Benjamin Bourcier

Benjamin Bourcier is associate professor of moral and political philosophy (enseignant-chercheur) and Academic Advisor at ESPOL. After a postdoctoral position at ETHICS (Catholic University of Lille), he joined the school in 2019.

He is a member of the Centre Bentham (School of Law, Sciences Po Paris) and the Institut Pour la Paix. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Université de Rouen (2017). He has been a visiting researcher at University College London and University of Jyväskylä (Finland). As a Lecturer, he taught at the University of Jyväskylä, Université de Lille and participate regularly at the Bentham’s Seminar at the School of Law (Sciences Po Paris).

In 2018-2021, he hold a 30,000 euro grant StaR from Région des Hauts de France which led to the publication of British Modern International Thought in the Making (co-edited with Prof. M. Jakonen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). With the Centre Bentham, he is part of several collective research projects in history of political thought around Bentham.

Benjamin Bourcier’s research focuses on the history of modern international political thought (Hobbes to Bentham) and cosmopolitanism (modern and contemporary).