eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva
eidos members
| Emiliano Boccardi Postdoc FNS, Sinergia Project |
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My main areas of interest are the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of time, and general epistemology. I studied Physics at the University of Padua (Hilbertian Models of Axiomatic QM) and Philosophy at the University of Venice (The Logic of Undecidable Propositions) and at the London School of Economics (QM and the Problem of Consciousness). I obtained my PhD at the LSE (2008), writing a dissertation in the philosophy of mind and computation. After spending two years as a post-doc at the UNAM (Mexico), I just joined the Eidos group as a post-doc within the Sinergia project. | |
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| Fabrice Correia Professeur boursier in analytic philosophy, "Essence and Metaphysical Grounds" |
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Fabrice Correia got his PhD in philosophy in 2002 at the University of Geneva under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan. He then spent almost four years in Spain (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona and LOGOS group, Barcelona) with a "Ramón y Cajal" post-doc grant. He is currently "Professeur boursier FNS" at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva, where he runs a project on essence and modality. His main research interests are in metaphysics, philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and epistemology. He is also mainly responsible for the Sinergia project. | |
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| Damiano Costa Candoc SNF, Essentialism and the Mind |
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Damiano Costa studied for his BA in philosophy at the University of Lugano, and for his MA in philosophy at the University of Geneva. He is now writing his PhD in Geneva under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan. He is trying to build an axiomatic theory of events. His main research interests are in metaphysics – especially events, time, things. He is also interested in history of metaphysics, ancient and medieval philosophy. | |
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| Natalja Deng Postdoc FNS, Sinergia Project |
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Natalja Deng studied physics (i.e. physical natural sciences) at Cambridge before she got hooked on philosophy at Oxford. There she first did the B. Phil., and then a D. Phil. on the metaphysics of time, under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Pooley. Her topic was the relation between the B-theory of time and the nature of temporal experience. She is happy to be joining the group as a postdoc within the Sinergia project. | |
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| Akiko Frischhut Candoc FNS, "Properties and Relations" (pro*doc) |
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Akiko Frischhut has completed a first Master at the University of Erlangen, Germany, and a second Master at the University of Glasgow, with a focus on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. She is currently doing a joint PhD at the University of Geneva and the University of Nottingham, thinking about the specious present, diachronic unity and persistence of consciousness. Her main research interests are time, persistence, temporal experience, personal identity, continuity of consciousness. | |
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| Amanda Garcia Candoc FNS, "The theory of essence" |
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Amanda Garcia studied Philosophy and French at the University of Geneva, obtaining a MA in Philosophy. She is currently working towards her PhD, supervised by Fabrice Correia, as part of the FNS project “The Theory of Essence”. She is working on the relation between fiction and imagination and on the notions of creation and creativity, with a focus on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Her main research interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of fiction and philosophy of emotions. | |
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| Ghislain Guigon Maître assistant |
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Ghislain Guigon studied for his first and second degrees at the University of Rennes I and got his PhD in philosophy in 2009 at the University of Geneva under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford). He is currently maître assistant at the department of philosophy of the University of Geneva. His main research interests include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, early modern philosophy and philosophical logic. | |
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| Salim Hireche Candoc SNF, Essentialism and the Mind |
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After studying at the School of Translation and Interpretation (ETI) and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IHEID), Salim obtained a BA in Philosophy and French literature and then an MA in philosophy at the University of Geneva, where he is now working on his PHD thesis, collaborating in an SNF-funded research project led by Kevin Mulligan and Fabrice Correia. His philosophical interests are in metaphysics (especially causation), the philosophy of science, the philosophy of language (esp. translation), epistemology (esp. relativism), moral and political philosophy (esp. the ethics of international politics). | |
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| Philipp Keller Post-doc, Fundamentality Project |
