http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae Philosophia Scientiæ est une revue scientifique à comité de lecture qui publie des travaux en épistémologie, en histoire et en philosophie des sciences. Elle accueille notamment des études traitant des mathématiques, de la physique et de la logique, mais elle est ouverte aux travaux portant sur les autres disciplines scientifiques. Philosophia Scientiæ is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It publishes research in epistemology, history and philosophy of science, especially in the field of mathematics, physics, and logic, without excluding any particular scientific field. Le concept de « science non faite » a émergé à partir des années 2010 dans des travaux en sciences sociales à l’interface entre les études sur les mouvements sociaux et celles des sciences et des techniques. Il désigne des questions de recherche négligées, ignorées ou non financées, bien qu’elles méritent d’être explorées. L’objectif de ce cahier thématique est d’appliquer ce concept à l’informatique, en examinant si la manière dont cette discipline est structurée (y compris sa dimension sociologique, économique et politique), ainsi que les paradigmes qui la façonnent, permettent d’identifier des questions épistémologiques et éthiques cruciales pour son développement et sa conception.

]]> Chantal Enguehard Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni Alberto Naibo http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5286 2026-05-21 High-performance machine learning models generally suffer from a lack of transparency that calls into question the ability of humans to understand how they work. Through the study of CoMo, an interactive learning system that allows users to associate sounds and gestures, we show that a form of model understanding can emerge from user-model interactions. This interactive approach offers an alternative to explanation- and interpretation-based epistemologies. Although data- and computation-intensive deep learning systems are not well suited to this form of interactivity, shallow learning models offer underappreciated epistemological advantages in contexts where machine learning can be made interactive.

]]> Pierre Saint-Germier Benjamin Matuszewski Frédéric Bevilacqua http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5306 2026-05-21 There have been three geometrizations in history. The first is historically due to the Pythagorean school and Plato while the second comes from Galileo, Kepler, Descartes and Newton, and the third geometrization of nature begins with Einstein’s general relativity. Here the term geometrization of nature means the conception according to which nature (with its different meanings) is broadly described by using geometry. In this article, I focus on the third geometrization, in which the black hole shadow phenomenon relates shape to dynamics. As a consequence, spacetime symmetry could play the role of the formal cause in black hole physics. Spacetime symmetry as a formal cause of spacetime could be an interesting point in the kinematics-dynamics debate in the theory of relativity.

]]> Juliano C. S. Neves http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5384 2026-05-21 Le discours mathématique sur les égalités empiriques utilise systématiquement la figure d’une égalité dans des « espaces abstraits », adaptés à chaque cas. À ces « montées dans l’ontologie » nous préférerons un enrichissement du langage formel qui puisse traduire avec précision le fait que des grandeurs ne sont pas visibles, dans un contexte donné, parce que trop grandes ou trop petites. Cette notion de visibilité dans un contexte sera transcrite formellement par un prédicat binaire de visibilité contextuelle, qui relie une grandeur formelle x et un contexte de visibilité c. Une grandeur formelle sera un nombre rationnel, qui sera visible ou non, selon le contexte. La définition de la visibilité contextuelle sera juste un renommage du prédicat binaire de standardité relative de RIST [Péraire 1992]. Cela permet de valider les pratiques de physiciens, comme P. A. M. Dirac [1927], ou...

]]> Yves Péraire http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5388 2026-05-21 This article investigates the undone science of software scalability. Software engineering literature focuses on the multiple ways that software can scale up, but too rarely on the possibilities, or necessities, of making it scale down. Drawing from geographical studies, we hypothesize that scales are constructed, rather than given, and argue that the design and use of specific computational artifacts—programming languages, data structures and protocols—are active participants in such material construction. Through a series of case studies, we discuss how computational artifacts can realize computing at both local and global scales.

]]> Pierre Depaz http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5351 2026-05-21 What are the core topics of Computer Science, and how are these topics studied? Those are the central questions of the Philosophy of Computer Science. However, how those questions are to be answered is a matter of ongoing debate and social construction. Guided by the questions answered by Shirley Gregor in her seminal work on theory in the field of Information Systems, this paper aims to understand how contemporary work on the philosophy of Computer Science answers these questions. In particular, we examine four recent books explicitly examining the topics and methodologies of Computer Science. While each of the books takes a different perspective and uses a different approach, all of them reach similar conclusions: Computer Science is firstly the study of computation, algorithms and their implementation and verification. In terms of the methods employed, the four books agree there are three separate traditions: a mathematical tradition, an engineering tradition and an empirical sci...

