Mathieu CORTEEL

Bio :

Mathieu Corteel is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po's CrisisLab, at the Imagine Institute and an associate researcher at Harvard's Department of the History of Science. His research focuses on the history, epistemology, ethics and sociology of statistics and probabilities applied to health. 

His first book, Le Hasard et le Pathologique, was published by Presses de Sciences Po in 2020. The translation project for this work is currently supported by LIEPP and should be published by The University of Chicago Press. 

His second book, Ni dieu ni IA, une philosophie sceptique de l'intelligence artificielle (Neither God nor AI, a skeptical philosophy of artificial intelligence), will be published in April 2025 by La Découverte. It addresses the issue of the expropriation and exploitation of collective intelligence by AI and its applications in fields such as education, health, surveillance, work, and voting.

As the winner of the Arthur Sachs Fellowship'22, he conducted postdoctoral research on the history of digital methods in medicine for three years at Harvard. Between 2022 and 2023, he was appointed Teaching Fellow at Harvard College to participate in the teaching of the courses “Vaccine: History, Science and Policy” and “Medical Ethics and History”.

During the Covid-19 crisis, he contributed as a postdoctoral researcher to the ANR project CrisOrg: organizations in crisis, and coordinated with Henri Bergeron the research project ProbaPol: epidemiological probabilities and political decisions in the face of Covid-19, funded by the LIEPP of Sciences Po.

At CrisisLab, he is currently working on the development of a new method of anticipation based on knowledge of the social sciences, the sociology of organizations and ethics. At the same time, he is conducting field research at the Imagine Institute on genetic medicine. 

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. 

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