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Philipp Keller works mostly in metaphysics. He tries to articulate non-modal theories of essence, supervenience, truthmaking and determination, to understand the nature of representation and to defend the claim that exemplification (the having of properties) is a relation. He got his first degree from the University of Berne (2000) and his PhD from the University of Geneva (2007). He is currently working as the main investigator in the fundamentality project, after spending a year as a post-doc at UNAM, the Autonomous National University of Mexico. Before that, he worked in the SNF research project "Properties and Relations", which he also coordinated. | |
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| Jessica Leech Candoc FNS, "The theory of essence" |
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Jessica studied for her BA in philosophy at King's College Cambridge, then continued the trend by moving to King's College London to study for her MPhil. She is now writing her PhD in Geneva as part of an SNSF-funded research project, "The Theory of Essence", under the supervision of Fabrice Correia (Geneva) and Bob Hale (Sheffield). She is working on trying to understand what Kant said about modality, and turning that into a viable contemporary theory of modality. Her main research interests are in metaphysics, philosophical logic, the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Kant. | |
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| Olivier Massin Maître assistant |
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Olivier Massin is an assistant in the Philosophy Department of the university of Geneva. He is writing a thesis entitled "On pleasures" under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan. His main interests are metaphysics, philosophy of perception (especially tactile perception), philosophy of emotions and axiology. He is both a member of Thumos and Eidos. | |
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| Robert Michels Candoc, PETAF Project |
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Robert obtained a BA in pedagogics and art history from the University of Karlsruhe. Afterwards, he started studying philosophy at the University of Konstanz, where he received a MA and began studying for a PhD. He came to Geneva in 2010 to join PETAF and to write a PhD-thesis on the relation between epistemic and metaphysical modality under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) and the co-supervision of Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz). His areas of interest include epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. | |
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| Kevin Mulligan Professeur ordinaire in analytic philosophy |
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| Graham Peebles |
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Graham Peebles completed an MA in economics and an MPhil in philosophy before beginning his PhD at the University of Glasgow. His thesis is a defence of the belief theory of perception and his main interests are perception, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics (particularly of mind). Graham will be a member of the intentionality project. | |
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| Johannes Stern Candoc FNS, "Properties and Relations" (pro*doc) |
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Johannes studied Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Munich where he received his M.A. in July 2007. He's now writing his PhD under the supervision of Fabrice Correia (Geneva) and Karl-Georg Niebergall (Berlin). His main research interests are in logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics. | |
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| Marcel Weber Professeur ordinaire, Chaire de Philosophie des Sciences, University of Geneva |
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I received my first degree in molecular biology from the University of Basel (1987) and my Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Konstanz (1996). After a postdoc at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, I was lecturer at the Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW) at the Leibniz University Hannover (1997-2003). From 2004-2009, I was Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the Science Studies Program and Department of Philosophy, University of Basel. I also spent a term at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and taught as visiting professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the Humboldt-University, Berlin and the Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich. From 2009-2011, I was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. I am Editor-in-Chief of dialectica and Associate Editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. | |
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affiliated eidos members
| Stephan
Leuenberger Lecturer, Glasgow |
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Stephan Leuenberger works mainly in metaphysics, currently with a focus on modality. He is trying to defend a view according to which more is possible than philosophers normally allow. He studied for his first degree (Lic.Phil) at the University of Bern (1999), for a BPhil at Oxford (2001), and a PhD at Princeton (2006). In 2008 he took up a lectureship in Glasgow after holding postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University (Centre for Consciousness), the University of Leeds, and as a member of the eidos snf project “Properties and Relations”. | |
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| Christian Wüthrich Assistant professor of philosophy and science studies at UCSD |
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Christian Wüthrich's philosophical interests most prominently include foundational issues in physics, particularly in classical general relativity and quantum gravity. Of course, he also gets excited about the implications of philosophy of physics for general philosophy of science and metaphysics. More specifically, he enjoys thinking about issues such as space and time, persistence, laws of nature, determinism, and causation. | |
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