Anne-Françoise Schmid

Anne-Françoise Schmid (born 17 September 1949) is a Swiss-born French philosopher, formerly an associate researcher of Mines Paris-Tech. Schmid is a specialist in the philosophical works of Henri Poincaré, as well as being an associate researcher at the Henri Poincaré archives. Schmid has also edited the letters of correspondence between Bertrand Russell and Louis Couturat. She is also a founding member of a philosophical research initiative known as non-philosophy, alongside her spouse François Laruelle. Through this work, she has been publishing on generic epistemologies, which entails a non-exclusive epistemological practice that can be used to integrate the domains of problems exclusive to each and every disciplinary limit. With s Laruelle, she co-directs an international organization dedicated to furthering the cause of non-philosophy, the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale.

Work Schmid's work has been influential in contemporary biological practices, as well as in debates in issues of economic and social policies in France. Schmid's philosophy has also been directly influential to artists, such as Ivan Liovik Ebel, Benoit Maire, Alice Lucy Rekab, Tony Yanick, Yvette Granata, and more.