I am professor at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (from 2010), senior member of Institut Universitaire de France (2021-26), and member of HIPHIMO (Centre d'histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne). My research focuses on the concepts of causality, law of nature, natural kinds, reduction, constitution and disposition. I am the author of Metaphysics of Causation (Cambridge University Press, series Elements in Metaphysics, 2025), The Material Mind. Reduction and Emergence (BSPS Open, Calgary University Press, 2025; French edition: L'esprit matériel. Réduction et émergence, Ithaque, 2016, 2d edition Eliott, 2023), Causation and …
I am professor at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (from 2010), senior member of Institut Universitaire de France (2021-26), and member of HIPHIMO (Centre d'histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne). My research focuses on the concepts of causality, law of nature, natural kinds, reduction, constitution and disposition. I am the author of Metaphysics of Causation (Cambridge University Press, series Elements in Metaphysics, 2025), The Material Mind. Reduction and Emergence (BSPS Open, Calgary University Press, 2025; French edition: L'esprit matériel. Réduction et émergence, Ithaque, 2016, 2d edition Eliott, 2023), Causation and Laws of Nature (Routledge, 2006; French edition: Causalité et lois de la nature, Vrin, 1999), co-author (with Anouk Barberousse and Pascal Ludwig) of La philosophie des sciences au XXe siècle (Flammarion, 2000), co-editor (with B. Gnassounou) of Causes, Powers, Dispositions en philosophie. Le retour des vertus dormitives (Presses Universitaires de France, 2005), Les dispositions en philosophie et en sciences (CNRS Editions, 2006), Dispositions and Causal Powers (Ashgate, 2007) and editor of the following special issues: Causality, Philosophie (2006), New Perspectives on Reduction and Emergence in Physics, Biology, and Psychology, Synthese (2006), Cognition and Neurophysiology: Mechanism, Reduction, and Pluralism, Philosophical Psychology (2009), New Trends in the Metaphysics of Science, Synthese (2020), Métaphysique des sciences, Revue de métaphysique et de morale (2025).
