global (health) justice

With the Independent Resource Group for Global Health Justice (IRG-GHJ), we are trying to make of the Covid 19 pandemic a starting point for thinking further about global health inequalities and deprivations across countries. Since I joined the group (est. by Sridhar Venkatapuram from KCL), we organized among others a conference on Recalibrating Global Justice philosophy (14 October 2022). Where among other things, we spoke about racism in global health.
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political psychology

Out of sheer impatience, I do publish from time to time papers on current political events, not only covid, anything really. And I become increasingly convinced that there is something to be said on the specific area of reflection that I can only call political psychology. Given this interest 2019, I organize, with psychologists Vincent Berthet & Romain Lebreuilly, and with the legal scholar Frédéric Géa, a seminar on political psychology: Psychologie politique : entre philosophie et passions (P4).
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fragile democracies

This “field” was hard to name, but there is something common here. Poland, Eastern Europe with its legal and economical history, Israel of course, all these countries are doing something weird, for various reasons. Russian war against Ukraine of course amplified this interest.
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life and death issues (so called “bioethics”)

The issues of life, death, biomedical research, I love it. But I am highly frustrated at the same time by epistemological issues related to the discipline called “bioethics”. I am going to publish something more on that, but there is this paper in French that you might enjoy (deepL-it!), where I challenge the very idea of bioethics. Then I of course publish on less “meta” questions related to this area.
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metaethics and legal theory

Most of you never heard me speaking about metaethics, yet yes, I do consider myself as fundamentally a metaethicist from British philosophical tradition, who naturally got interested by legal theory. Anyway, today I still hope to go back to Harold A. Prichard at some point, and more generally to intuitionism as it is incredibly helpful to think about immediacy, reality, language, etc.
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ecology & environment

This part of my work is tricky. I teach a lot in the area (Master Densys, sometimes in philosophy department too), but I think that it’s a bit like with philosophy of animals: I do not think I have something to say about it as such. So today I increasingly tend to think about these issues through historical and political lenses, reading people like Andreas Malm, but also trying to make clear the relation of climate politics to global health issues.
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art & politics (jazz!)

All art is propaganda”, as George Orwell said. Since I am interested in language, I am also interested in the ways that art is doing things, contributing to our living paradigms, to our ideologies. And I have a soft spot for jazz, which seems to be purely formal, but it still means things.
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