Christine Clavien

Christine Clavien
University of Geneva
iEH2 - Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités
CMU, 1, rue Michel-Servet
CH-1211 Genève 4
Phone: [phone]
Nationality: Swiss
Date of birth: 1975
Two children (born in 2010 and 2012)
Mother tongue: French website: www.christineclavien.ch
Fluent written and spoken English, German, and Swiss German [e-mail]
Education
1995 – 2002
Graduate degrees in philosophy, history and logic, University of Neuchâtel
2002 – 2008
PhD (philosophy), Universities of Neuchâtel and Paris I (co-supervision)
- Date of defence : 11.01.2008
- Title: Ethique évolutionniste : de l’altruisme biologique à la morale
- Distinction: Summa cum laude
- Referee: Daniel Andler, Ronald de Sousa, Jean Gayon, Nicolas
Perrin, Daniel
Schulthess, Dan Sperber
2003 – 2005
Graduate certificate of teaching in higher education (Zertifikatskurs Hochschullehre),
Hochschuldidaktik, University of Bern
2009
Postdoc, Columbia University (New York)
2009-2014
Postdoc, University of Lausanne
Mobility
1999 – 2000
Erasmus exchange (September to July), Freie Universität, Berlin
2005 – 2006
Doctoral research (September to December), University of Paris 1/CNRS (IHPST)
supervision: Prof. Jean Gayon
2006 – 2007
Doctoral research (September to March), University of Manchester
supervision: Prof. Peter Goldie
2009
Post-doctoral reserach (January to August), Columbia University (New York)
supervision: Prof. Philip Kitcher
Awards
 Erasmus grant (mobility grant)
 Co-supervision CRUS grant, Switzerland-France (doctoral mobility grant)
 post-doctoral CREUM grant, University of Montréal (post-doc grant - declined)
 Swiss National Science Foundation fellowships for prospective researchers (post-doc mobility grant)
 Fondation 450ème grant (research grant)
 Qualifiée aux fonctions de maître de conférences en philosophie (section 17 – 2010)

Professional activities
Employment and teaching positions
2015 –
Senior Lecturer, Institut Ethique Histoire Humanités, University of Geneva
- Ethics teaching at the faculties of Medicine, Science, and Humanities
- Supervision of Master and PhD philosophy students
2014
Invited lecturer during autumn semester, Philosophy department, University of Neuchâtel
2008 – 2015
Post-Doc Junior Lecturer, and from 2014 to 2015 Lecturer, Department of Ecology and
Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Co-organisation and launching of an interdisciplinary Master “teaching and
mentoring” program for all the Faculties at the University of Lausanne
(www.unil.ch/sciencesaucarre)
- Co-organisation & teaching, 2nd year Bachelor “Biology and Society” program
- Supervisions in the biology master teaching program
2002-2007
“Assistante” (Doctoral student with teaching duties), University of Neuchâtel
Supervisions
2015-
Supervision of philosophy PhD thesis (Elodie Malbois), University of Geneva
Supervision of master theses in the philosophy program, University of Geneva
2012-2105
Supervision in the biology master teaching program, University of Lausanne
Collective responsibilities
2016 –
Member of the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology
2016 –
Member of the LERU Ethics Working Group
2014 – 2015
Member of the “Groupe de réflexion Siences Humaines et Sociales”, EPFL,
Lausanne
2009 – 2014
Post-Doc representative at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Lausanne
2011-1013
Member of the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation of the Swiss
Academies of Arts and Sciences
Referee work
Scientific
committee
member for
SPS 2016 (Société de Philosophie des Sciences), EPSA 2013 (European Philosophy
of Science Association Conference), Editions Matériologiques, REPHA (revue
francophone de philosophie analytique), Praxis (Philosophy journal – Manchester),
L'Encyclopédie Philosophique, La Science Appelle les Jeunes 2016
Reviewer for
Mind and Language, The Journal of Ethics, Philosophical Papers, Dialectica , The
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Psychology, Journal of
the American Philosophical Association, Revue philosophique de Louvain, Topoi,
Bioethica Forum, The Leverhulme Trust, Oxford University Press
Referee for master
thesis defenses
- Department of Philosophy, University of Lausanne
- Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lausanne
Referee for PhD
thesis defense
- Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
Organisation of workshops and conferences
15.10-19.11.2014
Conference series "Coopération et réseaux familiaux", University of Lausanne
22.10-26.11.2013
Conference series "La tragédie des communs", University of Lausanne
6-7.06.2011
Conference "Why are humans religious, An interdisciplinary symposium",
University of Lausanne
14.01.2008
11th meeting of Swiss graduate students in philosophy, "Revolutionary Ethics",

