I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada). My areas of specialization are general epistemology, social epistemology, philosophy of medicine, and the philosophy of language.

I hold a doctoral dissertation on the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) and remain interested in the history of analytic philosophy.

My recent research in general epistemology focuses on two main areas: the problem of skepticism and hinge-epistemology approaches; and the phenomenon of irrational beliefs (particularly willful blindness).

In social epistemology, I am particularly interested in the normative foundations of categories such as "experiential knowledge" and "lay expertise." In addition to an individual project on the figure of the "expert patient," I am involved in two interdisciplinary research groups. The first, in social sciences, focuses on the experiential knowledge of people living in situations of social exclusion and poverty (in Quebec and Belgium). The second, in clinical research, is conducted at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and focuses on patient involvement in research and improving care for people living with type 1 diabetes. I am also a member of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on Type 1 Diabetes.

In philosophy of medicine, my research focuses on the normativity of diagnosis, with a specific case study of (pre-clinical) diagnostic screening for type 1 diabetes.

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 19^th-century rational psychology in German speaking cultures (Herbart, Brentano) and Revolutionary psychiatry in France (Pinel, Esquirol, and later, Charcot, among others).

My research is divided into 2 main categories: contemporary political philosophy and the history of political ideas from the Renaissance to the 19^th century. These 2 categories also reflect the content of my courses and seminars.

In contemporary political philosophy, my work deals with questions of post-war transitional justice (rebuilding institutions, penal justice, truth and reconciliation commissions, collective memory, etc.), where my main theoretical interests are the issues of collective responsibility and democratic deliberation. Generally speaking, my research - both on social justice and democracy issues and on immigration - is in line with work on neo-republicanism. In moral philosophy, I take a consequentialist approach.

My publications on the history of ideas deal with relations between political freedom and authority, from the 15^th to the 19^th centuries, more specifically on the republican tradition since the Renaissance. In that connection, I have focused particularly on the work of Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau.

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).