The Benoit Guilielmo Philosophy Station

Thanks for stopping by! This page presents my philosophical research. Cutting through ideas since 2025 🪚

About me

Hello! I’m Benoit, a philosopher, from southern France, interested in (too) many things — the nature and rationality of mental phenomena such as belief, questions, foolishness, and much more.

I practice my craft in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy (hellenistic schools and twentieth century - with a strong interest for ancient skepticism, the Brentanian tradition, realist phenomenology, and their relations with contemporary analytic philosophy) — cutting through ideas one thought at a time 🪚

• Affiliation: University of Zürich/Departement of Philosophy - Zürich Epistemology Group on Rationality

Research

My work explores, inter alia, the nature of suspension of judgement, doubt, and inquiry. Selected papers below:

• The nature of Sextan suspension: metacognition or affection of the mind? (Forthcoming) Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. PDF
• Suspension as a mood (Forthcoming) Philosophical Psychology. With A. Logins. PDF
• Doubt and suspension: Two attitudes or one? (2024) Theoria, 39(3), 315–331. PDF
• Suspended Judgement Rebooted (2024) Logos and Episteme, 4, 445–462. PDF
• Enquête, questions et actions (2024) Dialogue, 63(2), 319–338. PDF
• Inquiry, Questions, and Actions (2024) Dialogue, 63(2), 339–356. PDF
• Suspension du jugement (2021) L’encyclopédie Philosophique. With L. Mudry Link

Talks

• (2025-08-21) Epistemic insouciance, nonsense, and foolishness — Humboldt University Berlin
• (2025-07-12) Inquiry and Question Comprehension — Aristotelian Society Joint Sessions (University of Glasgow)
• (2025-07-01) Zetetic Engagement with Fiction — SOPHA2025, Nantes University
• (2025-05-22) Inquiry: How Do Questions Guide Us (with Miloud Belkoniene) — University of Frankfurt
• (2025-05-14) Zetetic Engagement with Fiction — Birkbeck, University of London
• (2025-01-09) Optimism about Philosophical Inquiry (with Miloud Belkoniene) — University of Fribourg
• (2024-10-01) Suspension as a mood — University of Zurich
• (2024-05-15) Suspended Judgement Rebooted — University of Zurich
• (2023-11-12) La dimension épistémique du doute de soi (With Léna Mudry)— Université d’Aix-en-Provence
• (2022-12-13) De la nature de l’enquête — Collège de France, Paris
• (2022-11-15) Métaphysique de l’enquête — University of Neuchâtel
• (2022-11-10) Commentary to Maria Lasonen-Aarnio’s “Perspectives and Good Dispositions” — University of Zurich
• (2022-11-02) The Metaphysics of Inquiry — University of Zurich
• (2022-09-06) Legend of Two States in Epistemology: Doubt and Suspended Judgement — University of Glasgow
• (2022-07-19) The Epistemic Value of Suspension — University of Neuchâtel
• (2022-07-18) Commentary to Ernest Sosa’s “Suspension and Knowledge” — University of Neuchâtel
• (2022-07-04) Suspended Judgement. Its nature, logical relations and value — University of Zurich
• (2022-06-15) Two States or One? Doubt and Suspended Judgement — University of Glasgow
• (2022-05-31) On the Future-Oriented Nature of Suspended Judgement — University of Geneva
• (2022-05-18) On the Futuristic Nature of Suspended Judgement — University of Zurich
• (2022-05-17) Commentary to Mark Schroeder’s “Narrative and Personal Identity” — University of Zurich
• (2022-02-26) Conciliatory Views and Modes of Suspended Judgement — University of Basel
• (2021-09-10) Two Modes of Suspension of Judgement — SOPhiA 2021 – Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy
• (2021-08-29) Two Modes of Suspension of Judgement — University of Lugano

Translations

I have also translated several philosophical papers (see here), and I have a research interest in the Polish-Swiss philosopher J. M. Bochenski (see here).

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