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

Justin Clarke-Doane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from NYU, under the supervision of Hartry Field.   Lecture: Modal Objectivity The intelligibility of modal metaphysics is widely thought to have been vindicated. But modal metaphysics could be intelligible, but highly non-objective. It could.. Read More

Solange Chavel Université de Poitiers Solange Chavel, PhD, is Assistant Professor in political and social philosophy. Her research focuses on borders and mobility. She is the author of Se mettre à la place d’autrui : l’imagination morale et ses limites (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012).   Lecture: What is a Border? Borders are ubiquitous in our contemporary world; as such, they evoke in each of us powerful images: lines on.. Read More

Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS and President of the Administrative Board of the Collège International de Philosophie. Trained as a philosopher and philologist specializing in Ancient Greece, her research focuses on the relationship between philosophy and what is posited as not being philosophy: sophistic, rhetoric, literature. Her most recent publications are Jacques le Sophiste (Epel, 2012), Plus d’une langue: Petites conférences (Bayard, 2012), La Nostalgie (Autrement,.. Read More

Monique Canto-Sperber is Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research. She served for several years as Director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and as President of Paris Sciences et Lettres. She is the author of several books, translated into several languages, on Greek philosophy, ethics and political philosophy. Among them are Le Dictionnaire d’Ethique et de Philosophie Morale (1996, 4th ed., 2004), Les Règles de la Liberté.. Read More

Talbot Brewer is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Virginia. He specializes in ethics and political philosophy, with particular attention to moral psychology and Aristotelian ethics. He is the author of numerous essays, including “Virtues We Can Share: A Reading of Aristotle’s Ethics” (Ethics 115, 2005), “Savoring Time: Desire, Pleasure and Wholehearted Activity” (Ethical Theory and Moral 6, 2003), “Two Kinds of Commitments.. Read More