Charles added a paper
Charles started following the work of Mikko Tolonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies.
Charles started following the work of Andrew Murphie, The University of New South Wales, School of English, Media and Performing Arts.
Post-Doc, Philosophy and Moral Sciences
University of Sydney, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science
Centre for History of Science
About
Charles Wolfe studied in New York (New School for Social Research), Paris (U. de Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Boston (Boston University), obtaining a PhD on determinism and the mind in the Radical Enlightenment (Locke, Collins, Diderot). In parallel to this project he has been working on early modern and 'Enlightenment' theories of life, in relation to both materialism (La Mettrie, Diderot, etc.), Montpellier vitalism, and the development of biology. Some outcomes of the latter set of interests are: the edited volume 'Monsters and Philosophy' (2005), the special issue of HPLS on the concept of organism (2010), and, reflecting a more recent focus on early modern life science and empiricism, the edited volume 'The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge' (2010). He is currently at work on a monograph on 18th century vitalism, a jointly edited volume on 19th-20th century vitalism, an edited volume on theories of the brain, and other essays on soul, brain, organism; teleomechanism in early modern natural philosophy; 20th century biophilosophy (Goldstein, Canguilhem) and the problem of embodiment.
