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eidos graduate school 2012 in metaphysics

Click here for the program of the graduate school I'm organising this semester.

www.philosophie.ch

www.philosophie.ch is a project aiming at making available under one address all information relevant to philosophy in Switzerland:

At present, the project is still under development.

New additions are at www.philosophie.ch.

eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva

In 2007, I founded eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva. Under the direction of Kevin Mulligan and Fabrice Correia, I've been its scientific coordinator since. I have also coordinating one of its three founding research projects, the Swiss National Science Foundation project "Properties and Relations" (the largest post-doc project ever funded in the humanities by the SNSF), and am presently involved in the Sinergia project Intentionality - the Mark of the Mental, involving three PhD students, the Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the FP7 The Perspectivality of Thoughts and Facts including (in Geneva) one PhD student, and the Sciex projects. I work in the SNF-sponsored project Fundamentality. Check out www.philosophie.ch/eidos/ for more information.

dialectica

Since 1999, I am managing editor of the Swiss philosophy journal dialectica, since 2004 published by Blackwell-Wiley.

Major conferences

I have been principal organiser of two major conferences (> 120 speakers):


graduate schools and other organisational activities

I have been organising the following summer schools in Geneva (4 or 5 workshops each):

For eidos, I was sole organiser organising a number of workshops and conferences (I was also co-organiser of a couple of other workshops):


Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics

I have organised the (hitherto) two installements of the Geneva Summer School in the Philosophy of Physics:


popularization and e-learning

I have been the main person responsible of the project "e-philosophy" at the University of Geneva, the results of which may be consulted here.

I have organised two initiatives to connect academic philosophy with the world outside the ivory tower:


graduate colloquia

During my first 4 years in Geneva, I organised a series of weekly talks by international philosophers (a total of approx. 120 people):


sequitur

In December 2003, Norbert Anwander, Davor Bodrozic and Martino Mona and myself founded sequitur, the national association of philosophy graduate students.

Since then, I've been involved in the organisation of:


Fundraising

Over the years, I have been particularly active in fundraising, on the local, national and international level, raising a total of 2'459'182 CHF for the University of Geneva (much more, unfortunately, than my salary over this time!), 185'000 of which was conference money, particularly difficult to get:


PhilEAs

I helped founding the association PhilEAs of students in philosophy at the university of Geneva. I am responsable of their groups "Relations" and "Fiesta" and help them organise their series of talks.

FAQ for students

Here are is a FAQ for students of philosophy in Geneva:



mailing lists

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bibliographies

Unfortunately, I sometimes prefer compiling bibliographies to serious thinking. Here are some results:


Iris research project on formal concepts

In the first half of 2003, I've been associated to the Iris research project on formal concepts, for which I designed and maintain a website.




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