Catherine Larrère


Catherine Larrère is a French philosopher and academic. She is a professor of philosophy emeritus. She is a specialist in Montesquieu's philosophy and an advocate for environmental ethics.

Biography

Catherine Delafoss was born in La Rochelle in 1944.
challenge in 2015. From left to right: Lucile Schmid, Prof David Frame, Kim Hill, Prof. Catherine Larrère and Bronwyn Hayward.
She first became interested in the history of economics, then in the philosopher Montesquieus ideas. In the 1990s, she met and was inspired by John Baird Callicott the American academic concerned with environmental ethics. She became an expert and was an advocate for similar British and American research. She translated works by John Baird Callicott into French..
She has participated in the development of environmental philosophy, particularly in the areas of nature protection, risk prevention and environmental justice. She has written about the role of women in society as proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She collaborates with her husband, the agronomist and ecologist Raphaël Larrère.

Selected works