This CV in English - Michel Puech

Michel PUECH
Ce CV en français
update January 7, 2017
email [email protected]
personal website http://michel.puech.free.fr
born in 1960
nationality French
short bio
Michel Puech's academic background is in classical European philosophy.
He gradually specialized his research field towards a critical analysis of modernity.
He has published numerous books and articles on the philosophy of technology, the concept of
the "sustainable", and more broadly on new value systems.
His current work focuses on the notion of wisdom.
His recent books are Homo Sapiens Technologicus (Le Pommier, 2008, new edn 2016),
Développement durable : un avenir à faire soi-même
[Sustainability: a Do-It-Yourself Future, (Le Pommier, 2010),
The Ethics of Ordinary Technology, New York: Routledge, 2016.
2017 positions
Associate Professor (Maître de conférences), Philosophy, Paris-Sorbonne University
Editorial Review Board member, International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), IGI Global
Associate researcher, "Risk and organization" team, ParisTech Arts et Métiers
(GREGOR/ENSAM/ENS Rennes)
Lecturer Mines ParisTech (engineering school), ISIGE (Environmental Engineering and
Management)
1/11
2016-2017 activities
Paris-Sorbonne teaching
B.A. Philosophy
Ethics : Violence
General Philosophy: Human nature
M.A. Ethics and Political
Philosophy
Environmental ethics
Techno-ethics
M.A. Digital Publishing
("Conseil éditorial")
Digital media philosophy and ethics
Publications and
interventions
2016-2017
Texts, audio, and video are online here: http://michel.puech.free.fr
The Ethics of Ordinary Technology, New York: Routedge –
Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society, 238 p.
April 2016
“Describing and valuing technological mediation: From post- accepted
phenomenological bridgeheads to technoethical outposts”, in
Postphenomenological methodologies – new ways in mediating
techno-human relationships, Rowman Littlefield Press /
Lexington Books, 2016
"Wisdom in the technosphere", in French Philosophy of
Technology, B. Bensaude-Vincent, X. Guchet (ed.), Springer
(2016)
Workshop "Philosophie | Entreprise", Témoignages
 Sorbonne
et réflexions d’acteurs – workshop day with students and
accepted
Jan. 19, 2016
business people, co-organized with Adélaïde de Lastic and
Paris-Sorbonne University (Continuing Education)
Public course "Grands courants de l'éthique contemporaine"
Feb.-May 2016
[The main trends in contemporary ethics], Université Inter-Âges
de Paris-Sorbonne
2/11
Mines-ParisTech (engineering school), workshop "Ethics and
the firm", on corporate responsibility and sustainability
about my book The ethics of ordinary technology,
 Interview
"Actu Philosophia" Web site, http://www.actu-
June 16, 2016
Sept. 5, 2016
philosophia.com/spip.php?article690
conferences and workshops on responsibility (its
 On-site
forms and values) for ANSM (French Medicine and Healthcare
Sept.-Oct. 2016
Regulatory Agency)
Lecture on "land ethics" (its versions and meanings), MinesParisTech, Geosciences
Oct. 4, 2016
Lecture "E-accompagnement de la santé et de la maladie
Oct. 7, 2016
 chronique" [E-accompanying health and chronic condition],
with Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Paris
Lecture "Le soin de soi dans l'infosphère et la technosphère
Oct. 13, 2016
contemporaines. Les bases d'une éthique de la santé au temps
du numérique" [Self-care in the infosphere and technosphere:
founding health ethics in digital times], Université ParisDauphine, Executive MBA Santé

Cahors (Lot, France), public library, four workshops with
teenagers about peaceful coexistence and a public lecture
about progress.
workshops for ANSM (French Medicine and
 Philosophical
Healthcare Regulatory Agency), on several topics related to
Nov. 18-19,
2016
January-March
2017
the Agency's mission.
technophile. Une nouvelle entreprise totalitaire ?"
 "L’utopie
[Technological utopianism, new totalitarianism?] , L'Atlas des
janvier 2017
utopies, Le Monde, Hors série, 2017, p. 106-109.
