Activities

eidos regularly organises philosophical events gathering people from all over the world, and its members meet every week during the academic terms (on Tuesdays from 16:15 to 17:45 in Geneva, Uni Philosophes, room PHIL204) to discuss their current research or the research of invited philosophers.

eidos weekly meetings

    The weekly seminar is organized by Lisa Vogt.

    Fall 2024

    The regular seminar sessions will be announced later.

  • Eidos Talk: Zee Perry (Birmingham), 24 September 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Ryan Miller, 1 October 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Alessandro Cecconi, 8 October 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Eidos Talk: David Builes (Princeton), 15 October 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Eidos Talk: Robert Trueman (York), 22 October 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Florian Gatignon, 29 October 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Carla Peri, 12 November 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Maria Nørgaard, 19 November 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Markel Kortabarria, 26 November 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Annica Vieser, 3 December 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva
  • Marco Marabello, 10 December 2024, 16:15, PHIL204, Geneva

Past meetings

Spring 2024

  • Alex Moran (Fribourg): Contingent Grounding Physicalism, 14 May 2024, Geneva
  • Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt (FU Berlin): Haecceitism Untethered, 7 May 2024, Geneva
  • Riccardo Baratella (Genoa): Perdurantism, Common-sense, and Reconciliatory Strategies, 30 April 2024, Geneva
  • Tim Riedel: Are There Kripkean Necessary A Priori Truths, Really?, 23 April 2024, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: A Partial Defence of the Property View of Predicates, 16 April 2024, Geneva
  • Patrik Engisch (Geneva): Locked-in and Expandable Creative Domains, 9 April 2024, Geneva
  • Andrea Lupo: Immanence and Self-instantiation, 26 March 2024, Geneva
  • Lisa Vogt: Upwards Essence, 19 March 2024, Geneva
  • Alessandro Cecconi: To Be Done With All This Measuring of Truth, 12 March 2024, Geneva
  • Vincent Grandjean: Indeterminate Personal Identity, 5 March 2024, Geneva
  • Simon Evnine (Miami): The Human Being in the Age of Biological Reproduction, 27 February 2024, Geneva

2023

  •  Claudio Calosi: Reasons for Regions, 19 December 2023, Geneva
  • Philip Goyal (Albany): 'Dissolving Zeno’s paradox of motion via Complementarity Property Models of Observations, 12 December 2023, Geneva
  • Alyssa Ney (UC Davis): The Fundamentality of Physics, 5 December 2023, Geneva
  • Lorenzo Cocco: Modern Physics Is Platonic, 28 November 2023, Geneva
  • Fabrice Correia: Location by Proxy, 21 November 2023, Geneva
  • Ryan Miller: Looking for Levels, 14 November 2023, Geneva
  • Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette (Neuchâtel): Deliberation and the Possibility of Skepticism, 31 October 2023, Geneva
  • Jan Plate: Towards an Ontology of States and Roles, 17 October 2023, Geneva
  • Alessandro Cecconi: Proper Parthood Matters, 10 October 2023, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: Ways of Being Wise II – Ultimate Wisdom, 3 October 2023, Geneva
  • Florian Fischer (Siegen): Dynamicity, 26 September 2023, Geneva
  • L. A. Paul: Reverse Engineering a Self, 11 May 2023, Geneva
  • Fabrice Correia: Factual Equivalence—One-Sided vs Two-Sided, 4 May 2023, Geneva
  • Giuliano Torrengo: The Passage of Time, 27 April 2023, Geneva
  • Giovanni Merlo: Against Two-Faced Eternalism, 20 April 2023, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: Plato's Early Ontology of Affections, 6 April 2023, Geneva
  • Jacopo Giraldo: Geometry and Measure of Spatial Extension, 30 March 2023, Geneva
  • Lorenzo Cocco: From Physics to Platonism, 23 March 2023, Geneva
  • Salim Hirèche: On Reducing Kinds of Modality to Kinds of Essence, 16 March 2023, Geneva
  • Damiano Costa and Alessandro Giordani: Raven on Aristotelian Universals, 9 March 2023, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: Ways of Being Wise, 2 March 2023, Geneva
  • Jan Plate: Relations and Roles, 23 February 2023, Geneva

