Paul Dumouchel is Professor in the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) where he teaches political philosophy as well as philosophy of sciences. His main fields of research are philosohy of social and biological sciences, as well as political philosophy. He is the author of Emotions (Paris: les empécheurs de penser en rond) and with Jean-Pierre Dupuy L’Enfer des choses, René Girard et la logique de l’économie (Paris, Seuil). He has published many articles on emotions as an object of research in both social and biological sciences, on violence, war and terrorism as well as in the history of philosophy. He is finishing a book violence in politics, Violence et politique which will appear at Carnetsnord (Paris) later this year.

(August, 2008)