Antoine Taillard
Doctoral assistant, chair of General Philosophy
Office: 2.E.45
Email: antoine.taillard@unine.ch
Education:
- MA in philosophy, University of Neuchâtel
- Master’s thesis title: "Naturalizing Intentionality: the Causal-Informational View as an Answer to Brentano Problem" [« Naturaliser l’intentionnalité : les théories causales comme réponse au problème de Brentano »]. Advisors: Prof. Julien Deonna & Prof. Richard Glauser
- Study emphases: contemporary metaphysics (Lewis’s natural properties theory, grounding, truthmaking) and philosophy of mind (mind-body problem)
- BA in philosophy, anthropology, and French language and literature, University of Neuchâtel
- Bachelor’s thesis title: "The explanatory gap problem: how to explain what it is like to be a conscious organism" [« Le problème du fossé explicatif : expliquer l’effet que cela fait d’être un organisme conscient »]. Advisor: Prof. Richard Glauser
Interest:
- Metaphysics: composition as identity, fundamentality, natural properties
- Philosophy of mind: materialist reduction, mind-body problem
- Free will problem
PhD dissertation
- Composition is Identity (working title). Composition is the familiar relation between a whole and its parts. Identity is the familiar relation that everything bears to itself and to nothing else. I claim instances of the former relation are instances of the latter. In other words: the whole is identical to its parts. Advisor: Prof. Olivier Massin
Talks:
- Two Types of Social Properties: A Defense of Ontological Individualism. Social Ontology 2020, online, 16 July 2020
- Explanation and Identity. The Building Account of Grounding. Colloque de recherche, University of Neuchâtel, 19 May 2020
- Grounding as Priority. Workshop Basically. Fundamentality & Beyond, University of Neuchâtel, 11 December 2019
- Response to Hichem Naar’s "Reasons for Love and the Significance of Encounters" (response). Thumos seminar, University of Geneva, 12 April 2018