2022

  • Kathrin Koslicki and Olivier Massin: On the Substantive Nature of Definitional Disputes, 15 December 2022, Geneva
  • Ryan Miller: Lonerganian Emergence, 8 December 2022, Geneva
  • Tim Riedel: Nobody Understands Relational Quantum Mechanics, 1 December 2022, Geneva
  • Cristian López: Relational Primitivism about the Direction of Time, 17 November 2022, Geneva
  • Cody Gilmore, Location. Five Definitional Systems---Excerpt from Cody Gilmore, Claudio Calosi and Damiano Costa, Location and Mereology (SEP); Discussants: Matt Leonard, Damiano Costa., 27 October 2022, Geneva
  • Michael Esfeld: The Metaphysics of Cartesian Science, 13 October 2022, Geneva
  • Jonas Werner: Partial Grounding, Identity, and Nothing-Over-and-Aboveness, 6 October 2022, Geneva
  • Jan Plate: State-Based Metaphysics, 29 September 2022, Geneva
  • Martin Glazier: Things and Their Aspects, 22 September 2022, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: Being is Not a Genus: Aristotle's Arguments, 19 May 2022, Geneva
  • Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: Three Kinds of Causal Indeterminacy, 12 May 2022, Geneva
  • Joshua Babic and Lorenzo Cocco: Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality and Equivalence, 5 May 2022, Geneva
  • Karol Lenart: Essentialism and de re representation, 28 April 2022, Geneva
  • Valentina Luporini: On Parsons' Quasi-Concrete Objects, 14 April 2022, Geneva
  • Artūrs Logins: The paradox of graded justification, 7 April 2022, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: History of Essence: Contemporary (Analytic), 31 March 2022, Geneva
  • Antonio Freiles: Exact Containment and Existential Dependence, 24 March 2022, Geneva
  • Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra: On Resemblance Nominalism and Modal Realism, 17 March 2022, Geneva
  • Baptiste Le Bihan: Trouble on the Horizon for Presentism (joint work with Sam Baron), 10 March 2022, Geneva
  • Olivier Massin: Physical Efforts, 3 March 2022, Geneva
  • Ralf Bader: Grounding, Reduction and Analysis, 24 February 2022, Geneva

2021

  • Martin Glazier: Symmetry and Ground, 16 December 2021, Geneva
  • Valentina Luporini: On Maddy's Concrete and Perceivable Sets, 9 December 2021, Geneva
  • Ryan Miller: Artifacts: Ontology as Easy as it Gets, 2 December 2021, Geneva
  • Marco Marabello and Maria Scarpati: Individual Essence and Modality, 25 November 2021, Geneva
  • Fabrice Correia: Obligation and Fixity, 18 November 2021, Geneva
  • Special session from the workshop The Nature of Quantum Objects, 11 November 2021, Geneva
  • Jonas Werner: Potentialism and S5, 28 October 2021, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: From Intersubjective Correspondence to the Counterpart Relation, 21 October 2021, Geneva
  • Erica Shumener: Physicalism as a Nomic Thesis, 14 October 2021, Geneva
  • Lorenzo Cocco: Scientific Realism and Mathematical Objects, 7 October 2021, Geneva
  • Kathrin Koslicki: Modality and Essence in Contemporary Metaphysics, 27 May 2021, Zoom
  • Riccardo Baratella: Towards a Hylomorphic Account of Processes and Events, 20 May 2021, Zoom
  • Jonas Werner: From Essences to Gradual Modal Natures, 13 May 2021, Zoom
  • Amanda Bryant: Grounding Interventionism, 6 May 2021, Zoom
  • Alessandro Torza: Metaphysical Supervaluationism: Evans' Revenge, 29 April 2021, Zoom
  • Christian Wüthrich and Vincent Lam: Laws beyond spacetime, 22 April 2021, Zoom
  • Claudio Calosi and Alessandro Giordani: How To Build Things from Atoms, 15 April 2021, Zoom
  • Alberto Corti and Daniele Garancini: The Problems of Analytic Philosophy, 25 March 2021, Zoom
  • Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra: Two Arguments for the PII, 18 March 2021, Zoom
  • Tobias Wilsch: Logicism about Necessity, 11 March 2021, Zoom
  • Alex Skiles and Kelly Trogdon: Should explanation be a guide to ground?, 4 March 2021, Zoom
  • David Kovacs: Against the Status Response to the Argument from Vagueness, 25 February 2021, Zoom

