Philosophy Department Faculty

Jean-Luc Sol猫re

Professor

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Jean-Luc Sol猫re

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North 219

Telephone: 617-552-4670

Email: jeanluc.solere@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Sorbonne, Paris
  • M.A., Sorbonne, Paris
  • Ph.D., Poitiers

Courses

Undergraduate/Graduate:

History of Medieval Philosophy

History of Modern Philosophy

Graduate:

Medieval Theories of Mind and Cognition

Medieval Ontology

Time: Consciousness and Being

Early Modern Metaphysics

Pleasure and Ethics in 17th-18th Century

Research Interests

Medieval and Early Modern Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
Medieval and Early Modern Cognition Theories
Scholasticism and its Influence on 17th Century Thought
Pierre Bayle
The Role of Pleasure in Ethics

Office Hours

T/TH聽 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

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Department

Philosophy

Profile

A member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Professor Sol猫re has taught at the universities of Lille, Brussels and Louvain (Belgium). He came to Boston College as a visiting professor in 2005.聽 He maintains the web site聽, and supervises the聽听辫谤辞箩别肠迟.

recent publications

淭homas de Bailly and the succession of forms�, Methodos 25, 2025, 1-27.

淒escartes on God and Duration, Revisited� (with N. Westberg), Philosophica, International Journal for the History of Philosophy, 32/2, 2024, 91-130.

淏ayle and the Ghosts of Mani and Zoroaster�, in Marta Garcia Alonso and John Christian Laursen (eds.), The Importance of Non-Christian Religions in the Philosophy of Pierre Bayle, Cham, Springer, 2024, 151-187.

淒urand of Saint-Pour莽ain Refutation of Concurrentism�, Religions 15/5 (2024): 1-22.

淎ctivisme Radical et Attention Continuelle: Une Tentative de D茅fense de Pierre de Jean Olivi.� Recherches de Th茅ologie et Philosophie M茅di茅vales 91/1 (2024): 35-62.

淏ayle, les notions communes, et les silences de la raison.� In L橢sprit Critique dans l橝ntiquit茅. La Naissance de la Th茅ologie comme Science, ed. by O. Boulnois, P. Hoffmann, C. Lafleur and J.-M. Narbonne. Paris: 2024, 467-500.

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