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Mélissa FOX-MURATON
Full Time Professor of Philosophy
Home Mélissa FOX-MURATON - Full Time Professor of Philosophy

Mélissa FOX-MURATON has a doctorate in philosophy and a doctorate in literature. Professor of Philosophy at the Clermont School of Business, she is a member of the Philosophies and Rationalities Laboratory (PHIER, Université Clermont Auvergne). Author of Ontologie de la chair : phantasmes philosophiques et médicaux de la conceptualisation narrative (Lambert-Lucas 2013) and of Kierkegaard et Wittgenstein. Logique, language, existence (Lambert-Lucas 2022), and editor of Kierkegaard and Issues in Contemporary Ethics (De Gruyter 2020), his research focuses on existential philosophy, moral philosophy and disability.

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In brief
Teaching areas
- Moral philosophy
Research topics
- Existential philosophy
- Moral philosophy
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Disability
Responsibilities
- Full Time Professor of Philosophy
Education
- Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Clermont Auvergne, 2020
Doctorate in Letters, Blaise Pascal University, 2008

Professional experience

  • Since 2008: Clermont School of Business – Professor in philosophy
  • 2010-2015: Blaise Pascal University -Professor
  • 2008-2010: Blaise Pascal University – Teaching Assistant
  • 2007-2008: Blaise Pascal University and ESC Clermont -Professor
  • 2004-2007: Blaise Pascal University – Assistant Professor
  • 2002-2004: ESC Clermont – Professor

Publications – Contributions (since 2021)

Last update: July 2025

Academic research articles

  • FOX-MURATON, M., (2021). A World Without Imagination ? Consequences of Aphantasia for an Existential Account of Self. History of European Ideas, Special Issue: « Imagination in Kierkegaard (and Beyond) », AERES B
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2021). Aphantasia and the Language of Imagination: A Wittgensteinian exploration. Analiza i Egzystencja: czasopismo filozoficzne, (55), 5-24.

Book chapters and handbooks

  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2025). Autistic (Un)Masking and the Challenges of Authentic Self-Disclosure. Existential Philosophy and Disability. Perspectives. (1ère ed.). dans FOX-MURATON Mélissa (Ed.), Existential Philosophy and Disability. Perspectives. Editions BRILL, p292-327
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2025). Introduction. Existential Philosophy and Disability. Perspectives (1ère ed.). dans FOX-MURATON Mélissa (Ed.), Existential Philosophy and Disability. Perspectives. Editions BRILL, p1-10
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2023). Existential Ethics and Public Policy : On the Value of Life, Just Cause, and Moral Demand (1ère ed.). dans Johann-Christian Pöder (Ed.), Kierkegaard and Bioethics (pp. 159-175). Routledge.

