O legado de Descartes – Palestrantes

I am Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. My research focuses on Cartesianism through its reception:
1/ according to a physiological axis, which analyses how metaphysics is challenged by anatomists and doctors and vice versa for philosophers, to build a science of man and try to cure him;
2/ and according to a historiographical axis, which analyses the Canon formation of the Humanities excluding physiology and, more broadly, positive knowledge.
As a member of the Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM, CNRS, UMR 5317), I direct the pole ENS in Lyon, and the 2nd scientific axis: “Norms, Canons, and their Discontents”, with Sarah Al-Matary -Lyon 2- and Stéphane Zekian -CNRS-.
My research grounds on an experience developed over several years:
-As a full member, of the ANR “Young researchers” “PHILOMED”: The remodelling of man. Medical discoveries and the philosophy of human nature” (2012-2015, directed by S. Buchenau, C. Crignon and A.-L. Rey, http://www.philomed.univ-paris8.fr) and, since 2021, the Partnership Grant: “Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy” (https://www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/index.htmln), directed by Lisa Shapiro (McGill University), involving numerous partner universities on the 5 continents.
-As director or co-director: a/ From 2012 to 2015, for the ANR Blanc “ANTHROPOS”: Towards a physics of the soul. The constitution of a science of man. France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, 17th-19th centuries” (with P. Girard and J.-F. Goubet) and for the LabEx COMOD White Project “EMPIRAT. Empiricist practices and rationality, 16th-18th centuries. France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands”; b/ Since 2017 and 2018 for the CIERA project: “Historical and philosophical approaches to anthropological knowledge in psychiatry. France and Germany, 19th-21st centuries” (Co-directed with E. Basso (Marie-Curie Fellowship), C. Brock and C. Schües (Institüt für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung, Lübeck), E. Delille (University of Berlin) and S. Lézé (ENS de Lyon), c/ Since 2016 for the LabEx COMOD White Project “BATTMAN. The Battle for the Science of Man in 19th Century France”. In 2018 this project became a structuring project of the LabEx COMOD, under the title “ ‘French philosophy’ in the 19th century”, co-directed with S. Lézé (ENS de Lyon). d/ Since January 2023, my research is also nourished by my participation in the ERC Advanced Grant nr. 101052433, NOTCOM (Notiones communes. “The Common Notion. Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century”, (dir. Mogens Laerke), as a member of the Advisory Board.
My latest book: “L’autorité d’un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes” (Paris, Vrin, 2021).
I currently supervise 8 Phd’s.