Véronique Decaix
Véronique Decaix is Associate Professor (Maîtresse de Conférences) in Medieval Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2020).
After an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Lille (2004) and a post-graduate degree in Medieval Studies (2006, University of Fribourg, Switzerland), she received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Tours (2013) with a thesis on Dietrich of Freiberg’s theory of intentionality. Her first academic appointment (2013-2014) was associate researcher at the EPHE (Paris). During 2014-2015, she has been 'Researcher' in the framework of the program 'Representation and Reality' (University of Göteborg, Sweden).
Her area of specialisation is Medieval Philosophy, more particularly: metaphysics, theories of cognition and Mind-Body Problem. Her research project is focused on intentionality in embodied cognitive processes (sensation, memory, dream and self-motion).
She currently works on Memory (the process of memory, the distinction between a 'memory' and an image, its relation to time and motion) in the Latin commentaries on Aristotle's De memoria and reminiscentia in the Parisian and Oxonian traditions.
Recent publications:
2021 V. Decaix, Constituer le réel. La théorie de l’intentionnalité chez Dietrich de Freiberg, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Études de philosophie médiévale », 338 p., ISBN 978-2-7116-2979-4
2021 (avec Ch. Thomsen Thörnqvist) Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition, coll. « Studia Artistarum » 47, Turnhout, Brepols.
2023, « Back to Things. The Intentionality of Memory in Albert the Great », in J. F. Silva, Rationality in Perception, Leiden, Brill, « Investigating Medieval Philosophy », p. 56-81.
2022, « La mémoire des animaux. Vers un approche intentionnelle du souvenir à la fin du XIIIe siècle », L. Solignac (éd.), dossier « L’intelligence animale », Revue des sciences théologiques et philosophiques, p. 420-442.
2021 « What is memory of? Albert the Great on the Proper Object of Memory», in V. Decaix et C. Thomsen Thörnqvist (éd.), Memory in the Aristotelian Tradition, coll. « Studia Artistarum » 47, Turnhout, Brepols, p. 153-168.
2021 « Introduction », Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition, coll. « Studia Artistarum » 47, Turnhout, Brepols, p. 11-25.
2020 « Matière et mémoire selon Thomas d’Aquin », La Pensée, 402, p. 106-121.
