Sylvain Lavelle

Sylvain Lavelle has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris- Sorbonne (2000) and has also studied political science and natural sciences. After two years as an assistant at Sorbonne (1998-2000), he has taught philosophy, epistemology and ethics in the department of humanities of an engineering school (ICAM Lille). He is currently working at ICAM-Paris and is Director of the Center for Ethics, Technology and Society (CETS) and an associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales(EHESS-GSPR). Sylvain Lavelle has been involved over the past years in several research projects funded by the European Commission (TRUSTNET, COWAM, EGAIS) and the French National Research Agency (PARTHAGE). He is the author of several books, including Science, technologie et éthique (Ellipses, Paris, 2006) and of many articles, chapters and research documents. His research program, entitled "Dialectical Investigations", has led him to explore the theme of "Post-dialogical thinking" in a critical stance towards proceduralism in Habermas and Latour in particular.

Publications

Paradigms of Governance: From Technocracy to Democracy
Paradigms of Governance: From Technocracy to Democracy
Sylvain Lavelle. © 2015. 22 pages.
The elaboration of some paradigms of governance lies upon the opposition between the democratic and the non-democratic, namely, as will be shown and defined, the technocratic...
Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development
Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development
Fernand Doridot, Penny Duquenoy, Philippe Goujon, Aygen Kurt, Sylvain Lavelle, Norberto Patrignani, Stephen Rainey, Alessia Santuccio. © 2013. 417 pages.
The more integrated technology becomes in our everyday lives and businesses, the more vital it grows that its applications are utilized in an ethical and appropriate way. Ethical...
Ethics and Governance of Nuclear Technology: The Case of the Long Term Management of Radioactive Wastes
Ethics and Governance of Nuclear Technology: The Case of the Long Term Management of Radioactive Wastes
Sylvain Lavelle, Caroline Schieber, Thierry Schneider. © 2013. 17 pages.
Radioactive waste, remaining radioactive for very long periods up to hundreds of thousands years, introduces a new time dimension never experimented in the field of risk...
Paradigms of Governance: From Technocracy to Democracy
Paradigms of Governance: From Technocracy to Democracy
Sylvain Lavelle. © 2013. 23 pages.
The elaboration of some paradigms of governance lies upon the opposition between the democratic and the non-democratic, namely, as will be shown and defined, the technocratic...
Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive
Transformation of Proceduralism from Contextual to Comprehensive
Sylvain Lavelle, Stephen Rainey. © 2013. 32 pages.
Proceduralism has been a major philosophical stream that gathers some outstanding philosophers, such as John Rawls or Jürgen Habermas. The general idea of proceduralism...