The concept of the self has made it possible to think of the organism under the category of identity in order to account for the unity and effectiveness of the system of defense of its integrity. The dualism of self and non-self posits that an organism defends itself by an immune reaction against an external element ("non-self") while sparing the entities recognized as its own ("self").
Projects
The "self/non-self" model is based on the reasoning by analogy long decried by epistemologists, as well as the use of metaphors borrowed from social life, which lead to thinking of the body's self-normativity on the model of a community of competing pathogens (pathogens tolerated by the "self" as endogenous entities) but sufficiently unified to fight against potentially aggressive external agents.
This axis will bring together researchers who intend to participate in a multidisciplinary approach to the child's body apprehended in a continuum (before and after birth) through situations of par
Several researchers in Axis 1 have in common that they question the social norms and representations related to pregnancy and birth.
This project will pool anthropological, medical and philosophical skills that will be exercised on the basis of clinical and scientific knowledge provided by geriatric professionals. It will focus on the phenomenon of aging in its many dimensions as a physiological process, an experience lived in relation to specific contexts