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Education
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Paris; MA Sorbonne-Paris IV; Agrégation de philosophie; Ph. D., université de Poitiers, 1988.
Biographical Summary
Member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France); has taught at the universities of Lille, Brussels and Louvain (Belgium). Came at BC as a visiting professor in 2005;
tenured in 2006.
Fields of Interest
- Metaphysics and natural philosophy, with a special attention to the problem of the intensification of forms, and the concept of
time.
- The notion of representation in ontology and epistemology.
- The status of pleasure in ethics.
- Modern scholastic and its influence on 17th C. thought.
- Pierre Bayle.
Current Teaching
Medieval philosophy, Modern philosophy
Recent Publications
- “Was the eye in the tomb? On the metaphysical and historical interest of some strange quodlibetal questions”, in Theological Quodlibets in the Middle Ages, The Thirteenth Century. Ed. C. Schabel, Brill, Leiden, 2006, p.506-558.
- "Remarques sur le possible selon Aristote", in Revue de Philosophie Ancienne, XXII, n°2, p.37-96.
- "Silence et philosophie", in Revue Philosophique de Louvain, n°4/2005, pp.613-637.
- Alain de Lille, le docteur universel. Ed. J.-L. Solère, A. Vasiliu & A. Galonnier, Turnhout, Brepols, coll. « Société Internationale pour l’Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 2005. |
