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Mathieu Corteel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Research Interest(s): History of probability calculus and statistics applied to medicine, Epistemology of contemporary technologies (big data and AI) in medicine

Discipline(s): Sociology

Biography

Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Paris IV, qualified to work as a lecturer in section 17 (philosophy) and 72 (epistemology and history of science).

Current Research

  • January 2024 - December 2027
    CrisisLab postdoctoral researcher
  • January 2024 - December 2024
    Associate researcher in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University
  • January 2023
    Associate researcher in the Biomedical Humanities Initiative at Sorbonne University
  • January 2022 - December 2022
    Postdoctoral researcher (Arthur Sachs Fellow) at the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
  • November 2021 - April 2022
    Postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the ProbaPol project, Labex LIEPP, Sciences Po
  • October 2021 - October 2024
    Researcher affiliated with the health policy research group of LIEPP, Sciences Po
  • February 2021 - July 2022
    Associate researcher at the CSO on the Organisations in Crisis (CrisOrg) project

Teaching

  • September 2023 - December 2023
    Teaching Assistant, Gened 1116 ‘Medical Ethics and History’, Harvard University
  • September 2022 - December 2022
    Teaching Assistant, Gened 1175 ‘Vaccines: History, Science, Policy’, Harvard University
  • September 2021 - December 2022
    External lecturer in ethics and sociology, EM Normandie Business School
  • September 2019 - August 2020
    Teaching and Research Assistant, history of biological and medical sciences, University of Strasbourg
  • September 2018 - January 2019
    Lecturer, bioethics, Nouveau collège d'études politiques, Université Paris-Lumières
  • September 2017 - August 2018
    Teaching and Research Assistant, epistemology of psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Paris V
  • September 2016 - January 2017
    Seminar leader, CIPH the computational episteme, an archaeology of big data in medicine
  • January 2016 - June 2017
    Lecturer, epistemology of psychology, University of Paris V
  • September 2015 – December 2015
    Lecturer, history of science, University of Nîmes
  • September 2013-August 2014
    Tutor in philosophy, University of Paris IV

publications

  • Corteel, M. (2025). Ni dieu ni IA, une philosophie sceptique de l’intelligence artificielle. Paris, éditions La découverte.
  • Corteel, M. (2020). Le hasard et le pathologique. Paris, Presses de Sciences Po.
  • Corteel, M. (2025). Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251317104
  • Corteel, M. (2024). Le diable se cache-t-il dans les données ? Quelques remarques sur les fausses corrélations en santé publique Commentaire. Sciences sociales et santé. 42(3), 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1684/sss.2024.0281.
  • Corteel, M. (2024). Intelligences artificielles et créativité au sens extra-moral. Multitudes, 96(3), 179-184. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.096.0179.
  • Corteel, M. (2023). “Are Numbers A Priori Like Any Other?” In The A Priori Method in the Social Sciences, 101–13. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38260-4_7.
  • Corteel, M. (2023). Institutionnalisation des modèles durant la crise de Covid-19. Annales des Mines - Enjeux numériques, 21(1), 86-90. https://stm.cairn.info/revue-enjeux-numeriques-2023-1-page-86?lang=fr.
  • Corteel, M. (2021). La double naissance de la clinique. Numérisation des données médicales au XIXe siècle. Rue Descartes, 100(2), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.3917/rdes.100.0023.
  • Corteel, M. (2020). Numeri regunt mundum (Les nombres régissent le monde) Santé Publique. 32(4), 287-289. https://doi.org/10.3917/spub.204.0287.
  • Corteel, M. (2020). De la loi des grands nombres aux grands nombres qui font la loi. IA, Jeu de l’imitation et vote démocratique. Multitudes, 78(1), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.078.0105.
  • Corteel, M. (2019) La médecine comme ars conjectandi », Histoire, médecine et santé, http://journals.openedition.org/hms/2236. https://doi.org/10.4000/hms.2236
  • Corteel, M. (2019). Le hasard clinique ou la crise de la rationalité médicale. Multitudes, 75(2), 52-61. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.075.0052.
  • Corteel, M. (2019). L’émergence de l’épistémè computationnelle en médecine. In J.-F. Braunstein, I. Moya Diez, M. Vagelli (Dir.), L’épistémologie historique, histoire et méthodes. Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne.
  • Corteel, M. (2017). La médecine computationnelle entre savoir et biopouvoir. Études digitales, vol.2, 139-156.
  • Corteel, M. (2017). Le nominalisme de la médecine contemporaine: éléments d’archéologie du big data en médecine. Materiali Foucaultiani, 9-10, 41-68.
  • Corteel, M. (2016). La mort in vivo et le vivant postmortem. Le Philosophoire, 45(1), 43-71. https://doi.org/10.3917/phoir.045.0043.
  • Corteel, M. (2015). Facebook, machine de la visagéité et de l’amitié posthumaniste. Journal français de psychiatrie, 41(1), 75-80. https://doi.org/10.3917/jfp.041.0075.