Experts in: Political philosophy
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).
CELENTANO, Denise
Professeure adjointe
DELORME, Morgane
Doctorante
DIETSCH, Peter
Professeur associé, Chercheur
- Economic and social ethics
- Philosophy of economics
- Political philosophy
- Theory of justice
- Fiscal justice
My main research interests converge on questions of distribution in economic and social ethics and are organized around 2 themes. The 1st lies at the heart of the literature on theories of justice. Here I am working on the question of how the co-operative surplus is distributed among different contributors to the production process. I am also seeking answers to questions in the contemporary debate on liberal egalitarianism, such as the moral justification of the influence of talents or certain systemic factors on the well-being of members of society.
The 2nd research theme has to do with questions of a more applied nature. Although distributive justice is linked in many ways with economic issues and their institutionalization, this link is often neglected in contemporary political philosophy. A good example is the tax system. Although theories of distributive justice regularly call on the tax system as a tool for redistribution, they rarely analyze the operation of this system and the implications of its operation on distributive justice itself. In this context, I am currently working on a normative evaluation of the phenomenon of tax competition, i.e. competition among jurisdictions to attract outside capital.
DILHAC, Marc-Antoine
Professeur agrégé
- Ethics
- Political philosophy
- Philosophy of law
- Theories of justice
- Democratic egalitarianism
- Tolerance
- Theories of recognition
- Constitutionalism
- Utilitarianism
- Secularism
- Multiculturalism
My research interests have mainly to do with ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of law. I am focusing on contemporary theories of justice and democracy, both the justification of fundamental rights and the institutional mechanisms for enforcing them. I am interested in political liberalism and its multiculturalist implications, the issue of public reason and deliberation, and in constitutionalism and legal argumentation.
As part of the Chair's activities, I am conducting a research program on institutions of tolerance with a political dimension that also applies to moral psychology and the philosophy of education. In 2011-2012, I also began studying the issue of corruption in and of democracy. Since 2012, I have been co-ordinating the CORDÉ Corruption et démocratie research group.
DUMAS-DUBREUIL, Pascal-Olivier
Doctorant
FARHAT, Saja
Auxiliaire d'enseignement (étudiant/e), Doctorante
- Political philosophy
- Moral philosophy
- Ethics
- Theory of justice
- Social Contract and Social Justice
HERNANDEZ PARRA, Melissa
Doctorante
LAFLEUR-PAIEMENT, Alexis
Doctorant
MONTEILS-LAENG, Laetitia
Professeure agrégée
- Greek philosophy
- Hellenistic and Roman philosophy
- Ancient ethics and psychology
- Ethical naturalism
- History of ancient philosophy
- Greco-Roman antiquity
- Antiquity
- Political philosophy
My main research interests lie in the fields of ancient ethics and psychology, and extend into Hellenistic and Roman philosophy. They are divided into 2 main areas:
- The future of what commentators call moral intellectualism in ancient morals and the so-called akrasia question. My work deals with the dysfunctions of practical rationality and the introduction and development of a vocabulary (prohairèsis, boulèsis/voluntas, hexis/habitus, propatheia, etc.) for thinking about the different modalities of non-virtuous human action.
- Re-evaluation of the concept of naturalism in the field of ancient ethics.
NADEAU, Christian
Professeur titulaire
- Political philosophy
- Moral philosophy
- Ethics
- History of political ideas
- Theories of democracy
- Theories of justice
- Just war
- Transitional justice
- Republicanism
- Renaissance
- 18th century
- Modern Times
- Ecology
- Democratic egalitarianism
- Liberal political philosophy
My research is divided into 2 main categories: contemporary political philosophy and the history of political ideas from the Renaissance to the 19th 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 15th to the 19th 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.
PETITCLERC, Alexandre
Doctorant
ROY, Jean
Professeur honoraire
- Political philosophy
- Theory of nationalism
- Canada (Québec)
- History of political ideas