Bernard Reber
Political and moral philosopher, he studies certain problems specific to these fields (pluralism, responsibility, deliberation, evaluation, governance, argumentation, institutional design, ethics of the environment and controversial technologies) with a double concern for discussion with the social, political, natural and engineering sciences, and the study of normativity in context.
In 2000 he joined (CR1) the Research Centre, Meaning, Ethics, Society (CERSES, UMR 8137 CNRS-University Paris Descartes), of which he was Deputy Director before joining the CEVIPOF in 2014
His recent book, Responsible Deliberation, between Conversation and Consideration. Conditions for a Great Democratic Debate. New York, Wiley, 2023, (257 pages). Also available in French : Délibération responsable entre conversation et considération. Conditions d’un grand débat démocratique, Londres, ISTE, 2023 (301 pages).
Some of his theses are presented in the form of TEDx: Déliberate with multiple "self"
He holds an HDR (Habilitation to supervise research) in philosophy from the University of Paris 4 - Sorbonne (2010), a PhD in political research (1999) from the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) /Paris, which he began at the University of Zurich, two masters degrees (theology/religious sciences, University of Fribourg, Centre Sèvres and Institut Catholique de Paris and economic and social sciences) and two journalism diplomas (European Media Studies Institute, Brussels, and Centre romand de formation pour les journalistes, Lausanne).
He is a member of the boards of AIRE, of the Centre for Earth Policies, director of the ISTE-Wiley collections (French and English) Interdisciplinarity, Sciences and Humanities, responsible for the humanities and social sciences in the Encyclopaedia Sciences, co-director of the Sociology, Ethics and Epistemology of Sciences Field (29 volumes).
He has been involved in over fifteen European and international research projects and regularly participates in the evaluation of such projects.
Research Fields
Consideration, Deliberative Democracy, Deliberative Systems, Critical Citizenship, Governance, Ethics of the environment and controversial technologies, innovation responsable, Consideration, Responsability, Comparative epistemology and interdisciplinarity, Deibération, Plurarism, Science for decision-making, Inclusive evaluation.
