Paul Dumouchel is a Canadian philosopher, who worked as a professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, where he taught political philosophy and the philosophy of science. Now based back in Canada, he is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and is a visiting researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) at the University of Montreal. Dumouchel served as President of the Canadian Philosophical Association and co-founded the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CREA) at the École Polytechnique in Paris. His published works include Emotions (1999), The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (2014), and The Barren Sacrifice (2015). He co-edited Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (2009) and Social Bonds as Freedom (2015) with Reiko Gotoh, and his most recent book, Living with Robots (2017), was co-authored with Luisa Damiano. He has been visiting professor at the University of Cagliari since 2019, participating in the Visiting Professor/Scientist program, funded by Regional Law 7/2007 of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. In this interview, he shares insights into his research, academic experiences, and the evolution of his philosophical thought.
