Previously held position
Education
Research
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Philosophy of Action
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Metaphysics
Specific interests: Metaphysics of action & agency; Events; Processes; Agent Causation; Thomas Reid; Causation; The Will; Intentionality; Free Will; Pro-social behaviour; Altruism; Egoism
Areas of Competence
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Moral Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind
Publications
§ Bianchi, Robin T. (Forthcoming). "Challenging the Process View of Action", in Manuscrito: International Journal of Philosophy.
§ Bianchi, Robin T. (Forthcoming). "Action and Active Powers", in Philosophia.
§ Bianchi, Robin T. (2024). "Causers, Causes, and Doers", in Grazer Philosophische Studien, 101(2), 118-40: https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000219.
§ Bianchi, Robin T. (2024). "Causalité agentive (A)", dans Maxime Kristanek (dir.), L'Encyclopédie Philosophique: https://philpapers.org/rec/BIACAA-3.
§ Bianchi, Robin T. & Cova, Florian & Tieffenbach, Emma (2023). “Is the warm glow actually warm? An experimental investigation into the nature and determinants of warm glow feelings”, in International Journal of Wellbeing, 13(3), 1-23, https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v13i3.2565.
§ Bianchi, Robin T. (2022). “L’effet chaud au Coeur : donne-t-on pour se sentir bien ?”, in ASSH: Bulletin de l'Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7360371.
Talks
§ "Que faisons-nous lorsque nous prévenons ?", Séminaire Jeunes Chercheurs de Philosophie Argumentative, 10 October 2024.
§ "The Scope of Agency", Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham, 13 July 2024.
§ "The Scope of Causal Agency", Issues on The (Im)Possible X, Bratislava, 27 June 2024.
§ "The Ontology of Action: Acts and Activities", New Work on the Ontology and Semantics of Events, Nice, 18 June 2024.
§ "The Scope of Agency", Groupe d'études en Métaphysique, Collège de France, Paris, 26 April 2024.
§ "The Scope of Agency", Metaphysics Collaborative Monthly Meetings, online, 25 Jaunary 2024.
§ "Do Actions Have no Metaphysical Identity?", 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Vienna, 24 August 2023.
§ "Deux doctrines de la causalité de l'agent", PhilEAs, Genève, 20 April 2023
§ “Acion and Active Powers", Dynamics of Agency: Automaticity, Intentionality, and Change, Helsinki, 12 January 2023.
§ “Active and Passive Powers: Is There a Distinction?”, Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2022, Salzburg, 8 September 2022.
§ "Sur quoi repose la distinction entre activité et passivité ?", IXe Congrès Triennal De La Société De Philosophie Analytique : Les Valeurs du Savoirs, Neuchâtel, 18 July 2022.
§ "Reid and the agency of inanimate beings", Workshop: pourquoi l’histoire de la philosophie mérite l’attention des philosophes analytiques II, Ligerz, 20 June 2022.
§ “Did my desires make me do it?”, Colloque Jeunes chercheurs de la Société de philosophie analytique : les États mentaux et leurs rôles épistémiques, Genève, 1 June 2022.
§ “The disappearing agent problem revisited”, 2022 Utrecht Philosophy Graduate Conference, Utrecht, 12 May 2022.
§ “Is the concept of intrinsic value dispensable for environmental ethics?”, Boston University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, Boston, 21 April 2022.
§ “All we ever do is move our body : Corporealism and the temporal problem”, Colloque de recherche, Université de Neuchâtel, 8 March 2022.
§ “The warm glow from giving, its nature and motivational power”, International conference: Students of Analytic Philosophy (ic.SoAP), Geneva (online), 1 May 2021.
§“Real-self Views and Moral Responsibility: Problems and Limits”, International conference: Students of analytic Philosophy (ic.SoAP), Munich (Online), 2 May 2020.