Who founded the public research university in Geneva, Switzerland where a French philosopher works?
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Pascal Engel Pascal Engel (] ; born 1954) is a French philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of logic. He was a professor of philosophy of logic at the , he currently works at the University of Geneva, where he collaborates with, among others, Kevin Mulligan. He is a member of Institut Nicod.
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University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: "Université de Genève") is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary and law school. It remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873, it dropped its religious affiliations and became officially secular. Today, the university is the third largest university in Switzerland by number of students. In 2009, the University of Geneva celebrated the 450th anniversary of its founding. Almost 40% of the students come from foreign countries.
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Aurélien Barrau Aurélien Barrau (19 May 1973 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French physicist and philosopher, specialized in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology. He works in the CNRS "Laboratory for Subatomic Physics and Cosmology" (LPSC) and is professor at the Joseph Fourier University (become Grenoble Alpes University in 2016).
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Institut Jean Nicod The Institut Jean Nicod (also known as IJN) is a CNRS research center based in Paris, France. Founded in 2000, its name commemorates the French philosopher, mathematician and logician Jean Nicod (1893-1924). At present, the Institute is co-hosted by the École Normale Supérieure and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, two prestigious French institutions for research and higher education. Research carried by its members has a strongly interdisciplinary profile, at the interface between [[cognitive science] and the [[social sciences]]. The main scientific fields covered by the Institute include: [[neuroscience]] [[linguistics]] ([[semantics]] and [[pragmatics]]), [[cognitive anthropology]] and [[philosophy of mind]]. Although most members of the group are logicians, the issues addressed are not purely conceptual and have a strong empirical component. For several years, members of the Institute have led research projects in collaboration with neurobiologists cognitive, developmental psychologists, neuropsychologists and cognitive neuroscientists.
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Barbara Cassin Barbara Cassin (] ; born October 24, 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie and director of research (senior research chair) at the CNRS. In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of excellence in Ancient philosophy, Centre Leon-Robin, at the Sorbonne. Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy. In a footnote in 2007's "Logic of Worlds", Alain Badiou portrays her work as a synthesis of Heideggerian thought with the linguistic turn. From 1991 to 2007 she co-directed with Alain Badiou the series L'Ordre Philosophique, at Le Seuil publishers. She is the author of "L'Effet Sophistique" (1995) and the editor of "Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies", ( 2004) an international collective work of philosophers sponsored by the European Union. She has also written "Google-moi. La Deuxième Mission de l'Amérique" (2007), In September 2012 a Cerisy symposium about her works was held, with contributions by Xavier North, Étienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro, Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar and Alain Badiou.
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Étienne Souriau Étienne Souriau (] ; April 26, 1892 – November 19, 1979) was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics.
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Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille University (AMU; French: "Aix-Marseille Université" ; formally incorporated as "Université d'Aix-Marseille") is a public research university located in Provence, southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to create the University of Provence. The university as it is today was formed by the merger of the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and Paul Cézanne University. The merger became effective on 1 January 2012, resulting in the creation of the largest university in the French-speaking world, with about 70,000 students. AMU has the largest budget of any academic institution in the Francophone world, standing at €750 million.
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Jean Philibert Damiron Jean-Philibert Damiron (] ; 10 January 1794 – 11 January 1862) was a French philosopher.
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Bertrand de Jouvenel Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987), was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.
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Alexandre Koyré Alexandre Koyré (] ; 29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964), also anglicized as Alexandre or Alexander Koyre, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science.
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Lucien Goldmann Lucien Goldmann (] ; July 20, 1913 – October 8, 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist.
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Élisabeth Badinter Élisabeth Badinter (née Bleustein-Blanchet; 5 March 1944, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French philosopher, author and historian.
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Marc-Auguste Pictet Marc-Auguste Pictet (] ; July 23, 1752 – April 19, 1825) was a scientific journalist and an experimental natural philosopher (physicist, chemist, meteorologist, astronomer) from Geneva, Switzerland.
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University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg (French: "Université de Fribourg" ; German: "Universität Freiburg" ) is a university in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Institute of Higher International Studies The Institute of Higher International Studies (French: "Institut des Hautes Études Internationales", commonly referred to as "IHEI") is a public institution of research and higher education in Paris, France. It was founded in 1921 by Paul Fauchille and Albert de Lapradelle. It is now affiliated to Panthéon-Assas University.
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University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, German: "Universität Zürich" ), located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 26,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy.
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Dominique Bourg Dominique Bourg (born 11 August 1953) is a French philosopher. Since 2006, he is professor at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
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Gabriel Fragnière Gabriel Fragnière (4 March 1934 – 9 September 2015) was a Swiss university professor, philosopher and scientific researcher.
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Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron (born 1944) is a French Roman Catholic philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Poitiers and Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He is the author of many books about Bergson and Hegel. He is an expert on spiritualism.
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Quentin Meillassoux Quentin Meillassoux (] ; born 1967) is a French philosopher. He teaches at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and is the son of the anthropologist Claude Meillassoux.
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Henri François Marion Henri François Marion (184696) was a French philosopher and educationalist.
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Victor Cousin Victor Cousin (] ; 28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism," a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. As the administrator of public instruction for over a decade, Cousin also had an important influence on French educational policy.