Catherine Larrère (nee Delafoss, born 4 August 1944) is a French philosopher and academic.

She first became interested in the history of economics, then in the philosopher Montesquieus ideas.

In the 1990s, she met and was inspired by John Baird Callicott the American academic concerned with environmental ethics.

She has written about the role of women in society as proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

[3] She collaborates with her husband, the agronomist and ecologist Raphaël Larrère.