3/11
education
1980 École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, Philosophy
1983 agrégation de philosophie
1984-85 research grants to visit libraries - Oxford, Göttingen, Munich
1986-88 Fondation Thiers Scholarship - research grants to visit libraries: Berlin, Wolfenbüttel
1989 Thèse d’État (State Doctoral Dissertation): Kant et la causalité. Étude sur la formation du
système critique
archive
Main academic activities and publications
Texts, audio, and video are online here: http://michel.puech.free.fr
1990 Associate Professor (Maître de conférences), Bordeaux-III University
Kant et la causalité. Étude sur la formation du système critique, Paris, Vrin
"Kant et la métaphysique en 1762-1763 : les leçons de la Metaphysik Herder", Les Études philosophiques,
1990-2, p. 187-204
1992 to date Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris-IV)
1996 "L’histoire des sciences selon Duhem, une crypto-théologie de la Providence", Raison présente, n°119, p.
59-86
2002 Translation and introduction: Langdon WINNER, The Whale and the Reactor, Chicago U.P., 1986 – La
baleine et le réacteur. A la recherche de limites au temps de la haute technologie, Paris,
Descartes & Cie
2003 “Kant voulait-il être le Newton du monde transcendantal ? Réflexions sur les conséquences en
philosophie du statut de la science “, keynote address Colloque de la Société d’Études
kantiennes de langue française, Luxembourg, published in: Les sources de la philosophie
kantienne. XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Robert Theis et Lukas K. Sosoe (dir.), Paris, Vrin, 2005, 37-46
"Pour une notion philosophiquement acceptable de loi en théorie de la connaissance", Le Portique, 15,
2005
2005-2009 Philosophy of technology course, I.E.P. Paris (Sciences Po), Master: International Affairs / Environment,
Sustainability, and Risk
2008 Homo sapiens technologicus. Philosophie de la technologie contemporaine, philosophie de la sagesse
contemporaine, Paris, Le Pommier
"Les catastrophes lentes", Le Portique, 22 (Catastrophe(s) ?)
Conference Artificial Environments, Copenhagen (Roskilde University, Denmark),: "What is and what is
not a problem with the Homo Sapiens Technologicus", June 5-6, 2008
INSA Lyon, workshop Penser la technologie (équipe STOICA, de l’EA LEPS - Laboratoire d’Étude du
Phénomène Scientifique), June 12, 2008: "Pour une sagesse de la technologie qui ne serait pas
une science de la technique”
Round table / press meeting, “High tech for a sustainable world”, Freescale Technology Forum, Paris,
Oct. 7, 2008
4/11
Ministère de l’Écologie, de l’Énergie, du Développement durable et de l’Aménagement du territoire
(MEEDDAT), Politiques Territoriales et Développement Durable —Final Conference : “Comment
cultiver le Développement Durable ? En encaissant le choc culturel de nouveaux modes du
savoir et de l’agir” [How can we cultivate sustainability? Absorbing the cultural shock of new
ways of thinking and acting]
2009 July 7-10, The 16th biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, University of
Twente, the Netherlands. Conference theme: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies.
Talk: "Is human enhancement a sustainable agenda?"
November 13-15th, Fourth International Conference on Applied Ethics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan (Topic: International/Global Ethics)
Debate panel : “Le développement durable est-il en passe de définir une nouvelle sensibilité éthique ?”
[Is sustainable development about to define a new ethical sensibility ?], November 17th,
Deauville, The Global Conference, "Construire un nouvel équilibre" [Building a new balance]
Meeting Andrew Feenberg, about his book (French translation, (Re)penser la technique), Paris,
Sorbonne, Nov. 25, 2009 — organization
2009-2010 December 2009 / January 2010, Continuing Education (Paris-Sorbonne), “Bien vivre au travail” [The
good life at work], with V. Halley des Fontaines, M.D., Paris-VI
2010 Développement durable : un avenir à faire soi-même [Sustainability: A Do-It-Yourself Future], Paris: Le
Pommier, April 2010
Talk and debate, École des Mines de Paris, teaching unit “Management Qualité-Sécurité-Environnement
et Développement Durable”, Jan. 20, 2010, "Pourquoi et comment désenchanter le
développement durable ?" [Disenchanting Sustainability: why and how?]
