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Robin Bianchi

Doctoral assistant, chair of Practical Philosophy

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Robin Timothée Bianchi

Doctoral assistant, Chair of Practical Philosophy, Institute of philosophy

Espace Tilo-Frey 1
2000 Neuchâtel


Email : robin.bianchi@unine.ch

Office : 2.E.44.

ResearchGate Profil
 
PhD dissertation
  • Agency as the power to cause change (Temporary title). Supervisor: Prof. Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette. 
Previously held position
  • Sept 2021-Feb 2022: Teaching assistant (Université de Genève)
Education
  • 2022: MA in Philosophy (Université de Genève)
    • Master’s thesis: "Warm-glow effects and Warm-glow explanations: Does the Warm glow from giving provide an answer to the question of why people give?". Advisors: Emma Tieffenbach & Florian Cova; https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:158924
  • ​2020: BA in Philosophy and General History (Université de Genève)
    • Bachelor’s thesis in Philosophy: "Moral responsibility and the Self: An inquiry into compatibilist agency". [Responsabilité morale et moi: Enquête théorique sur l’agentivité compatibiliste]. Advisors: Julien Deonna & Fabrice Teroni.
    • Bachelor’s thesis in General History : "Le rapport entre les sexes dans la correspondance de John Stuart Mill et Auguste Comte". Advisor: Christoph Conrad.​
Interest
My current research focuses on understanding the fundamental distinctions between activity and passivity, agency and patiency, action and passion, and active powers and passive powers. I work at the crossroads of the philosophy of action and the metaphysics of agency 
  • Philosophy of action: the standard story of action; agent-causation; event-causation; disappearing agent; action explanations; mental actions; sub-intentional actions; inanimate agency; the power of agency; causings; 
  • Metaphysics of agency: active and passive powers; one-way and two-way powers; agential powers; causal powers; metaphysics of powers; metaphysics of action; metaphysics of agency
  • Others: Causation; altruism; emotions

 

Talks:

§  “Active and Passive Powers: Is there a distinction?”, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2022, Salzburg, 8 September 2022.

§  « Sur quoi repose la distinction entre activité et passivité ? », IXe Congrès Triennal De La Société De Philosophie Analytique : Les Valeurs du Savoirs, Neuchâtel, 18 July 2022.

§  « Reid and the Agency of inanimate beings », Workshop: pourquoi l’histoire de la philosophie mérite l’attention des philosophes analytiques II, Ligerz, 20 June 2022.

§  “Did my desires make me do it?”, Colloque Jeunes chercheurs de la Société de philosophie analytique : les États mentaux et leurs rôles épistémiques, Genève, 1 June 2022.

§  “The disappearing agent problem revisited”, 2022 Utrecht Philosophy Graduate Conference, Utrecht, 12 May 2022.

§  “Is the concept of intrinsic value dispensable for environmental ethics?”, Boston University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, Boston, 21 April 2022.

§  “All we ever do is move our body : Corporealism and the Temporal Problem”, Colloque de recherche, Université de Neuchâtel, 8 March 2022.

§  “The warm glow from giving, its nature and motivational power”, International conference: Students of Analytic Philosophy (ic.SoAP), Geneva (online), 1 May 2021.

§  “Real-self view and Moral responsibility: Problems and Limits”, International conference: Students of analytic Philosophy (ic.SoAP), Munich (Online), 2 may 2020.