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CURRICULUM VITAE
First name and last name Salim HIRÈCHE
Place and date of birth Lausanne, 17
th
of July 1981
Citizenship Switzerland, Algeria
Email [email protected]
MAIN ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
PhD candidate in philosophy Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
(since Oct. 2010)
Substitute lecturer (since Sept. Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
2011) of Geneva
Research and teaching Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
assistant (funded by the SNF)
(Oct. 2010 – Sept. 2013)
EDUCATION
Gymnase d’Yverdon (1997-2000) Swiss Baccalauréat/Maturité
École de Traduction et Licence/MA in Translation (Sept. 2005)
d’Interprétation, University of
Geneva (UNIGE) (2000-2005)
University of East Anglia, UK Erasmus student (courses in general linguistics, semantics,
(Winter 2001-2002) and economics)
Faculty of Economic and Social 1
st
part of the programme in international relations
Sciences, UNIGE (history, political science, economics, law)
(2003-2005)
Graduate Institute of 2
nd
part of the programme in international relations
International Studies (HEI), Licence/MA in International Relations (June 2007)
Geneva (2005-2007)
Faculty of Sciences, UNIGE Several courses in mathematics (equiv. to 130 ECTS credits)
(2009-2014)
Faculté des Lettres, UNIGE BA in Philosophy and French Literature (June 2007)
(since 2005) MA in Philosophy (Sept. 2010)
PhD in Philosophy (in progress since October 2010)
Subject: The Metaphysics of Modality
Supervisor: Prof. Fabrice Correia (Geneva/Neuchâtel)

LANGUAGES
French mother tongue
English good
Italian good
German intermediate
Arabic intermediate
Spanish basic
Ancient Greek, Latin basic
TEACHING
2010-11:
Part of “Séminaire de lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
de textes philosophiques”
(Readings in contemporary
philosophy, BA)
2011-12:
Part of “Séminaire de lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
de textes philosophiques”
(Readings in contemporary
philosophy, BA)
Part of “La théorie politique de Rousseau”, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
seminar related to the course
“Introduction à la philosophie politique” (BA)
Various courses in translation (BA and MA) Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
2012-13 :
“TP lié au cours Introduction à la logique” Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
(Exercises in introductory logic, BA)
Various courses in translation (BA and MA) Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
2013-14 :
Various courses in translation (BA and MA) Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
2014-15 (autumn) :
Various courses in translation (BA and MA) Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva

TALKS
“La métaphysique de la Seminar “La philosophie de la nature”(Prof. Michael Esfeld),
causalité” Department of Philosophy, Geneva, May 2009
“Jaegwon Kim’s ‘Causation in a eidos seminar, Department of philosophy, Geneva, May 2010
Physical World’”
Comment on Adrian Briciu’s Geneva-Barcelona Workshop, Barcelona, 11-12
th
May 2011
“Compositionality and Semantic
Theories”
“For a Weaker Form of Compo- SOPHA Conference, ENS, Paris, 5-6
th
May 2012
sitionality in Natural Languages”
“Kit Fine on Natural Necessity” eidos seminar, Geneva, 23
rd
May 2012
“Necessity, Essence, and Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, Salzburg,
Dispositions” 13
th
-15
th
September 2012
“Vérité nécessaire et vérité Workshop “La Vérité”, IHPST, Paris, 21
st
September 2012
contingente”
“Modality, Essence and Dispositions” FNS ProDoc Colloquium, Ovronnaz, 27
th
-30
th
January 2013
“Factual Modality: Ideas for eidos seminar, Geneva, 1
st
May 2013
a General Essentialist Account”
“Essence, Relative Essence Kit Fine Conference, Varese Borghi, 28
th
July–2
nd
August 2013
and the Kinds of Modality”
“Towards a Homogeneous Tübingen Masterclass in Theoretical Philosophy, Tübingen,
Account of Factual Necessity” 16
th
-17
th
October 2013
“Toute nécessité carbure à Phileas conference series, Geneva, 3
rd
April 2014
l’essence“
PUBLISHED PAPER
HIRÈCHE, Salim & VILLATA, Sandra (2013): “Eating Animals and the Moral Value of Non-Human
Suffering”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Band 88, pp. 257-266.
PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS
French translation of Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made, Harcourt, 2007:
Carol Tavris et Elliot Aronson, Les erreurs des autres. L’autojustification, ses ressorts et ses méfaits,
Markus Haller, Genève, 2010.
French translation of Stuart Hampshire, Justice is Conflict, Princeton UP, 2000:
Stuart Hampshire, La justice est conflit, Markus Haller, Genève, 2011.
French translation of David Gauthier, Rousseau. The Sentiment of Existence, Cambridge UP, 2006:
David Gauthier, Le sentiment d’existence – la quête inachevée de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Markus
Haller, Genève, 2011.

GRANTS/AWARDS
Three-year SNF grant (October 2010-September 2013) for my doctoral research within the research
project « Essentialism and the Mind » (director: Prof. Kevin Mulligan), part of the SNF ProDoc project
“Mind and Reality”
Winner of the 2012 GAP Essay Prize in Philosophy, organised by the Gesellschaft für Analytische
Philosophie and the international philosophy journal Grazer Philosophische Studien
Grant from the Société académique de Genève to support my doctoral research (2014)
Grant from the Fondation Boninchi to support my doctoral research (2014)
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Member of eidos, the Genevan research group in metaphysics (since Sept. 2010)
Former member of the editorial committee of the philosophy journal Dialectica (Oct. 2010-Oct. 2011)
Co-organiser (with Kevin Mulligan and Rida Chennoufi) of the international workshop Political
Philosophy and the Arab Spring, 12
th
-13
th
December 2011, Geneva
Organiser of the international conference Laws of Nature, Dispositions and Natural Modality, 9
th
-10
th
September 2013, Geneva
REFERENCES
Prof Fabrice CORREIA, Institut de philosophie, Université de Neuchâtel; fabri[email protected]
(PhD supervisor).
Prof Kevin MULLIGAN, Département de philosophie, Université de Genève; [email protected]
(director of the Department of Philosophy, in charge of the SNF research project “Essentialism and
the Mind”).
Prof Michael ESFELD, Département de philosophie, Université de Lausanne; michael-
[email protected] (MA thesis supervisor).