Philosophy Department Faculty

Jean-Luc Solère

Professor

Department

Philosophy

Profile

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 , and supervises the 𳦳.

recent publications

“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”, DzԲ15/5 (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.