Lévy-Leblond Jean-Marc - VILLA-GILLET // WALLS AND BRIDGES //
 

Walls and Bridges

Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.

Lévy-Leblond Jean-Marc

PHYSICIST / ESSAYIST

France

 

 

Biography

Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, born in 1940, is a French physicist and essayist.
After a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the université d’Orsay in 1965, he was successively in charge of research at CNRS, lecturer at the université de Nice, a professor at the Paris Diderot University, and at Nice, where he taught in the departments of physics, philosophy and communication.
Since 2001, he has been Professor Emeritus at the Université de Nice and is program director at the Collège international de philosophie.
He has published many articles on theoretical physics, mathematics and epistemology.
He founded and directs the journal Alliage (culture, science, technique), directs the collection "Science ouverte" at Seuil Publishing, and works more generally for the use of science in culture.