I am Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). 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…
I am Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France). 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-.
