by Professor Pierre-Marie Morel (University Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Pierre-Marie Morel is Professor of Ancient Philosophy (Greek and Roman) at University Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, Director of the research centre GRAMATA (UMR 7219) and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His work focuses on Ancient theories of action (principally in the Aristotelian and atomist traditions), and how they relate to the other fields of knowledge (particularly physics and epistemology).

He has recently published, among others:

• La Nature et le bien. L’éthique d’Aristote et la question naturaliste, Louvain-la-Neuve, Peeters, 2021
• Le Plaisir et la nécessité. Philosophie naturelle et anthropologie chez Démocrite et Épicure, Paris, Vrin, 2021
• Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception, Volume 2., Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2024 (with Francesca Masi and Francesco Verde).