Charles T. Wolfe

Biography

Charles T. Wolfe (PhD Boston University) works primarily in history and philosophy of the early modern life sciences, with a focus on materialism and vitalism. He is the author of Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (2016), and has edited volumes including Monsters and Philosophy (2005), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge (2010, with O. Gal), Vitalism and the scientific image (2013, with S. Normandin), and Brain Theory (2014). His current project is a monograph on the conceptual foundations of Enlightenment vitalism. He is also the Co-Editor of the Springer series in History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. 

Title of the project

From vital forces to models of organism. Reassessing and reconstructing Enlightenment vitalism.

Full or selected bibliography

• (author) Materialism. A Historico-Philosophical Introduction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016)
• Editor, Monsters and Philosophy (London: College Publications, 2005)
• Editor, Brain Theory. Essays in critical neurophilosophy (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014)
• Co-Editor (with Ofer Gal), The Body as object and instrument of knowledge. Embodied Empiricism in early modern science (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010)
• Co-Editor (with Sebastian Normandin), Vitalism and the scientific image in post-Enlightenment life science, 1800-2010 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013)

►Most recent publication: “Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of the emerging life sciences: from Mandeville to Diderot,” Synthese (2017) DOI 10.1007/s11229-017-1350-y

►Many articles, book chapters, reviews available at https://ugent.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe