Robin Bianchi (ass. doct.)
Assistant-doctorant en philosophie pratique
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Robin Timothée Bianchi Doctoral assistant, Chair of Practical Philosophy, Institute of philosophy Espace Tilo-Frey 1 Telephone : +41 32 718 1814 Office : 2.E.44. |
PhD dissertation
- Agency, Activity and Power (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.
Interests
- Philosophy of action: The Standard Story of action; Explanation of action; Causalism vs Anti-causalism; Metaphysics of agency; Agent Causation; Sub-intentional actions; Animal agency
- Philosophy of mind: emotions; mental causation; intentions; mind-body problem.
- Others: Thomas Reid; Psychological Egoism; Altruism;
Talks
- "Did my desires make me do it?", Colloque Jeunes chercheurs de la Société de philosophie analytique: Les États mentaux et leurs roles épistémiques, Genève, 1 june 2022.
- "The disappearing agent problem revisisted", 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), 1 May 2021.
- “Real-self view and Moral responsibility: Problems and Limits.”, International conference. Students of analytic Philosophy (ic.SoAP), 2 May 2020.