__NOTOC__ Kevin Mulligan (born 23 June 1951) is a British

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, working on

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, the

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, and Austrian philosophy. He is currently Honorary Professor at the

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, Full Professor at the

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, Director of Research at the Institute of Philosophy of Lugano, and member of the

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and of the

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. He is also known for his work with Peter Simons and Barry Smith on

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and the history of Austrian philosophy. A major

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on his work was published in 2014.Anne Reboul (Ed.),
Mind, Values, and Metaphysics. Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan
2 volumes, Springer Since 2016 he is academic director and professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland.

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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. * ''Wittgenstein et la philosophie austro-allemande.'' Vrin, 2012. ** Italian translation: ''Wittgenstein e la filosofia austro-tedesca''. Mimesis, 2014. ** Spanish translation: ''Wittgenstein y la filosofia austro-alemana''. Tecnos, 2014. *''Décrire. La Psychologie de Brentano'' (with Olivier Massin), Paris : Vrin, 2021.

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'' (ed. with J‑P. Leyvraz), Paris: Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 1993 *''Regards sur Bentham et l'utilitarisme'' (ed. with R. Roth), Geneva: Droz, 1993 *''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. *''Les nationalismes'' (ed. with B. Baertschi), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2001 :*Romanian translation:''Nationalismele'', Bucharest: Nemira, 2010 *''Relations and Predicates: Philosophical Analysis'' (ed. with H. Hochberg), Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2004 *''Robert Musil – Ironie, Satire, falsche Gefühle'' (ed. with A. Westerhoff), Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2009. *''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.

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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
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