Joël Biard#
| Membership Number: | 3694 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/view/joelbiard/accueil |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 – present Professor at the University François-Rabelais, Tours
- 1993 - 1999 Directeur de recherches, CNRS
- 1984 - 1993 Chargé de recherches, CNRS
- 1980 - 1984 Attaché de recherches, CNRS
- 2008 - present Senior Member of the "Institut universitaire de France"
- 2012 – present Director of the Research Federation of the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), "Fédération des Études Supérieures du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance" (Tours - Poitiers)
- 2012 – present Director of the Doctoral School "Sciences de l’homme et de la société" (University François-Rabelais, Tours).
- Co-Director of the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance (Research Unit 7323, CNRS / University François-Rabelais)
- Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance
- Member of the Scientific Board of the INSHS (Institut of Humanities and Social Sciences) of CNRS.
- up to 2010 - Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctoral School in Philosophy of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 2002 - 2009 - Director of the "Group of Resarch" of CNRS (GDR 2522) "Philosophie de la connaissance et philosophie de la nature au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance
Fields of Scholarship
- Renaissance studies
- Medieval and early modern logic and philosophy of nature
- History of medieval philosophy
- History of philosophy of mind and language
Honours and Awards
- Bronze Medal CNRS
- Knight of the order of the "Palmes académiques"