2020

  • Valentina Luporini: Why Socrates necessarily and essentially belongs to his singleton, 17 December 2020, Zoom
  • Ryan Miller: The Genuinely Aristotelian Answer to the Problem of Material Constitution, 10 December 2020, Zoom
  • Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: Interventionism and Non-causal Dependence Relations: New Work for a Theory of Supervenience, 3 December 2020, Zoom
  • Antoine Taillard: On Some Counterexamples to Strong Composition as Identity, 26 November 2020, Zoom
  • Donnchadh O'Conaill: Substances as Definitionally Primitive Entities, 19 November 2020, Zoom
  • Paolo Natali: Was Bolzano a Realist about Universals?, 12 November 2020, Zoom
  • Fabrice Correia: Entire Location, 29 October 2020, Geneva
  • Giovanni Merlo: Cross-Temporal Grounding, 22 October 2020, Geneva
  • Soufiane Hamri: Fundamentality and Independent Existence, 15 October 2020, Geneva
  • Philipp Blum and Patrik Engisch: Thetism, 8 October 2020, Geneva
  • David Schroeren: Why quantum states are vectors, not rays, 1 October 2020, Geneva
  • Bruno Jacinto: Bridge Principles and Purely Epistemic Norms, 28 May 2020, Zoom
  • Damiano Costa & Alessandro Cecconi: Fine's Monster Objection, 14 May 2020, Zoom
  • Karol Lenart: Possible Worlds: Modal Realism and Actualism, 30 April 2020, Zoom
  • Jonas Waechter: On the Existential Dependency of Ephemerals, 23 April 2020, Zoom
  • Salim Hirèche: Relativized Essentialism about Modality, 9 April 2020, Zoom
  • Soufiane Hamri: Naturalism and Theism on the Balance of Causality, 2 April 2020, Zoom
  • Benjamin Neeser: All Problems of Change Must Pass, 26 March 2020, Zoom
  • Salim Hirèche, Niels Linnemann, Robert Michels and Lisa Vogt: The Strong Arm of the Law, 19 March 2020, Zoom
  • Giovanni Merlo: Russellian Monism and Two Varieties of Grounding, 12 March 2020, Geneva
  • Vera Hoffmann-Kolss: Interventionism and Non-causal Dependence Relations: New Work for a Theory of Supervenience CANCELLED, 5 March 2020, Geneva
  • Maria Scarpati: Unity Relations, 27 February 2020, Geneva
  • Vincent Grandjean: Bare Particulars to the Rescue of GBT, 20 February 2020, Geneva

2019

  • Claudio Calosi & Juliusz Doboszewski: Quantum Monism & Monogamy of Entanglement, 19 December 2019, Geneva
  • Salim Hirèche: Grounding, Necessity and Blockers, 12 December 2019, Geneva
  • Joshua Babic & Lorenzo Cocco: Plural Logic is Mereosemantics, 5 December 2019, Geneva
  • Peter Simons: Tropes: The Complete Story, 28 November 2019, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: Bolzano's Realism about Properties, 21 November 2019, Geneva
  • Lisa Vogt: Nominalist Dispositionalism Revisited, 14 November 2019, Geneva
  • Nick Zangwill: Carnap, Ontology and Categories: Burial and Praise (at 10:45 in Espace Battelle, part of the 2019 LG2C conference on Kinds - in Philosophy and Its History), 31 October 2019, Geneva
  • Donnchadh O'Conaill: The Problems of Universals, 24 October 2019, Geneva
  • Benjamin Neeser: Stages in Spacetime. The Language of Persistence, 17 October 2019, Geneva
  • François Pellet: A Definition of a Definition of Disease, 10 October 2019, Geneva
  • Soufiane Hamri: Causal Fundamentality, 3 October 2019, Geneva
  • Fabrice Correia: Grounding and Fundamentality, 26 September 2019, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: On Objectual Understanding and Essence, 23 May 2019, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: The Language of Doxa and Appearance, 16 May 2019, Geneva
  • Barry Smith (University of Buffalo): Dialogue Beats the Turing Test, 9 May 2019, Geneva
  • Vincent Grandjean: A Model for the Open Future, 2 May 2019, Geneva
  • Cristian Mariani (University of Milan): Derivative Metaphysical Indeterminacy & Indeterministic Grounding, 18 April 2019, Geneva
  • Pablo Carnino: Grounding in the Philosophy of Science, 11 April 2019, Geneva
  • Stephen Neale (CUNY Graduate Center): Does the Principle of Compositionality Have Any Content, 4 April 2019, Geneva
  • Lorenzo Cocco: The Criterion of Commitment, 28 March 2019, Geneva
  • Baptiste Le Bihan: From String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity to Eternalism, 21 March 2019, Geneva
  • Tiziano Ferrando: Real Patterns and the Metaphysics of Information, 14 March 2019, Geneva
  • Joshua Babic: A System of Axioms for Minkowski Spacetime, 7 March 2019, Geneva
  • Dominik Aeschbacher: A Definition of Essence, 28 February 2019, Geneva
  • Jonas Waechter: Existence Primitivism, 21 February 2019, Geneva

