Paul Dumouchel is Canadian and presently Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

He is co-author with Jean-Pierre Dupuy of L’Enfer des choses, René Girard et la logique de l’économie (Paris: Seuil, 1979) and author or Emotions essai sur le corps et le social (Paris: Les Empêcheurs de Penser en rond, 1999). He co-edited Jean-Pierre Dupuy L’auto-organisation de la physique au politique (Paris: Seuil, 1983), edited Violence and Truth (Stranford University Press, 1988), Nationalisme et multiculturalisme en Asie (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010) and with Rieko Gotoh he co-edited Against Injustice. The New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His latest books are Le sacrifice inutile essai sur la violence politique (Paris: Flammarion, 2011), Economia dell’invidia (Massa: Transeuropa, 2011), and The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (Michigan State University Press, 2013), and with Reiko Gotoh Social Bonds as Freedom (Berghahn Books, 2014, and with Luisa Damiano Living with Robots (Harvard University Press, 2017)..