Participants
2 April 2024
09:00 – 09:30
Amphi 4
Sébastien Charles
After obtaining a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Université de Nancy 2 (1995) and a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa (2001), Sébastien Charles began his career at the Université de Sherbrooke in 2001, before joining the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in 2014. Alongside his activities as a professor-researcher, he has held various positions in university administration, serving in turn as vice-dean of research (Université de Sherbrooke, 2002-2004), dean of research and creation (UQTR, 2014-2018) and, since 2018, vice-rector of research and development at UQTR. A specialist in modern and contemporary philosophy, he has published and co-edited numerous works on French and English thought from Montaigne to the Enlightenment, such as Hume et la religion (Olms Verlag, 2013), Berkeley Revisited (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015) or Voltaire philosophe (Société Voltaire, 2017), while also focusing on the specific issues of today’s democratic societies and their mutations, notably through the notion of hypermodernity (La philosophie française en questions, Hachette, 2004; Les temps hypermodernes, with Gilles Lipovetsky, Grasset, 2004 and L’hypermoderne expliqué aux enfants, Liber, 2007).