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Dr. David Espinet

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University of Freiburg
Philosophy

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014
April 2016 – September 2017

E-Mail: david.espinet@philosophie.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2017

Curriculum Vitae

David Espinet is currently “Privatdozent” at the Freiburg University. He received his “Licence” in Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII in 2001, his Magister Artium in Philology and Philosophy in 2004, as well as his Doctoral degree in Philosophy in 2008 both from the Freiburg University where, in 2016, he habilitatitated in Philosophy. From 2008 to 2015 David Espinet was an Assistant Professor in the Freiburg Department for Philosophy. He has teaching experience in Germany, Switzerland (Basel University), France (Strasbourg University), and in the US where he was a visiting scholar at The Pennsylvania State University during the fall semester 2011. He has received research grants including a DAAD visiting scholarship for the University of Paris VIII, a PhD stipend of the Cusanuswerk, and a Junior-Fellowship at the FRIAS in 2013/14. His areas of research are Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Philosophical Anthropology and Kantian Philosophy both in continental and analytical approaches. In his available publications David Espinet often examines epistemic, ethical and aesthetical theories of the Event, often in their conceptual interrelation with the Kantian framework. Currently he is focusing on a wide range of theories of happiness both in Philosophy and Economic Theory.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project