"The Four Cultures: Hybridizing Science and Humanities, East and West", in: Applied Ethics: Challenges
for the 21st Century, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan, 2010, p. 27-35
École des Mines - ParisTech (Paris), Master Executive QSE DD, talk « Développement durable : idéalisme
et réalisme », May 10, 2010
Institut Telecom, research seminar “Ethique et politique de la coexistence dans la société de
l’information. Eléments pour une écologie sociale”, May 27, 2010: "Technoscience et sagesse"
[Technoscience and wisdom]
"From Techno-Science Studies to Techno-Ethics: When, Why and How?," 2010 meeting of the Society for
Social Studies of Science, Tokyo, Japan, August 25-29 2010
September-December, Public Lectures “Écologie : Fondamentaux et Paradoxes”, 6 sessions, Les Mardis
de la philosophie, Paris
ENSAM Paritech, Day workshop and round-table conference “” [Risk and Engineering Ethics], Dec. 7,
2010
"Disposer des dispositifs. Le soi soutenable aux temps de l'abondance technologique" [Disposable
dispositives: a sustainable self in the era of technological affluence], in TIRLONI Valentina, ed.,
Du Gestell au dispositif. Comment la technicisation encadre notre existence, Bruxelles:Éditions
E.M.E. et InterCommunications, 2010, p. 117-126
“Pourquoi l’extrême ? Technophilie et technophobie dans les récits futurologiques” [Why so extreme?
Technophilia and technophobia in futurology narratives], in: Mises en récit de la technique, M.
Chouteau et C. Nguyen (dir.), Éditions des Archives Contemporaines
2011 “Éthique et esthétique dans le système kantien de la téléologie transcendantale” [Ethics and aesthetics
in Kant's system of transcendental teleology], in Éthique et esthétique. Perspectives historiques,
Nice: Éditions Ovadia
Talk "Désenchanter le Développement Durable" [Sustainability Disenchanted], Master Executive
Management QSE et Développement Durable, Isige – Mines ParisTech, April 12, 2011
Talk “Le développement durable : un avenir à faire soi-même” [Sustainabilitry: a Do-It-Yourself Future],
INSET Montpellier / Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, April 21, 2011
“Sustainability means ethics and this is a cultural revolution”, in: Pernille Almlund, Per Homann
5/11
Jespersen and Søren Riis (ed.) Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean-Technology, Culture
and Communication, Ashgate Publishing, 2011
"Why not post-political? A Comment on Gert Goeminne", Foundations of Science, Springer, online 2011
- Foundations of Science, June 2013, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp 351-353 Journal version
"Le Développement Durable : un avenir à faire soi-même" [Sustainability: Do It Yourself], in ALLEMAND
Sylvain (ed.), Développement durable, et moi, qu'est-ce que je peux faire ?, St-Denis: Edilivre,
2012, p. 107-115
Co-chair of Track 4 (Development and Globalization) for the 2011 conference of the Society for
Philosophy and Technology (Denton, Texas, May 2011)
March-September 2011: lecture sessions on Sustainability, ISEAM / ISEADD (Institut Supérieur d’Études
en Alternance du Développement Durable, Marne la Vallée)
2011 Conference, Society for Philosophy and Technology (Denton, Texas, May 26-29, 2011): "Ordinary
Technoethics"
Lausanne University (CH), Institut de politiques territoriales et d'environnement humain, workdhop
Modes de vie, 15-16 juin 2011 : "Faire son Gandhi. Réflexion sur l'application des grandes
idées" [Be your own Gandhi: some thoughts about big ideas and their implementation]
Collège des Hautes Études en développement Durable, Rennes, July 5, 2011, "Cultures plurielles,
passerelles vers un avenir désirable !", day workshop
Talk "Une approche philosophique du développement durable" [Sustainability : A philosophical
approach], day workshop on education in engineering schools, CEFI (Comité d’études sur les
formations d’ingénieurs), July 7, 2011
Interview, LaRevueDurable, 43, Fall 2011, p. 9-13, “Tout le monde peut faire son Gandhi face aux grands
défis globaux" [Be your own Gandhi to tackle global challenges!]
Talk, Geneva (Switzerland), Sept. 16, 2011 : "Les racines philosophiques des cultures de résistance : de La
Boétie, Thoreau, Gandhi, aux révolutions numériques" [Philosophical roots for resistance
cultures]
Net-Focus 2011, professional conference on IT security, Lyon, Sept. 21, 2011: "Fuite d’information :
Wikileaks et ses émules sont-ils les prémices de la transparence absolue et de la fin du
secret ?" [Are Wikileaks and its kind leading to absolute transparency and the end of secret?]
