Professional biography
She is the author of the monographs Hélène Metzger: historian and historiographer of the sciences, Routledge 2019; Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France 1900-1960s (Ashgate 2008), written with the support of an AHRC grant, and Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination (Routledge 2001).
Research interests
Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900-1960s, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008. Further details
“Voyage vers le matérialisme : François Dagognet et l’évolution de l’épistémologie historique” in B. Bensaude-Vincent, J-F Braunstein, J. Gayon (eds) François Dagognet : Philosophe, épistémologue, Paris, Éditions Materiologiques, 2019, pp. 25-35.
“L’oggetto impuro dell’epistemologia storica di Georges Canguilhem”, in F. Lupi, S. Pilotto (eds) Infrangere le norme: vita, scienza e tecnica nel pensiero di Georges Canguilhem, Milan, Mimesis, 2019, pp. 11-29.
"Gaston Bachelard’s places of the imagination and images of space", in Bruce Janz (ed) Hermeneutics Place and Space, Springer, 2017 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319522128
"Narrative and Epistemology: Georges Canguilhem’s concept of scientific ideology", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science,vol. 54 2015, pp. 64-73 [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.08.016]
“Commentary on Anastasios Brenner’s ‘Epistemology historicised’” in New Directions in the Philosophy of Science in by M-C Galavotti, D. Dieks, W. J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, M, Weber (eds.) Dordrecht: Springer, 2014
Teaching interests
Publications
Journal articles
Chimisso, Cristina
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 54 (pp. 64-73)
Fleeing dictatorship: socialism, sexuality and the history of science in the life of Aldo Mieli (2011-10)
Chimisso, Cristina
History Workshop Journal, 72(1) (pp. 30-51)
From phenomenology to phenomenotechnique: the role of early twentieth-century physics in Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy (2008-09)
Chimisso, Cristina
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 39(3) (pp. 384-392)
The identity and routes of philosophy of science (2006)
Chimisso, Cristina
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 37(2) (pp. 353-360)
Constructing narratives and reading texts: Approaches to history and power struggles between philosophy and emergent disciplines in inter-war France (2005-08)
Chimisso, Cristina
History of the Human Sciences, 18(3) (pp. 83-107)
Bachelard and the History of the Mind (2005)
Chimisso, Cristina
PLI The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 16 (pp. 171-185)
The tribunal of philosophy and its norms: History and philosophy in Georges Canguilhem's historical epistemology (2003-06)
Chimisso, Cristina
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 34(2) (pp. 297-327)
A Mind of her Own: Helene Metzger to Emile Meyerson, 1933 (2003)
Chimisso, Cristina and Freudenthal, Gad
Isis, 94(3) (pp. 477-491)
Helene Metzger: The history of science between the study of mentalities and total history (2001-06)
Chimisso, Cristina
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 32(2) (pp. 203-241)
The mind and the faculties: the controversy over 'primitive mentality' and the struggle for disciplinary space at the interwar Sorbonne (2000-08)
Chimisso, Cristina
History of the Human Sciences, 13(3) (pp. 47-68)
Authored books
Chimisso, Cristina
Science, Technology and Culture 1700-1945
ISBN : 9780754657057 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Aldershot
Gaston Bachelard: critic of science and the imagination (2001-06-28)
Chimisso, Cristina
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
ISBN : 415269059 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London and New York
Book chapters
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Lupi, Fiorenza and Pilotto, Stefano eds. Infrangere le norme: vita, scienza e tecnica nel pensiero di Georges Canguilhem (pp. 11-29)
ISBN : 9788857553672 | Publisher : Mimesis | Published : Milan
Voyage vers le matérialisme : François Dagognet et l’évolution de l’épistémologie historique [A journey towards materialism: François Dagognet and the evolution of historical epistemology] (2019)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Braunstein, Jean-François and Gayon, Jean eds. François Dagognet : Philosophe, épistémologue (pp. 25-35)
ISBN : 978-2-37361-194--6 | Publisher : Éditions Materiologiques
Gaston Bachelard's Places of the Imagination and Images of Space (2017-03-30)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Janz, Bruce B. ed. Place, Space and Hermeneutics (pp. 183-195)
ISBN : 978-3-319-52214-2 | Publisher : Springer
Commentary on Anastasios Brenner's 'Epistemology Historicized' (2014)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Galavotti, Maria Carla; Dieks, Dennis; Gonzalez, Wenceslao J.; Hartmann, Stephan; Uebel, Thomas and Weber, Marcel eds. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (5) (pp. 737-746)
ISBN : 978-3-319-04381-4 | Publisher : Springer
The life sciences and French philosophy of science: Georges Canguilhem on norms (2013-06-30)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Andersen, H.; Dieks, D.; Gonzalez, W. J.; Uebel, T. and Wheeler, G. eds. New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective (pp. 399-409)
ISBN : 978-94-007-5844-5 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Dordrecht
Gaston Bachelard e le lezioni filosofiche della chimica (2013-01-17)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Bonicalzi, Francesca; Mottana, Paolo; Vinti, Carlo and Wunenburger, Jean-Jacques eds. Bachelard e la ‘provocazioni’ della materia (pp. 93-104)
ISBN : 978-88-7018-877-6 | Publisher : Il Nuovo Melangolo | Published : Genova
A matter of substance? Gaston Bachelard on chemistry's philosophical lessons (2013)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Galavotti, Maria Carla; Nemeth, Elisabeth and Stadler, Friederich eds. European Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (pp. 33-44)
ISBN : 978-3-319-01898-0 | Publisher : Springer
Aspects of current history of philosophy of science in the French tradition (2010)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Stadler, Friedrich ed. The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science (pp. 41-56)
ISBN : 978-90-481-9114-7 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Dordrecht
La ragione scientifica e la pedagogia nel Lautréamont di Bachelard (2004)
Chimisso, Cristina
In: Vinti, Carlo and Bonicalzi, Francesca eds. Ri-cominciare: Percorsi e attualità dell’opera di Gaston Bachelard. Di fronte e attraverso , filosofia (pp. 111-122)
ISBN : 978-88-16-40681-0 | Publisher : Jaka Books | Published : Milan, Italy