Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects

Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres's work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres's philosophy, Simons creates a synthesis between his predecessors, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem and Louis Althusser as well as contemporary Francophone philosophers of science such as Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers.

Simons situates Serres's unique contribution through his notion of the quasi-object, a concept, ...