Delphine Antoine-Mahut

Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her research focuses on the reception of cartesianism through a physiological axis describing the interactions between anatomy and metaphysics, in order to describe the paradoxical formation of the “dualist” Cartesian canon between 17th and 19th centuries. She has directed Qu’est-ce qu’être cartésien? (ENS Éditions, 2013) and co-directed with Stephen Gaukroger Descartes’s Treatise on Man and its Reception (Springer, 2016) ; with Sophie Roux Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and his Reception (Routledge, 2019) ; with Steven Nadler and Tad Schmaltz the Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism (Oxford University Press, 2019) ; with Anik Waldow Condillac and his Reception. On the Origin and Nature of Human Abilities (Routledge, 2023) ; with Daniel Whistler Victor Cousin : Philosophical Fragments (Oxford University Press, 2025) ; and with Samuel Lézé Metaphysics and the Sciences in XIXth Century France. (Brill’s Series Philosophical Historiography, 28 mars 2025). 

Her last book, L’autorité d’un canon philosophique. Le cas Descartes (Vrin, 2021), has been widely reviewed. As a member of the Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM, CNRS, UMR 5317, https://ihrim.ens-lyon.fr/), she directs the pole ENS in Lyon, and the 2nd scientific axis: “Norms, Canons, and their Discontents”, with Sarah Al-Matary -Lyon 2- and Stéphane Zekian -CNRS-. She is also full member of the LabEX COMOD (https://comod.universite-lyon.fr/) and President of the Jury of the Agrégation.