Conference (board) "Actualité de Gandhi dans la mondialisation" [The relevance of Gandhi in
Contemporary Globalisation], Paris, 5 décembre 2011, Paris-Sorbonne University
French State Administration for Disabled Persons, Dec. 9, 2011 – keynote talk on Universal Design, for a
conference on this subject
2012 Ensam Paritech (Arts et Métiers, engineering school), 5 Master classes on Applied Ethics, about risk and
sustainability, Feb. 2012
Conference for Masters students, "Philosophie et Développement Durable" [Philosophy and
Sustainability], Iseam/Iseadd (Marne-la-Vallée), March 26, 2012
"La question climatique : cheminement institutionnel et cheminement personnel" [Climate as an issue:
institutional change and personal reform], http://climat2012.fr/, April 2012
Panel session "What means progress and innovation for the corporate business world today?”,
Landscape Engineering School ITIAPE (Lille), May 25, 2012
"E-santé : de l'innovation TIC à l'innovation éthique" [From Health IT innovation to ethical innovation],
Revue hospitalière de France, 546, May-June 2012, p. 76-77.
Book chapter "Technoscience, environnement, sagesse" [Technoscience, environment, wisdom], in
Chardel P.-A., Gossart C., Reber B., Conflits des interprétations dans la société de l'information éthique et politique de l'environnement, Paris: Hermès/Lavoisier, 2012, 155-176
Review on the nonfiction.fr website of the translated book: Joan TRONTO, Le risque ou le care ?, Paris:
PUF
Keynote address : "Éthique et technologies : le potentiel de valeur humaine dans la e-santé" [Ethics and
technology: health I.T. and human values], Université d'été de la e-santé, Castres-Mazamet /
6/11
Midi-Pyrénées, July 4, 2012
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Copenhagen, Denmark). My
presentation: “Philosophical bases for the acceptability of Universal Design”, Oct. 20, 2012
Keynote address "Technologie et humanisme : un point de vue philosophique" [Technology and
humanism: a philosophical approach],CENTICH, Centre d’Expertise National des Technologies
de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’autonomie, Paris, Nov. 20, 2012
Keynote address "Santé et sécurité : sont-elles des valeurs absolues ?" [Are the values of health and
security really absolute?], French National Congress for Health-IT Security, Dec. 3, 2012
2013 “Ordinary Technoethics”, International Journal of Technoethics, 4(2), 36-45 - http://www.igiglobal.com/article/ordinary-technoethics/90487
Lecture "Éthique du risque", Arts & Métiers ParisTech / Risk Global Management - March 13, 2013
International conference about sustainability and ethics in Oceania, Koné, New Caledonia. Presented
paper: “Une éthique nouvelle pour le soutenable local dans un monde global ?" [A new ethics
for local sustainability in a global world?] - April 24-26, 2013
Workshop COST Action TU1204 (People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World), Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland : "Users Needs: Role for Universal Design in Cities", with Gerald Craddock, Centre for
Excellence in Universal Design and Onny Eikhaug, Norwegian Design Council - July 1-2, 2013
Presentation "L'infosphère de proximité dans le soin et le soin de soi" [The proximal infosphere in care
and self-care], workshop for GRESEP (neurologists working group on multiple sclerosis), Paris July 4, 2013
Technology in the Age of Information - 18th International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and
Technology, Lisbonne, Portugal, presentation: "On the phenomenology and ethics of “smart”
technology" - July 5, 2013
Book symposium (4 reviews and my answers) on my book Homo Sapiens Technologicus, ed. Gert
Goeminne, Philosophy & Technology, Sept. 2013, Springer http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13347-013-0127-6
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), San Diego, California. My
presentation: "The ethical experience: offline/online" - Oct. 11, 2013
2014 "La e-santé à la croisée des chemins technoéthiques" [E-health meets technoethical issues],
International Journal of Bioethics, 2014, 25(3), 31-45
Course in a professional program on sustainability, École Spéciale d'Architecture (Paris) - Jan. 16, 2014
Talk in the Biogen Idec National Conference on multiple sclerosis “Nouveaux modèles de relations entre
patients et soignants : Réflexion sur éthique et e-santé” [New relationship between patients
and medical staff: some thoughts on ethics and e-health], Paris - Jan 25, 2014
