Professional Career

A member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Professor Solère has taught at the universities of Lille, Brussels and Louvain (Belgium). He came to Boston College as a visiting professor in 2005.

Fields of Interest

• Metaphysics and natural philosophy, with a special attention to the problem of the intensification of forms, and the concept of time
• The notion of representation in ontology and epistemology
• The status of pleasure in ethics
• Modern scholastic and its influence on 17th C. thought
• Pierre Bayle

Current Teaching

• History of Medieval Philosophy (undergraduate), History of Modern Philosophy (undergraduate)
• Advanced Topics in Medieval Philosophy (graduate): Theories of Knowledge, Medieval Metaphysics, ...
• Advanced Topics in Modern Philosophy (graduate): Spinoza;
  Pleasure and Ethics in 17th-18th C., ...
• The Problem of Time (grad/undergrad)

Recent Publications

• “Les variations qualitatives dans les théories post-thomistes”, Revue Thomiste, 2012, 1, pp. 157-204.
  
• “Jacques de Lausanne, censeur et plagiaire de Durand de Saint-Pourçain : édition de la q. 2, d. 17 du l. I, de son Commentaire des Sentences”, in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown, ed. by K. Emery, Jr., R. L. Friedman, and A. Speer,  Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2011.

• “Scepticisme, métaphysique et morale : le cas Bayle”, in H. Bost and A. McKenna, eds., Les « Eclaircisse­ments » de Bayle, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2010.

• "Bayle historien et critique du matérialisme dans le Dictionnaire", Kriterion, vol. L, no 120, Jul.-Dec. 2009.

• “Edition de la question ordinaire n° 18, « de intensione virtutum”, de Godefroid de Fontaines », in J. Meirinhos and O. Weijers, eds., Florilegium Medievale. Etudes offertes à Jacqueline Hamesse, Turnhout, Brepols, 2009.

• "Pierre Bayle", in L. Foisneau (ed.), Dictionary of the 17th C. French Philosophers, London, Thoemmes Press / New York, Continuum, 2008.