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- Florian Marion
Florian Marion
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Academic Curriculum Vitae available here
I am a philosopher and an historian of ancient philosophy.
My research interests are in theoretical philosophy and ancient philosophy, mainly on metaphysics and philosophy of logic.
I hold a PhD in philosophy from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). I devoted my doctoral dissertation to an examination of the function of modalities into Aristotle's kinetics, notably in the light of the ancient commentators and of the contemporary works on modalities.
Since 2017, I am an assistant (teaching and research fellow) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Université catholique de Louvain.
- Diplômes
Année Label Institution 2012 BA University of Rennes II 2013 BA University of Rennes II 2013 BA University of Rennes I 2014 MA University of Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure & Ecole Polytechnique 2015 MPhil Université Paris 4 - Sorbonne 2023 Doctorat en philosophie Université catholique de Louvain
Teaching experience:
2017-Present: Teaching Fellow, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve).
2018-2023 :
Tutorial, Philosophy of Technology (undergraduate class, Faculty of Law)
Tutorial, Theoretical Philosophy: Truth and Belief (undergraduate class, School of Philosophy)
2017-2018:
Tutorial, Philosophy of Technology (undergraduate class, Faculty of Law)
Tutorial, Epistemology and Philosophy of Language (undergraduate class, School of Philosophy)
Tutorial, Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics (undergraduate class, School of Philosophy)
2016-2017 Philosophy Teacher in Secondary Education, in Lycée Beaumont, (Redon).
2014 Examiner for Philosophy and French Literature mock exams in Parisian private secondary school “L’Ecole”
I am a philosopher and an historian of philosophy. My research interests are in theoretical philosophy and ancient philosophy, mainly on metaphysics and philosophy of logic. I hold a PhD in philosophy from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). I devoted my doctoral dissertation to an examination of the function of modalities into Aristotle's kinetics, notably in the light of the ancient commentators and of the contemporary works on modalities. Since 2017, I am a doctor-assistant (teaching and research post-doctoral fellow) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Université catholique de Louvain.
Fields of expertise: Platonism, Aristotelian Philosophy, Socratic Philosophy, Hellenistic Philosophy, Neoplatonism, Metaphysics of Modality, Meta-ontology
Fields of competence: Ancient History & Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Non-Classical Logics, Non-Mediterranean Philosophy, Philosophy of Physics, etc.
Published papers:
“The Late-Learners of the School of Names. Sph. 251a8-c6: ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος (the good man) and 白馬 (white horse)”, in Brisson, L., Perry, R., Halper, E. (eds.), Plato’s Sophist. Selected Papers of the Thirteenth Symposium Platonicum, Academia Verlag, Baden-Baden, pp.?, forthcoming
“Existence Is Not Relativistically Invariant—Part 1: Meta-ontology”, in Acta Analytica, 39-4, 2024, pp.? (online pre-publication at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-024-00586-3)
“Seyn, ἕν, 道: brevis tractatus meta-ontologicus de elephantis et testudinibus”, in Revue philosophique de Louvain, 119-1, february 2022, pp. 1-51.
“Review of R. Polansky, W. Wians (eds.), Reading Aristotle. Argument and Exposition, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2017”, in Revue philosophique de Louvain, 117-1, february 2019, pp. 166-169.
“Le solipsisme dans le Tractatus logico-philosophicus: du solipsisme au Mystique”, in Al-Mukhatabat, vol. 9, january 2014, University of Kairouan, pp. 264-283.
Works in Progress:
“Carnéade, in Cicéron, De fato, XIV, 31-33: le platonisme dé-voilé?” (draft available upon request)
“The ἐξαίφνης in Platonic Tradition: From Kinematics to Dynamics” (draft available here)
“Looking at the Sun with Aristotle’s and Plato’s Eyes: Physics of Heat vs Metaphysics of Light”
“Separation and Theoretical Sciences: A Reading in the Light of Met. I.1 1052b17” (draft available upon request)
“Antipodean Speusippus. The Temptation of ‘Radical Plurallism’ in the Old Academy” (draft available upon request)
“Welcome to the Modalist Jungle. Potentiality-based Modality: Semantics and Metaphysics” (draft available upon request)
“A Note on Wyman’s Theory of Meaninglessness” (draft available upon request)
“Change and Location. A Case-Study against Functionality” (draft available upon request)
Talks:
“Proclus’ Neoplatonist Logic: Negations and The Principle of Non-Contradiction”, 21st Annual ISNS (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) Conference, Panel: Plato and Aristotle in (non-)contradiction? The Reception and Use of the PNC in the Neoplatonic School, Trinity College Dublin, (Dublin), 20th June 2024
Comments on Anna Marmodoro’s “No Thing Can Be Another. What Then?”, Société Philosophique de Louvain, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 20th February 2024
