Interested in evolution and ecology of organisms’ external appearances, theoretical morphology, biosemiotics, and cross-cultural and cross-species perception. There is a simple question behind all that: How it is come about that organisms evolved opaque patterned surfaces and for what reasons different organisms look as they look?  His theoretical and empirical research focuses on a broad span of phenomena from cross-cultural perception of human faces to ecology of ultraviolet patterns on butterfly wings. His papers regularly appear within standard international scientific journals, book series, and other scientific media

Trained both as a biologist and a philosopher, Bernard Feltz’s work engages with contemporary debates both within the philosophy of science—reductionism, evolution theory, Darwinism or self-organization (see his 2006 Self-organization and emergence in life sciences) and with the question of environment (sustainable development, or the relationship between man and nature). On these topics, he is the author of several books and articles in French and English, among which La Science et le vivant. Philosophie des sciences et modernité critique (Science and Life. Philosophy of Sciences and Critical Modernity, 2014) and with Stéphane Leyens, La Nature en éclats. Cinq controverses philosophiques (Shattered Nature. Five Philosophical Controversies, 2015). He currently teaches at the Louvain-la-Neuve University in Belgium (UCLouvain), where he did head the Institut supérieur de philosophie.

Trained as a mathematician, a philosopher and a historian, Amy Dahan is renowned for her work on climate change, which led her to be an important expert in France around the COP21. She published in 2015 with  Stefan Aykut, Gouverner le climat ? 20 ans de négociations climatiques (Ruling Over Climate? 20 Years of Climatic Negotiations). A researcher at Center Alexandre Koyre (CNRS), she has published many books and articles on the history of sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries, with special emphasis on determinist chaos. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the French National Scientific Research Center, and of the scientific committee of the International Human Dimension Program on Global Environment Change.

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