Vinciane Despret
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Vinciane Despret | |
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 Belgian philosopher of science | |
| Born | 12 November 1959[1] |
| Occupation | Associate professor at University of Liège |
| Notable work | Our emotional Makeup. Ethnopsychology and Selfhood |
Vinciane Despret (born November 12, 1959) is a Belgian philosopher of science. She is an associate professor at the University of Liège and also teaches at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Vinciane Despret first graduated in philosophy before studying psychology. She graduated in 1991 and is now most known for having provided a reflexive account on ethologists who observed and interpreted the complex dance moves of babblers in the Negev.[a]
She is considered to be a foundational thinker in what has now become the field of animal studies.[b] More generally, at the heart of her work lies the question of the relationship between observers and the observed during the conduct of scientific research.
Despret affiliates herself to such critical thinkers in philosophy and anthropology of science as Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. She undertakes a critical understanding of how science is fabricated, following scientists doing fieldwork and the way they actively create links and specific relationships to their objects of study.
Personal life
Despret was born in Brussels.
She is married to Jean-Marie Lemaire, a psychiatrist who works partly in Turin. They have one child, Jules-Vincent.
