Mathieu Arminjon

Mathieu Arminjon studied philosophy (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3) and psychology (Université Lumière, Lyon 2) and holds a PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Lausanne. He works as a scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva and at the Agalma Foundation and teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His areas of interest cover the historical epistemology of the life sciences, neuroscience and psychoanalysis. He is currently working on the political history of the concepts of regulation in neurophysiology and on the epistemological implications of the critical neuroscience.

Brain Mind Society.

A critical account of neuroscience.

Mathieu ArminjonVincent BarrasEmilie BovetCynthia KrausFrancesco PaneseVincent PidouxNicholas Stücklin et Delphine Preissmann | 16.12.2014

Since the 1990s, which was proclaimed the “Decade of the brain” in the US by former president George Bush Sr., the rise of neuroscience has been considered a major scientific, historical, discursive, political, cultural and even mediatic event in western society (Rose and Abi-Rashed 2013). Countless symposiums and publications of all sorts have been produced [...]

L’homoncule de Penfield. Peer review

Une icône neuropsychologique ?

Mathieu Arminjon | 20.07.2009

L’homoncule de Penfield figure le corps moteur et sensitif tel qu’il serait « représenté » par le cerveau, à partir des afférences corporelles. Au-delà de la mise en cause de son fondement épistémologique, la fascination qu’il exerce demeure. La science moderne n’a pas en effet l’habitude de recourir à un procédé artistique afin d’exposer ses résultats. L’iconographie médicale a tôt fait d’y voir le retour du « monstrueux » de la psychiatrie de l’âge classique. Nous [...]