Maxence Caron (born 1976) is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist.

He is agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), Docteur ès lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director.

Director at the Publishing firm les Éditions du Cerf, he manages the collection Les Cahiers d'Histoire de la Philosophie ("The History Notebooks of Philosophy") that he has founded, and to which Jean-Luc Marion, Rémi Brague, Joseph Ratzinger, among others, have contributed.

Maxence Caron is the author of literary texts and poems and of several works about German thinking (Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) and about saint Augustine.

Pianist, musicologist, Maxence Caron graduated with honours from the Conservatoire National de Paris in 1990.