Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Ghislain GUIGON French, born 26 August 1979 One child. email: [email protected]

Career summary  2011 – now : Maître assistant at the Department of philosophy of the University of Geneva.  2009 – 2011: Post-doc assistant at the Department of philosophy of the University of Geneva.  Trinity term 2011: Academic visitor at the Oxford University Faculty of Philosophy.  Spring 2011: Chargé d’enseignement à l’institut de philosophie de l’Université de Neuchâtel.  2006 – 2009: Teaching assistant at the department of philosophy of the University of Geneva.  2006 – 2007: Research assistant on the Boninchi Foundation project “The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations”.  2004 – 2006: Teaching assistant at the Department of philosophy of the University of Lausanne.  2003 – 2004: Research assistant, IRIS Project, Geneva.

Areas of research specialization Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, early modern philosophy.

Additional areas of teaching competence Philosophical logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, critical reasoning, early analytic philosophy.

Publications  Peer-reviewed Journal Articles :  2014, “A Universe of Explanations”, forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics vol. 9 (December 2014).  2014, “Overall Similarity, Natural Properties, and Paraphrases”, Philosophical Studies 167, 387-99.  2011, “Merely possible explanation”, Religious Studies, vol. 47:3, 359-370.  2009, “Bringing about and conjunction: a reply to Bigelow on omnificence”, Analysis 69.3, 452-458.

 Edited Volumes:  2015, Nominalism about Properties: New Essays, co-edited with Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Routledge.

 Chapters in collections and special issues:

 2015, “Coextension and Identity” in G. Guigon and G. Rodriguez-Pereyra 2015 (eds.) Nominalism about Properties: New Essays, Routledge.  2015, “Introduction to Nominalism about Properties: New Essays” co-authored with G- Rodriguez-Pereyra, in G. Guigon and G. Rodriguez-Pereyra 2015 (eds.) Nominalism about Properties: New Essays, Routledge.  2012, “Spinoza on composition and priority”, in Philip Goff (ed.) Spinoza on Monism. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-205..  2005, “Meinong on Magnitudes and Measurement”, Meinong Studies vol. 1. Graz: Ontos Verlag, pp. 255-296.  2004, “L’ontologie de David Lewis”, in Concept et Catégorie: numéro spécial des Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg, volume 17, pp. 405-409 (Vrin, Paris).

 Book reviews :  2012, Review of Could There Have Been Nothing? by Geraldine Coggins (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), Prolegomena.  2011, Review of Les Universaux, Une introduction partisane by David M. Armstrong, in Philosophiques vol. 38/1.

Education  June 2009: Ph.D. in philosophy, Geneva (Switzerland). Dissertation “The metaphysics of resemblance”. Supervisors: Kevin Mulligan (Geneva) and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oriel College, Oxford).  2007: Recognised student at the Faculty of Philosophy of Oxford (UK).  2003: MA in Philosophy, University of Rennes I (France).  2001: Licence de philosophie, University of Rennes I (France).  2000: D.E.U.G. de Philosophie, University of Rennes I (France).

Grants  Fellowship for prospective researcher from the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2007.  Philibert Collart Ph.D. grant (Geneva), 2005.

Membership in research groups  Since September 2007, member of eidos the Genevan research group in metaphysics, University of Geneva.  2002-2003, member of lagon, research group in philosophy of language and ontology, University of Rennes I.

Organizational activities  Since 2011 – now: I am responsible for the organisation of the eidos weekly seminar.  September 2012. CUSO conference “Nominalism: A reassessment”, Geneva.  September 2011. CUSO conference “Time and Explanation”, Geneva. With Emiliano Boccardi, Fabrice Correia, and Natalja Deng.

 Since September 2009. The eidos group weekly seminar “Problems of metaphysics”.  June 2010. 6th Barcelona-Geneva meeting, Geneva. With Dan Zeman (University of Barcelona).  June 2009. Workshop on definition and conjunction, Geneva. With Philipp Keller.  Year 2005-2006. Colloque des doctorants du Département de philosophie de l’Université de Genève, Genève. With Otto Bruun.  November 2005. 2nd Barcelona-Geneva meeting, Geneva. With Marta Campdelacreu and Fabrice Correia (University of Barcelona).

Management of projects and schools  Manager of the Doctoral programme CUSO in philosophy “Nominalism: a Reassessment”, Geneva 2012. Budget: 15’500 CHF.  Manager of the Doctoral programme CUSO in philosophy “Grounding and Fundamentality”, Geneva 2011. Budget: 24’400 CHF.  Manager of the FNS doctoral school “Contemporary issues on ontological commitment: fictionalism and fundamentality.” 101111-130363, Geneva 2011. Budget: 25’000 CHF.  Co-manager of Boninchi Foundation project “The Formal Ontology of Properties and Relations”, 2006-2008. Budget: 321’500 CHF.

