Paul Dumouchel (PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada) is professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
He is co-author, with Jean-Pierre Dupuy, of L’Enfer des choses, René Girard et la logique de l’économie (Seuil, 1979), and author of Emotions: essai sur le corps et le social (Les Empêcheurs de Penser en rond, 1999). He co-edited, with Jean-Pierre Dupuy, L’auto-organisation de la physique au politique (Seuil, 1983), and edited Violence and Truth: On the Work of René Girard (Stanford University Press, 1988). His latest books include Economia dell’invidia (Transeuropa, 2011), The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (Michigan State University Press, 2014), The Barren Sacrifice (Michigan State University Press, 2015). With Reiko Gotoh he co-edited Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Social Bonds as Freedom (Berghahn Books, 2015). His most recent book, with Luisa Damiano, is Living with robots (Harvard University Press, 2017).