University of Bern
2008
conference series "L’esprit des autres / Other’s Mind", University of Lausanne, in
collaboration with the "Déterminismes et Libertés" group
15-16.03.2007
Conference "Emotion, Rationality, and Value", University of Manchester
14.03.2007
Workshop "Emotion, Ethics, and Adaptation", University of Manchester
8.03.2007
Workshop "Emotion and Rhetoric: Politics and the Self", University of Manchester
2006-2007
conference series "Va et coopère!", University of Lausanne, in collaboration with
the "Déterminismes et Libertés" group
27-29.10.2005
Conference "Emotions and Rationality in Moral Philosophy", Universities of
Neuchatel and Bern + Editorial board for proceedings of the conference
2005-2006
conference series "L’éthique, l’inné et l’acquis", University of Lausanne, in
collaboration with the "Déterminismes et Libertés" group
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
2016
Clavien, C., Mersch D., Chapuisat M., "No evidence for moral reward and punishment
in an anonymous context", PLoS ONE, 11/3.
2016
C. Clavien, Michel Chapuiat, "The evolution of utility functions and psychological
altruism", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science C, 56, pp. 24-31.
2013
C. Clavien, M. Chapuisat, "Altruism across disciplines: one word, multiple meanings",
Biology and Philosophy, 28, pp. 125–40.
2013
C. Clavien, "Philosophie expérimentale : illustration par l’exemple de la punition
morale", Klesis, 27, pp.191-210.
2012
C. Clavien, Colby J. Tanner, Fabrice Clément, Michel Chapuisat, "Choosy Moral
Punishers", PLoS ONE, 7/6.
2012
C. Clavien, Michel Chapuisat, "Altruism - a philosophical analysis", eLS, John Wiley &
Sons Ltd, Chichester. URL : http://www.els.net
2012
C. Clavien "Nouvelle sociologie et morale naturalisée", SociologieS. January 2012.
URL: http://sociologies.revues.org/3904
2012
C. Clavien, "Altruistic Emotional Motivation: An argument in Favour of Psychological
Altruism", in Katie Plaisance & Thomas Reydon (eds.), Philosophy of Behavioral
Biology, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, vol. 282, Springer Press.
2010
C. Clavien, "An Affective Approach to Moral Motivation", Journal of Cognitive
Science, 11/2, pp. 129-160.
2010
C. Clavien, Rebekka Klein, "Eager for Fairness or Revenge: Psychological Altruism in
Economics", Economics and Philosophy, 26, pp. 267-290.
2009
C. Clavien, "Comment comprendre les émotions morales", Dialogue, 48/3, pp. 601- 618.
2009
C. Clavien, "Gibbard's Expressivism: an Interdisciplinary Critical Analysis",
Philosophical Psychology, 22/4, pp. 465-484.
2008
C. Clavien, Chloe FitzGerald, "Le réalisme métaéthique face à la science : un rapport
conflictuel", Klesis, 9, pp. 157-179.
2007
C. Clavien, Julien Deonna, Ivo Wallimann, "Introduction : Affective Intentionality and
Practical Rationality", Dialectica, 61/3, pp. 311-322.
2006
C. Clavien, Julien Deonna, Ivo Wallimann, "Introduction" of a Special Issue on
Emotions, European Journal of Analytical Philosophy, 2/2, pp. 5-9.
2006
C. Clavien, "L’éthique évolutionniste", Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 138, pp.
227-244.

Monographs
2010
C. Clavien, Je t'aide moi non plus: biologique, comportemental ou psychologique,
l'altruisme dans tous ses états. Paris : Vuibert.
2008
C. Clavien, PhD thesis published online : L'éthique évolutionniste : de l’altruisme
biologique à la morale, Université de Neuchâtel, http://doc.rero.ch/record/8834?ln=fr
2007
C. Clavien, Catherine El-Bez (éds.), Morale et évolution biologique ; entre
déterminisme et liberté, Lausanne : PPUR.
Non peer-reviewed professional articles
2017
C. Clavien, C. FitzGerald, "The evolution of moral intuitions and their feeling of
rightness", in R. Joyce (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy,
Routledge.
2015
C. Clavien, L’éthique modélisée par la biologie et l’économie, Implications
Philosophiques.
2014
C. Clavien, "Evolution, Society, and Ethics: Social Darwinism versus Evolutionary
Ethics", in Heams et al. (eds.), Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences,
Springer.
2012
C. Clavien, Peter Clarke, "L'homme post-darwinien: un singe nu avec une grosse tête ?",
Proceedings of "Le mois de la science et de la spiritualité" conference, Centre Cèdres.
2012
C. Clavien, "Kitcher’s Revolutionary Reasoning Inversion in Ethics", in Analyse &
Kritik, 34, pp. 117-128.
2011
C. Clavien, "Comment répondre au discours créationniste", in P. Bornet et al. (éds.), Et
Dieu créa Darwin: Théorie de l'évolution et créationnisme en Suisse aujourd’hui.
Genève: Labor et Fides, pp. 173-192.
2011
C. Clavien, "Trois sortes d’altruisme et leur rapport à la morale", in J. Ravat & A.
Masala (éds), La morale humaine et les sciences. Editions Matériologiques, pp. 141-
168.
2009
C. Clavien, "Jugements moraux et motivation à la lumière des données empiriques",
Studia philosophica, 68, pp. 179-206.
2009
C. Clavien, "Evolution, société, éthique : darwinisme social versus éthique
évolutionniste", in M. Silberstein et al. (éds), Les mondes darwiniens. Syllepse, pp. 883-
906.
2007
C. Clavien, "Petite introduction aux théories évolutionnistes", in Morale et évolution
biologique ; entre déterminisme et liberté. PPUR, pp. 24-61.
2007
C. Clavien, "Comment les données scientifiques et les théories évolutionnistes
transforment l’éthique normative", in Morale et évolution biologique ; entre
déterminisme et liberté. PPUR, pp. 220-244.
Book reviews
2017
“Kozubek, Jim, Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9,
2016”, Bioethica Forum, forthcoming.
2010
"Gigerenzer, Gerd, Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making, Penguin Books,
2008 (1st ed. 2007)", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 13/1, p. 113.
2004
"Searle, Liberté et Neurobiologie", Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, 136, pp. 298-
300.
2003
"Andler, Fagot-Largeault, Saint-Sernin, Philosophie des Sciences", Revue de Théologie
et de Philosophie, 135/2, pp.185-186.