]]> Felienne Hermans http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5363 2026-05-21 Our digital societies bear the hallmarks of non-convivial technologies as identified more than fifty years ago by Ivan Illich in his seminal book Tools for Conviviality (1973). In a context of ecosystemic and socio-economical crises, we argue in this paper that Illich’s ideas remain remarkably relevant, not only for understanding the negative effects of digital technologies but also as guidelines for embedding digital technologies in a degrowth scenario. As computer scientists, we therefore propose a research agenda for developing design for conviviality, a strongly normative value sensitive approach to the design of digital artefacts and systems. We discuss in particular two examples, digital infrastructures and business process management, which seem to be very much in need of a convivial rethinking.

]]> Sophie Quinton Jean-Bernard Stefani http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5331 2026-05-21 Special Issue of Philosophia Scientiæ 32/1 (February 2028)

Guest editors: Marco Dal Pozzolo (Paris Cité/Caphés-ENS-CNRS) ; Océane Gustave (RDS-ENS) ; Pierre Oliver Méthot (Faculté de philosophie/Université Laval)

Submission deadline: 1^st January 2027

Notification date: 1^st April 2027

Final version due: 1^st September 2027

Submission adresses : marco.dal-pozzolo@u-paris.fr; oceane.gustave@ens.psl.eu; pierre-olivier.methot@fp.ulaval.ca

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In his text “Life: Experience and Science,” the last he wrote, Michel Foucault places the concept of error at the center of Georges Canguilhem's philosophy, at the crossroads of his epistemological work and his biological philosophy: “This historian of rationalities, himself so ‘rationalist,’ is a philosopher of error; I mean that it is from error that he poses philosophical problems, or more precisely, the problem of truth and life.” (Foucault 1994).

We can distinguish two parallel lines of inquiry through which Canguilhem explored the concept of er...

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5166 2026-04-20 Cahier thématique de Philosophia Scientiæ 32/1 (février 2028)

Éditeurs invités : Marco Dal Pozzolo (Paris Cité/Caphés-ENS-CNRS) ; Océane Gustave (RDS-ENS) ; Pierre Oliver Méthot (Faculté de philosophie/Université Laval)

Date limite de soumission : 1er janvier 2027

Date de notification : 1er avril 2027

Version finale : 1er septembre 2027

Adresses de soumission : marco.dal-pozzolo@u-paris.fr ; oceane.gustave@ens.psl.eu ; pierre-olivier.methot@fp.ulaval.ca

Description

Dans son texte «  La vie : l’expérience et la science  », le dernier qu’il a rédigé, Michel Foucault place le concept d’erreur au centre de la philosophie de Georges Canguilhem, au carrefour de ses travaux épistémologiques et de sa philosophie biologique : «  Cet historien des rationalités, lui-même si “rationaliste” est philosophe de l’erreur  ; je veux dire que c’est à partir de l’erreur qu’il pose les problèmes philosophiques, disons plus exactement le problème de la vérité et de la vie  » (Foucault 1994).

On peut distinguer d...

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5163 2026-04-20 The concept of “Smart Farming,” which evolved from “precision agriculture,” has recently emerged as a new paradigm in agriculture. This approach leverages digital technologies—including artificial intelligence, Big Data, and the Internet of Things—to address a key challenge facing modern agriculture: the need to simultaneously increase productivity and reduce environmental impact. Smart Farming aims to transition from process-driven to data-driven agriculture. However, the sheer volume of data generated and the reliance on algorithmic processing, such as the use of machine learning algorithms, raise concerns about the potential erosion of farmers’ decision-making authority. Decision-support tools risk evolving into autonomous decision-makers. For agronomists, the overwhelming influx of data not only threatens to render traditional scientific approaches obsolete but also endangers the very foundation of agronomic science. Consequently, this article poses a critical question: who trul...

]]> Nicolas Brault Andrii Yatskul Michel Dubois http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/5087 2026-02-11