Jérôme Dokic & Alexandre Billon

Alexandre Billon and Jérôme Dokic will convene in a nice room rue
d’Ulm in Paris and discuss the theme of Language within Mary Midgley’s
work. Alexandre Billon will be reading a poem specially composed for
the event. Pictures of the event will be taken by Margherita
Arcangeli. Biscuits, tea and coffee and possibly some wine will be
provided.

Jérôme Dokic

Born in 1965, Jérôme Dokic is Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a member of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. He has written essays on indexicality, perception, memory and imagination. His work has lately focused on philosophical and empirical issues concerning noetic or metacognitive feelings such as presence, familiarity and confidence. His books include La philosophie du son with Roberto Casati (Philosophy of sound, Chambon, 1994), L’esprit en mouvement. Essai sur la dynamique cognitive (Mind in motion. Essay on cognitive dynamics, CSLI, Stanford, 2001), Qu’est-ce que la perception? (What is perception?, Vrin, 2nd edition 2009) and Ramsey. Truth and Success with Pascal Engel (Routledge, 2002).

Alexandre Billon

Alexandre Billon was born in 1976 in the southern suburbs of Paris. He received a scientific education at the École Polytechnique and then was awarded a PhD in philosophy in 2005 at the CREA, both in Paris. He is currently an Associated Professor at the faculty of Philosophy and Psychology of the University of Lille Nord de France. As a philosopher, his main research areas are consciousness, the self, subjectivity, depersonalization, delusion and happiness. However, he lives a parallel (but not completely disconnected) life as a poet.  His first collection of poems, Lettres d’une île, came out in 2017 at P.i.sage intérieur Editions (finalist of Prix SGDL Révélation, selected for the Prix CoPo and the Prix des découvreurs). He runs a blog in collaboration with his poet friend Félix O’Conor: fomblard.fr.