sequitur is the Swiss association of graduate students in philosophy. Its aim is to promote and deepen contacts between Swiss graduate students in philosophy, to improve graduate education in philosophy and to represent Swiss philosophy graduates with respect to issues of common concern.
Philosophy graduates in Switzerland and any person interested in graduate education is kindly invited to join the association. There are no fees or other obligations involved and you have to be neither a Swiss national nor a immatriculated graduate student to do so. For our purposes, "Swiss" therefore means "having an interest in activities taking place in Switzerland" and "PhD student" covers anyone between freshers and senior faculty.
sequitur has been founded in December 2003 by Philipp Keller (Geneva), Martino Mona (Berne and Basel), Davor Bodrozic (Fribourg) or Norbert Anwander (Zurich). Its articles are to be found here.
Click here to download a printable poster. Please print it out and pin it on some board in your department.
To join the association and to receive information about meetings, conferences and other activities, just fill out the following form:
To quit the association, just send another email to Philipp Keller.
Please fill out the survey.
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Sequitur has a mailing list to make available information on:
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the sequitur mailing list, please click here.
If you know of any of the above, please send an email to sequitur@sequitur.ch. Please do that, especially for job offers for assistants.
To learn more about Swiss graduate philosophy students, we designed the following survey. Please take 5 minutes to fill it out. All results will be published on this website.
The 13th Meeting of Swiss Graduate Students in Philosophy is to be held in Berne on September 25th and 26th. The topic is "Conversations on Method in Practical Philosophy".
Click here for information about the past meetings of sequitur.
There are not many philosophers in Switzerland. On an international scale, all our departements together would add up to just one research center of decent size. Fortunately, Switzerland is a small country and there are no good reasons not to discover, from time to time, what is going on at other departments. Switzerland is rich as well: compared to its size, many interesting activities in philosophy are going on. Unfortunately, information about them is not always readily accessible. This is why another of our projects for the future would be the creation of a Swiss philosophy mailing list. Volunteers for this project are very welcome.
Philosophy, at least as pursued academically, is virtually universally ignored in Switzerland. Swiss academic philosophy is not covered by national media and political decisions are almost never favourable to it. The future of Swiss philosophy, however, crucially depends on those who are paying for it. It is in our vital interest, therefore, to make us heard. Some such kind of lobbying is another possible project for the future is. Any practicable ideas are most welcome.
Many of you probably think that you are either too "analytic" or too "continental" to join a Swiss association of students of philosophy tout court. We think this is a mistake. The contrast between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy, if it ever made sense at all, does so less and less. Understood geographically, it is clearly outdated: many of front-of-research "analytic" philosophy is done in Barcelona, Turin, Hamburg and Paris; many of the best recently published books on Kant, Hegel, Descartes, Heidegger and Fichte are written by English or American philosophers. If it "analytic vs. synthetic" is used to mean Hegelian vs. non-Hegelian or modernist vs. postmodernist modernist philosophy, the terms "Hegelian" or "modernist" had better be clarified in advance - which might itself involve taking a philosophical stance.
Sequitur aspires to be an association of all Swiss PhD students in philosophy and welcomes philosophers of all persuasions.
At our first meetings we made the experience that knowledge of the other major national idiom is scarce west of Fribourg and east of Zurich. For most of us, however, some knowledge of English is indispensable professionally. This is why this page is written in English. You may, however, make comments in any language you like.
The articles of sequitur are downloadable here (French and German).
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