Michel Serres

Michel Serres is a French philosopher, historian of science, and author. In 1949, he went to naval college and subsequently, in 1952, to the Ecole Normale Supérieure. In 1955, he obtained a degree in philosophy, and from 1956 to 1958 he served on a variety of ships as a marine officer for the French national maritime service. In 1968, Serres gained a doctorate for his thesis on Leibniz's philosophy. During the 1960s, he taught with Michel Foucault at the Universities of Clermont-Ferrand and Vincennes and was later appointed to a chair in the history of science at the Sorbonne, where he still teaches. Serres has also been a full professor at Stanford University since 1984, and he was elected to the French Academy in 1990.