Emmanuel Cattin (born in 1966) is a contemporary French philosopher, who specializes in metaphysics and phenomenology.
A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (class of 1990), in 1996 he defended his PhD thesis on Schelling at Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University I, under the direction of Bernard Bourgeois,[1] a scholar of German Idealism and member of Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.
[2] Initially appointed as a lecturer at Blaise Pascal University, he went on to become a tenured professor there in 2004.
He is director of the research unit, "Métaphysique, histoires, transformations, actualités".
[3] His phenomenological approach involves understanding appearance as a manifestation of the spirit, in a constant dialogue with both Hegel and Heidegger.