A Former student of the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud, and agrégé in philosophy, Frédéric Brahami is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. His principal publications include: Le scepticisme de Montaigne; Le travail du scepticisme. Montaigne, Bayle, Hume; Introduction au Traité de la nature humaine de David Hume; and La raison du peuple. Le savoir de la démocratie dans la pensée française du premier XIXe.. Read More

Omri Boehm (Ph.D. Yale, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His books include The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience (Continuum, 2007) and, more recently, Kant’s Critique of Spinoza (OUP, 2014). He is currently writing a book on Descartes.   Lecture: Thinking, Obedience, Revolution Kant’s 1784 motto of Enlightenment is well known. He does not merely say, Think for yourself!; but,.. Read More

Paul Bloomfield University of Connecticut, Storrs Paul Bloomfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut (Storrs), who specializes in moral philosophy and metaphysics. He is editor of Morality and Self-Interest (OUP, 2008), and author of Moral Reality (OUP, 2001) and The Virtues of Happiness (OUP, 2014).   Lecture: Morality Is Necessary for Happiness An argument for the eponymous conclusion is given through a series of hypothetical syllogisms, the.. Read More

Étienne Bimbenet is currently Assistant Professor at the Université Lyon III, and a researcher at the Husserl Archives in Paris. He is the author of Nature et humanité. Le problème anthropologique dans l’œuvre de Merleau-Ponty; Après Merleau-Ponty. Etudes sur la fécondité d’une pensée; and L’Animal que je ne suis plus.   Lecture: Say “Hello” and Say “Thank you”: What Language Does to Humans It is impossible, 150 years after Darwin,.. Read More

Katalin Balog came to the US in 1989 from her native Budapest and has been living in New York most of the time since then. A professor at Rutgers University—Newark, she is most interested in the philosophical relationship between mind and body, and the nature of the self and free will.   Lecture: Subjectivity in Kierkegaard and Buddhism A purely scientific account of humans – though very far from reality.. Read More