Kevin Mulligan | |
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Born | Shifnal, Shropshire, England | 23 June 1951
Education | |
Doctoral advisor | Wolfe Mays |
Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Main interests | Philosophy of language,philosophy of mind,ontology,emotions,logic |
Notable ideas | Truthmaker theory |
Kevin Mulligan (born 23 June 1951) is a British philosopher,working on ontology,the philosophy of mind,and Austrian philosophy. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva,Full Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland, [1] Director of Research at the Institute of Philosophy of Lugano,and member of the Academia Europaea [2] and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. [3] He is also known for his work with Peter Simons and Barry Smith on metaphysics and the history of Austrian philosophy.
A major Festschrift on his work was published in 2014. [4]
Since 2016 he is academic director and professor at the Universitàdella Svizzera italiana in Switzerland.
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