Gerald Sinclair

Current research focus & fields:

• Shifting Ontological & Normative Paradigms of Humanism; Ecocritical Posthumanism, Speculative Posthumanism, Technoprogressist Posthumanism;

• Philosophy of Nature & Ecology; Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics;

• Bioethics; Societal & Philosophical implications of Technologies; STS;

• Non-Anthropocentric Philosophy of Mind; Epistemology & Other Minds.

Education (essays, classes & seminars, post-grad seminars):

• University of Lausanne (CH): Ethics & Meta-ethics (Naturalism; Perfectionism; Humanism); Philosophy of ecology (Afeissa; Larrère; Bourg; Naess); Environmental & Non-/Less anthropocentric ethics (Singer; Holmes Rolston III; Baird Callicott; Norton); Environmental aesthetics; Political Philosophy & Justice (Rawls; Nozick; Walzer; Beitz; Barry; Gosseries; Gardiner). Posthumanism (Herbrechter; Marchesini; Ferrando; Roden; Hottois; Hoquet; Bostrom).

• University of Edinburgh (UK): History of Christian Theology (Early Church practices & Patristics; Ecclesiology); Philosophical Epistemology, Criticism and Faith (Schleiermacher; Scientific Methodology & beliefs; Philosophical Pragmatism & Faith; Reparative thinking; Deconstruction); Postmodern Theology (Process; Atheology); Agnosticism & Atheism.

• University of Paris-Sorbonne (FR): Political Philosophy (Rawls; Lefort; Foucault); Epistemology & History of Logic in Philosophy (Frege; Wittgenstein; Peirce; Duhem; Quine; Kripke; Putnam; Goodman); Philosophy of Biology; Modern & Contemporary Philosophy (Leibniz; Malebranche; Hume; Sartre). Game studies.

• University of Strasbourg (FR): History of Modern & Contemporary Philosophy (16th-21st; Descartes; Spinoza; Diderot; Hume; Kant & Neokantism; Nietzsche); History of Metaphysics (God & Being; Monism & Dualism); Phenomenology (Husserl; Fink; Merleau-Ponty); Philosophy of Knowledge.

Participation, talks & collaborations in the arts (creative process, cultural content, narrative content).