BENJAMIN BOURCIER

Benjamin Bourcier is Associate Professor of moral and political Philosophy at ESPOL (section 17 CNU). He holds a PhD in philosophy (The Cosmopolitan Thought of J. Bentham – 2016).

His current research focuses on international political philosophy and cosmopolitanism with a large part of this research developed in the history of political philosophy and political ideas. He is mainly interested in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of international political thought (since Hobbes), in the history of modern cosmopolitanism, as well as in contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism.

Languages spoken: French/ English

CLASSES TAUGHT AT ESPOL

• Histoire des idées politiques anciennes et modernes
• Ethics of Immigration
• Argumentation politique et théorie politique
• Méthodologie du travail intellectuel et bases de l’argumentation
• Qu’est-ce que le cosmopolitisme?

RESEARCH FIELDS

• History of political thought
• International Political Philosophy and Cosmopolitanism