My research interests lie at the junction of phenomenology and the philosophy of mind. I am particularly interested in the philosophy of perception, the theories of consciousness and of the self, and the many attempts to renew transcendentalism in post-Kantian philosophy.

My current research has to do with the issue of normativity in perception. I am trying to define the nature of perceptual norms by analyzing their epistemological functions, their abilities to guide action, and the role of the body and of the other in our awareness of these norms.

Je suis professeur au département de philosophie de l'Université de Montréal depuis 2013. Après un baccalauréat à Concordia (2001), une maîtrise à l'UdM (2004) et un doctorat de l'Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg en Allemagne (2009), j'ai effectué des stages postdoctoraux à McGill et Chicago de 2009 à 2013 (FRQSC, CRSH) ainsi qu'aux universités de Cologne et Copenhague en 2022 et 2023 (Humboldt). Je viens de terminer une monographie pour Oxford University Press qui s'intitule Phenomenology and the Norms of the Perception (à paraître en juin 2024) et je penche actuellement sur mon nouveau projet, consacré à la plasticité de la perception.

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Monographes

Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception. London: Oxford University Press. À paraître en 2024.         https://global.oup.com/academic/product/phenomenology-and-the-norms-of-perception-9780198884224?q=maxime%20doyon&lang=en&cc=ca#  

Der transzendentale Anspruch der Dekonstruktion. Zur Erneuerung des Begriffs ‚transzendental’ bei Derrida, Würzburg:  Ergon 2010. (267 pages)

Travaux d’édition et de coordination

Time and Intentionality, sous la direction de Thiemo Breyer & Maxime Doyon. Numéro thématique spécial de la revue Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Vol.19/3,2020, pp. 405-547. https://link.springer.com/journal/11097/19/3

The Imagination: Kant’s Phenomenological Legacy, sous la direction de Maxime Doyon & Augustin Dumont. Numéro thématique spécial de la revue The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. XVIII (2019), pp. 175-306.

L’adresse du réel, de Jocelyn Benoist. Disputatio organisée et coordonnée par Maxime Doyon pour la revue Philosophiques, Vol. 45/1 (2018), pp. 215-294.

Normativity in Perception, sous la direction de Thiemo Breyer & Maxime Doyon. London: Palgrave Macmillan, coll. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2015 (231 pp.)

Articles dans des revues scientifiques

La Gestalt d’autrui. Note sur l’étendue de l’influence de la Gestaltpsychologie chez Merleau-Ponty, in Phänomenologische Forschungen, Numéro thématique spécial sur The Given, Danilo Manca & Daniele De Santis (Dir.), 2021/2, pp. 159-177.

Kant and Husserl on the (Alleged) Function of Imagination in Perception, in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. XVIII (2019), pp. 180-203.

Husserl on Perceptual Optimality, in Husserl Studies Vo. 34/2 (2018), pp. 171-189. DOI: 10.1007/s10743-018-9224-9

Husserl and McDowell on the Role of Concepts in Perception, in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy XI (2012), pp. 43-75.

Der quasi transzendentale Status des Ereignisses bei Derrida, in Philosophisches Jahrbuch 117/2 (2010), pp. 262-285.

Chapitres de livres

The Normative Turn of Perceptual Intentionality and its Metaphysical Consequences. (Or Why Husserl was Neither a Conjunctivist nor a Disjunctivist), in The Husserlian Mind, H. Jacobs (Dir.). London : Routledge, coll. The Routledge Philosophical Minds series, 2021, pp. 172-183.

On the Phenomenology and Normativity of Multisensory Perception: Husserlian and Merleau-Pontian Analyses, in Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity: Norms, Goals and Values, Mirja Hartimo, Sara Heinämmaa et Ilpo Hirvonen (Dir.). London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 107-125.

The ‘As-Structure’ of Intentional Experience in Husserl and Heidegger, in Phenomenology of Thinking: Investigations into the Character of Cognitive Experiences, T. Breyer & C. Gutland (Dir.). London: Routledge, coll. Advances in Consciousness Research, 2016, pp. 116-133.

Perception and Normative Self-Consciouness, in Normativity in Perception, sous la direction de Maxime Doyon & Thiemo Breyer. London : Palgrave Macmillan, coll. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2015, pp. 38 à 55.

The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction, in A Companion to Derrida, sous la direction de Leonard Lawlor & Zeynep Direk, Oxford, Blackwell 2014, pp. 132-149.

Articles encyclopédiques

Normativity, in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, Ted Toadvine and Nicolas De Warren (Dir.), Berlin: Springer. À paraître 2024. 

Bodily Awareness in French Phenomenology (avec Maren Wehrle), in Routledge Handbook to Bodily Awareness, Adrian Alsmith et Matt Longo (Dir.), Routledge: London, 2021, pp. 109-121.

The Body (avec Maren Wehrle), in: D. De Santis, B. Hopkins et C. Majolino (Dir.): Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 123-137.

Philosophy of Mind, in Husserl-Handbuch. Leben – Werk - Wirkung, S. Luft et M. Wehrle (Dir.), Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, pp. 320-326.

