Laugier received Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1997) and PhD fromParis-Sorbonne University (1990). She was a visiting graduate student atHarvard University and an undergraduate student at theEcole Normale Supérieure.
Laugier has held several positions at theCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), including deputy director of the Division for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) from 2010 to 2017 and a Special Adviser “Science in Society” to the president of CNRS from 2016 to 2017. One of the founders of the Institut du Genre at the CNRS, Laugier served as its president from 2012 to 2018 and as the president of the Scientific Council from 2018 to 2022. She has also served as an expert for theEuropean Commission and as a panelist for theEuropean Research Council (ERC).
Laugier has taught at various universities around the world, including as a visiting professor atToronto University (2022),Boston University (2019) and atSapienza University of Rome (2019), a visiting research fellow at theMax Planck Institute (Berlin), distinguished visiting professor atJohns Hopkins University, visiting professor at Pontifical University (Lima), and visiting professor “Chaire invitée” at the Facultés Saint-Louis (Bruxelles).
Since 2019, she has been the principal investigator of theERC programmeDemoseries devoted to the philosophy of TV series.[6]
Laugier is the editor of two-book series:TV-Philosophy, published byExeter Press (withRobert Sinnerbrink and Martin Shuster) andPhiloséries, published by Vrin (with Sylvie Allouche).
She is a member of editorial / scientific board ofArchives de Philosophie,British Journal for the History of Philosophy,European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy,Iride,Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, andMultitudes. Additionally, she is a member of the scientific committee ofVocabulaire européen des philosophies, dictionnaire des intraduisibles, ed. Barbara Cassin (Le Seuil/Le Robert, 2004).
She is also a member of the scientific council of "Citéphilo" (Lille), "PHILOSOPHIA" (St Emilion) and La fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) (Paris). Additionally, she serves as a member of the jury of the Monaco Philosophy Prize.
Laugier is a columnist at the French journalLibération.
L'Anthropologie logique de Quine, Paris, Vrin, 1992
Recommencer la philosophie: La philosophie américaine aujourd'hui, Paris, PUF, 1999 (new enlarged edition, Vrin, 2014)
Du réel à l'ordinaire: Quelle philosophie du langage aujourd'hui ?, Paris, Vrin, 1999 (translated in English, The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Faut-il encore écouter les intellectuels?, Paris, Bayard, 2003
Une autre pensée politique américaine: La démocratie radicale, de R. W. Emerson à S. Cavell, Paris, Michel Houdiard, 2004
Qu'est-ce que le care? (with Patricia Paperman and Pascale Molinier), Paris, Payot, 2009
Wittgenstein: Les sens de l'usage, Paris, Vrin, 2009
Wittgenstein: Le mythe de l’inexpressivité, Paris, Vrin, 2010
Pourquoi désobéir en démocratie? (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 2010
Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013[7]
Face aux désastres: Une conversation à quatre voix sur la folie, le care et les grandes détresses collectives (with Anne M. Lovell, Stefania Pandolfo, Veena Das), Paris, Ithaque, 2013
Le Principe démocratie (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 2014
Recommencer la philosophie: Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique, Paris, Vrin, 2014
Etica e politica dell'ordinario, Milano, LED Edizioni, 2015
Antidémocratie, (with Albert Ogien), Paris, La Découverte, 2017
Nos vies en series, Paris, Climats, 2019
La société des vulnérables. Leçons féministes d’une crise (withNajat Vallaud-Belkacem), Paris, Gallimard, 2020
Politics of the Ordinary. Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life, Leuven, Peeters, 2020[8]
Eloge de l’ordinaire, entretiens avec Philippe Petit, Le Cerf, 2021
En confinement/La seconde vague des séries féministes, AOC livres, 2021
Reinventer l’espace public (with Yves Cohen,Nilüfer Göle, and Richard Rechtman), CNRS editions, 2022
S. Cavell,Une nouvelle Amérique encore inapprochable, de Wittgenstein à Emerson (This New Yet Unapproachable America), Combas, L’éclat, 1991
S. Cavell,Statuts d’Emerson: Constitution, philosophie, politique, the volume includes a presentation and translation of Cavell's and Emerson's essays, Combas, L’éclat, 1992
S. Cavell,A la recherche du bonheur: Hollywood et la comédie du remariage (Pursuits of Happiness), Paris, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1993 (with Christian Fournier)
S. Cavell,Conditions nobles et ignobles: La constitution du perfectionnnisme moral émersonien (Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome), Combas, L’éclat, 1993 (with Christian Fournier)
S. Cavell,Les Voix de la raison (The Claim of Reason), Paris, Seuil, 1996 (with Nicole Balso)
A. Gibbard,Sagesse des choix, justesse des sentiments: Une théorie du judgement normatif (Wise Choices, Apt Feelings), Paris, PUF, 1996
S. Cavell,Un ton pour la philosophie (A Pitch of Philosophy), Paris, Bayard, 2003 (with Elise Domenach)
W. V. Quine,D’un point de vue logique (From a Logical Point of View), Paris, Vrin, 2003 (collective translation)
R. W. Emerson,Essais: Histoire, Destin, Expérience, Compensation, Paris, Michel Houdiard, 2005 (with Christian Fournier)
S. Cavell,Dire et vouloir dire (Must We Mean What We Say?), Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2009 (with Christian Fournier)
S. Cavell,Qu'est-ce que la philosophie américaine?, Paris, Folio Gallimard, 2009 (with Christian Fournier)
S. Cavell,Si j'avais su… (Little Did I Know), Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 2014 (with Jean-Louis Laugier)
S. Cavell,A la recherche du bonheur, Hollywood et la comédie du remariage (Pursuits of Happiness), Vrin, Paris, new edition, with a new presentation.
S. Cavell,Here and There (ed. with N. Bauer and A. Crary), Harvard University Press, 2022
S. Cavell,A la recherche de l’ordinaire, Vrin, forthcoming 2023
