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Jean-Luc Solère is a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, specializing in Medieval and Early Modern Metaphysics, Natural Philosophy, and the history of cognition theories. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Poitiers and has previously taught at the Universities of Lille, Brussels, and Louvain (Belgium). His research focuses on Scholasticism’s influence on 17th-century thought, Pierre Bayle, and the role of pleasure in ethics.
Education: B.A. and M.A. from the Sorbonne (Paris), Ph.D. from Poitiers. He maintains the Medieval Philosophy Digital Resources and supervises the Mapping Spinoza's Ethics project. Recent publications (2020–2024) address topics like Medieval theories of causality, concurrentism, and Bayle’s theodicy. His work bridges Aristotelian, Neoplatonic, and early modern philosophical traditions.
Research highlights include debates on divine causality, qualitative variations in medieval physics, and the philosophical legacy of figures like Aquinas, Scotus, and Bayle. His contributions emphasize rigorous textual analysis and interdisciplinary approaches to historical philosophy.
