Michel Bitbol

Michel Bitbol

Michel Bitbol is emeritus researcher at CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
He received a M.D., a Ph.D. in physics and a “Habilitation” in philosophy. After a start in
scientific research, he turned to philosophy of science, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. He then studied the relations between physics and the philosophy of mind, in collaboration with Francisco Varela, and drew a parallel between Buddhist dependent arising and non-supervenient relations in
quantum physics. He also developed a first-person conception of consciousness expressed
from the standpoint of an experience of meditation. More recently, he engaged a debate with
the philosophical movement called “speculative realism”, from the same standpoint.