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. |
- Agency as the power to cause change (Temporary title). Supervisor: Prof. Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette.
- Sept 2021-Feb 2022: Teaching assistant (Université de Genève)
- 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.
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Philosophy of action & agency: The Standard story of action; Explanation of action; Metaphysics of agency; Metaphysics of action; Agent Causation; Event Causation;Sub-intentional actions; Animal agency; Inanimate agency; Personal powers; Mental actions; Disappearing agent;
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Philosophy of powers: The metaphysics of powers; Active vs passive powers; One-way and two-way powers; agential powers;
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Others: Causation; Thomas Reid; Altruism; Mind-body problem; Emotions
§ “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.