Mathis Bertrand

Publications & Academic Works

• 2026
  Review of Pierre Bourdieu : genèse d'un sociologue by Victor Collard (CNRS Éditions, 2024). In Revue de synthèse, vol. 147 (1-2), 2026. [PDF] [French version]
• 2024
  Master's Thesis: "Sociological invention in Maurice Halbwachs: from Leibniz's philosophy to collective psychology", supervised by Marion Vorms (Paris I) and Éric Brian (EHESS). Defended at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. [HAL / DUMAS]
• 2023
  Review of the Anthologie de la calculabilité : naissance et développements de la théorie de la calculabilité des années 1920 à 1970 (edited by Michel Bourdeau and Jean Mosconi), Cassini, 2022. In Revue de Synthèse, vol. 144, n° 3-4 (2023), p. 423–437. [PDF]

Communications & Talks

• November 4, 2026 (session postponed) « La première période de Maurice Halbwachs (1905-1918) : un ars sociologica leibnizien »
  Leibniz Doctoral Seminar (SDEL), ENS Ulm, Paris, France.
• January 30, 2026 « A logician in moral statistics: Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch’s Die moralische Statistik und die menschliche Willensfreiheit (1867) »
  Online Presentation at Pr. Ingolf Max's Oberseminar, University of Leipzig. [Slides]
• November 19, 2025 « The ‘Society of Mathematicians’ in Maurice Halbwachs: The Memory of Scientific Activity between Analysis and Synthesis »
  Talk at the 35th Novembertagung on the History & Philosophy of Mathematics, Nancy, France. [Slides]
• March 28, 2025 « Statistics as a tool of sociological invention in Maurice Halbwachs : from the critique of the average to a discourse on sociological method? »
  Talk at the Seminar on the History of Probability and Statistics (EHESS), Aubervilliers, France. [Slides revised]
• April 20, 2023 « Reason as calculation : from the Euclidian ratio to the ideal of a universal characteristic »
  Informal talk at Giovanna Cifoletti's seminar, « Algebra as an Art of Thinking : from commercial arithmetic to method » (EHESS), Paris, France. [Material]

Other documents

• January 2026
  Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (1867), La Statistique morale et le libre-arbitre humain (Die moralische Statistik und die menschliche Willensfreiheit). French translation, notes. Working version.
  Current version
  Original text (1867). N.B. PDF file edited for screen readability.
• Moritz W. Drobisch (1867), "Review of Adolphe Quetelet’s On Moral Statistics and the Principles Which Should Form Its Basis (Brussels, 1848)", Leipziger Repertorium der deutschen und ausländischen Literatur, Vol. 25, 1849 (Year 7, Vol. 1). [PDF]
  

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