David Simonetta

David Simonetta is an associate professor of philosophy at the Lycée Léonard-de-Vinci in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and was Professor Alain de Libera's assistant from 2013 to 2016. His research focuses on the relationship between noetics and the theory of knowledge from the late Middle Ages to the first half of the 18th^century .

David Simonetta helped edit several of Professor Alain de Libera's manuscripts for forthcoming publications (2015) and was co-organizer of the May 21, 2014 study day: " Pro et Contra - journée d'études médiévales au Collège de France: Histoire de la philosophie et logique."

Lectures

january 10, 2014: " Is there a sense of truth in Descartes? "
Lecture as part of the laboratory "sur la naissance du sentiment moderne" at ENS Lyon.

february 16, 2014: " From theology to psychology: intuition in reasoning."
Talk at the Early Modern Philosophy workshop at Princeton University, organized by M. Dan Garber.

may 21, 2014: " Intuition in reasoning. Locke's influence in ^{eighteenth-century} English logic textbooks ."
Talk as part of the " Pro et contra. Histoire de la philosophie et logique" at the Collège de France", organized by M. Alain de Libera.