eidos -- the Centre in Metaphysics of the University of Geneva
former eidos members
| Fabian Dorsch Collaborateur scientifique, "Properties and Relations" |
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Since completing his MA at the University of Tübingen and his MPhil and PhD at University College London, Fabian Dorsch has been lecturer at the University of Fribourg (since 2005) and SNF-sponsored research fellow at the Universities of Fribourg (2004-2006) and Geneva (since 2007). His research concentrates on issues in aesthetics (pictorial experience, expressiveness, aesthetic norms, the ontology of artworks); philosophy of mind (perception, imagination, emotion, mental agency, rational motivation, phenomenal consciousness, mental norms); and epistemology (our phenomenal awareness of normativity, the epistemology of values, self-knowledge, the epistemic role of imagining). | |
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| Pierre Grenon Collaborateur scientifique, "The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations" |
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Pierre Grenon joined EIDOS to work on the research project "The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations". He holds degrees in Philosophy and in Logic from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He worked as an ontologist in knowledge representation for Cycorp (Austin, Texas) before becoming a researcher at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (Saarbrücken, Germany). His doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan and Barry Smith, is on the metaphysical problem of relations. His main research interests are in metaphysics and formal ontology. | |
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| Marion Hämmerli Candoc FNS, Sinergia Project |
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Marion Haemmerli obtained her MA in Philosophy in fall 2010 at the University of Geneva where she is still pursuing studies in Mathematics. She is currently working as a PhD student, under supervision of Fabrice Correia, as part of the Sinergia Project | |
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| Aviv Hoffmann Collaborateur scientifique, "Properties and Relations" |
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Aviv Hoffmann got his PhD in philosophy at MIT under the supervision of Robert Stalnaker. He then spent three years in Scotland, participating in the AHRC project "The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality" in Arché, under the leadership of Bob Hale and the directorship of Crispin Wright. He is currently a collaborateur scientifique in the SNF project "Properties and Relations" at eidos. Aviv's main research interests are in metaphysics. In recent papers, he argues that David Lewis has landed in a contradiction when, together with Langton, he offered a definition of "intrinsic", and that propositions are not sets of possible worlds. Together with Bob Hale, he is editing the volume Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology for Oxford University Press. | |
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| Sebastian Tomasz Kolodziejczyk Postdoc, Sciex-NMSch |
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I did my Ph.D. at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków under the supervision of Prof. Wladyslaw Strózewski. Since then I have lectured at the Jagiellonian and conducted research mostly in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The area of my competence also includes history of metaphysics and philosophy of religion. In 2006 my first book— The Conceptual Boundaries of Metaphysics— came out. In Geneva I am working on the problem of ontological status of mental entities such as representations, mental content, mental states, and alike. A main output of my project will be the book— The Metaphysics of Mental Life. | |
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| Vincent Lam Collaborateur scientifique, "Properties and Relations" |
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Vincent Lam is a Junior Fellow ('Maître-Assistant') in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lausanne, where he wrote his dissertation about space-time philosophy. He has previously studied theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He mainly works in philsophy of physics, with focus on foundational issues in space-time physics. | |
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| Luc Schneider Maître assistant, "The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations" |
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Luc Schneider (*1968, Luxembourg) holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Geneva (2007), a M.Sc. in Computing Science from Imperial College, London (2001) and a M.A. in Philosophy and in Linguistics from the University of Tübingen (1993). At present, Luc Schneider is a research associate at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, in Saarbrücken (Germany). Previously, he worked as a research associate at the Italian National Research Council in Padova (2001-2002) and as a research fellow at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Leipzig, Germany (2002-2003). He then held positions as a teaching assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva (2004-2005) and at the Humanities College of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (2005-2006). From 2007 to 2008, Luc Schneider was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva, and, from 2008 to 2009, he was a post-doc researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS/EHESS/ENS) in Paris. His doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) and Barry Smith (SUNY/Buffalo), is on Aristotelian Four-Category Ontology and its logic. His main research interests are in formal ontology and philosophical logic. In addition, he has done research on the following topics: multi-agent systems, logic programming and natural language processing. | |
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| Gian-Andri
Toendury Collaborateur scientifique, "Properties and Relations" |
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Gian-Andri Töndury has completed undergraduate studies in philosophy and physics at the University of Fribourg. He is about to complete his graduate studies in philosophy at the Department of philosophy of the University of Fribourg where he was assistant of Martine Nida-Rümelin until June 2007. His main research interests are in epistemology, in particular with accounts of inferential justification and a priori justification. | |
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| Jacek Wawer Candoc, Sciex-NMSch |
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Jacek Wawer has studied philosophy and logic at Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland) where he got his Master degree. Now, he is working on his PhD thesis under supervision of Prof. Tomasz Placek. The subject meter of the thesis is a unified treatment of temporal and aletheic modalities. Besides metaphysics, he is mostly interested in philosophical logic and philosophy of language. | |
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former eidos visitors
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Giorgio Lando has got his degree in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and a PhD in Philosophy of Language from the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli. He spent several years studying the history of analytic philosophy, with special emphasis on the origins of analytic ontology (his PhD dissertation sets forth a new interpretation of the theory of relations in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus). He is working also on the semantic notions of assertion, on the Calculus of Simplicity, on Wittgenstein's theory of aspects and on a general defense of the role of Set Theory in formal ontology (long-term project). He will be working as an assistant in Geneva from September 2007 to February 2008. |
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| Clare Mac Cumhaill FCS Research Scholar |
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Clare has a BA from Trinity College Dublin, and a MA in Linguistics from the SOAS, University of London. She is a visiting PhD candidate from the Philosophy Department of Edinburgh University, where she is supervised by Matthew Nudds. Among other things, she is trying to work out if empty space exists and, if so, how we perceive it. |
| Nick Mantegani |
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Nick received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2004. He is still at the University of Texas, currently working on his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Herbert Hochberg and Professor Robert Koons. He is primarily interested in metaphysics, but he has related interests in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy (particularly early modern and early analytic). The focus of his Ph.D.dissertation is the problem of exemplification. |
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| Tuomas Tahko |
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Tuomas Tahko completed his PhD in philosophy in 2008 at Durham University under the supervision of E. J. Lowe. Before that he studied at the University of Helsinki where he obtained his MA in philosophy in 2005. He is currently a research fellow at Durham. His primary research nterests are in metaphysics, especially modality, essences, and a priori knowledge. At the moment he is working on an original account of the methodology of metaphysics which combines these themes. |
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| Jan Willem Wieland |
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Jan Willem recently received his Research Master's degree. In his thesis he defended the avoidance of ad hoc ontology principle (MAHT). Starting from considerations about ad hoc responses to the Turtle Regress, he worked out the details of how MAHT can be used as a criterion for theory choice in two issues concerning the ontological category of relations. At the moment he works with Arianna Betti on theoretical virtues in general. |
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| Ezequiel Zerbudis |
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Ezequiel Zerbudis works mainly on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, and he is also interested in some questions belonging to epistemology and early modern philosophy. He has written his "Licenciatura" Dissertation (at the University of Buenos Aires, under the supervision of Dr. Mario Caimi) on the (alleged) influence of the discovery of the phenomenon of incoungruent counterparts on the origin of Kant's distinction between sensibility and understanding. He completed his Ph.D Dissertation at Buenos Aires, under the supervision of Dr. Eleonora Orlando on the problem of how to extend Kripke's notion of rigidity to general terms. |
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