as of April 17, 2025

Our Profiles

a huge list

What are Profiles?

As we explain on the how-to page, profiles are not secret files we're having about people, where we compile information about them without their consent. Rather, they are "nodes" in our bibliographical database, standardised names of authors and editors. We use this same database for the "Swiss philosophical microcosm" and for compiling the "mentioned-on" boxes on the personal profiles. In this way, we hope to make it easier for everyone to navigate the portal and find the content they are interested in.

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The Trouble with Names

For the bibliography, we try to treat prefixes correctly: sorting "DeRosset" and "Van Cleve" under "D" and "V", but "van Inwagen" under "I" and "de Muralt" under "M". We also try to distinguish Spanish and Portuguese double names. We do not make these subtle distinctions here. 

What we do try to do, however, is to get maiden names right: in the US, they sometimes become a part of the first name, as in "Marcus, Ruth Barcan". Whether or not that is the case seems to be largely a personal choice: we have tried to get this right: if you spot an error, please tell us.

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Pseudonyms

We welcome pseudonymous publications on our portal. To registera pseudonym, tell us your real name, provide a real, personal email address and choose your pseudonym. Your real name and your email address will be hidden and you can log in, post and comment under your pseudonym.

Societies: Collective Authors

These are groups of authors who publish under a common name.

Philosophy in Switzerland

One of our categorisations of events, institutions and activities is roughly geographical, which is a difficult thing to do. We have the following "theme-tags" (not to be confused with the cities...): 

Other Categorisation: by Type of Institution

Links are to the German pages, but corresponding overview pages also exist in French, Italian and English.

Other Categorisation: by Type of Activity

Links are to the German pages, but corresponding overview pages also exist in French, Italian and English.

Other Categorisation: by Group of Persons

Links are to the German pages, but corresponding overview pages also exist in French, Italian and English.

Other Categorisation: by Profiles