My Night With Philosophers

Caroline Binder

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Graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (1998-2001), she worked with Irene McDougall, Jeremy Raison, Andy Arnold, David Harrower and Graham Eatough. In France she appeared in various productions with Théâtre des Petits Pieds troupe (directed by Joséphine de Meaux), in Les Dialogues des Carmélites by G. Bernanos (directed by Philippe Meyer for France Culture), in Twelfth Night (directed by John Wright). She is a founding member of Les Chiens de Navarre theatre group (artistic director: J.C Meurisse), and works with an artist collective: I am a bird now.

Catherine Larrère

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An emeritus professor at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Catherine Larrère specialises in moral and political philosophy, focusing on political and ethical questions connected with the environmental crisis and new technologies (nature protection, risk prevention, growth of biotechnology). Her published works include L’Invention de l’économie au XVIIIe siècle. Du droit naturel à la physiocratie (Paris, PUF, Léviathan collection, 1992), Actualité de Montesquieu (Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 1999), Les philosophies de l’environnement (Paris, PUF, Philosophies collection, 1997) and, with Raphaël Larrère, Du bon usage de la nature. Pour une philosophie de l’environnement (Paris, Aubier, 1997 – reissued by Flammarion (Paris), Champs Essais collection, 2009).

Can We Be Free in a Dominated Nature?

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We cannot be free when others are enslaved: this is what Rousseau says at the beginning of The Social Contract. Of course, he is speaking of interactions between men. But cannot this judgement be applied to the relationship between man and nature? We think of it as of a relation of domination. Can it not be otherwise?

Julien Pieron

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Julien Pieron is a lecturer at the University of Liège, a member of the Research Unit on Political Philosophy, and the scientific coordinator of the ARC/fructis project “Contemporary politics of nature”. He is the author of a book on Heidegger (Pour une lecture systématique de Heidegger, Ousia, 2010) and has also worked on the French historical epistemology (Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault), focusing on the interconnection between life, norms, and politics. Interested in the links between metaphysics, epistemology and politics, he is currently completing research on Bruno Latour’s work.

Monique Canto-Sperber

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Monique Canto-Sperber is Research Director at the French CNRS, and is the President of Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) Research University. She is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and has lectured at the University of Rouen, the University of Amiens, and Stanford University. She was Director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2012. She has directed several Research groups and has organized an important number of scientific conferences. She is also the producer of a program on France Culture (a French National radio station).
Her most recent publications include: Le Bien, la guerre et la terreur (2005), Le Libéralisme et la gauche (2008), Essai sur la vie humaine, Naissance et liberté (with René Frydman), Que peut l’éthique? (2008), Vies et destins (2009), Pour une morale internationale (2010), L’idée de guerre juste (2010).

Pierre Cassou-Noguès

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Pierre Cassou-Noguès is Professor of Philosophy at University Paris 8. His
work concerns the relationship between science, fiction and philosophy.
Last books : Lire le cerveau (Seuil, 2012) on imaginary brain readers ;
Mon zombie et moi (Seuil, 2010) on science-ficion in continental
philosophy.

Michael Moriarty

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:47:13 +0000

Michael Moriarty is Drapers Professor of French at Cambridge University. He writes mainly about seventeenth-century philosophical and religious thought. His most recent book is Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has translated Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy for the Oxford World’s Classics series.

Tim Crane

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Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at UCL, and he was the founding Director of the Institute of Philosophy in the University of London. He has worked mostly in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and has written about intentionality, consciousness, perception and the mind-body problem. He is the author of five books and the editor of five others. His latest book, The Objects of Thought, is forthcoming with OUP and concerns the problem about thought about the non-existent. He is the philosophy editor for the TLS.

Charles Travis

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:37:18 +0000

Charles Travis is a professor at King’s College London. He has formerly been professor at Northwestern University (USA) and the University of Stirling (Scotland), has been visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and has lectured at the Collège de France. He currently works mainly on philosophy of perception, of psychology, of thought and logic, and on the philosophers Frege and Wittgenstein. A few of his recent works are: “Thought’s Footing”, “Essays on Occasion-Sensitivity, “Objectivity and the Parochial” (soon to appear), and “Perception: Essays after Frege”.

Véronique Munoz-Dardé

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Véronique Munoz-Dardé is Professor of Philosophy at UCL and at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of La justice sociale. Le libéralisme égalitaire de John Rawls. In recent years she has written articles on the importance of numbers in practical reasoning, on the political ideal of equality, on responsibility, on reasonable risks, on funding for museums and universities, and on Rousseau’s political philosophy.