Stokes Hall North 219
Telephone: 617-552-4670
Email: jeanluc.solere@bc.edu
Undergraduate/Graduate:
History of Medieval Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
Graduate:
Medieval Theories of Mind and Cognition
Medieval Ontology
Early Modern Metaphysics
Pleasure and Ethics in 17th-18th Century
Medieval and Early Modern Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
Medieval and Early Modern Cognition TheoriesScholasticism and its Influence on 17th Century Thought
Pierre Bayle
The Role of Pleasure in Ethics
TH 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
A member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Professor Solère has taught at the universities of Lille, Brussels and Louvain (Belgium). He came to Boston College as a visiting professor in 2005. He maintains the web site Medieval Philosophy Digital Resources, and supervises the Mapping Spinoza's Ethics project.
“Activisme Radical et Attention Continuelle: Une Tentative de Défense de Pierre de Jean Olivi.” Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales 91/1 (2024): 35-62.
“Durand of Saint-Pourçain’s Refutation of Concurrentism”, Religions 15/5 (2024): 1-22.
“Bayle, les notions communes, et les silences de la raison.” In L’Esprit Critique dans l’Antiquité. La Naissance de la Théologie comme « Science », ed. by O. Boulnois, P. Hoffmann, C. Lafleur and J.-M. Narbonne. Paris: 2024, 467-500.
“La théodicée de Pierre Bayle.” In Dieu d'Abraham, Dieu des philosophes : Révélation et Rationalité, ed. by O. Boulnois. Paris: 2023, 171-193.
“Thomas d’Aquin, l’étiologie proclusienne, et la théorie du concours de Dieu à la causalité naturelle.” In Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes (Vol. 3), ed. by D. Calma. Leiden: 2022, 303-337.
“From Invincible Ignorance to Tolerance: Arriaga, Vázquez, and Bayle.” In Summistae: The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th Centuries, ed. by L. Lanza and M. Toste. Leuven: 2021, 315-337.
“Giles of Rome on the Intensification of Forms.” Quaestio. Journal of the History of Metaphysics 20 (2021): 217-38.
“Dominican Debates on the Intensification of Qualities at the Beginning of the 14th Century.” In Censures, Condemnations, Corrections in Late Medieval Schools, ed. by A. Speer and A. Colli. Leuven: 2020, 293-346.
“Duns Scotus versus Thomas Aquinas on Instrumental Causality”, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 7 (2019): 147-185.