Philosophy Department Faculty
Jean-Luc Solère
Associate Professor
Jean-Luc Solère
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall North Room 219
Telephone: 617-552-4670
Email: solere@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Poitiers
- B.A., M.A., Sorbonne, Paris
Courses
Undergraduate:
History of Medieval Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
Graduate:
Medieval Theories of Mind and Cognition
Medieval Ontology
Early Modern Metaphysics
Pleasure and Ethics in 17th-18th Century
Research Interests
- 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
Office Hours
Tuesday 4-7
Department
biography
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. He is currently serving as book review editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, maintains the web site Medieval Philosophy Digital Resources, and supervises the Mapping Spinoza's Ethics project.
recent publications
- “Duns Scotus versus Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Causality”, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 7, 2019. pp. 147-185.
- “Thomas of Sutton on Intellectual Habitus,” in: N. Faucher and M. Roques (eds.), The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, Springer, 2018, pp. 205-227.
- “Liberté et volonté chez Bayle et Malebranche,” in E. Muceni and M.-C. Pitassi (eds.), Le Malebranchisme à l’épreuve de ses Amis et de ses Ennemis, Paris, H. Champion, 2018, pp. 97-128.
- “James of Viterbo's Innatist Theory of Cognition”, in: A. Côté and M. Pickavé (eds.), A Companion to James of Viterbo, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp. 168-217.
- “Intellect and Intellectual Cognition According to James of Viterbo”, in: A. Côté and M. Pickavé (eds.), A Companion to James of Viterbo, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp. 218-248.
- “Bayle”, in: S. Golob and J. Timmermann (eds.), The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 257-267.
- “Bayle and Panpsychism”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99-1 (2017), pp. 64-101.
- “The Coherence of Bayle’s Theory of Toleration”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 54-1 (2016), pp. 21-46. (2016 JHP Best Paper Prize; Top Ten 2016 Philosophy Papers of the Philosopher’s Annual)
- Leibniz et Bayle: Confrontation et Dialogue. Chr. Leduc, P. Rateau and J.-L. Solère (eds.), Hanover, Steiner (Studia Leibnitiana, Sonderhefte 43), 2015, 452 p.
- “Sine qua non causality and the context of Durand’s early theory of cognition”, in: A. Speer, F. Retucci, Th. Jeschke and G. Guldentops, Durand of Saint-Pourçain’s and his Sentences commentary, Leuven, Peeters, 2014, pp. 185-227.
- “Durand of Saint-Pourçain's cognition theory: its fundamental principles”, in: R. Friedman and JM Counet, eds., Medieval Perspectives on Aristotle's De Anima, Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters-Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, 2013, pp. 185-248.