I have defended my PhD on November 23rd, 2009. Title: «“Taking the place of the other”: point of view in practical reasoning» (summary in French, PDF), supervised by Sandra Laugier (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) and Patrick Savidan (Université de Poitiers).
I am now at the Center for Human Values, Princeton, as a Fulbright scholar.
I have three main fields of interest:
*contemporary moral and political philosophy. I am interested in particular in Martha Nussbaum’s works, and more generally in all works about perception, imagination and narration in normative reasoning.
*social philosophy, and the link between philosophy and human sciences, in order to build a social criticism. Hence an interest for Honneth as well as Pettit.
*link between literature and philosophy (moral philosophy in particular).
Education
Teaching
Publications
Conferences (some of them in English, and downloadable)
Translations
Variae
Links
Publications
«Vertus du désaccord : langage, liberté et politique», in Bruno Ambroise & Bertrand Geay (ed.), volume on Langage et politique, forthcoming.
«Amour, attachement, autonomie», in Marlène Jouan & Sandra Laugier (ed.), Comment penser l’autonomie ? Entre compétences et dépendances, Paris, PUF, 2009.
«Sens moral, aveuglement et évidence : l’exemple des “Justes”», in Claude Gautier & Sandra Laugier (ed.), Les Voies du sens commun, Paris, PUF, 2008.
«Des usages politiques de la honte, à propos de Martha Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity. Disgust, Shame, and the Law», Raison Publique, 2007, no 6.
«L’Estime. Le rôle de la réputation dans la stabilisation des normes publiques», Raison Publique, 2007, n°6.
Teaching
2006-2009 : Teaching assistant for courses in general philosophy, political and moral philosophy, and philosophy in English, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Undergraduate and Graduate.
Translations
Martha Nussbaum, Love’s Knowledge, Paris, Cerf, à paraître.
Papers translated from English (published in Raison publique 2003-2008) :
Susan Moller Okin, «Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?»
Daniele Archibugi, «Cosmopolitan Democracy and its Critics: A Survey»
Thomas W. Pogge, «Recognized and Violated by International Law: the Human Rights of the Global Poor»
Jean Louise Cohen, «Contemporary Transformations of Sovereignty»
Michael Walzer, «An American Empire?»
Onora O’Neill, «Autonomy: the emperor’s new clothes»
John Roemer, «Socialist Perspectives: from insurance to solidarity»
Jürgen Habermas, «Beyond Liberalism and Republicanism: Deliberative Democracy»
Thomas W. Pogge, «“Assisting” the Global Poor»
Cass R. Sunstein, «Deliberation, New Technologies, and Extremism»
Paper translated from Italian, published in Raison publique, 2009 :
Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, « Il corpo e il sangue d’Italia: letteratura, etica e società »
Paper translated form Italian, for Revue internationale de philosophie, 2009
Piergiorgio Donatelli, « La vita delle parole. Cavell e un nuovo inizio per l’etica analitica »
Conferences
«Existe-t-il une philosophie sociale ? Remarques à partir de Philip Pettit», Workshop social metaphysics and ontology, Tours, October 10th 2009.
«Les convictions et l’espace public», Conférence on Martha Nussbaum, private realm and public sphere, Paris, ENS, June 2009.
«Public Reason and Uses of the Bible in Contemporary American Liberal Political Philosophy», Conference Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Political Philosophy, Northwestern University, April 2009.
«“A laboratory for the refinement of the soul” : literature, ethics, and modal imagination», Conference of Moral Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology, Amiens, December 2008.
«Crise de légitimité et démocraties contemporaines», Conference on legitimation and political crisis, Paris, ENS, December 2008.
«Pierre Rosanvallon et la légitimité de proximité», Workshop on Care, Royaumont, November 2008.
«Perception morale et point de vue : y a-t-il un critère de la perception morale correcte ?», Workshop on the Perception of Values, Paris, July 2008.
«Reading and moral philosophy: what is there to see ? What does reading make us do?», Conference Literature & Philosophy / Philosophy & Literature, University of Sussex, June 2008.
«Se mettre à la place d’autrui : l’exemple du roman», Conference on Moral Subjectivity, Amiens, June 2008.
«Kant’s conception of the moral person: the question of “Standpunkt’ or ‘point of view”», Conference Kant and Subjectivity, Amiens, May 2008.
«Doing without principles in moral reasoning? A few examples to defend a distinction between determining and explicative principles», Conference on Moral Particularism, Paris, May 2008.
«Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas dans l’éthique de la discussion ?», Workshop of the Research Group ExeCO, Université de Paris-1, Paris, April 2008.
«Vertus du désaccord : langage, liberté et politique», Conference Language and Politics, , Amiens, March 2008 .
«Reading and moral reasoning», intervention in Martha Nussbaum’s class, University of Chicago, November 2007.
«Usages politiques de la peur», Conference on Fear and Politics, Paris, June 2007.
«L’expression morale, privée et publique», Workshop Moral Philosophy, Amiens, April 2007.
«Langage, affect et situation : la pertinence de la métaphore du “point de vue”», Conference Language and Power, Amiens, March 2007.
Discussion with L. van Alstyne, «A Critique of Ronald Dworkin’s Conception of the Relation Between Law and Morality», Amiens, March 2007.
«Amour, attachement, autonomie», Conference on Autonomy, Amiens, March 2007.
«Sens moral, émergence des normes et esteem», Conference Norms and Knowledge, Amiens, September 2006 .
Education
2009-2010 : Fulbright scholar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
2006-2009 : PhD student and teaching assistant, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens. PhD in philosophie «“Putting oneself in the position of the other” : point of view in practical reasoning». Supervisors: Sandra Laugier (UPJV) and Patrick Savidan (Université de Poitiers).
September-November 2007, August 2008, January-May 2009 : research trips at the University of Chicago.
2005-2006 : Master of political philosophy, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, «Amartya Sen’s Theory of Capabilities». Supervisor Alain Renaut.
January-June 2006 : Visiting Student, Columbia University, New York.
2003-2005 : Agrégation de philosophie (competitive exam to get credentials to teach philosophy), rank first on a national basis.
2002-2003 : maîtrise in political philosophy, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, «The Problem of Technocracy in Habermas’ Writings». Supervisor Patrick Savidan.
2001-2006 : Student at the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm.
Variae
Assistant Editor for Raison publique, Semestrial Publication in Contemporary Political Philosophy (www.raison-publique.fr).
Organization of the Conference « Martha Nussbaum : le privé et l’espace public », with Sandra Laugier and Marc Pavlopoulos, Paris, ENS, June 2009.
English read, spoken, written (TOEFL). Italian read, spoken, written. German read. Latin and ancient Greek read.
Links
Website of Raison publique, semestrial publication in contemporary political philosophy.
Website of seeingthings, literature and non-fiction.