Erneuerung [Renouveau], in Husserl-Lexikon, H.-H. Gander (Dir.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 98-99.

Idealismus [Idéalisme], in  Husserl-Lexikon, H.-H. Gander (Dir.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 139-142.

Idealität [Idéalité], in Husserl-Lexikon, H.-H. Gander (Dir.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 142-144.

Transzendentalphilosophie [philosophie transcendantale], in Husserl-Lexikon, H.-H. Gander (Dir.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 285-287.

Zeichen [signe], in Husserl-Lexikon, H.-H. Gander (Dir.), Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 322-324.

Comptes-rendus

Review of Corijn van Mazijk, Kant, Husserl, and McDowell on Perception and Reality (London: Routledge 2020), in Husserl Studies 37/1, pp. 93-101 (2021). 

Quelle est la norme de la perception? (Compte-rendu critique de L’adresse du réel de Jocelyn Benoist (Paris : Vin 2017)), in Philosophiques Vo. 45/1 (2018), pp. 271-278.

Recension de Shaun Gallagher, Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (Oxford University Press 2017), in Phenomenological Reviews 3 (2017): https://doi.org/10.19079/pr.2017.8.doy

Recension de Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Andreas Elpidorou et Walter Hopp (Dir.): Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology. Conceptual and Empirical Approaches (Routledge 2017), in Husserl Studies 33/2 (2017), pp. 183-190.

Phenomenology and the Experience of the Historical. A Review Essay on David Carr’s Experience and History, in Continental Philosophy Review 49/3 (2016), pp. 383-392.

Intentionality and Normativity. A Critical Notice on Steve Crowell’s Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 23/2 (2015), pp. 279-295. (Une version très légèrement modifiée de cet article est aussi paru dans Philosophy Today, 16/1 (2016), pp. 207-221.)The Problem with Presence. A Critical Notice on Alva Noë’s Varieties of Presence, in International Journal of Philosophical Studies. Vol. 21/4 (2013), pp. 600-611.

Introductions

Time and Intentionality (avec T. Breyer), introduction au numéro thématique spécial Time and Intentionality, in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Vol. 19/3, 2020, pp. 405-411.

Editors' Introduction (avec A. Dumont) à  The Imagination : Kant’s Phenomenological Legacy », numéro thématique spécial de The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. XVIII (2019), pp. 177-179.

"Introduction" (avec T. Breyer), in Normativity in Perception, sous la direction de Maxime Doyon & Thiemo Breyer. London: Palgrave Macmillan, coll. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, 2015, pp. 1 à 13.

Présentations sur invitation

Apprentissage perceptuel et incarnation, Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur la normativité, Université de Montréal (22.03.2024)

Perceptual Plasticity and Normativity, Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology & Philosophy of Mind, Université de Copenhague, Danemark (16.08.2023)                 

The Norms in Perceiving Others, Phänomenologische Werkstatt, Husserl Archiv, Universität zu Köln, Allemagne (26.05.2023)

The Norms in Perceiving Others, Instituts für Philosophie, Universität Würzburg, Allemagne (25.05.2023)

Perceptual Plasticity in Husserl’s Phenomenology, Workshop Contemporary Issues in Phenomenology, Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali,     Università di Parma, Italie (02.05.2023) 

The Norms in Perceiving Others, 22e Congrès annuel de l’International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Moreton-In-March, UK (22.06.2022) 

Perceiving Together: A Normative Endeavor, Atelier Perceiving Together, Universität zu Köln, Allemagne (06.06.2022)

Phenomenology and the Norms of Perception, Phänomenologische Werkstatt, Husserl Archiv, Universität zu Köln (25.05.2022) 

The Norms in Perceiving Others, Husserl Archiv, Leuven, Belgique (23.05.2022)

The Norms in Perceiving Others, Conférence Phenomenological Perspectives on Social Perception, U. de Montréal (08.04.2022)

Multisensory Perception and the Normativity Constraint, Universität zu Köln, Allemagne (13.11.2019)

Was Husserl a Disjunctivist or a Conjunctivist? The Normative Turn of Perceptual Intentionality and its Metaphysical Consequences, From the Paris Lectures to the Cartesian Meditations. The Legacy of Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (23.10.2019)

The Phenomenology of Multisensory Perception: Classical and Contemporary Approaches. Panel Normativity in Experience dans le cadre du congrès annuel de la Deutsche Gesellschaft der Philosophie, Vienne, Autriche (19.09.2019)

Multisensory Perception and the Normativity Constraint, International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Maine (31.07.2019)

Phenomenology, Identity and Perceptual Constancy (Commentary on K. Laasik’s paper), Husserl-Circle, University of Lisbon, Portugal (15.05.2019)

Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and the Phenomenology of Multisensory Perception, Congrès Norms, Goals, Values - Phenomenological Approaches to Normativity, University of Helsinki, Finland (22.03.2019)

Multisensory Perception and Normativity, International Spring School in Contemporary Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Valparaíso, Chile (13.10.2018)

