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The Daily Life of the Researcher

Chasing Ghosts?

by Cédric Gaucherel (writer)

Collection: Essais

december 2013

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The author offers here a compendium of opinions, both frivolous and serious, on science and sometimes scientific activity as currently performed. It has three complementary sections. The first texts give a critical, yet frivolous vision of the study of the nature surrounding us. Several disciplines belonging to the broad environmental area are addressed. The second section places man in this nature; the discussions centre on thoughts linked to our relationship with nature. The third and final section scrutinises in more detail this special interface between nature and culture which is the remit of scientific research. Some aspects of the activity of researcher, usually less commented on in the literature, are recounted.

Table of contents

Préface de Guillaume Lecointre

Préface de Vincent Bonhomme

Avant-propos

Chapitre 1 La nature

1. La biodiversité galvaudée

2. Complexe ou compliqué ?

3. Algorithmes contre équations

4. La biologie de l’amour

5. Existe-t-il des lois en biologie ?

6. La créativité, une affaire de nature

Chapitre 2 La société

7. La créativité, une affaire de culture

8. L’homme centripète

9. L’hominodyssée face à « l’hominescence »

10. Parler soigne l’amnésie… et la myopie

11. L’orgueil du chercheur… et de l’artiste

12. La créativité, nature autant que culture

Chapitre 3 La recherche, cette interface entre nature et culture

13. Qu’est-ce qu’un bon chercheur ?

14. Le défi de l’interdisciplinarité

15. Ne demandez pas pourquoi ?

16. Comment chercher ?

17. Le marché mondial de la recherche

Epilogue

Références citées

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Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1^st edition

Collection: Essais

Published: 4 december 2013

Reference Book: 02413

Reference eBook [ePub]: 02413EPB

Reference eBook [PDF]: 02413NUM

EAN13 Book: 9782759220762

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Format (in mm) Book: 120 x 190

Pages count Book: 96

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