• This paper explores the relationship between the ontology of self and normative ethical theorizing in Sartrean Existentialism and in Mahāyāna Buddhism. We begin by pointing out several important similarities between, on the one hand, Jean-Paul Sartre’s thesis of the impersonality of consciousness as developed in The Transcendence of the Ego and Being and Nothingness, and on the other, the central Buddhist doctrine of anātman, or no-self, as interpreted by Mahāyāna authors like Śāntideva and Cand…Read more
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    Éthique et impersonnalité : Ontologies occidentales et bouddhistes du sujet (edited book)
    with Gordon Davis and Sandy Hinzelin
    Editions Hermann. 2025.
    La philosophie comparée suscite un intérêt croissant dans le milieu intellectuel occidental depuis quelques décennies. En raison de ses similitudes et de ses différences avec la pensée occidentale, la tradition philosophique bouddhique offre des possibilités particulièrement riches pour un travail comparatif fructueux. À cet égard, les ontologies bouddhiques du soi, ainsi que leurs implications éthiques, présentent un intérêt particulier. Le présent volume est le premier ouvrage en langue frança…Read more
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    This article addresses the debate between Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on the implications of state secularism for the public use of reason. Recent commentators have traced this debate either to Habermas’s and Taylor’s divergent views about the status of Western modernity or to their disagreement about the relation between the good and the right. I argue that these readings rest on misinterpretations of Habermas’s theory of social evolution and understanding of impartial justification. I s…Read more