Curriculum Vitae
Christophe Porot
Scholar in Residence
Centre for the Study of Platonism
Cambridge University
Cambridge, UK
Education
Sorbonne Paris 1
PhD Philosophy 2022- – expected completion 2025
Harvard University
HDS, Dean’s Fellowship recipient and MTS candidate: Philosophy of Religion, 2016-2018
Harvard University
SS: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Philosophy 2015-2016
University of Oxford
Visiting Student and Postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theology 2011-2012, 2013/2014
St. Olaf College
Bachelor of Arts in Intellectual History 2009-2011, 2012/2013
Academic Awards
Dean’s Fellowship, Harvard University 2016-2018
Dean’s List, St. Olaf College 2010-2013
Member of Theta Alpha Kappa 2013-present
MN Parliamentary Debate State Champion 2011
CURI Research Award 2012
Publications
– Peer Reviewed Papers
“Constructive Comparative Philosophy of Religion: Translations of Christianity and Islam and a Case Study of Ibn Tufayl and Ralph Cudworth.” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. In Journal of Philosophical Theological Research (forthcoming 2023)
“A Defense of first and second-order theism; The limits of empirical inquiry and the rationality
of religious belief” Co-Authored with Charles Taliaferro. In European Journal for Philosophy of
Religion, 2016
“What Might It Take to Get from Donald Davidson’s Mature Philosophical Position to Recognize the Possibility, and Even Plausibility, of an Afterlife?” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. In
Death and Anti-Death, vol. 11, Ten years after Donald Davidson, edited by Charles Tandy. Ann
Arbor: Ria University Press, 2013.
– Public Philosophy
“Bourdain’s taste for freedom” In Anthony Bourdain and Philosophy, edited by Scott Calef. Carus Books, Chicago, IL, (forthcoming)
“On being a Werewolf” Co-Authored with Lucie Tardy. In Zevon and Philosophy, edited by John Mackinnon. Carus Books, Chicago, IL, (forthcoming)
“Equality and crime in Pokemon”. In Pokemon and Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Michaud,
Carus Books, Chicago, IL, (forthcoming)
“Team Plasma was right.. sort of”. In Pokemon and Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Michaud,
Carus Books, Chicago, IL, (forthcoming)
“Extended Fight”. In Captain America vs Iron Man and Philosophy, edited by Nicholas
Michaud, Open Court: Chicago, IL, 2017
“Living through a Horror Story.” Co-Authored with Jacob Browne. In American Horror Story
and Philosophy, Richard V. Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene. Open Court: Chicago, IL, 2017
“Click Bait for Black Fish.” In Mr. Robot and Philosophy, edited by Richard V. Greene and
Rachel Robison-Greene. Open Court: Chicago, IL, 2017
“Afraid to Get Your Hands Dirty?” Co-authored with Charles Taliaferro. In Homeland and
Philosophy, edited by Robert Arp. Open Court, 2014.
– Peer reviewed Encyclopedia Entries
“Ralph Cudworth”, Wiley Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, co-authored
with Charles Taliaferro 2019
– Book Reviews
“Holding Wrongdoers Responsible: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness”, by Jeffrey Bluestein (Routledge 2021), review in Journal of Moral Philosophy
“Alternative Concepts of God.” Edited by Andrei Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa. (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2016), review in Religious Studies Review 42.4
“Hidden Divinity” Edited by Eleanore Stump and Adam Green (Cambridge University Press,
2016) review in Religious Studies Review 43.3
– Education Curriculum
“Topic Analysis, Resolved: The ‘right to be forgotten’ from internet searches ought to be a civil
right.” Edited by James Kim and Joe Cobarrubio, Elite Educational Institute, 2015
“Topic Analysis, Resolved: For Profit Prisons in the United States Should be Banned.” Edited by
James Kim and Joe Cobarrubio, Elite Educational Institute, 2015
– Poetry:
“Flamingo”, Redline Zine, 2020
Research
Douglas Casson (St. Olaf College Professor of Political Theory) and Ignacio Silva (University of
Oxford, Theology): Research award from St. Olaf Collaborative Undergraduate Research and
Inquiry (CURI) in conjunction with the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (Oxford)e,
2012
Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf Professor of Philosophy)— independent research on philosophy and pop-culture as well as philosophy and concepts of the afterlife, led to two published papers. 2013
Karl Fink (St. Olaf Professor of German Studies)– independent research on Goethe’s
relationship to Rousseau, 2014
– Presentations and Conferences:
Imitatio Dei: an ethics of mysticism. Presentation at Pantheon-Sorbonne Paris 1, December 15, 2022 (presentation available for viewing here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eau68Ef5pPU
Rousseau’s Paradox, CIS Presentation in Viking Theater at St. Olaf College 2013 (presentation
available for viewing here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQxNnHt9_rE
Newton and Philosophy, St. Olaf Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (CURI)
Presentation at St. Olaf College, 2013
Gravity and Grace, Ways of Knowing Conference, Harvard University 2016
The Commodification of Human Attention, Workshop on Economic Philosophy (Distributism),
Wake Forest University 2016
Harvard/MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, Harvard University, 4/8/17 (attended,
participated in dialogue, and reviewed essay submissions)
– Editorial Work
Managing Editor for Wiley-Blackwell’s Religious Studies Review: Analytic and Linguistic
Philosophy, area 8, 2016-Present:
Editions: 42.3, 42.4, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3
– Edited, proofread:
The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2012
Taliaferro, Charles, “Philosophy of Religion”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014
Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Read here
References
Alex Grimwade (CIO of Disney Television)
Ignacio Silva (Austral/ Oxford University)
Gordon Marino (St. Olaf College)
Karl Fink (St. Olaf College)
Laurel Carrington (St. Olaf College)
Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)
Douglas Casson (St. Olaf College)
Anant Rambachan (St. Olaf College)