Positions held

2023-2024

visiting researcher(s), Fundamental ethics

Biography

After studying philosophy and sociology in Lausanne and Paris, I began a doctorate in 2021 at the University of Lausanne under the supervision of Michael Esfeld as part of the project funded by the Swiss National Fund (SNF), “Parsimonious Ontology and the Relationship Between Science and Persons.”

In my doctoral thesis, I am trying to determine the relationship (if any) between moral ontology and the ontology of the natural world. The question that particularly concerns me is whether moral ontology poses a problem for what has been called, since Sellars, the scientific image of the world. In other words, should this image be revised in light of moral ontology? And if so, how? Or conversely, does moral ontology reinforce the scientific image of the world? The first step of my research is therefore to evaluate what the correct moral ontology is. In the first chapters of my thesis, I argue that it involves a robust non-naturalism concerning normative reasons. With this moral ontology in hand, I am then able to discuss its impact on the scientific image of the world. Unsurprisingly, the form of robust non-naturalism I defend poses a problem for the scientific image of the world. Should it then be abandoned? Or, on the contrary, should it be reconciled with the moral ontology I defend? Given that I remain committed to a form of scientific realism, it is the second option that I support. The precise modalities of this reconciliation remain to be determined.

“From January 15 to May 12, 2024, I will undertake a student research stay at the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) under the supervision of Christine Tappolet.