de Soete, François

François de Soete

Bio

François de Soete has recently served as a lecturer in the department of political science at the University of British Columbia, where he is currently completing his Ph.D. His primary research interests focus on environmental ethics, morality, and politics. He has presented papers in North America and Asia on themes that include environmental ethics, public morality, ethics of power, and French Enlightenment thought. In addition to his ongoing dissertation research, he has completed a book that presents various philosophical conceptions of meaning and purpose in the context of twentieth and twenty-first century social and political developments.