Bernard E. Harcourt is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University, the Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, and directeur d’études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard University Press), and editor of the forthcoming edition of Michel Foucault’s 1971-72 lectures at the.. Read More

Florent Guénard is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and currently a lecturer at Université de Nantes. His area of research is political philosophy. He has published many articles on Rousseau and contemporary political philosophy, especially on the process of democratization and political emotions.   Lecture: Do We Really Want To Be Equal? Why do we so easily accept social and economic inequalities? Why do we.. Read More

Lydia Goehr is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. In 2010 she received a Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, in 2008 The Graduate Student Advisory Council’s Faculty Mentoring Award, and in 2005, a Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. Her publications include The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992; second edition with a new essay, 2007), The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics,.. Read More

PSL Research University Mathias Girel is Associate Professor with the Department of Philosophy at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. His work centers on the pragmatist tradition, but also on the history and philosophy of science, and environmental and sanitary controversies. He has recently edited an issue of the European Journal of Pragmatism on the “Social Articulation of Doubt” and the French edition of Robert Proctor’s monograph on the Tobacco Industry,.. Read More

  Daniel Garber earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 to 2002 and has since been teaching at Princeton University. Garber is especially interested in the interrelations between philosophical and scientific questions in the early modern period. He has written widely on Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Bacon, Hobbes, Jean-Baptiste Morin and other figures.   Lecture: Can you Decide to Believe in.. Read More

Estelle Ferrarese is a professor of political and social theory at Strasbourg University. For the 2014-2015 academic year, she is a research fellow at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. She has been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research and at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.   Lecture: The Political Grammar of Consent: Investigating a New Gender Order Estelle Ferrarese aims to show how a political.. Read More

Pascal Engel is directeur d’études at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He has published about 250 articles and a number of books in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind and epistemology, among which The Norm of Truth (Prentice Hall, 1991), Philosophie et psychologie, (Gallimard, 1996) Ramsey , Truth and Success (with J. Dokic, Routledge, 2002), Truth (Acumen 2002), Va savoir (Herman, 2007), Les.. Read More

PSL Research University Paul Egré is a Researcher at the CNRS Institut Jean-Nicod, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Ecole Normale Supérieure. Most of his research is in the areas of philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and epistemology. He has written extensively on the topic of vagueness in language. He has collaborated regularly with the Department of Philosophy at NYU since 2013, first as a visiting.. Read More

Jean-Pierre Dupuy is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Philosophy at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology and of the Conseil Général des Mines, the French High Magistracy that oversees and regulates industry, energy and the environment. Dupuy chairs the Ethics Committee of the French High Authority on Nuclear Safety and Security. He is the.. Read More

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little… Almost Nothing, Infinitely Demanding, The Book of Dead Philosophers, The Faith of the Faithless, The Mattering of Matter. Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society (with Tom McCarthy), and Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (with Jamieson Webster). An experimental work, Memory Theatre, and a book called Bowie were both published.. Read More