2018

  • Jan Plate: Purely Qualitative Properties and Relations, 20 December 2018, Geneva
  • Maria Scarpati: Metaphysical Haecceitism: Arguments for a Theory, 6 December 2018, Geneva
  • Joshua Babic and Lorenzo Cocco: A Note on Dasgupta's Generalism, 29 November 2018, Geneva
  • Ernesto Perini-Santos (UFMG, Brazil): A Positive Argument for Unarticulated Constituents, 22 November 2018, Geneva
  • Alex Skiles (University of Gothenburg): Essence, Modality and Identity, 15 November 2018, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: Multidimensional Vagueness, 1 November 2018, Geneva
  • Philipp Blum: Being Without Foundations, 25 October 2018, Geneva
  • Kelly Trogdon (Virginia Tech): Full and Partial Ground, 18 October 2018, Geneva
  • Donnchadh O'Conaill (University of Fribourg): Quantum Holism and Mutual Dependence, 11 October 2018, Geneva
  • Mauro Dorato (University of Rome 3): Presentism and Eternalism as Stances, 5 October 2018, Geneva
  • Claudio Calosi and Damiano Costa: Eagle on Multilocation, 27 September 2018, Geneva
  • Christina Conroy (Morehead University): Deviant Dependence and Entanglement, 31 May 2018, Geneva
  • Salim Hireche: Relativised Essentialism, 24 May 2018, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: Untitled, 17 May 2018, Geneva
  • Moritz Baron: Can Williamson's Counterfactual-based Epistemology of Modality Explain our Knowledge of Mathematical Necessity?, 10 May 2018, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: Bolzano on Definition and the Paradox of Analysis, 3 May 2018, Geneva
  • Donnchadh O'Conaill (University of Fribourg): Against Universalism, 26 April 2018, Geneva
  • Stephen Mumford (Durham University): Are There Negative Kinds?, 19 April 2018, Geneva
  • Fabrice Correia: Unfreezing the Spotlight (joint work with Sven Rosenkranz), 12 April 2018, Geneva
  • Vincent Grandjean: How is the asymmetry between the open future and the fixed past to be characterized?, 29 March 2018, Geneva
  • Ghislain Guigon: The Age of Trickery, 22 March 2018, Geneva
  • Giuliano Torrengo and Cristian Mariani (University of MIlan): Against Quantum Mechanical Objections to Metaphysical Supervaluationism, 15 March 2018, Geneva
  • Philipp Blum: Being, Totality and the Transcendentals, 8 March 2018, Geneva
  • Lisa Vogt: Dispositional Essentialism and the Connection between Essence, Grounding and Fundamentality, 1 March 2018, Geneva
  • Karen Crowther: When Do We Stop Digging? Conditions on a Fundamental Theory of Physics, 22 February 2018, Geneva

