Steven Le Breton holds an agrégation and a PhD in philosophy. He is the author of a thesis entitled “Empirisme et sécularisme chez David Hume et John Stuart Mill” (Empiricism and secularism in David Hume and John Stuart Mill), which he defended at the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie, University of Nantes. His research interests include classical empiricism and utilitarianism, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.