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New book

The Rationality of Love, Oxford University Press, link

​Love has been the subject of much fascination. It is indeed one of those things which elude us in many ways. The long-lasting disagreement over love's nature is unsurprising. In light of this, a piecemeal approach to love is in order. Instead of asking what love is down the line, we might need to investigate its various features and its connection to other things. The Rationality of Love addresses the question whether love belongs, paradoxically enough, to the realm of reason, whether love belongs to the class of responses, such as belief and action, that admit of norms of justification and rationality. Are there normative reasons to love someone? Can it be an appropriate or fitting response to an individual? Can it be rational? Or is love, like perceptual experiences, sensations and urges, the sort of thing we just have and for which we cannot be rationally criticizable? Hichem Naar provides a sustained defense of the rationality of love. There are reasons to love others, reasons provided by the unique value of each individual. This will in turn rule out popular accounts of love which deny love's rationality and vindicate those accounts that make room for it.

Drawing on various domains of philosophical inquiry such as the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of normativity, and epistemology, Naar provides a careful assessment of the various positions in the debate over reasons for love and develops his own answer to the normative question about love.
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New publication

"Value Feelings: A Defense", Philosophies​, link


​New publication

"Emotions as States", Inquiry​, link

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​New publications

"Emotion: More like Action than Perception", Erkenntnis​, link
"Sentimental Perceptualism and the Problem of Cognitive Bases" (with Michael Milona), Philosophical Studies​, link


​New publication

"Emotion: Animal and Reflective", Southern Journal of Philosophy, link


​New book

Qui peut sauver la morale? Essai de métaéthique (avec François Jaquet)

Quelle est la nature des faits moraux? Existe-t-il de tels faits ? Les énoncés moraux peuvent-ils prétendre à la vérité ? Vous pensez peut-être que la peine de mort est injuste ? Ou que l’avortement est moralement acceptable ? Se pourrait-il alors que vous vous trompiez ? C’est en tout cas l’avis des théoriciens de l’erreur. D’après ces philosophes, tous les jugements moraux sont faux parce qu’ils présupposent à tort l’existence de faits moraux à la fois objectifs et non naturels.Organisé autour de ce défi nihiliste, le présent ouvrage aborde les principales théories métaéthiques comme autant de tentatives, plus ou moins fructueuses, de sauver la morale. Les théories qu’on y rencontre combinent invariablement une thèse psychologique (sur la nature des jugements moraux) et une thèse ontologique (sur l’existence d’une réalité morale conforme auxdits présupposés). Dans le style argumentatif sobre et précis qui caractérise la philosophie analytique, ce manuel de métaéthique – le premier en langue française – entreprend d’évaluer minutieusement un ensemble de théories sur la morale. Bien que destiné en premier lieu aux enseignants de philosophie et à leurs étudiants, il se veut accessible à tous ceux qu’intéresse l’éthique.

Pour plus d'informations, cliquer ici. 

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Conference - 
New Directions in Philosophy of Emotion

Manchester July 16-17 2019, link
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​New courses

​UDE - Summer 2019
Knowing Right from Wrong (syllabus here)
​The Contours of Agency (syllabus here)


​New publications

"Gratitude: Generic vs. Deep", in Roberts, R. & Telech, D. (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Gratitude, Rowman & Littlefield, link
"The Possibility of Fitting Love: Irreplaceability and Selectivity", Synthese, link


New book

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The Ontology of Emotions (coedited with Fabrice Teroni)

You can check it out here. 


​New courses

​UDE - Winter 2018
Philosophical Perspectives on Love
Animal Ethics
Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics


​New publication

"The Real Issue with Recalcitrant Emotions: Reply to Grzankowski", Erkenntnis​, link​


First Essen-Wuhan Metaethics Workshop

Essen, July 6 2018, link


​Workshop - MetaEssen II

Essen, April 27 2018, link


Talk at Thumos (Geneva)

"Reasons for Love and the Significance of Encounters", April 12 2018


​Guest post for Daily Nous

"How to Think about Reasons for Romantic Love (if there are any)", link


​New publications

"Sentiments", in Naar, H. & Teroni, F. (eds.), The Ontology of Emotions​, CUP link
"Le pouvoir", in Tieffenbach, E. & Deonna, J. (eds.), Petit traité des valeurs​, Ithaque link
"Love as a Disposition", in Grau, C. & Smuts, A. (eds), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love, OUP link
“Subject-Relative Reasons for Love”, Ratio, 
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​Talk at CRE

Montreal, Nov 20 2017, link


​Workshop on Gratitude

Chicago, Sept 8-10 2017, link


​Workshop Attitudes, Rationality, and Concepts

​Montreal, May 15 2017, link


​Omaha Workshop in Philosophy of Emotion

Omaha, April 21-22 2017, link


​New course - Limits of Consciousness

UNO - Fall 2017


Time and Intentionality

Montreal, Sept 29-Oct 1 2016, link
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