Abstract
Ever since the publication of his biophilosophical ideas in the early seventies, Jacques Monod has always been criticized quite severely for his old-fashioned philosophical reductionism. These numerous critiques have created a picture of an eminent scientist whose philosophical considerations are founded on the mechanistic worldview of Cartesian metaphysics, a view which is completely unacceptable to contemporary philosophers. Today it is the usual practice to cite Monod as one of the strongest and most radical reductionists in modem biology.Monod’s biophilosophical conception arose at a moment when vigorous discussions on reductionism followed the great successes of molecular biology. His ideas were criticized namely for their strongly reductionistic interpretation of biological knowledge, and for their mechanistic model of life which, as Monod believed, reflected the spirit of modem science.
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