Comments on Fabien Muller’s “’We Should Escape From Here’ (Plat. Tht. 176a-b) Metaphysical Acosmism as a Paradigm for Greco-Indian Comparative Philosophy”, Mercier Prize Ceremony for the Best Essay in Metaphysics jointly awarded by KU Leuven and UCLouvain (F. Muller, Kenologische Versuche. Der Johannesprolog zwischen Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu und Meister Eckhart, Aschendorff Verlag, 2022), Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 13th February 2024
(Cancelled) “The Axiom of Choice: Mathematics or Theology?”, Metaphysics and Mathematics Seminar, Bard College, (Annandale-on-Hudson). Invited, 2023
“Sophist, 251a8-c6: ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος (the good man) and 白馬 (white horse)”, 13th Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Sophist, University of Georgia, (Athens), 22th July 2022
“The Megaric (Re)Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Eubulides’ Paradoxes and Diodorus’ Logic”, Socratica V, International Society for Socratic Studies, Rice University Houston, (Houston), 12th July 2022
“The Temptation of ‘Radical Plurallism’ in the Old Academy: Plato and Speusippus”, IV International Conference in Greek Philosophy, Sociedad Ibérica de Filosofia Griega, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, (Madrid), 26th April 2022
with Alexandre Guay (co-author, speaker): “An Aristotelian Puzzle about Time”, Séminaire Work in Progress, CEFISES, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 5th May 2021
with Alexandre Guay (co-author, speaker): “If it is not changing, there is no time?”, Brown Bag Seminar, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Catholic University of Leuven, (Leuven), 19th March 2021
“Une lecture de Métaphysique, Θ.3: dispositionnalisme vs catégoricalisme”, Doctoral Seminar of the School of Philosophy (University of Lille, Catholic University of Louvain, Free University of Brussels, Saint-Louis University, University of Liège & University of Namur), University of Lille, (Lille), 3rd March 2020
Comments on Martha Beulens’s “Philosophie naturelle, destin et connaissance du futur dans l’oeuvre d’Albert le Grand”, Doctoral Seminar of the School of Philosophy (University of Lille, Catholic University of Louvain, Free University of Brussels, Saint-Louis University, University of Liège & University of Namur), Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 23rd January 2020
“1676: Leibniz, lecteur de la seconde partie du Parménide”, 12th Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Parmenides, (Paris), 18th July 2019
“Réflexions autour de la première physique ‘quantique’ de Leibniz (1670-1672)”, Congrès international triennal 2018 de la SoPhA (Société de Philosophie Analytique). Le continu et le discret, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 5th July 2018
“Damascius’ Theodicy: Psychic Input of Disorder and Evil into the World”, 16th Annual ISNS (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) Conference, Loyola Marymount University, (Los Angeles), 14th June 2018
“Diodorus Kronus on Motion against Aristotle’s Kinematics”, First Dublin Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy. Physis and Psychê in Ancient Philosophy: Causes, Generation, and Change, University College Dublin/Trinity College Dublin, (Dublin), 31st March 2017
“Quelques remarques sur la critique platonicienne des Mégariques (Sophiste, 245e-249d)”, Student Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Lecture du Sophiste, Sorbonne University, (Paris), 19th March 2015
Public Presentations:
“Parménide et Platon, un double parricide ? Variation sur la cinquième hypothèse du Parménide”, Journée d’étude philosophique sur Platon, Institution Jeanne d’Arc, (Étampes), 17th November 2021
“’Paradoxal Aristote’. Paradoxe de Grelling, auto-référence, vérité et paraconsistance”, Journée d’étude philosophique sur Aristote, Institution Jeanne d’Arc, (Étampes), 20th November 2019
with Pierre-François Duglué: “Les mathématiques dans le monde: que font les démons de Platon?”, Atelier de philosophie des sciences, University of Rennes 1, (Rennes), 30th March 2017
Interviews:
2022 Interview on the Philosophical Theories of Happiness and Well-Being, in Louis Escouflaire’s Podcast Louvain-la-Neuve, Episode 3 “sans m’arrêter”, 31:35-43:12.
(https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/louvain-la-neuve.html, https://open.spotify.com/episode/187HrgS08uYUzEvlUk1cAr, https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/3711807?deferredFl=1)
2019 “Portrait d’un chercheur: Florian Marion”, Philo. Courrier des Ancient-ne-s de l’Institut supérieur de philosophie et de l’École de philosophie (Université catholique de Louvain), n°24 (décembre 2019), p. 2-3 (https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/les-alumni.html)
Organisational activities:
2023-2024:
Research Seminar, creation and co-organization of the monthly research seminar Metametaphysics and the Sciences with Kévin Chalas, CEFISES, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve). Invited speakers: Stephen Barker (Nottingham University), Pierre Saint-Germier (CNRS-Sorbonne University), Markus Schrenk (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf), Tuomas Tahko (Bristol University), Emiliano Trizio (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Barbara Vetter (Freie Universität Berlin).