The Normative in Perceptual Experience: The Cases of Illusions and Hallucinations, Conférence plénière – Congrès Between Normativity and Naturality of Intentionality, Universidad Alberto Hurtado de Santiago, Chili. (10/2017)

Kant and Husserl on the Function of Imagination in Perception, Journée d’étude de la Chaire du Canada en philosophie transcendantale intitulée The Imagination : Kantian and Phenomenological Models, Université de Montréal (05/2017)

Phenomenology and the Experience of the Historical. (Table ronde autour du livre de David Carr, Experience and History : Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical World), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Emory University, Atlanta (10/2015)

Intentionality and Normativity (Table ronde autour du livre de Steve Crowell, Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Nouvelle-Orléans (10/2014)

La structure phénoménologique du « comme tel » chez Husserl et Heidegger, Journée d’étude: Conceptions phénoménologiques du « possible » : déplacements, renversements, radicalisations. Université Laval, Québec (03/2014)

Self-Consciousness and Normativity. Congrès Normativity in Perception, McGill University (08/2013)

La structure de la conscience perceptuelle, Université de Montréal (03/2013)

The ‘As-Structure’ of Phenomenal Consciousness, Congrès Phenomenology of Thinking, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Forum Heidelberg (IWH) (03/2013).

The Problem of Perceptual Presence in Enactive and Transcendental Phenomenology, Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop, Université de Chicago (04/2012)

The Passive and Kinaesthetic Sources of Normativity, Research Colloquium Philosophy & Psychiatry, Clinique de Psychiatrie Générale, Université de Heidelberg (03/2012)

Le dynamisme de la présence: remarques sur les paradigmes de Derrida, Heidegger, Husserl et Noë. Ateliers de philosophie moderne et contemporaine, Université Laval, Québec (02/2012)

Intentionality and Normativity. A Critical Look at McDowell’s Latest Proposal. Potentiality and Normativity, Université de Montréal (08/2011)

Penser la mort. Deutsch-Französische Gedankengänge zwischen Rilke, Blanchot, Heidegger, Gadamer und Derrida. Semaine de la culture franco-allemande, Freiburg. (11/2007)

Die Bedeutung von Derridas quasi transzendentale Begriffe. Colloque Neuere Forschungen zur Phänomenologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. (02/2006)

Présentations évaluées à l’aveugle

Perceptual Plasticity, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Université de Reykjavik, Islande (27.04.2023)

Perceiving Together: A Normative Endeavour, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, Jena, Allemagne (29.09.2022)

Merleau-Ponty on Perception, Illusion and Hallucination, Société canadienne de philosophie continentale, Memorial University, St-John’s (15.10.2021)

On the Phenomenology of Multisensory Perception, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), conf. virtuelle (17.09.2021)

Husserl on Multisensory Perception, Husserl Circle, Université de Lisbonne, Portugal (13.05.2019)

Kant and Husserl on the Function of Imagination in Perception, Husserl Circle, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), (27.06.2018)

The Normative in Perception: The Cases of Illusions and Hallucinations, Congrès „Norm und Natur“ de la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (09/2017)

Perceptual Optimality and Kinaesthetic Experience, Congrès Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology, Université de Varsovie, Pologne (03/2017)

What is a Perceptual Optimum?, Husserl Circle, Loyola University Chicago (06/2016)

Self-Consciousness: Kant’s Phenomenological Legacy, Kant-Kongress, Vienne, Autriche (09/2015)

Action, Perception and Normative Self-Consciousness, Société canadienne de philosophie continentale, Université  Simon-Fraser, Vancouver (10/2014)

The ‘As-Structure’ of Perceptual Experience in Husserl and Heidegger, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Université de Helsinki, Finlande (04/2014)

The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction, Société canadienne de philosophie continentale (SCPC), Université  d’Ottawa (10/2012)

The Problem of Perceptual Presence in Enactive and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl Circle, Boston College (06/2012)

The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction, Derrida-Konferenz Frankfurt, Wolfgang Johann Goethe-Universität, Francfort (03/2012)

Conceptual, Non-Conceptual and Pre-Conceptual Contents in Husserl’s Theory of Perception, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Philadelphie (10/2011)

Crisis and Autoimmunity. Derrida’s Last Interpretation of Husserl, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montréal (10/2010)

Husserl’s Transcendental at the Limit: Conceptualization and Bodily Constitution, Colloque satellite de la SCPC dans le cadre du congrès annuel de la Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montréal (11/2010)

Two Objections to Husserl’s Phenomenological Idealism, Société canadienne de philosophie continentale (SCPC), University of Alberta, Edmonton (10/2010)

Thinking the Concreteness of the World Consistently: Husserl and McDowell on Idealism, Congrès The Cartesian “Myth of the Ego” and the Analytic/Continental Divide, Radbound University, Nijmegen, Pays-Bas (09/2010)

Husserl’s Phenomenological Idealism and the Problem of Realism, Husserl Circle, New School for Social Research, New York (06/2010)

On the Necessity of Asking Transcendental Questions, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy (07/2006)