"Ce que pensent les geeks", a recension of the book: BILLARD Vincent, Geek philosophie. , Presses de
l'Université Laval / Hermann, 2013, for the site http://www.nonfiction.fr http://www.nonfiction.fr/article-7109-ce_que_pensent_les_geeks.htm - June 2014
"Beyond digital literacy: Technological wisdom for the good life", presentation for CEPE (Computer
Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry) 2014 Conference, Paris - June 23, 2014
Talk "Les technologies les plus extraordinaires deviennent ordinaires. Applications en philosophie et
éthique de la médecine" [Extraordinary technologies turning ordinary: What it means for
medical philosophy and ethics], M.D.s' conference, Laboratoires BioGen Idec, La Rochelle,
France - June 27, 2014
"Le numérique comme révolution culturelle" [The digital as a cultural revolution], talk for the electronic
engineering school ESIEA, , Ivry - Oct. 3, 2014
"Pourquoi pensons-nous si mal nos relations émotionnelles et éthiques avec les objets technologiques
ordinaires ?" [Why do we neglect our emotional and ethical relationship with ordinary
artefacts?] presented to the French “Académie des Technologies” - Oct. 8, 2014
"Connecté = augmenté ? Une approche technoéthique" [Does connection mean enhancement ? A
technethical view], workshop "Santé connectée et Homme augmenté », Institut des Sciences
7/11
de la Communication (ISCC) CNRS and EA Rationalités contemporaines - Oct. 13 2014
"Le développement soutenable et l'entreprise" [Sustainability and business], Toposofia workshop with
Brazilian business and public policy people, Sorbonne, Paris - Oct. 30, 2014
Public talk for the “Collège des Hautes Études du Développement Durable”, workshop "Le courage du
développement durable" [The courage for sustainability], Rennes, France - Nov. 25, 2014
2015 Workshop Espace Éthique (Ile-de-France), Anticipations, "Face à l’accélération technique : comment
anticiper dans la vulnérabilité ?" [Facing technological acceleration: how to anticipate
vulnerability?], Jan. 8, 2015
"Une éthique de sagesse pour l'ère de la technologie : Pourquoi et surtout comment ?" [Why and how
wisdom ethics for technology] , Revue Francophone d'Éthique Appliquée 1: 85-88.
http://www.espace-ethique.org/revue, Feb. 2015
Lecture "Les valeurs de l'ingénierie sont-elles soutenables ?" [Engineering values and sustainability],
ECAM, Brussels Engineering School, Belgium, March 23, 2015
“Une éthique nouvelle pour le soutenable local dans un monde global ?” [New ethics for local
sustainability in a global world?] In Le développement durable en Océanie : Vers une éthique
nouvelle ?, edited by Séverine Blaise, Carine David, and Victor David, 63–78. Aix-en-Provence:
Publications de l’Université de Provence, June 2015
"A non-confrontational art of living in the technosphere and infosphere", Foundations of Science, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10699-015-9452-9 and "A non-confrontational art of
living in the technosphere and infosphere - Whose agency now?", Foundations of Science,
2015, vol. 20, no 4 - online Dec. 2015
Other activities and publications
Texts, audio, and video are online here: http://michel.puech.free.fr
1995 to date Independent strategy and communication consultant
1999 La philosophie en clair. 10 classiques sérieusement dépoussiérés, Ellipses (2nd ed. 2001, 3rd ed. 2004, 4th ed.
2012) – a book for beginners
2000-2005 Co-writing “Les Goûters Philo”, Milan publisher (25 books for children, translated into 18 languages and
audio-CD adaptations)
2002-2007 Monthly philosophy column in the magazine Top Famille
2003-2005 Co-writing “De vie en vie” (biographies), Milan publisher (20 books for children)
2005 “Technique et nature humaine. Pour l’homo sapiens technologicus, ce n’est pas technologicus qui pose
problème, c’est sapiens”, 1er Festival francophone de Philosophie, Origines et identité, SaintMaurice, Valais (CH), Sept. 11, 2005
2006 "La modification du soi par le médicament psychotrope, vue sous l’angle de la philosophie de la
technologie" [Self-change by psychotropic drugs, a technophilosophical approach], Lundbeck
Talk, Musée d’Histoire de la médecine (Université René Descartes), Dec. 19, 2006
2009 Interviewed for the research "Les nouveaux influenceurs du Développement durable” [New influencers
on Sustainability], Euro RSCG C&O, April 2009
August 8th, Evoluthon (Fleurance, Gers, France) : “Comment sommes-nous devenus un réseau ?” [How
did we become a network?]
