Pascal Engel
Professeur honoraire de philosophie moderne et contemporaine
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« Le Liber Amicorum Pascal Engel » (recueil d’articles en son honneur)
Curriculum Vitae
Professeur honoraire,
Chaire de philosophie moderne et contemporaine,
Université de Genève.
Pascal Engel studied philosophy at Ecole normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm, the Sorbonne and at UC Berkeley. Before coming to Geneva in 2006, where he is director of Epistemè, he has held posts in the Universities of Paris XII, Grenoble, Caen, Paris IV Sorbonne, and has held visiting positions in a number of universities among which Montréal, Hong Kong, Tunis, Athènes, Aarrhus, Canberra, Oslo, Nottingham et Leuven. He has written on the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and on the philosophy of mind. He is currently working on issues in epistemology, especially the epistemology of belief and epistemic norms. He is also interested in theories of truth. Among his books: The Norm of truth (1991), Davidson et la philosophie du langage (1994), Introduction à la philosophie de l’esprit (1994)Philosophie et psychologie (1996), La dispute (1997), Truth (2002), Ramsey , Truth and Success (with Jérôme Dokic, 2002) , A quoi bon la vérité ? (with R. Rorty, 2005), Va savoir! (2007) and as editor Inquiries into Meaning and Truth(1991, with N. Cooper), Précis de philosophie analytique (2000), and Believing and accepting (2000). He has been editor of dialectica from 2006 to 2011.
Pascal Engel, ancien élève de l’ENS rue d’Ulm, a fait un doctorat à l’Université de Paris I sous la direction de Jacques Bouveresse en 1981 et un doctorat d’Etat sous celle de Gilles Granger à Aix en Provence. Avant de devenir professeur ordinaire à Geneve en 2006, il a enseigné aux universités de Paris XII, Grenoble, Caen et Paris-Sorbonne. Il a été professeur invité à Montréal, Hong Kong, Tunis, Athènes, Aarrhus, Canberra, Oslo, Nottingham et Leuven. Il a été membre notamment de Rationalités contemporaines à Paris IV, du CREA et de l’Institut Jean Nicod et dirige actuellement le groupe Epistémè à Genève. Ses travaux ont porté sur la philosophie de la logique et du langage, en particulier sur Davidson, et sur la philosophie de l’esprit et de la connaissance, celle-ci étant au centre de ses intérêts actuels, qui portent sur la vérité, les normes épistémiques et la nature de la croyance. Il est l’auteur notamment deLa norme du vrai (1989), Davidson et la philosophie du langage (1994), Introduction à la philosophie de l’esprit (1994)Philosophie et psychologie (1996), La dispute (1997), Truth (2002), Ramsey , Truth and Success (with Jérôme Dokic, 2002) , A quoi bon la vérité ? (with R. Rorty, 2005), Va savoir! (2007) et comme éditeur Inquiries into Meaning and Truth (1991, with N. Cooper), Précis de philosophie analytique (2000), and Believing and accepting (2000). Il a été éditeur de dialectica de 2006 à 2011.
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Conférences passées - Past talks
2011
- 26-27.01 “A natural history of stupidity” (Communication & cognition, Neuchatel)
- 10.03. “Self knowledge and transparency” , Université de Lyon III
- 15.03 “Rationalité et bêtise”, Archives Piaget, Genève
- 17-19.03 "The epistemology of stupidity", European European Epistemology Network, Lund
- 23-25.03 “Alethic functionalism and the Norm of Truth”, conference Truth, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- 28.03 Leçons d'épreuve pour les candidats pour le poste de philosophie de sciences. Université de Genève
- 25.04.- 02.05 Lectures “Truth context and relativism” Tsing Hua University, Beijing
- 05
Une théorie subversive de la croyance
, colloqueRationalité et laïcité
de l'Union Rationaliste. - 24.05 Epistémè lecture, Adam Morton: pluralism about knowledge. Geneva
- 25.05 Workshop on Keith Lehrer , Geneva
- 26.05
Perception and evidence
, workshop A. Raftopoulos, Grenoble - 20-23.06
Deflationism and the normativity of truth
, conferenceTruth
, IHPST, Paris. - 27-29 06 “comments”, conference The Pragmatic Load in Knowledge, Lally, CH.
- 15-19.08 “Normative detachement”, GAP Muenchen
- 01-04.09 “Wise and fools” , ECAP Milano
- 14.09
Logical Reasons
, Deutscher Philosophische Kongress, München - 24.09
peut-il y avoir plusieurs sortes de vérités?
, colloqueLa vérité
, MEN, Langres. - 11
Truth and relativism
, four lectures, 4 lectures Tsing Hua University, Beijing. - 12 colloque prodoc perception and evidence
2010
- june Sociedade Brasileira de Filosofia Analítica
- sept 14-17 colloque de l 'Institut International de philosophie, Paris
- sept 24 thesis viva, Paris
- oct 1-2 "What's wrong with Epistemic Expressivism", Stockholm
- oct 7-8 "Why epistemic norms are not instrumental", conference on "Epistemic Norms", Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
- oct 22-23 "Belief and acceptance again", conference on Keith Lehrer, Graz
- oct 27-28 conference on Evidence, Episteme, Geneva
- oct 30-31 colloque candoc
- nov 1-8 lectures Taiwan, TBA
- nov 19 Belief, feeling, and epistemic emotions, workshop, Geneva
- nov 20 Thesis viva (?), Paris
- dec 8 ? "Laughing matters" , Nottingham ?
