Hervé Regnauld

Professeur de géographie physique à l’Université européenne Rennes 2 – Haute Bretagne et membre du Laboratoire climat et occupation du sol par télédétection (Costel, Umr 6554 et Ifr Caren), Hervé Regnauld étudie le littoral (et en particulier ses réponses à des événements intenses, tels les tempêtes et les tsunamis). Il s’intéresse aussi à la dimension épistémologique de la géographie physique et aux relations entre le milieu, les pratiques plastiques (type land art) et les conceptions scientifiques.

L’opuscule et le progrès.

What is progress about ? In a short and convincing essay, Bouveresse demonstrates that progress, in science, adds some knowledge to the preexisting theories, but adds many more questions about new problems. ...

23.08.2017

L’événement anthropocène.

Today’s sciences are used to deal with novelty by two principal ways. First, they may take it as a new step in the evolution of a system. Second, they may consider that ...

22.02.2017

Deleuze bashing.

Social sciences sometimes quote philosophers in order to provide a basis for their theories. They quote Gilles Deleuze very often, but Deleuze says that he doesn’t care about being coherent. So why ...

28.04.2015

Comments on Schatzki’s text.

Schatzki’s analysis of social practices relies on a very clear idea, which is expressed at the beginning of the text, as follows : Because the relationship between practices and material arrangements is so ...

07.04.2015

L’Art et le passage du temps.

The exhibition of outdoor art works in public areas leads to two main consequences. On the one hand the site where the work is displayed gains a new importance, on the other ...

07.04.2014

What does « Alien » mean ?

Science uses concepts, equations, rules and metaphors. Science dealing with environmental sustainability (which are grouped under the holistic approach of environmental studies) are specially rich with metaphors. At the beginning of a ...

12.09.2011