Dr. François Ottmann is Ancien Elève of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Agrégé de philosophie and holds a PhD in philosophy.

His doctoral thesis, prepared at the universities of Paris1 and Leipzig under the title «  Kants begriffliche Systematik und der Wandel des Sprachbewusstseins um 1800 » and defended in 2018, was devoted to the systematic relationship between transcendental philosophy and the emergence of modern linguistics in Germany around 1800.

He was wissenschaftlicherMitarbeiter at the TU Dresden, then ATER at the Sorbonne University, and he is currently an associate researcher at the Centre d’histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne (Hiphimo).

His work focuses on Kantian transcendental philosophy, its birth and later influence (especially on German idealism and Romanticism) from the perspective of philosophy of language and logic.