eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva
eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva,
unites the following research projects:
-
Essence and Metaphysical Grounds, a "professeur boursier" research project sponsored by the SNF, director Fabrice Correia, 2010-2012.
- pro*doc Research Module
Essentialism and the Mind, part of the pro*doc program Mind and Reality
funded by the SNF, 2010-2013, director
Kevin Mulligan, including two PhD students.
- Intentionality
- the Mark of the Mental, a "Sinergia" research project
sponsored by the SNF, 2009-2013, including three post-doctoral
researchers and three PhD students.
- The Perspectivality of
Thoughts and Facts (PETAF), a Marie Curie Initial Training
Network funded by the FP7, 2010-2014, including (in Geneva) one PhD
student.
- Fundamentality,
a research project sponsored by the SNF, including one post-doctoral
researcher.
Former Projects:
- The Metaphysics of Mental Life, a Sciex-MNSch project funded by the CRUS. (2010/2011)
- The Theory of Essence,
the research project of the SNF-sponsored professor Fabrice Correia,
2007--2011, including two PhD students.
- Time and Modality: A Formal Perspective, a Sciex-MNSch project funded by the CRUS. (2009/2010)
- pro*doc Research Module
Properties and Relations, part of the pro*doc program "Mind, Normativity,
Self, and Properties" funded by the SNF, 2007-2010, director
Kevin Mulligan, including two PhD students.
- Properties and
Relations, a research project funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNF), 2007--2009, director Kevin Mulligan,
including six post-doctoral
researchers.
- The Formal Ontology of
Properties and Relations, a research project funded by the
Boninchi Foundation, 2006-2008, director Kevin Mulligan, including
three post-doctoral researchers.
eidos offers a forum for the philosophical work done in
metaphysics at the University of Geneva,
connecting it to work in other fields and at other universities.
Activities 2012
Activities 2011
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Grounding and determination, March 4 and 5 (Geneva)
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Truthmaking, April 2 and 3 (Geneva)
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Universals and Tropes, April 22 and 23 (Geneva)
- BCN-GVA meeting, May 12 and 13 (Barcelona)
- Affective Dynamics, May 20 and 21 (Geneva)
- Organic Unities, May 26 and 27 (Geneva)
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Properties, parts and values, May 28 and 29 (Geneva)
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Exemplification, June 10 and 11 (Geneva)
- Properties and Plurals, June 27 (Geneva)
- Metaphysics graduate school 2011: The Metaphysics and the Epistemology of Essence and Exemplification, August 28 and 29 (Geneva)
- Time and Explanation conference, September 14-17 (Geneva)
- Philosophical Modal Logic, October 7 (Geneva)
Activities 2010
- workshop
on Grounding, Explanation, and Dependence, 26 March 2010
(Geneva)
- eighteenth
workshop, 28-30 April 2010 (Geneva)
- Hugh Mellor, May 27, 2010 (Geneva)
- BCN-GVA
workshop, 2-3 June 2010 (Geneva)
- workshop on perceiving and feeling, 5. July 2010 (Geneva)
- workshop on the metaphysics of time, 27-28 August 2010 (Geneva)
- workshop on contingentism, 24-26 September 2010 (Geneva)
- Non-propositional Intentionality, 13-14 November 2010 (Geneva)
- Après-midi d'études: Science et métaphysique, 26 November 2010 (Geneva)
- PETAF workshop, 8-10 December 2010 (Geneva)
Activities 2009
Activities 2008
- the 2008
pro*doc meeting, Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th of February
(Geneva)
- because,
Friday 15th to Sunday 17th of February 2008 (Geneva)
- fourth
meeting, Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th of March 2008 (Geneva)
- fifth
meeting, Thursday 1st of May to Friday 2nd of May 2008
(Geneva)
- sixth
