Pierre Pellegrin is a French historian of ancient philosophy and researcher at the CNRS, specializing in Aristotle's natural philosophy and biology. He is best known for his systematic analysis of Aristotle's zoological works and his translations of key Aristotelian texts into French. His scholarship illuminates the logical and metaphysical structure underlying Aristotle's classification of living things.
Authored foundational study on Aristotle's classification of animals, arguing it is governed by logical rather than purely empirical principles
Produced major French translations of Aristotle's biological and political works, including the Physics and Politics
Demonstrated the centrality of form, teleology, and conditional necessity in Aristotle's account of living things
Advanced scholarship on the relationship between Aristotle's logic and his natural science
Contributed to the renewal of serious philosophical engagement with Aristotle's biology in 20th-century French scholarship