- dec 17-19 "assent, acceptance and scepticism", Cogito conference, Bologna
2009
- jan 22-23 "The philosophy of the philosophy of philosophy", Tilburg
- fev 27 conference on Norms, Aarhus
- march 6 lecture at Edinburgh
- april 22-25 "Credenza, verita e conoscenza", Tre lezioni, Universita di Venezia
- may 14-15 "Truth realized", conference "Truth", University of Connecticut Storrs
- june 1-6 Bled conference on Virtue Epistemology
- june, second weel, conference on the Norms of Belief, Oslo
- june talk at the Universita de Catania, TBA
- july 6 meeting Epistemology in Europe Leuven
- sept 2 « Knowledge, bullshit and other curiosities » SOPHA , Geneve
- sept 4 « Norms , rationality and values » , SOPHA Geneve
- oct 9-10 workshop Epistemology and normativity, Stirling
2008
- jan 24 "l'Unité de l'Identité et la Pluralité des Individuations", colloque de l'Institut de France, Paris
- jan 30 "The possibility of social epistemology", the University of Nottingham
- fev 21 "Faut-il avoir peur du relativisme", Lausanne
- mar 7 "Y a-t-il plusieurs sortes de vérités?", Institut Catholique, Paris
- mar 10"Faut-il avoir peur du scepticisme?", conférence Clio, Ecole des Mines, Paris
- mar 14 "Scepticisme cartésien et scepticisme humien", colloque sur Hume, Université de Grenoble
- mar 18 "Oughty thoughts", Central European University, Budapest
- mar 20-30 talks in Tokyo and Kyoto
- avr 8, Epistemology in Europe conference, Edinburgh
- avr 10-12, conférences Hughes Leblanc, UQUAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)
- apr 21-24 John Greco's Episteme lectures at the University of Geneva
- apr 25-26 conference Epistemic Agency, University of Geneva
- may 14 Journée Littérature et vérité, Genève
- may 17-18 Balzan Symposium, Lugano: Truth
- jun 12 "Philosophical Thought Experiments: In or Out of the Armchair", conference on Thought Experiments, Grenoble
- jun 17-18 "Inferential Internalism and the Norm of Belief", Conference on Inferential Internalism, Fribourg
- jun 23-25 "Belief Truth and Knowledge", I Coloquio Peruano de Filosofía Analática, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
- aug 24 "Formal methods in philosophy: shooting right without collateral damage", workshop formal methods in philosophy,European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 6), Jagelonian University Krakow
- sep 5-7 Pro*Doc colloquium, Ovronnaz
- sep 10-12 "Are there epistemic agents?", conference Architettura della conoscenza teorica e pratica, Universita Roma Tre
- sept 25-27 "Knowledge and Agency", conference Ontology, mind and language Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SIFA 2008), Bergamo
- oct 3-5 "On the very idea of epistemic agency", conference on the The place of epistemic agents, autonomy and dependence in epistemology in Madrid (Carlos III et Autonoma)
- nov 12-14 "Reasons for belief and epistemic responsibility", International Workshop on "Belief, Responsibility and Action", València
2007
- jan 16 La justification pragmatique de l'induction de Reichenbach revisitée, Collège de France, séminaire de Jacques Bouveresse
- mar 16 "Knowing, asserting and Asking" Colloque Connaissance et question, Université de Nancy II
- apr 7-9 "Pragmatic encroachment", University of Notthingham, workshop on Michael Devitt, "What we know and what we don't know about our language"
- apr 25-27 "Philosophy and psychology", Scuola Estiva, Universita di Firenze
- apr 22-24 "Thought experiments: in or out of the armchair ?", conference "Thought Experiments", Athens
- may 25-26 "Davidson on epistemic norms", Knowledge, Language, Interpretation: on the Philosophy of Davidson, Universitaddi Genoa
- jun 2 "A quoi ressemblerait le carré logique épistémique ?", The Square of Opposition, International Congress, Montreux.
- sep 5 "Can normative explanations be causal ?", Colloque Mental Causation, Université de Lausanne
- sept 29 "Belief and Normativity", Workshop Prospect for Epistemology in Europe, University of Geneva
- oct 31 "Epistemologie sociale et vérité", Université de Montréal
- nov 7 "Y a-t-il plusieurs sortes de vérités ?", Institut Catholique, Paris
- nov 9émission Les Vendredis de la Philosophie, radio France Culture (à propos de Va Savoir!)
- nov 13 "Are Epistemic Values Social ?", Oxford, Maison française
- nov 16 "L'autorisation épistémique: droits sans devoirsnbsp;?", séminaire APIC, Institut Jean Nicod
- nov 30 colloque "Histoire des savoirs", CNRS, Paris
- dec 13 journée sur Va Savoir!, Genève
- dec 14 atelier "Norms and Contents", Genève