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Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

Dr Stephan Leuenberger

Dr Stephan Leuenberger
  • Lecturer (Philosophy)

telephone: 01413304276
email: Stephan.Leuenberger@glasgow.ac.uk


My current research focuses on modality, the theory of grounding, and the metaphysics of relations.

Office hours: Tuesday 11-12 and Wednesday 2-3 during the semester; otherwise by appointment.

Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006
Number of items: 13.

2013

Leuenberger, S. (2013) Supervenience among classes of relations. In: Holtje, M., Schnieder, B. and Steinberg, A. (eds.) Varieties of Dependence. Philosophia , Munich, Germany, pp. 325-346. ISBN 9783884051054

Leuenberger, S. (2013) From grounding to supervenience? Erkenntnis . ISSN 0165-0106 (doi:10.1007/s10670-013-9488-6)

2012

Leuenberger, S. (2012) Review of David Chalmers, The Character of Consciousness. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90 (4). pp. 803-806. ISSN 0004-8402 (doi:10.1080/00048402.2012.721380)

2011

Leuenberger, S. (2011) Critical Notice: Michael Jubien, Possibility, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Analytic Philosophy, 52 (1). pp. 61-74. ISSN 2153-9596 (doi:10.1111/j.2153-960X.2011.00518.x)

2010

Leuenberger, S. (2010) Humility and constraints on O-language. Philosophical Studies, 149 (3). pp. 327-354. ISSN 0031-8116 (doi:10.1007/s11098-009-9352-3)

Leuenberger, S. (2010) Exclusion and physicalism. Reply to O'Connor and Churchill. In: Macdonald, G. and Macdonald, C. (eds.) Emergence in Mind. Series: Mind Association occasional series . Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. ISBN 9780199583621

Leuenberger, S. (2010) Review of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, vol. 2. Dean Zimmerman, ed. Philosophical Review, 119 (1). pp. 118-123. ISSN 0031-8108 (doi:10.1215/00318108-2009-033)

2009

Leuenberger, S., and Keller, P. (2009) Introduction: the philosophy of vectors. Dialectica, 63 (4). pp. 369-380. ISSN 0012-2017 (doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2009.01220.x)

Leuenberger, S. (2009) What is global supervenience? Synthese, 170 (1). pp. 115-129. ISSN 0039-7857 (doi:10.1007/s11229-008-9360-4)

Leuenberger, S. (2009) Review of Stephen Yablo, Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality (Philosophical Papers, Volume 1). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews . ISSN 1538-1617

2008

Leuenberger, S. (2008) Supervenience in metaphysics. Philosophy Compass, 3 (4). pp. 749-762. ISSN 1747-9991 (doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00150.x)

Leuenberger, S. (2008) Ceteris absentibus physicalism. In: Zimmerman, D.W. (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 145-170. ISBN 9780199542987

2006

Leuenberger, S. (2006) A new problem of descriptive power. Journal of Philosophy, 103 (3). pp. 145-162. ISSN 0022-362X

This list was generated on Wed Oct 2 11:44:39 2013 BST.
  • “The Contingency of Contingency”, AHRC Early Career Fellowship (1 September 2012 – 31 May 2013)
  • “Grounds without Supplements”, Carnegie Research Grant (summer 2012)

I am happy to supervise Masters and PhD students in metaphysics and related areas.

Current PhD students:

  • John Donaldson (Mental Causation; co-supervisor: David Bain)
  • Neil McDonnell (Counterfactual Theories of Causation; co-supervisors: Martin Smith, Peter Menzies (Macquarie University))
  • Stephanie Rennick (Predestination and Foreknowledge; co-supervisors: Martin Smith, Peter Menzies (Macquarie University))

 

Currently I am lecturing on:

  • Philosophy 2K, Philosophy of Science module
  • Metaphysics (JH8)
  • Modality and Essence (SH25)

I teach tutorials and seminar on all of the above courses plus:

  • Philosophy of Language (JH2)
  • MLitt 1 Course 0 (Metaphysics module)
  • MLitt 2 Metaphysics

Current administrative roles at the University of Glasgow:

  • Director of Postgraduate Studies
  • Research- Senior Seminar Convenor

Outwith Glasgow, I am an affiliated member of eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva, and a corresponding member of the editorial committee of dialectica.