Michels Robert (A817-FECB-F0FC)

Curriculum Vitae

Michels Robert

Robert Michels received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Geneva in 2013 and has since then been a post doc there and at the Università della Svizzera italiana and has taught at the Universities of Bern, Geneva, Neuchâtel in Switzerland and at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Since late 2022, he is FCT assistant researcher at LanCog, at the Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon. He co-organized the weekly research seminar of the eidos group from 2017-2021 and was a member of the editorial committee of the journal Dialectica from 2010-2020. He edited a special issue of Dialectica on the formalization of arguments and has published articles in journals including Ergo, The European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese. Subjects covered in his published works include essence, laws of nature, metaphysical indeterminacy, modality, and two-dimensional semantics.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Michels Robert

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: A817-FECB-F0FC
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4982-7239

Domínios de atuação

Humanidades - Filosofia, Ética e Religião - Filosofia
Humanidades - Filosofia, Ética e Religião - História e Filosofia da Ciência e Tecnologia

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/11/01 - Atual	Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2021/12/31	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Università della Svizzera Italiana Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Suiça

2014 - 2017	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Suiça
	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Suiça
2010/08/01 - 2014	Investigador (Investigação)	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Suiça

Docência no Ensino Superior

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2021/02/01 - 2022/01/31	Leitor (Docente Universitário)	Universität Bern Institut für Philosophie, Suiça

2018/08/01 - 2020/07/31	Leitor (Docente Universitário)	Université de Neuchâtel Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Suiça
	Université de Neuchâtel, Suiça
2019/02/01 - 2020/01/31	Leitor (Docente Universitário)	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Suiça
	Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Suiça

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2025/02/01 - 2026/07/31	Indeterminacy in Science 2023.15136.PEX Investigador responsável Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2022/11/01 - 2028/10/31	Understanding the Nature of Indeterminacy 2021.03171.CEECIND/CP1702/CT0015 10.54499/2021.03171.CEECIND/CP1702/CT0015 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Robert, Michels; Calosi, Claudio. "Graded Qualities". Synthese (2025): Acesso aberto • No prelo Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; Michels, Robert. "Are All Laws of Nature Created Equal? Meta-laws Versus More Necessary Laws". Erkenntnis (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00739-7. Acesso aberto • Aceite para publicação • 10.1007/s10670-023-00739-7 Robert, Michels; Mariani, Cristian; Torrengo, Giuliano. "Plural metaphysical supervaluationism". Inquiry 67 6 (2023): 2005-2042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2021.1982404 https://philarchive.org/rec/MICPMS. Publicado • 10.1080/0020174x.2021.1982404 Michels, Robert. "The Formalization of Arguments". Dialectica (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.48106/dial.v74.i2.01. Acesso aberto • No prelo • 10.48106/dial.v74.i2.01 Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; Michels, Robert; Vogt, Lisa. "The strong arm of the law: a unified account of necessary and contingent laws of nature". Synthese 199 3-4 (2021): 10211-10252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03243-z. 10.1007/s11229-021-03243-z Hirèche, Salim; Linnemann, Niels; Robert, Michels; Vogt, Lisa. "The modal status of the laws of nature. Tahko’s hybrid view and the kinematical/dynamical distinction". European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00335-4. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1007/s13194-020-00335-4 Robert, Michels. "Husserlian Eidetic Variation and Objectual Understanding as a Basis for an Epistemology of Essence". Logos and Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology 3 11 (2020): 333-353. http://logos-and-episteme.acadiasi.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/michels.XI_.3.2020.pdf. Acesso aberto • Publicado Robert, Michels. "Essential Truths and Their Truth-Grounds". Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 5 20201214 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.030. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.030 Robert, Michels. "On how (not) to define modality in terms of essence". Philosophical Studies 176 4 (2018): 1015-1033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1040-8. Publicado • 10.1007/s11098-018-1040-8 Robert, Michels. "Cross-World Comparatives for Modal Realists". Organon F 25 3 (2018): 368-391. http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon/?q=en/cross-world-comparatives-lewisians. Acesso aberto • Publicado Robert, Michels. "The limits of non-standard contingency". Philosophical Studies 176 2 (2017): 533-558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-1027-x. Publicado • 10.1007/s11098-017-1027-x Robert, Michels. "Soames’s argument 1 against strong two-dimensionalism". Philosophical Studies 161 3 (2011): 403-420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9746-x. Publicado • 10.1007/s11098-011-9746-x
Artigo em revista (magazine)	Robert, Michels; Fritz, Peter; Ramanava, Maryia; Zinke, Alexandra. "Conference Report: First Formal Epistemology Festival, 28-30 July", The Reasoner, 2008, https://cdn-researchkent.pressidium.com/reasoning/wp-content/uploads/sites/1804/2019/06/TheReasoner-29.pdf.
Capítulo de livro	Robert, Michels. "Contemporary (Analytic Tradition)". In The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, editado por Kathrin Koslicki; Michael J. Raven. Routledge, 2024. No prelo Robert, Michels. "Correct Conceivability and its Role in the Epistemology of Modality". In Les principes métaphysiques, editado por Declos, Alexandre; Guillon, Baptiste. França: Collège de France, 2020. 10.4000/books.cdf.8079
Edição de número de revista	Robert, Michels. "Speciel Issue on the Formalization of Arguments". Dialectica (2023): https://dialectica.philosophie.ch. No prelo • Editor convidado
Revisão de livro	Robert, Michels. "Wiggins, David, Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being and Their Identity. Twelve Essays, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 239¿pp., $50.00 (£35.00) (hardback), ISBN: 9780198716624.". Revisão de David Wiggins, Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being and Their Identity. Twelve Essays 72, 2 (2018): 325-328. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1746-8361.12233. 10.1111/1746-8361.12233

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/07/11	Graded Qualities	July Quantities Workshop SQuaRed-Ex project, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, Reino Unido)
2024/07/03	Dynamic Essence	The 2024 LanCog Summer Metaphysics Workshop University of Lisbon, Centre of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/06	Ways of Being Wise	Research Colloquium of the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main, Alemanha)
2024/06/05	Graded Qualities	Workshop at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main, Alemanha)
2024/05/16	Graded Qualities	1st Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics University of Parma (Parma, Itália)
2024/04/16	A Partial Defence of the Property View of Predicates	eidos seminar University of Geneva (Geneva, Suiça)
2023/10/13	Can AI Help Humeans?	Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/10/03	Ways of being wise II	eidos seminar University of Geneva (Suiça)
2023/06/09	Dynamic Essence	Fine Summerschool Aarberghus, Ligerz (Ligerz, Suiça)
2023/06/07	Fine (and others) on Essence and Modality	Fine Summerschool Aarberghus, Ligerz (Ligerz, Suiça)
2023/05/31	Graded Properties, Fuzzy Vagueness, and Metaphysical Indeterminacy	Workshop: Indeterminacy & Vagueness Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Suiça)
2023/03/17	Graded Properties	Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy Lancog, CFUL, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/03	Ways of Being Wise	eidos seminar eidos, University of Geneva (Geneva, Suiça)
2022/11/14	Graded Properties	Degrees in Epistemology and Beyond Universität Zürich (Zürich, Suiça)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2024/06/24 - Atual	Publishing workshop for junior researchers and graduate students (2024/06/24) Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2023 - Atual	Organisation of a reading group on mereology (2023) Seminário
2025/01/15 - 2025/09/30	GAP.12 Satellite workshop "New Work on Metaphysical Indeterminacy" (2025/09/12 - 2025/09/12) Oficina (workshop) (Coorganizador)	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Alemanha