Teaching experience (selection)  Spring 2014: BA seminar in early modern philosophy “Thèmes de métaphysique moderne: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz”.Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva.  Autumn 2013: BA seminar in metaphysics. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Year 2013-2014: BA introduction seminar to philosophical writing and discussion.  Autumn 2012: BA seminar in metaphysics and philosophy of religion “Argumenter sur les dieux”. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Year 2012-2013: BA introduction seminar to philosophical writing and discussion.  Spring 2012: BA course in history of modern philosophy “Le rationalisme de Spinoza”. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Autumn 2012: BA course in introduction to logic. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Spring 2011 : MA seminar on the metaphysics of causation and properties. Institut de philosophie de l’Université de Neuchâtel.  Autumn 2010 : BA course in introduction to logic. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Year 2009-2010 : With Professor Kevin Mulligan and Professor Fabrice Correia : MA seminar “Problems of metaphysics”. Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève.  Spring2010 : MA seminar in ontology and philosophy of language. Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva.  Autumn 2009: BA course in introduction to logic. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Spring2009 : BA seminar in early modern philosophy “Thèmes de métaphysique moderne: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz”.Faculté des Lettres, University of Geneva.  Autumn 2008 : BA course in introduction to logic. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Year 2006-2007 : BA course in introduction to logic. Faculté des lettres, University of Geneva.  Year 2005-2006, with Julien Deonna : Cours d’introduction à la philosophie de l’esprit au Collège des Humanités, SHS, Unité de philosophie, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Talks (selection)  May 201 : “Outline of a Flexible Metaphysics”. Faculty of Humanities, University of Glasgow (Scotland). Invited.  February 2014: “The Coextension Difficulty for Analytic Extensional Nominalism”. Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (France). Invited.  December 2013: “The Coextension Difficulty for Analytic Extensional Nominalism”. Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgique). Invited  October 2013: “Mereological Nominalism Revisited”. UFR de philosophie, Université RENNES (France). Invited  June 2012: “Coextensive properties in Extensional Nominalism”. Faculty of Theology of Lugano (Switzerland). Invited.  May 2012 : “The Special Explanation Question”. SOPHA Congress 2012. Paris (France). Call for papers.  June 2011: “Natural Properties in Counterpart Theory”. Another World is Possible, conference on David K. Lewis, University of Urbino (Italy). Call for papers.

 March 2011 : “Part and Whole are Beings of Reason : Spinoza on Composition and Priority”, Research seminar, Institut de philosophie de l’Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Invited.  January 2011 : “Part and Whole are Beings of Reason : Spinoza on Composition and Priority”, Metaphysics seminar, Aix-en-Provence (France). Invited.  December 2010 : “Les propriétés naturelles en théorie des contreparties”, Research Seminar l’Institut de Philosophie de l’Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Invited.

 June 2010 : “Part and Whole are Beings of Reason : Spinoza on Composition and Priority”, 6th Geneva-Barcelona Meeting, Geneva (Suisse). Organiser.  March 2010 : “Contreparties, essences et propriétés naturelles”, Colloque Le nécessaire et l’a priori après Kripke, Rennes (France). Invited.  September 2009 : “Composition, identité et représentation”, SOPHA congress, Geneva (Switzerland). Call for papers.  August 2009 : “The Arity of Resemblance”, Conference : Issues in Contemporary Semantics and Ontology « Predicates and Properties », Buenos Aires (Argentina). Call for papers.

 October 2008 : “Omnificence and Omnitruthmaking”, 9th eidos Meeting, Geneva (Switzerland). Invited.  July 2008 : “Is Resemblance a Binary Relation ?”, Eidos Metaphysics Conference, Geneva (Switzerland), call for papers.  July 2008 : “Logique de la similarité comparative”, Colloque Jeunes Chercheurs de la SOPHA, Tunis (Tunisia). Invited.

 July 2007 : “Nominalism, Genuine Realism, and Coextensive Properties”, Metaphysics Workshop, Ovronnaz (Suisse). Invited.  June 2007 : “Nominalism, Genuine Realism, and Coextensive Properties”, Journées de Recherche

en Métaphysique, Archives Poincaré Nancy (France). Invited.  October 2006: “Cycles in Paradise”, Workshop Barcelona-Geneva-Nottingham, Barcelona (Spain). Invited.  July 2006: “Williamson's Relation T and the Logic for Relative Homogeneity”, Postgraduate Sessions of The Joint Session of The Mind Association and The Aristotelian Society 2006, Southampton (UK). Call for papers.  December 2005 : “Quantities Without Parts: Relational Quantities”, Workshop on Quantities, Numbers, and Parts, Saarbrücken (Germany). CFP.

 August 2005: “Similarity-Making and Disjunctiveness”, Fifth European Congress in Analytic Philosophy, Lisbonne (Portugal). CFP.

 May 2004 : “The Logical Form of Comparative Similarity Sentences”, 1st Barcelona-Geneva Meeting, Barcelona (Spain). Invited.