Abstract
Paul Dumouchel è un filosofo canadese, che ha lavorato come professore presso la Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences della Ritsumeikan University a Kyoto, in Giappone, dove ha insegnato filosofia politica e filosofia della scienza. Attualmente rientrato in Canada, è affiliato al Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) ed è ricercatore visitatore presso il Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) dell’Università di Montréal. Dumouchel è stato presidente della Canadian Philosophical Association e ha co-fondato il Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CREA) all’École Polytechnique di Parigi. Tra le sue opere principali figurano Emotions (1999), The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (2014) e The Barren Sacrifice (2015). Ha inoltre co-curato, insieme a Reiko Gotoh, Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (2009) e Social Bonds as Freedom (2015); il suo libro più recente, Living with Robots (2017), è stato scritto insieme a Luisa Damiano. Dal 2019 è professore visitatore presso l’Università di Cagliari, nell’ambito del programma Visiting Professor/Scientist, finanziato dalla Legge Regionale 7/2007 della Regione Autonoma della Sardegna. In questa intervista condivide riflessioni sulla sua ricerca, sulle esperienze accademiche e sull’evoluzione del suo pensiero filosofico.
Paul Dumouchel is a Canadian philosopher, who worked as a professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, where he taught political philosophy and the philosophy of science. Now based back in Canada, he is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and is a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) at the University of Montreal. Dumouchel served as President of the Canadian Philosophical Association and co-founded the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CREA) at the École Polytechnique in Paris. His published works include Emotions (1999), The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (2014), and The Barren Sacrifice (2015). He co-edited Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (2009) and Social Bonds as Freedom (2015) with Reiko Gotoh, and his most recent book, Living with Robots (2017), was co-authored with Luisa Damiano. He has been visiting professor at the University of Cagliari since 2019, participating in the Visiting Professor/Scientist program, funded by Regional Law 7/2007 of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. In this interview, he shares insights into his research, academic experiences, and the evolution of his philosophical thought.
Citazione
Lucienne Huby e Francesca Ervas, “Conversation with Paul Dumouchel”, in “APhEx 31”, 2025, pp. 240-263.