quick Paris thought

When you go to conference, it sometimes helps to ask afterward: “What do I know now that I didn’t know before going?”

In the case of this three-day Paris jaunt, one day of which was the conference proper, the main difference is that I now have a better sense of what the wider Paris philosophy scene looks like. In January I did field audience questions from Elie During and David Rabouin, but only on this trip did I hear their work first-hand. (And I never met Patrice Maniglier or Frédéric Worms before this.)

I already have some faint impressions of what distinguishes the Paris philosophical scene from the London scene at the moment, but want a few more doses of Paris before I try to put it into words.