Geoffrey Dierckxsens

Geoffrey Dierckxsens obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and currently works as a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Prague. In 2013 and 2014 he worked as an associated researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Geoffrey Dierckxsens specializes in French phenomenology and hermeneutics, in particular and in their relations to contemporary analytical philosophy (moral theory and philosophy of mind). He was guest editor of the special issue of Études Ricœuriennes/Ricœur Studies 6, No 2 on “justice and its margins.” His publications include “The Ambiguity of Justice” (Ricœur Studies, 2015), The Animal Inside. Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), “Responsibility and the Physical Body. Paul Ricoeur on Analytical Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science, and the Task of Phenomenological Hermeneutics” (Philosophy Today, 2017), and Paul Ricœur’s Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility and Justice (Lexington Books, 2017), which discusses Paul Ricœur’s moral anthropology in relation to contemporary moral theories in analytical philosophy.