Experts in: Germany
BERGO, Bettina
Professeure titulaire
- Phenomenology
- Psychoanalysis
- Levinas
- Nietzsche
- Hegel
- Jewish thought
- Germany
- France
- Values
- Theoretical and practical rationality
- Feminism
- Political philosophy
- Modern Times
- 19th century
My research interests concern the connections between Husserlian phenomenology, psychoanalysis (Freudian and some contemporary), and continental thought on sensibility. The thematization of sensibility and alterity, as found in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, in the formation of "I" and in some of sociality (notably that of Husserl on intersubjectivity) is the subject of current research.
I am also interested in Nietzsche's philosophy of forces in bodies, and his attempt to rethink European values. Finally, I am also interested in the distinctions between 19th-century rational psychology in German speaking cultures (Herbart, Brentano) and Revolutionary psychiatry in France (Pinel, Esquirol, and later, Charcot, among others).
LEDUC, Christian
Professeur titulaire
- Early Modern philosophy
- German philosophy
- Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Leibniz
- Philosophy of science
- Early Modern Times
- 17th century
- 18th century
- Age of Enlightenment
- Germany
- France
My research concerns modern philosophy (17th and 18th centuries), in particular Leibniz and the German and French Enlightenment. I am particularly interested in the epistemological and metaphysical aspects, such as the problem of individuation, the relationship between the mind and body, conceptions of space, analytical and synthetical methods, theories of hypothesis and definition, the systematic character of knowledge and the relations between mental faculties.
My recent research mainly deals with the reception of Leibniz in 18th-century German and French philosophy. Some of my studies have also concerned Kant's philosophy, particularly his methodology.
PICHÉ, Claude
Professeur honoraire
- Kant
- Kantism
- German idealism
- Early Modern Times
- Modern Times
- Moral philosophy
- Epistemology
- Phenomenology
- Germany
My research mainly concerns the work of Kant, approached from a historical perspective. I am interested in both his theoretical philosophy (intuitive character of space, principle of causality, status of the thing in itself, theory of philosophical discourse) and his practical philosophy in the larger sense (moral experience, radical evil, international law). I am also looking at the contemporary reception of Kant’s thought (F. H. Jacobi and K. L. Reinhold) and the critical use of his views in German idealism, in particular by J. G. Fichte. The extensions of the Kantian approach in terms of historical epistemology are also one of my interests (H. Rickert and G. Simmel).