Claire Petitmengin

After studies in Buddhist philosophy and ten years of experience in information system design, Claire Petitmengin completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Francisco Varela at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and then obtained a Habilitation in Philosophy. She is presently Professor Emeritus at the Institut Mines-Télécom and member of the Archives Husserl (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris. Her research focuses on the usually unrecognized dynamics of lived experience and new “micro-phenomenological” methods enabling us to become aware of this dynamics and to describe it very finely. She studies the epistemological conditions of these methods and notably the validity of their results, their philosophical consequences, as well as their contemplative, educational, therapeutic and artistic applications. Her research also addresses the process of mutual guidance of “first-person” and “third-person” analyses in the context of neurophenomenological projects.
Websites: www.microphenomenology.com; www.clairepetitmengin.fr