Paper in academic conferences

  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2025). Beyond the Existential and the Psychological: A Critique of the Concept of Anxiety through the Lens of Neurodivergence. Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis 2025. Cracovie: Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis, mai
  • FOX-MURATON M. (2024). Spaces of Everyday Existence: Kierkegaard, Laïcité and Public Policy, Kierkegaard and French Laïcité – French Institute of Denmark – Copenhagen, 9-10 octobre
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2024). Alexithymia and Neurodivergence. Colloque international Association Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vienne, Août
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2024). Kierkegaard and the Negative: Re-examining the Dialectical, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College & Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen, Mar 2024, Online, United States – Kierkegaard on Misunderstanding ( Online)Mélissa Fox-Muraton. Kierkegaard on Misunderstanding. Kierkegaard and the Negative: Re-examining the Dialectical, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College & Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen, Mar 2024, Online, United States. ⟨hal-04606999⟩
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2024). Kierkegaard on Misunderstanding, HKL-SKC Conference, Online, 13-15 march – Kierkegaard and the Negative: Re-examining the Dialectical, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College & Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen, Mar 2024, Online, United States
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2024). Mental Health and Being a Man: Depression and Gender in Guilty?/Not Guilty?  Americain Academy of Religion, Kierkegaard and the Construction of Masculinities, novembre
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2023). Autistic (Un)Masking and the Challenges of Authentic Self-Disclosure. Existential Philosophy for times of Change and Crisis : Difference, disbility, diversity – International Conference Programme, Online, juillet
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2023). Dialoguer avec Kierkegaard et Wittgenstein. International wittgenstein symposium, Poitiers, mars
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2022). Distinctiveness, Diversity and Relationality: Challenging Kierkegaard’s Concepts for a Contemporary Existential Ethics of Inclusiveness. Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis : Loneliness and Togetherness , Cracow University of Economics , 2-3 septembre, Cracovie, Pologne
  • FOX-MURATON, M., KIERGEGAARD, (2022). (In) communicabilité de l’expérience : Kierkegaard en dialogue avec Wittgenstein, Vertiges du soi, 20-21 octobre 2022, Paris .
  • FOX-MURATON, M., (2022). Distinctiveness without Distinction: Secularising Kierkegaard’s Concepts for a Contemporary Existential Ethics. Kierkegaard Today : Existential Ethics with or without Religion, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, 20 mai, Copenhagen, Danemark.
  • FOX-MURATON M. ,(2021). Kierkegaard on Love, Sexuality, and the Dangers of ObjectificationKierkegaard and Love, The Human Flourishing ProgramHarvard – USA 4-5 novembre
  • FOX-MURATON M. ,(2021). Camus on the (im)possibility of a good life where others are in chainsExistential Philosophy for Times of Change and CrisisOnline 26-27 aout
  • FOX-MURATON M. ,(2021). On the Limits of Normative Discourse and Intimate Self-Determination: Kierkegaardian Existential Ethics and the Language of Sexuality. SKC Annual ConferenceCopenhague – Danemark 11-13 aout
  • FOX-MURATON M. ,(2021) Love, reciprocity, equilibrium: Simone de Beauvoir in dialogue with Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard in FranceKierkegaard in France Seminar SeriesOnline (Cambridge)5-7 mai

Coordination & special issue coordination

  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2025). Existential Philosophy and Disability. Perspectives. 1ère édition – E-book. Editions BRILL.
  • DABROWSKI, A., FOX-MURATON, M., JAKUBCZAK, M. (2021). Embodied cognition & Existential philosophy for times of change and crisis, Argument, Biannual Philosophical Journal, Vol. 11 No. 1 doi.org/10.24917/10.24917/20841043.11.1

Books

  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2022). Kierkegaard et Wittgenstein. Logique, Langage, Existence.. Limoges: Editions Lambert-Lucas, 320p

Conference organizations

  • FOX-MURATON, M., M., GOMULKA, J., KALUZA, M., NASIELSKA, H. (2025). Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis. Organisation colloque- 5ème édition, Cracovie (Pologne), mai
  • FOX-MURATON, M., GOMULKA, J., NASIELSKA, H. (2023). Existential Philosophy for times of Change and Crisis : Difference, disbility, diversity. Organisation colloque – 4ème édition, International Conference Programme, France
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2022). Fugue of Melancholy, Philosophy and Beyond. Membre du Comité Scientifique et d’Organisation. University of Economics , Department of philosophy, Institute of philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Pologne

Tribunes

  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2023). Attaques terroristes, conflits. Comment exister face aux tragédies du monde? The Conversation, octobre
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2021). La fatigue : nouveau mal du siècle ou revendication sociale ? The Conversation, France, février
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2021). Le passe sanitaire : de sérieux risques éthiques ? The Conversation, France, juillet
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2021). France’s Covid health pass raises serious ethical questions, The Conversation, juillet
  • FOX-MURATON, M. (2021). La pandémie, révélatrice d’un autre “nous” possible. Poléthis, n°3, supplément, octobre, p. 24-25

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