Kevin Mulligan


Kevin Mulligan 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.

Edited volumes

  • Speech Act and Sachverhalt: Reinach and the Foundations of Realist Phenomenology, Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1987.
  • Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.
  • Language, Truth and Ontology, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991
  • Wittgenstein analysé, Paris: Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 1993
  • Regards sur Bentham et l'utilitarisme, Geneva: Droz, 1993
  • Themes from Wittgenstein, Working Papers in Philosophy, 4, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993.
  • La Philosophie autrichienne de Bolzano à Musil. Histoire et Actualité , Paris: Vrin, 2001.
  • Les nationalismes, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2001
  • Relations and Predicates: Philosophical Analysis, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2004
  • Robert Musil – Ironie, Satire, falsche Gefühle, Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2009.
  • Studies in the History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.