02356-w.
  • Malaterre, C., Lareau, F., Pulizzotto, D. et St-Onge, J. (2021). Eight journals over eight decades: A computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science. Synthese, 199, 2883–2923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02915-6.
  • Charlat, S., Ariew, A., Bourrat, P., Ferreira Ruiz, M., Heams, T., Huneman, P., Krishna, S., Lachmann, M., Lartillot, N., Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt, L., Malaterre, C., Nghe, P., Rajon, E., Rivoire, O., Smerlak, M. et Zeravcic, Z. (2021). Natural Selection beyond Life? A Workshop Report. Life, 11(10), article 1051. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life11101051.
  • Muszynski, E. et Malaterre, C. (2020). Best behaviour: A proposal for a non-binary conceptualization of behaviour in biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 79, article 101222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101222.
  • Malaterre, C., Pulizzotto, D. et Lareau, F. (2020). Revisiting three decades of Biology and Philosophy: A computational topic-modeling perspective. Biology & Philosophy, 35(1), article 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9729-4.
  • Malaterre, C., Chartier, J.-F. et Lareau, F. (2020). The recipes of Philosophy of Science: Characterizing the semantic structure of corpora by means of topic associative rules. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0242353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242353.
  • Jeancolas, C., Malaterre, C. et Nghe, P. (2020). Thresholds in Origin of Life Scenarios. iScience, 23(11), article 101756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101756.
  • Malaterre, C., Dussault, A. C., Rousseau-Mermans, S., Barker, G., Beisner, B. E., Bouchard, F., Desjardins, E., Handa, I. T., Kembel, S. W., Lajoie, G., Maris, V., Munson, A. D., Odenbaugh, J., Poisot, T., Shapiro, B. J. et Suttle, C. A. (2019). Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap. BioScience, 69(10), 800–811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz089.
  • Malaterre, C., Chartier, J.-F. et Pulizzotto, D. (2019). What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Science ? A Computational Topic-Modeling Perspective, 1934–2015. Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 9(2), 215–249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/704372.
  • Malaterre, C. (2013). Microbial diversity and the `lower-limit' problem of biodiversity. Biology and Philosophy, (28), 219–239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-012-9356-9.
  • Malaterre, C. (2013). Synthetic Biology and Synthetic Knowledge. Biological Theory, 8, 346–356. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-013-0136-9.
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). Making Sense of Downward Causation in Manipulationism. Illustrations from Cancer Research. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 33(4), 537–562. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23335182.
  • Malaterre, C. (2010). Biodiversité : des macrobes aux microbes et au delà ? Bulletin d'histoire et d'épistémologie des sciences de la vie, (18), 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/bhesv.181.0061.
  • Malaterre, C. (2010). Lifeness signatures and the roots of the tree of life. Biology and Philosophy, 25, 643–658. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-010-9220-8.
  • Malaterre, C. (2010). On what it is to fly can tell us something about what it is to live. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40(2), 169–177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11084-010-9196-z.
  • Malaterre, C. (2009). Can synthetic biology shed light on the origins of life ? Biological Theory, 4(4), 357–367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/BIOT_a_00002.
  • Malaterre, C. (2008). Expliquer les origines de la vie : structures et schèmes explicatifs. Noesis, (14), 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/noesis.1656.
  • Malaterre, C. (2007). Le « néo-vitalisme » au XIXe siècle : une seconde école française de l’émergence. Bulletin d'Histoire et d'Épistémologie des Sciences de Vie, 14(1), 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/bhesv.141.0025.
  • Malaterre, C. (2007). Organicism and Reductionism in Cancer Research: Towards a Systemic Approach. International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 21(1), 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02698590701305792.
Chapitres de livre
  • Malaterre C., C., J.-F. et Pulizzotto, D. (2022). Topic modeling in HPS: investigating engaged philosophy of science throughout the 20th century. Dans G. Ramsey et A. De Block (dir.). The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 64–185). University of Pittsburgh Press.
    Notes: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947370/
  • Malaterre, C. (2016). Going small: The challenges of microbial diversity. Dans J. Garson, A. Plutynski et S. Sarkar (dir.). Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Biodiversity (p. 139–152). Routledge.
  • Malaterre, C. et Issad, T. (2015). Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic? Dans P.-A. Braillard et C. Malaterre (dir.). Explanation in Biology. An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences (p. 265–292). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9822-8_12.
  • Malaterre, C. (2015). Chemical evolution and life. Dans M.-C. Maurel et P. Grandcolas (dir.). Origins. Studies in biological and cultural evolution 2014 (p. 6–13). EDP sciences.
  • Malaterre, C. et Braillard, P.-A. (2015). Explanation in biology: An introduction. Dans P.-A. Braillard et C. Malaterre (dir.). Explanation in Biology. An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences (p. 1–28). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9822-8_1.
  • Malaterre, C. (2013). Life as an emergent phenomenon: From an alternative to vitalism to an alternative to reductionism. Dans S. Normandin et C.T. Wolfe (dir.). Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010 (p. 155–178). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2445-7_7.
