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Abstract This final lecture will explore the notion of immunoception, showing how the brain is able to detect and interpret signals of immune origin as a true sense in its own right. Drawing on recent work, it will illustrate how these perceptions can …

Abstract Freshwater fish faunas have evolved in isolation on different continents over millions of years, creating distinct biogeographical regions with specific compositions. Freshwater fishes are the only vertebrate group for which regions are composed …

Abstract It is not well known that Japan fought as one of the Allied powers in the First World War, as Japan was a naval alliance partner of Britain from 1902. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan attended it as the fifth largest great power in …

Abstract As misfortune never comes alone, the causes of biodiversity loss never act in isolation. Biological invasions are part of a general context of global change, including habitat loss, climate change and pollution. And each threatened species is …

Abstract Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge's book " consciously leaves out the uses of the term in the works of Greek philosophers, be they poets or presocratics ". Taking up her invitation to bring philosophy into the dance, this paper would like to discuss this …

Abstract Do daimones , as conceived in ancient Greek polytheism, provide solutions to philosophical problems, for gods and men alike ? In her latest book, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge shows that Greek thinkers (from Homer to the end of the classical period) …

ASMi, MMD arrotolate, 0035, Corso del Po con alluvioni presso Sannazzaro, 1623. Abstract Environmental humanities are a new research horizon for the social sciences as a whole, since the beginning of the 21st century and with increasing intensity over the …

Abstract I propose to examine the figure of the daimōn as it appears in the myth of Er (Plato, Republic X, 617e, 620d-e), by relating it to the literary tradition prior to Plato, in particular lyric poetry (in Theognis and Pindar) and tragedy, notably in …

Abstract There are three occurrences of the word daimôn in the corpus of Empedocles' verses at our disposal. Fr. 59.1 DK offers two occurrences in the singular. Fr. 115.5 has one occurrence in the plural. Moreover, the context in which some of Empedocles' …

Abstract Based on the dossier of texts that Marcel Detienne proposed as an appendix to his classic study of Pythagorean demonology (1959/1963), we will attempt to identify the relationship between the various accounts of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of …

Abstract What are we to make of tradition's attribution to Thales of the doctrine that everything is animate and " full of gods " ( δαιμόνων πλῆρες, Aetius I 7, 11) ? To follow the proposals presented by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge in her work on the notion …

Abstract It has long been recognized that sign language (i) uses the same logical structures as oral language (sometimes bringing out its abstract components), and at the same time (ii) makes more systematic use of iconicity. But the articulation between …

Abstract Syntactic structures are complex objects. Obviously, there is no upper limit to the length of a sentence (we can't identify "   the longest sentence in French   "), but it's not simply a question of linear length (number of words). It's also, and …

Résumé La conférence portera sur le milieu d'origine de Julius Oppert, ses modèles convertis ou non et son arrivée en France ou comment un professeur d'allemand de province devient le fondateur d'une nouvelle discipline. Elle tentera de montrer les enjeux …

Abstract Diagrammatic Monte Carlo (DiagMC) is a versatile numerical technique capable of solving strongly correlated fermion systems in a controlled and accurate way. The core idea behind the technique is to sum all connected Feynman diagrams in a …

Go to Emmanuel Sander Emmanuel Sander is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. A member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Education Nationale, his research focuses on the analysis of mental …