Kevin Mulligan
http://usi.to/yw3
Biography
Professor in Philosophy at USI. He occupied the chair of analytic philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva from 1986 to 2016.
He founded the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) and thumos, and co-founded eidos – the Geneva-Lugano centre for metaphysics - and Inbegriff - the Geneva Seminar for Austro-German philosophy, and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and of the Academia Europaea.
He has taught philosophy in Aix, Barcelona, Constance, Dublin, Florence, Freiburg, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Irvine, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Paris, Pennsylvania, Rome, Santiago de Compostela, Sydney, Venice, Trento, Umea and Zurich. He has also supervised the PhD theses of 30 students, many of whom now hold positions in philosophy in several different countries.
He has published extensively on analytic metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and Austrian thought from Bolzano to Musil, in particular on ascent, attitudes, certainty, colours, connectives, correctness, dependence, emotions, foolishness, grounds, indexicality, interest, irony, knowledge, meaning something, meanings, norms, properties, perception, poetry, processes, promises, reasons, relations, states of affairs, tropes, truth, truthmakers, wholes and value.
Research
2020 - 2022
Functions, Relations and Types
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : K. Mulligan (USI & FT, Lugano)
Budget: CHF 168´315
Collaborator: Dr. J. Plate
2019-2021
Identity in Cognitive Science, Quantum Mechanics, and Metaphysics
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director: Kevin Mulligan (USI, Lugano)
Budget: CHF 264'775
Collaborators: Dr. R. Michels, Dr. J. Waechter.
2017-2020
Connectives, Predicates and Priority
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : Kevin Mulligan (USI, Lugano)
Budget: 230 421 CHF
Collaborator: Dr. J. Plate.
2016-2019
Quantities
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : K. Mulligan (USI, Lugano), Deputy-Directors: O. Massin (Zuerich), Chr. Wüthrich (Geneva)
Budget : 224 397 CHF,
Collaborators : Dr. C. Calosi, Dr. D. Costa.
2014-2017
Indeterminacy and Formal Concepts
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland,
Director : K. Mulligan (Geneva)
Budget : 320 510 CHF,
Collaborator : Dr. R. Michels.
2014-2017
Signification et intentionnalité chez Anton Marty. Aux confins de la philosophie du langage et de l’esprit
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : K. Mulligan, Deputy-Director : L. Cesalli.
Budget : 525 083 CHF
2015-2016
Programme doctoral CUS: la philosophie contemporaine
K. Mulligan & Ph. Blum
Budget : CHF 96'289
2013-2016
The Nature of Existence : Neglected Questions at the Heart of Ontology, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland,
Director : Prof. F. Correia (Newcastle), Deputy-Director: Prof. K. Mulligan.
Budget : 482 555 CHF,
Collaborators : Dr. A. Frischhut, Dr. S. Richard, Dr. A. Skiles.
2010-2013
Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
ERC Marie-Curie European International Training Network/ITN (Seventh Framework Programme) - PETAF
Barcelona, Geneva, St Andrews, EHESS, London, Stockholm, Budapest.
Budget: EUR 1 679 948; Genevese budget: CHF 317 374
January 2010 - December 2014
2009-2013
Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
Co-Directors: F. Correia, K. Mulligan
Budget: CHF 450 000
= one of three sub-projects of the SINERGIA/FNS project,
Intentionality as a Mark of the Mental. Metaphysical Perspectives on Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Director : F. Correia
October 2009-September 2013.
2010-2013
Essentialism and the Mind
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : CHF 317 040
Director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan
2010
Contemporary issues of ontological commitment: fictionalism and fundamentality
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Co-Directors :
Profs. F. Correia, G. Soldati, Dr. G. Guigon
Budget : CHF 25 000
2009-2013
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)
in Affective Science
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : Klaus Scherer, Deputy-Director: Kevin Mulligan.
Budget 2009-2013 : CHF 10'000'000
Sub-project (10): Emotion, Feeling & Value
Director Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Budget : CHF 400 000
Collaborators: O. Bruun, O. Massin, F. Lauria, A. Pé-Curto, Drs. J. Deonna, F. Teroni.
2010-2013
Fundamentality
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director: K. Mulligan
Budget: CHF 331 177
Collaborateur: Dr. Ph. Keller.
2009
The Metaphysics of Time
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget: 25 000 CHF
2008
Modalities: essence, necessity, and other adverbial modifiers
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : 25
000 CHF
2007-2009
Properties and Relations
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/eidos/proprel.html
Budget : CHF 458'854
Director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Collaborators: Drs. Ph. Keller, F. Dorsch, V. Lam, St. Leuenberger, G-A. Töndury, Ch.Wüthrich
2008-2011 PRO*DOC
Les Frontières du Moi/The Boundaries of the Self
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : CHF 310 749
Director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Collaborators: Otto Bruun, Olivier Massin, Dr. Fabrice Teroni
2007-2010 PRO*DOC
Properties and Relations
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : CHF 304'670
Director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Collaborateurs: Akiko Frischhut, Johannes Stern
2006-2009
The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations
Fondation Boninchi
Budget: 136’000 CHF
Director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Collaborators: Dr. Pierre Grenon, Ghislain Guigon, Dr. Luc Schneider
2007
Properties and Relations
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : 25 000 CHF
2007
e-learning project "e-philosophie”
Université de Genève
Budget: 72 000 CHF
2006
Mind and Metaphysics
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : 25 000 CHF
2005-2009
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)
in Affective Science
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Director : Klaus Scherer, Deputy-Directors : Martial van der Linden,
Kevin Mulligan,
Budget 2005-2009 : CHF 10'000'000
Sub-projet (10): Emotions, Values and Norms
Director Prof. Kevin Mulligan
Budget : 470 000 CHF
Collaborators: O. Bruun, O. Massin, Drs. J. Deonna, F. Teroni, R. Rodogno
2004
Abstract Entities
Ecole doctorale, Fonds national de recherche scientifique, Switzerland
Budget : 25 000 CHF
2001-2004
Formal Concepts - Philosophy and History of LogicIRIS - Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, Ecole polytechnique fédérale, Lausanne
Budget: CHF 280 000
Representative publication: Correia, F. & Keller, Ph. 2004 “Formal Concepts”, special number of Dialectica
1999-2002
Austrian Philosophy from Bolzano to Tarski and Wittgenstein
Fonds national de recherche scientifique, SwitzerlandBudget : 304 276 CHF
Representative publication: J.-P. Cometti & K. Mulligan (eds.) 2001La Philosophie autrichienne de Bolzano à Musil. Histoire et Actualité, Paris: Vrin
1998-2002
Distributive JusticeProgramme Plurifacultaire, University of Geneva
Representative publication: ed. B. Baertschi, 2002 "Domaines de la justice distributive", special number, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale,
M. Hunyadi & M. Giugni, (eds.) 2003 Les sphères de l'exclusion, Paris: L'Harmattan.
1995-1998
Multiculturalism and NationalismProgramme plurifacultaire, University of Geneva
Representative publication:
Baertschi, B & Mulligan, K. (eds.) 2001 Les nationalismes, Paris: PUF
Competence areas