Academic activities

• member of the governing board of the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et Culture FRQ-SC (2012-2015)(www.fqrsc.gouv.qc.ca) and its audit committee
• Member of the scientific board for Matière première: Revue d’épistémologie
• Canadian Philosophical Association CPA
  • vice-president (2013-2014)
  • co-secretary(2011-2013)
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science CSHPS
  • Vice-president (2013-2016)
  • Second vice-president(2010-2013)
• Administrative Committee member for the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS), France; co-president, local organization, 2012 congress
• Advisory Committee member for SSHRC research cluster “Situating Science” (2008-2010)
• Executive committee member for the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST)
• co-organizer of the 2015 congress of the International Society for History, Philosophy and the Social Studies of Biology
• Webmaster for the International Society for History, Philosophy and the Social Studies of Biology(2005-2011)
• member (2009, 2010), and president (2011) of the national SSHRC committee for attribution of SSHRC PhD fellowships, committee 2
• External reviewer, research grant competition
  • Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO), (Belgique) (2014)
  • Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal) (2012)
  • Agence nationale de recherche (ANR) (France) (2012)
  • National Science Foundation (USA) (SES-STS 2008, 2009)
  • SSHRC (standard research grant competitionhistory committee, 2005, philosophy committee, 2006)
• External referee
  • Bioscience (2013)
  • Acta Biotheoretica (2010,2011)
  • Biology and Philosophy (2009,2010,2013)
  • Biology Direct (2011)
  • British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2004,2005,2008,2010,2012,2013)
  • Dialogue (2013)
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology(2011)
  • Erkenntnis (2007, 2008)
  • European Journal for Philosophy of Science(2014)
  • Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2007)
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology(2011)
  • Molecular Ecology (2008)
  • Philosophia Scientiae (2011)
  • Philosophiques (2007, 2011)
  • Philosophy and Theory in Biology (2010)
  • Philosophy of Science (2004,2005,2010,2011)
  • Synthese (2006, 2007, 2009, 2013)
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2010,2013)
• Program committee chair for the congress of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2010
• Cofounder of the Consortium for the history and philosophy of Biology (CHPB) (UdeMontréal, UofToronto, Duke University, Paris I)
  • organizer of the CHPB workshop “The Role(s) of Heredity in Biological Explanations” (May 2010), UdeMontréal
  • organizer of the CHPB workshop “Thinking about Macroevolution and Diversity” (octobre 2008), UdeMontréal
  • organizer of the first CHPB workshop (May 5-8 2006) “Complexité et auto-organisation” UdeMontréal
• Jury member for Prix Jeunes Chercheurs de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences (France) 2010
• Jury member for student presentations for the 10th edition of the Colloque des études avancées du CIRST (April 26th 2006).
• Program committee coordinator for the Philosophy of Science section, Canadian Philosophical Association, 2007, 2008
• June 2005 session chair, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Wake Forest University
• May 2005 comments on Paul Dumouchel’s “Modularity, Individualism and Affective Communication” at the conference Modularity of Emotions, Université de Montréal
• April 2005 comments on Paul Thompson’s “Evolution: Medium, Message and the Interplay of Genes and Culture” at the McLuhan Lectures, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
• July 2003 session organizer “Indeterminism and Evolution ” at the meeting of The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Vienna 2003
  participants: Robert Brandon, Roberta Millstein and Marcel Weber.
• May 2003 comments on Glen Parsons (“An Argument for Natural Properties.”) and Derek Brown (“Perceptual Relativity Arguments.”) at the meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, Dalhousie University, Canada
• April 2003 Local organizer and program committee member of Duke University’s Center for Philosophy of Biology Second Annual Conference: “25 years after the Panglossian Spandrels: a conference on Adaptationism” (speakers included Leigh Van Valen, Gerd Müller, Mohan Matthen, André Ariew and Denis Walsh) Please go to
• June 2002 Local organizer and program committee member of Duke University’s Center for Philosophy of Biology First Annual Conference: “The Relationship between Evolution and Development” (speakers included Ken Schaffner, Günter Wagner, Paul Griffiths and Brian Hall)
• March 2002 Helped Tad Schmaltz with logistics for the conference “Receptions of Descartes”. (speakers included Dan Garber, Thomas Lennon, Steven Nadler and Roger Ariew).
• May 2001 Local organizer and program committee member for ASSC5, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (speakers included Brian McLaughlin, Robert Van Gulick, David Rosenthal, John Perry, William Lycan).
• I elaborated the website for the Center for Philosophy of Biology.

Other activities

• FORUM (UdeM Weekly) interviews
  • interviewed about interdisciplinarity by Marie Lambert-Chan for FORUM, volume 46, no 12 (21 novembre 2011)
  • interviewed about evolutionary psychology by Daniel Baril for FORUM, volume 45, no 8 (18 octobre 2010)
  • interviewed about scientific progress by Mathieu-Robert Sauvé for FORUM, volume 44, no 17 (January 25th 2010)
  • interviewed about Darwin and his influence on philosophy by Daniel Baril for FORUM magazine, volume 43, no 19 (February 9th 2009)
  • interviewed about fitness and the Quaking aspen by Daniel Baril for FORUM, volume 41, no 12 (November 20th 2006)
• Guest commentator on the radio show “Plus on est de fous, plus on lit” (Ici Radio-Canada Première August 21 2013)
• Panelist at the bar des sciences: “Sélection naturelle:l’humain une exception?”, Coeur des Sciences, UQAM (6 octobre 2010).Discussion at Science Presse
• conference “Vérité et philosophie de la biologie”, intercollégiale de philosophie, Collège de Valleyfield (March 30th 2012)
• conference “Face aux forces de l’évolution, l’être humain est-il une exception?”, Cégep Marie-Victorin (November 30th 2011).
• conference “Clones, Colonies, Symbioses, Écosystèmes: Comment la théorie de l’évolution redéfinit ce qu’est un individu biologique au-delà de l’organisme”, Collège de Maisonneuve (Aug. 20th 2009)
• Panelist for the Café philosophique: the topic of Science and Progress, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (November 5th 2009)
• conference “De la nécessité de revenir à un darwinisme “classique””, Cégep de Sherbrooke (Feb. 15th 2009)
• conference “Évolution et pensée humaine”, for the Cultural Foundation of the the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (April 16th 2007).
• Panelist concerning Research Funding at the Congress of the Nouvelle Alliance pour la Philosophie au Collège, Québec (June 6th 2006)
• interviewed about intelligent design by Noémie Mercier “La main de Dieu, la part du singe” Québec Science, volume 44, numéro 7, avril 2006
• Panelist for the Bar des sciences: the topic of race, Cégep St-Laurent (March 1st 2006)
• Press conference panelist for La nuit de la philosophie, UQAM (March 1st 2006)
• Program consultant for 2007 exhibit Rêver, Centre des sciences de Montréal

(November 21st 2005)

• Round table discussion, Librairie Monet (October 26th 2005)