Carraud Vincent

Vincent Carraud is a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, born on December 18, 1957, in Saint-Dizier. He is a professor of modern philosophy at the University of Sorbonne and serves as the director of the Center for Cartesian Studies and the research group 3552, Metaphysics: histories, transformations, actuality.

Carraud specializes in modern philosophy, particularly from Suárez to Leibniz, with a specific focus on Descartes and Pascal. He is a former student of the École normale supérieure (class of 1979) and an associate professor of philosophy. In 1990, he defended his doctoral thesis on Pascal and philosophy under the supervision of Jean-Luc Marion at the University of Poitiers. In 1998, he obtained his authorization to supervise research on “Causa sive ratio: La raison de la cause, de Suárez at Leibniz” at the University Paris-Sorbonne.

Carraud taught philosophy at the lycée de Péronne (Somme) from 1985 to 1988 and was a lecturer at the University of Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne from 1985 to 1989. He then worked as a researcher at CNRS from 1988 to 1990 before becoming a philosophy professor at the University of Caen from 1990 to 1999. He remained a professor at the university until 2012. From 1999 to 2011, he headed the research group on identity and subjectivity.

Throughout his career, Carraud has held visiting professorships at various universities, including Laval University (Quebec), La Sapienza University (Rome), and the University of Chicago (Divinity School and Committee of Social Thought).

Carraud has also been involved in various academic roles, such as chairing the jury for the Agrégation in Philosophy from 2004 to 2007 and holding the Étienne Gilson Chair of Metaphysics at the Catholic Institute of Paris since January 2009. He has been a member of the Collegio dei Docenti of the International Doctorate “Forms and History of Philosophical Knowledge in Modern and Contemporary Europe” at the University of Lecce since 2001. Additionally, from 2011 to 2016, he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Caen.