Philosopher

Kevin Mulligan

Overview

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, Director of Research at the Institute of Philosophy of Lugano, and member of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. 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.

Since 2016 he is academic director and professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Kevin Mulligan

• Peter Simons (academic)
• Pascal Engel

Ideas Kevin Mulligan discusses

• Western philosophy
• Analytic philosophy
• German philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Passions (philosophy)
• Ontology
• Logic
• Philosophy of language
• Philosophy of mind
• Contemporary philosophy
• Epistemology
• Peter Simons (academic)

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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