Michel Bitbol is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He holds a medical degree, a doctorate in physics, and an Habilitation in philosophy. After his start in physics, he turned to philosophy, editing texts by Erwin Schrödinger and formulating a neo-Kantian philosophy of quantum mechanics. His work, done in collaboration with Francisco Varela, has drawn a parallel between Buddhist dependent arising and nonsupervenient relations in quantum physics.