Roundtable “Metametaphysics and the History of Philosophy” with Tuomas Tahko (Bristol University), Alexandre Guay (UCLouvain, CEFISES) and Jacob Schmutz (UCLouvain, De Wulf-Mansion Centre), co-organized with Kévin Chalas, CEFISES-Centre De Wulf-Mansion, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), 21st March 2024
2022:
Successful Lobbying Campaign to the publishing house The White Horse Press in order to reissue Richard Routley/Sylvan’s latest book Transcendental Metaphysics. From Radical to Deep Plurallism: https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2022/08/02/transcendental-metaphysics/
2018-2020:
Reading Seminar, creation and co-organization of the monthly reading group Metaphilosophia (devoted to the reading of Th. Williamson’s The Philosophy of Philosophy) with Peter Verdée, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve).
2018-2019:
Seminar, creation and organization of the monthly seminar Séminaire sur la théodicée de Proclus: lecture du De malorum subsistentia, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve). Facebook Link.
Seminar, creation and co-organization of the biweekly seminar Mind in Louvain (Philosophy of Mind) with François Kammerer and Gwenaël Laurent, Catholic University of Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve). Facebook Link.
2015:
Student Workshop, creation and organization of the monthly student workshop Lecture du Sophiste (Ancient Philosophy), Sorbonne University, (Paris).
Awards:
2018 ISNS (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) Travel Award for the 16th Annual ISNS Conference at the Loyola Marymount University, (Los Angeles).
Marion, Florian. Existence Is Not Relativistically Invariant—Part 1: Meta-ontology. In: Acta Analytica, Vol. 39, no.?, p. ? (2024). doi:10.1007/s12136-024-00586-3.
Marion, Florian. Seyn, ἕν, 道: Brevis tractatus meta-ontologicus de elephantis et testudinibus. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain, Vol. 119, no.1, p. 1-51 (2022). doi:10.2143/RPL.119.1.3290591.
Marion, Florian. Compte-rendu de William Wians & Ron Polansky (eds.), Reading Aristotle. Argument and Exposition (Brill, 2017). In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain, Vol. 117, no.1, p. 166-169 (2019). doi:10.2143/RPL.117.1.3287050.
Marion, Florian. Sophist, 251a8-c6: ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος (the good man) and 白馬 (white horse). 13th Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Sophist (University of Georgia, Athens, du 18/07/2022 au 22/07/2022).
Marion, Florian. The Megaric (Re)Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Eubulides’ Paradoxes and Diodorus’ Logic. Socratica V (International Society for Socratic Studies Triennal Conference) (Rice University, Houston, du 11/07/2022 au 14/07/2022).
Marion, Florian. The Temptation of ‘Radical Plurallism’ in the Old Academy: Plato and Speusippus. IV International Conference in Greek Philosophy (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, du 25/04/2022 au 27/04/2022).
Marion, Florian. Parménide et Platon, un double parricide ? Variation sur la cinquième hypothèse du Parménide. Journée d’étude philosophique sur Platon (Institution Jeanne d'Arc, Étampes, 17/11/2021).
Marion, Florian. Une lecture de Métaphysique, Θ.3 : dispositionnalisme vs. catégoricalisme. Séminaire doctoral de l’Ecole de Philosophie (Université de Lille, UCLouvain, ULB, UNamur, Université Saint-Louis, Uliège) (Université de Lille, (Lille), 3/03/2020).
Marion, Florian. 1676: Leibniz, lecteur de la seconde partie du Parménide. 12th Symposium Platonicum. Plato’s Parmenides (Paris, du 15/07/2019 au 19/07/2019).
Marion, Florian. ‘Paradoxal Aristote’. Paradoxe de Grelling, auto-référence, vérité et paraconsistance. Journée d’étude philosophique sur Aristote (Institution Jeanne d’Arc, (Étampes), 20/11/2019).
Marion, Florian. Damascius’ Theodicy: Psychic Input of Disorder and Evil into the World. 16th Annual ISNS (International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) Conference (Loyola Marymount University, (Los Angeles), du 12/06/2018 au 16/06/2018).
Marion, Florian. Réflexions autour de la première physique ‘quantique’ de Leibniz (1670-1672). Congrès international triennal 2018 de la SoPhA (Société de Philosophie Analytique). Le continu et le discret (Université catholique de Louvain, (Louvain-la-Neuve), du 2/07/2018 au 6/07/2018).
Marion, Florian. Diodorus Kronus on Motion against Aristotle’s Kinematics. First Dublin Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy. Physis and Psychê in Ancient Philosophy: Causes, Generation, and Change (University College Dublin/Trinity College Dublin, (Dublin), du 31/03/2017 au 01/04/2017).
Marion, Florian ; Duglué, Pierre-François. Les mathématiques dans le monde : que font les démons de Platon ?. Atelier de philosophie des sciences (Université de Rennes I, (Rennes), 31/03/2017).
Marion, Florian. Modalité et changement : δὐναμις et cinétique aristotélicienne, prom. : Destrée, Pierre, 11/03/2023.
Marion, Florian. The ἐξαίφνης in the Platonic Tradition: From Kinematics to Dynamics, 2018. 82 p.