Biography:Kevin Mulligan

Short description: British philosopher

Kevin Mulligan
Born	(1951-06-23) 23 June 1951 Shifnal, Shropshire, England
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Doctoral advisor	Wolfe Mays
Main interests	Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ontology, emotions, logic
Notable ideas	Truthmaker theory
Influences Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano, Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

Bibliography

• Kevin Mulligan Bibliography
• Kevin Mulligan Recent Publications
• Kevin Mulligan, Peter Simons and Barry Smith, "What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?", Topoi, 25 (1-2), 2006, 63–67.
• Anatomie della stoltezza. Jouvence, 2016. ISBN:978-88-7801-547-0
• Wittgenstein et la philosophie austro-allemande. Vrin, 2012. ISBN:978-2-7116-2460-7
  • Italian translation: Wittgenstein e la filosofia austro-tedesca. Mimesis, 2014. ISBN:978-8-857-52307-1
  • Spanish translation: Wittgenstein y la filosofia austro-alemana. Tecnos, 2014. ISBN:978-8-4309-6278-5
• Décrire. La Psychologie de Brentano (with Olivier Massin), Paris : Vrin, 2021. ISBN:9782711630059

Edited volumes

• Speech Act and Sachverhalt: Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology, Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1987. ISBN:978-90-247-3427-6
• Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990. ISBN:978-0-7923-0578-1
• Language, Truth and Ontology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991 ISBN:978-0-7923-1509-4
• Wittgenstein analysé (ed. with J‑P. Leyvraz), Paris: Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 1993 ISBN:978-2-8771-1087-7
• Regards sur Bentham et l'utilitarisme (ed. with R. Roth), Geneva: Droz, 1993 ISBN:978-2-600-04360-1
• Themes from Wittgenstein (ed. with B. Garrett), Working Papers in Philosophy, 4, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993.
• La Philosophie autrichienne de Bolzano à Musil. Histoire et Actualité (ed. with J.-P. Cometti), Paris: Vrin, 2001. ISBN:978-2-7116-1497-4
• Les nationalismes (ed. with B. Baertschi), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2001 ISBN:978-2-1305-2396-3

• Romanian translation: Nationalismele, Bucharest: Nemira, 2010 ISBN:978-6065790353

• Relations and Predicates: Philosophical Analysis (ed. with H. Hochberg), Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2004 ISBN:978-3110326536
• Robert Musil – Ironie, Satire, falsche Gefühle (ed. with A. Westerhoff), Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2009. ISBN:978-3-89785-663-9
• Studies in the History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński (ed. with K. Kijania-Placek & T. Placek), Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN:978-1-137-03090-0

See also

• European Society for Analytic Philosophy

External links

• Homepage at the University of Geneva
• Wittgenstein et la philosophie austro-allemande
• Anne Reboul (Ed.), Mind, Values, and Metaphysics: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan, 2 Volumes, London/New York: Springer,

2014.

• Università della Svizzera Italiana professors