Anne-Françoise Schmid, philosopher and epistemologist among scientists and artists.
Specialist of philosophy of mathematics, on Poincaré as initiator of generic space in sciences
(1997, 2001), editor of Russell and Couturat (Paris, Kimé, 2001, 2 vol., 735 pages). She has
clarified the general assumptions of epistemology in a manner to avoid the exclusion of
contemporary methods under the effect of old paradigms. Similarly, in philosophy, she
constructs a generic space for combining concepts of various philosophies, creating a new
style with philosophies, not with just one. The conditions of this work are 1) The democracy
of disciplines and philosophies; 2) The decision and the practice of "collective intimacy"; 3)
the admission of a criterion of rigor independent of the disciplines, which she calls "criterion
of Poincaré".
She has taught at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, at the University of Geneva,
at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of
Lyon. She collaborated with the National Institute of Agronomic Research (Jouy-en-Josas
site). She is now associate researcher at the Chair of Theory and Methods of Innovative
Design, MinesParistech, as well as in the Poincaré Archives (University of Lorraine, UMR
CNRS 7117).
2019 Books :
- Maryse Dennes, John O’Maoilearca, Anne-Françoise Schmid, La Philosophie non-standard de
François Laruelle, Paris, Cerisy/Classiques Garnier, octobre 2019.

- La invencion filosofica en el silencio del futuro, traduccion Ana Bolena Parra, Cali, Universidad del
Valle, Programa Editorial, octobre 2019.

- Anne-Françoise Schmid et Muriel Mambrini-Doudet, Epistémologie générique. Manuel pour les
sciences futures, Paris, Kimé, novembre 2019.

2019 Book’s chapters:

- “A few protocol sentences on: non-synthesis, the voluminous form of ideas, temporalities of
creation, hyper-compatibility”, in: Doyle, Michael R., Savić, Selena, Bühlmann, Vera, Ghost of
Transparancy. Shadows cast and shadows cast out, Birkhaüser, septembre 2019, p. 316-319.

- Avec John O’Maoilearca, “Introduction. François Laruelle et le colloque de Cerisy », in : Maryse
Dennes, John O’Maoilearca et Anne-Françoise Schmid, La philosophie non-standard de François
Laruelle, Paris, classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 11-31.

- Avec Muriel Mambrini-Doudet : « L’alliance non-standard de l’épistémologie et de l’esthétique à
l’occasion des sciences », in : Maryse Dennes, John O’Maoilearca et Anne-Françoise Schmid, La
philosophie non-standard de François Laruelle, Paris, classiques Garnier, 2019, p. 221-233.