meeting, Thursday 29th of May to Saturday 31st of May 2008
(Berne)
- eidos/logos
meeting, Wednesday 4th to Thursday 5th of June 2008
(Barcelona)
- epistemological
internalism, Tuesday 17th to Wednesday 18th of June 2008
(Fribourg)
- eidos
metaphysics conference, Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th of July
2008 (Geneva)
- Geneva
Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics 2008, Monday 28th
of July to Saturday 2nd of August 2008 (Arolla)
- seventh
meeting, Monday 18th August to Wednesday 20th August 2008
(Geneva)
- eight
meeting, Thursday 4th September to Friday 5th September
(Geneva)
- ninth
workshop, Wednesday 23rd October to Thursday 24th October
2008 (Geneva)
- crash
course on semantic relativism, Wednesday 12th to Thursday
13th November 2008 (Geneva)
- tenth
workshop, Wednesday 26th November to Thursday 27th November
2008 (Geneva)
- workshop
on impossibilities, Tuesday 2nd December 2008 (Geneva)
- eleventh
meeting, Saturday 6th December to Sunday 7th December 2008
(Geneva)
- twelfth
workshop, Wednesday 17th December to Friday 19th December
2008 (Geneva)
- thirteenth
meeting, Monday 15th December 2008 (Fribourg)
Activities 2007
- first
meeting, 13th to 14th of July 2007 (Geneva)
- second
meeting:,11th to 12th of September 2007 (Geneva)
- eidos launch
conference, Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th of September 2007
(Geneva)
- imagination,
expression, and depiction, Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th of
October 2007 (Fribourg)
- the
metaphysics of vectors, Saturday 20th to Sunday 21th of
October 2007 (Geneva)
- structuralism,
Thursday 29th to Friday 30th of November 2007 (Lausanne)
- Go Figure --
Va Savoir, Thursday 13th December 2007 (Geneva)
- third
meeting, 20th to 22th of December 2007
Members
Scientific Responsibility for eidos:
Members:
- Emiliano Boccardi, Postdoc, Geneva
- Damiano Costa, PhD student, Geneva
- Natalja Deng, Postdoc, Geneva
- Akiko
Frischhut, PhD student, Geneva
- Amanda
Garcia, PhD student, Geneva
- Ghislain
Guigon, scientific collaborator, Geneva
- Salim Hireche, PhD student, Geneva
- Philipp Keller, scientific collaborator, Geneva
- Jessica
Leech, PhD student, Geneva
- Olivier
Massin, PhD student, Geneva
- Robert Michels, PhD student, Geneva
- Graham
Peebles, scientific collaborator, Geneva
- Johannes
Stern, PhD student, Geneva
- Marcel Weber, professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva
Affiliated members:
Visitors
- Giorgio
Lando (Pisa), September 2007 -- February 2008
- Ezequiel
Zerbudis (Buenos Aires), January 2008 -- March 2008
- Nick
Mantegani (Texas at Austin), March 2008 -- June 2008
- Jimmy
Plourde (University of Quebec and Sherbrooke University),
March 2008 -- June 2008
- Jan Willem
Wieland (Amsterdam), November 2008 -- December 2008
- Tuomas
Tahko (Durham), October 2009 - December 2009
- Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University), November 2009 -- November 2010
- Clare Mac Cumhaill (Edinburgh), February 2010 -- November 2010
- Sebastian Tomasz Kolodziejczyk (Jagiellonian University), October 2010 -- October 2011
- Sébastien Richard (Université Libre de Bruxelles ), April 2012 -- June 2012
Advisory Board
- John
Bigelow, Monash
University
- Kit Fine,
NYU
- Pierre
Grenon, Knowledge Media Institute (KMI), Open University
- Carrie
Jenkins, University
of Nottingham
- Ingvar
Johansson, Umeä
University and IFOMIS, Saarland University
- E. J.
Lowe, Durham
University
- Daniel
Nolan, Nottingham
- Bo
Meinertsen, University
of Leeds
- Gonzalo
Rodríguez-Pereyra, University of Oxford
- Tobias
Rosefeldt, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- Sven
Rosenkranz, LOGOS
Group, University of Barcelona
- Luc
Schneider, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
- Peter Simons,
Trinity College, Dublin
- Barry
Smith, Buffalo
- Zoltán
Szabó, Yale
University
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