  • Malaterre, C. et Merlin, F. (2011). L’(in)déterminisme de l’évolution naturelle : quelles origines pour le caractère stochastique de l’évolution. Dans T. Heams, P. Huneman, G. Lecointre et M. Silberstein (dir.). Les mondes darwiniens (vol. 1, p. 465–492). Éditions Matériologiques. (Traduit en anglais "The (in)determinism of biological evolution" dans "Handbook of evolutionary thinking in the sciences", de Heams, T. (dir.), 2013, Springer). https://www.cairn.info/les-mondes-darwiniens-volume-1--9782919694396-page-465.htm?contenu=resume.
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). Materialism. Dans M. Gargaud et al. (dir.). Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (p. 1005–1006). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_951.
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). Physicalism. Dans M. Gargaud et al. (dir.). Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (p. 1255). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_209.
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). Reductionism. Dans M. Gargaud et al. (dir.). Encyclopedia of Astrobiology (p. 1255). Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_1359.
  • Malaterre, C. (2010). Pluralité des attributions fonctionnelles : le cas des ribozymes. Dans J. Gayon et A. de Ricqlès (dir.). Les fonctions : des organismes aux artefacts (p. 289–304). Presses Universitaires de France. https://www.cairn.info/les-fonctions-des-organismes-aux-artefacts--9782130574415-page-289.htm.
  • Malaterre, C. (2009). Are Self-Organizing Biochemical Networks Emergent? Dans M.-C. Maurel et M. Gerin (dir.). Origins of Life : Self-Organization and/or Biological Evolution? (p. 117–123). EDP sciences. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/orvie/2009010.
  • Malaterre, C. (2009). Life, Origin of. Dans J. Birx (dir.). Encyclopedia of Time (vol. 2, p. 783–785). SAGE Publications.
Articles professionnels ou de magazines
  • Malaterre, C. et Merlin, F. (2010). La part d'aléatoire dans l'évolution. Pour La science, 385, 68–74.
  • Malaterre, C. (2008). La vie est-elle un phénomène émergent ? Pour la science, 60, 52.
Livres
  • Dûner, D., Malaterre, C. et Geppert, W. (dir.). (2016). The History and Philosophy of the Origin of Life [Numéro spécial]. International Journal of Astrobiology, 15(4).
  • Braillard, P.-A. et Malaterre, C. (dir.). (2015). Explanation in Biology. An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9822-8
    Notes: (18 chapitres, 444 pages)
  • Forterre, P., d'Hendecourt, L., Malaterre, C. et Maurel M.-C. (2013). De l'inerte au vivant. Une enquête scientifique et philosophique. La Ville Brûle.
  • Gayon, J., Malaterre, C., Morange, M., Raulin-Cerceau, F. et Tirard, S. (dir.). (2010). Defining Life [Numéro spécial]. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40(2). https://link.springer.com/journal/11084/volumes-and-issues/40-2
    Notes: (15 articles, 125 pages)
  • Malaterre, C. (2010). Les origines de la vie : émergence ou explication réductive ? Éditions Hermann.
Actes de colloque
  • Malaterre, C. et Lareau, F. (2023). Identifying hidden communities of interest with topic-based networks: A Case study of the community of philosophers of science (1930-2017). Dans T.X. Bui (dir.). Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102936.
Autres publications
  • Malaterre, C. et Lareau, F. (2022). On the use of machine translation and topic-modeling to analyze non-parallel multilingual corpora: A case study in the history of philosophy of science. Zenodo. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6484582
    Notes: This release includes the code and data used in: Malaterre, Christophe, and Francis Lareau. 2022. "The early days of contemporary philosophy of science: Novel insights from machine translation and topic-modeling of non-parallel multilingual corpora". Synthese.
  • Malaterre, C. (2012). [Compte rendu du livre "What Is Life? The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger", de H. U. Gumbrecht, R. P. Harrison, M.R. Hendrickson et R.B. Laughlin]. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 26(2), 229-231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2012.703484
    Notes: Info. supplémentaires du livre recensé : Stanford University Press, 2011
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). [Compte rendu du livre "Leibniz : le vivant et l'organisme", de F. Duchesneau]. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, (33), 406-407. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23335154
    Notes: Info. supplémentaire du livre recensé : Vrin, 2010
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). [Compte rendu du livre "Science. The Art of Living Series", de S. Fuller]. Quarterly Review of Biology, 86(2), 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/659944
    Notes: Info. supplémentaires du livre recensé : Acumen Publishing (McGill-Queen’s University Press), 2010
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). [Reviewer 3 : "How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?" de M. O'Malley et E. Koonin]. Biology Direct, (6), 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-32
  • Malaterre, C. (2011). [Reviewer Report 4 : "Early evolution without a tree of life", de W. Martin]. Biology Direct, (6), 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-6-36
  • Krochs, U. (2010). Dys-, Mal-et Non- : l'autre face de la fonctionnalité (C. Malaterre, trad.). Dans J. Gayon et A. de Ricqlès (dir.). Les fonctions : des organismes aux artefacts (p. 337-351). Presses universitaires de France. (titre original : Dys-, mal- and non-: the other side of functionality). https://www.cairn.info/les-fonctions-des-organismes-aux-artefacts--9782130574415-page-337.htm#no1

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