Philippe is a researcher with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, and a visiting scholar with the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow. His research situates itself at the intersections of continental philosophy, comparative literary studies and the environmental humanities. He was previously an Addison Wheeler Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University, a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University, and the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

He is the author of the two-volume Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism (forthcoming with Northwestern University Press in 2025 and 2026), and Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida’s General Ecology (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is the editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, (Fordham University Press, 2018) and of two special issues of the Oxford Literary Review: A Green Blanchot Revisited (forthcoming in 2025) and (with Timothy Clark) What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be? (2023). He is currently working on two books: Ecologies of Emptiness, on the Kyoto School, and an introductory book on the Environmental Posthumanities.