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Professor of Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Member of Institut Universitaire de France (junior 1999-2004, senior 2012-); Knightess of the Legion of Honour (Chevalière de la Légion d’honneur) in 2014.

For more details, please see my academia.edu page.

Selected papers and publications in English:

• « Normativity of the Ordinary. Performative Utterances and Social Reality » , Johns Hopkins University conference.
•  « A Romanticism of Democracy: Emerson, Thoreau, Cavell, Malick » (cf. version française)
• Introduction to the French edition of Must We Mean What We Say?, Critical Inquiry, vol. 37, No. 4, p. 627-651 (2011).
• « The Will to See », Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 34 (2):263-281 (2013)
• Interview with Sandra Laugier and Albert Ogien, regarding Pourquoi désobéir en démocratie ?, 2014.
• « Ethics of Care as a Politics of the Ordinary », lecture at Columbia Maison Française (April 2016)

Book

• Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013.

Academic Qualifications:

• 1997: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne: «Du langage de la science au langage ordinaire ». Director Jacques Bouveresse (Pr. Collège de France),
• 1990: PhD, Philosophy, Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne : «L’apprentissage de l’obvie : le point de vue logique dans la philosophie de W.V. Quine ».
• 1983-1985: Visiting Graduate Student, Harvard University, Department of Philosophy
• 1982-1984: Master and Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, Philosophy (Paris 4-Sorbonne)
• 1983: Agrégation of Philosophy
• 1980-1985: Student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS rue d’Ulm)

Teaching activity:

• 2010- Professor (classe exceptionnelle, University Professor), Philosophy, Université Paris 1
• 2004-2010: Professor (première classe), Philosophy, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
• 1998-2004 : Professor, Philosophy, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
• 1992-1998: Maître de conférences philosophie (Associate Professor), Université Rennes I

Teaching abroad:

• Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University: April 2011
• Lectures and seminar, University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy, April 2010
• Lectures and seminars, University Roma La Sapienza, January 2010
• Visiting Professor, Chaire invitée, Facultés Saint-Louis de Bruxelles, October 2009
• Lectures and seminar, Johns Hopkins University, the Humanities Center: April 2009
• Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University: February 2008
• Graduate seminar, Duke University, February 2008
• Lectures and seminar, University Roma Tor Vergata, May 2007
• Visiting Professor, University Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 2006

Invited lectures:

Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago, Duke, Harvard University, Tufts, New School for Social Research, NY; Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo ; Rome La Sapienza, Rome 3, Rome Tor Vergata ; Université de Liège, ULB, Facultés Saint Louis de Bruxelles ; Porto ; Amsterdam, Twente ; Potsdam, Freie Universität Berlin, Southampton, British Wittgenstein Society.

Research and administrative responsibilities:

National duties

2010- : Deputy scientific Director (Directrice adjointe scientifique) of the CNRS Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS), in charge of interdisciplinarity

2002-2005: member of the Scientific Board of Action concertée incitative “T.T.T.” (Interdisciplinarity) Research Board, Ministry for National Education, Research and Technology.

Editorial Duties:

2013 – Editor of the « La Vie Morale » series, éditions Vrin.

2002 – Editor of the « Textes-clés » series, éditions Vrin

Member of the Scientific Board, Vocabulaire européen des philosophies, dictionnaire des intraduisibles, dir. Barbara Cassin, Le Seuil/Le Robert, 2004.

Member of the Scientific Board: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Cités

Member of the Editorial Board:

Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale,

Archives de Philosophie

Multitudes