2010 Debate on sustainable society, National Convention of the “Réseau Action Climat” – Montreuil (93),
April 10, 2010
France Inter (radio program), "Les persifleurs du mal" (on philosophy of evil), July 15, 2010
"Homo technologicus. L'humain se réinvente – à ses risques et périls" [Mankind's daring selfreinvention], Festival d'Astronomie de Fleurance (France), August 7, 2010
8/11
TEDx Paris Universités 2010 talk, October 16, 2010 – “Homo Sapiens Technologicus”.
Talk “Avons-nous encore besoin de valeurs ?” [Do We Still Need Values?], Les Lundis de la Philo, Nantes,
Nov. 15, 2010
Talk “La réappropriation de son temps dans le monde technoscientifique” [Regaining One's Own Time in
Technoscience World], Les Entretiens de Bayonne (64), Nov. 18, 2010
Public debate "Une démocratie à prendre avec précaution" [Precautionary Democracy], Aix-enProvence, Dec. 2, 2010 (University School of Law)
Radio France International (RFI), Dec. 6, 2010 rebroadcast Feb. 14, 2011: "Serons-nous des Homo
Sapiens Technologicus ?" [Are We Becoming Homo Sapiens Technologicus?]
2010-2012 Collection “Philosopher ?” (philosophy for young readers), 9 books published: Le Pommier, : Expliquer,
Jeter, Aimer, La honte !, Manger, Vouloir, Vivre, Marcher, Parler
2011 Article "Au-delà de la catastrophe, Fukushima doit être un alerteur éthique" [Beyond catastrophe,
Fukushima must be an ethical alert], Rue89 (online), April18, 2011
Panel talk "Comment construire un avenir énergétique durable ?" [How can we build a sustainable
future for energy?], Cap Sciences (Bordeaux), April 28, 2011
Radio Suisse Romande, Haute Définition program, Manuela Salvi, June 12, 2011
Radio France International (RFI), Autour de la question program- 1 hour interview about my book on
sustainability, June 24, 2011
Talk "Les problèmes éthiques ne sont pas des problèmes de limites" [Ethical issues are not about limits],
Rencontres Science et Humanisme, Ajaccio, July 23, 2011
Philosophical debate with young people, Langres (Haute-Marne), Internat d'excellence, (school with
special support), Sept. 14, 2011
In'VDoc Day 2011 (software company conference), Lyon, Oct. 13, 2011, keynote talk about new values
and corporate management
Keynote talk "Nouvelles consistances, nouvelles résolutions", Convention ADIRA 2011 (computer
business conference), Lyon, Oct. 17, 2011
TV5 Monde, program "Coup de pouce pour la planète", satellite, cable and online TV in French, Nov. 12,
2011
Public discussion with Pascal Chabot, Brussels (Belgium), “Festival des Libertés” (Théâtre National), Nov.
24, 2011, on the topic “The defeat of progress?”
Quality Security Environment / Day Workshop for local business firms, Vichy, Dec. 8, 2011. Talk:
« Jusqu'à quel point la RSE est-elle réellement stratégique ? » [How strategic is really Corporate
Social Responsibility?]
2012 Four public meetings and discussion about science and technology, from a philosophical point of view,
Blanc-Mesnil (93), Jan. to March 2012
Public talk in Brussels (Belgium), Jan. 24, 2012, Bibliothèque Royale : "Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles
valeurs ?" [New technology, new values?], Jan. 24, 2012
Public talk "La philo en accès libre" [Philosophy for all], Rencontres Philo 2012, March 24, 2012, Wavre
(Belgium)
"Le Développement Durable : un avenir à faire soi-même" [Do-It-Myself Sustainability], in ALLEMAND
Sylvain (ed.), Développement durable, et moi, qu'est-ce que je peux faire ?, St-Denis: Edilivre,
2012, 107-115
A debate with Christine Fabresse (Caisses d’Épargne): "A-t-on encore besoin de pouvoir et de
compétence ?" [Do we still power and expertise?], Christian Pousset Partners, May 24, 2012
Cinéfeuilles environmental film festival, talk on nature and sustainability in the new concepts of the city
- Gaillac (Tarn), June 2, 2012
A debate with Séverine Lèbre-Badré (EDF, Electricité de France): "Comment survivre dans un monde
économique devenu incompréhensible ?" [How to survive in an economy nobody
understands?], Christian Pousset Partners, Oct. 11, 2012
9/11
"Nouvelles éthiques de l'accessibilité" [New ethics for accessibility], city of Gennevilliers (92), Dec. 12,
2012
Debate with Clara Gaymard (General Electric, VP) : "Quelle confiance peut-on encore accorder aux
entreprises ?" [Can we still trust corporations?], Rencontres Christian Pousset Partners, Dec. 13,
2012
2013 Three debates in secondary school (Junior High), Collège F. Dolto, L'Aigle (61): "Consumption, ads,
brands", "Obedience, disobedience – Justice, injustice", “Feelings and emotions” - Dec. 2012 –
March 2013
Public talk about wisdom/time/technology, farmers union general assembly (FDSEA 10), Troyes - Feb.