2017

  • Jonas Waechter (University of Bristol): In Defense of Ordinary Objects and a Naturalistic Answer to the Special Composition Question, 21 December 2017, Geneva
  • Philipp Blum: Essence and Existence, 14 December 2017, Geneva
  • Paolo Natali: States of Affairs in Aristotle, Categories 12, 7 December 2017, Geneva
  • Benjamin Neeser: Stages in Spacetime, 30 November 2017, Geneva
  • Nathan Davies: Negative Truths, Falsehoods, Quantification and Denial, 27 November 2017, Lugano
  • eidos 10 years anniversary celebration, 23 November 2017, Geneva
  • Pablo Carnino: Humean Laws, Circularity and Contrastivity, 16 November 2017, Geneva
  • Dominik Aeschbacher: Grounding as a four-place relation, 2 November 2017, Geneva
  • Baptiste Le Bihan: How To Travel Light into the Non-Spatial: Space Emergence in an Ontological Flat World, 26 October 2017, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: No Title, 19 October 2017, Geneva
  • Maria Scarpati: Metaphysical Haecceitism and the Individuals Assumption, 12 October 2017, Geneva
  • Joe Gough: Still no argument for causal exclusion, 11 October 2017, Lugano
  • Jonas Werner: Immediate Grounding, Dense Grounding and the Layered Structure of Reality, 5 October 2017, Geneva
  • Francesco Berto (University of Amsterdam): Parthood and Identity in a Structural World, 29 September 2017, Geneva
  • Brendan Balcerak Jackson (University of Miami), Semantics as a Guide to Ground, 31 May 2017, Geneva
  • Tobias Wahlberg (University of Lund): Causal Powers and Social Ontology, 24 May 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Ulrich Meyer (Colgate University)​: The Banach-Tarski Paradox, 24 May 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Philipp Blum: Contingent Necessary Truths, 17 May 2017, Geneva
  • Dominik Aeschbacher: Essence, Ground and the Paradox of Analysis, 10 May 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Paolo Natali: Priority, Truth-Making and States of Affairs in Aristotle, Categories 12, 3 May 2017, Geneva
  • Vincent Grandjean: A Temporal Asymmetry, 26 April 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Robert Michels: Metaphysical Indeterminacy as Indeterminate Actuality, 12 April 2017, Geneva
  • Benjamin Neeser: Persistence and Explanation, 5 April 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Alex Steinberg (University of Zurich): Pleonastic Propositions and the Face Value Theory, 29 March 2017, Geneva
  • Claudio Calosi: Enduring Problems of Location, 22 March 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Damiano Costa: Six Ways of Being in Time, 15 March 2017, Geneva
  • Jan Plate: Basic Positionalism, 8 March 2017, Neuchâtel
  • Ghislain Guigon: Structural Parsimony, 1 March 2017, Geneva

2016

  • Fabrice Correia: Real Definitions, 21 December 2016, Neuchâtel
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz: Incommensurability meets risk, 14 December 2016, Geneva
  • Claudio Calosi & Ghislain Guigon: The Many as Modes of the Wave, 7 December 2016, Neuchâtel
  • Donnchadh O’Connaill: What is it to be F?, 30 November 2016, Geneva
  • Antony Eagle: Supendurantism, 23 November 2016, Neuchâtel
  • Paolo Natali: The Impossible is Possible: Formalising a Positively Medieval Fallacy, 16 November 2016, Geneva
  • Robert Michels: Essentiality and the Grounding of Truth, 2 November 2016, Geneva
  • Benjamin Neeser: Objects, Persons, and Powers, 26 October 2016, Geneva
  • Philipp Blum: Processes and Changes, 19 October 2016, Neuchâtel
  • Corine Besson: A Note on MacFarlane's Relativism about Future Contingents, 12 October 2016, Geneva
  • Jan Plate: Intrinsic Properties and Relations, 5 October 2016, Neuchâtel
  • Michael Clark: Derivative Grounding, 28 September 2016, Geneva
  • Giovanni Merlo: The Subjective Grounds of Consciousness, 21 September 2016, Neuchâtel

eidos events

2024

2023

  • Summer school: A Summer School with Kit Fine, Ligerz/Gléresse, 7-14 June 2023.   
  • Talk: Murat Sariyar (Bern University of Applied Sciences), "Formal Ontologies, Identity and Identification - Applying (analytical) philosophy for real-world problems", Geneva, Tuesday 9 May 2023.

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • Workshop: Philosophical Modal Logic, 7 October 2011
  • Conference: Time and Explanation, 14-17 September 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: The Metaphysics and the Epistemology of Essence and Exemplification, 28-29 August 2011
  • Workshop: Properties and Plurals, 27 June 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Exemplification, 10-11 June 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Properties, parts and values, 28-29 May 2011
  • Workshop: Organic Unities, 26-27 May 2011
  • Workshop: Affective Dynamics, 20-21 May 2011
  • Workshop: BCN-GVA meeting, 12-13 May 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Universals and Tropes, 22-23 April 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Truthmaking, 2-3 April 2011
  • Workshop: Metaphysics graduate school 2011: Grounding and determination, 4-5 March 2011

2010

  • Workshop: PETAF Workshop, 8-10 December 2010
  • Workshop: Science et métaphysique, 26 November 2010
  • Workshop: Non-Propositional Intentionality, 13-14 November 2010
  • Workshop: Contingentism, 24-26 September 2010
  • Workshop: The Metaphysics of Time, 27-28 August 2010
  • Workshop: Perceiving and Feeling, 5 July 2010
  • Workshop: BCN-GVA meeting, 2-3 June 2010
  • Talk: Hugh Mellor, 27 May 2010
  • Workshop: Fiction and Imagination, 28-30 April 2010
  • Workshop: Grounding, Explanation, and Dependence, 26 March 2010

2009

2008

2007