7, 2013
Round table (press conference) about “smart mobility”, with speakers from Wind River (Intel subsidiary),
Autolib', PSA - March 27, 2013
"Que signifie smart ?" [What is the meaning of 'smart'?], Le Monde / Planète plus intelligente - April 22,
2013
Continuing education session “Comment les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la
communication (NTIC) impactent notre monde et notre être” [The impact of ICT on our world
and our existence], for Unédic (French Unemployment Administration) - June 20, 2013
Philosophy in a Café, public discussion meeting, Langres (52): “Intelligent Materialism” - Sept. 21 2013
Presentation "Nouvelles valeurs pour les technologies et l'autonomie" [New values for technology and
autonomy], Région Pays de la Loire and Centich (Centre d’Expertise National des Technologies
de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’autonomie). - Nov. 7, 2013
2014 "L'infosphère proximale : quelques notions de technoéthique numérique" [The proximal infosphere:
notions of digital technoethics], in Magazine des Cultures Digitales 73 http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd73-la-numerisation-du-monde/ - Feb. 2014
Tea-Time Philosophy - https://www.edmodo.com/store/app/tea-time-philosophy – an online interactive
application on the educative U.S. network Edmodo, in collaboration with Sarah Hague and the
publisher Bongo - May 2014
"Philosophie et éthique de la nouvelle infosphère" [Philosophy and ethics of the new infosphere], annual
convention of the French users of Oracle, Paris - March 27, 2014
"Technophiles contre technophobes, biophiles contre biophobes, un essai de définition", La Tribune,
"Opinions" - June 20, 2014
Philosophical Breakfast (Rencontres Philosophiques de Langres): « Pourquoi n'apprenons-nous rien de
l'histoire ?" [Why don't we learn anything from history?] - Sept. 21, 2014
Public talk "Pollution de l'air, c’est quoi le problème ?" [What is exactly the issue with air pollution?],
Journée Santé Environnement 2014, Saint-Étienne - Oct. 4, 2014
2015 Plenary talk "Nouveaux systèmes de valeurs au temps du numérique : quelles conséquences pour
l'entreprise ?"[New values systems in the digital era: what does it mean for management?],
5ème Rencontres TOP DSI/DAF / CIO and CFO Annual Conference, Deauville, June 3, 2015
Plenary talk "Zone A Défendre ou Territoire A Aménager ?" [Occupied Zone vs. Territorial Planning],
National convention of French Territorial Planning Civil Engineers, Toulouse, June 11, 2015
Keynote talk "Philosophie du vieillissement au temps de la haute technologie" [Philosophy of Aging in
the High Tech Era], French-German Meeting on Silver Economy », Hager Group, Obernai,
France, Sept. 28, 2015
Philosophical Breakfast: "Certaines croyances sont-elles intrinsèquement dangereuses ?" [Intrinsically
Dangerous Creeds?] Langres, France, Oct. 3, 2015
Talk "La mobilité est-elle une valeur soutenable dans le monde contemporain ?" [Sustainable
transportation in the contemporary world?] , Institut des Routes, des Rues et des Infrastructures
pour la Mobilité (IDRRIM), Paris, Oct. 21, 2015
Talk "L'acceptabilité de la remédiation technologique" [Accepting technological remediation] Association
pour l'étude de la réparation du dommage corporel, Paris, Oct. 23, 2015
Talk "Les biens communs comme biens « propres »" [Clean Commons], Centre National de la Fonction
Publique Territoriale,, Bordeaux, Nov. 5, 2015
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Talk "Que serait une aéronautique soutenable ? Réflexion sur les nouvelles vertus attendues de
l'ingénierie" [Aeronautical sustainability and the Newly Expected Virtues of Engineering] ENAC
(Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile), Toulouse, Nov. 18, 2015
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