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CURRICULUM VITAE
First name and last name
Salim HIRÈCHE
Place and date of birth
Lausanne, 17th of July 1981
Citizenship
Switzerland, Algeria
Email
[email protected]
MAIN ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
PhD candidate in philosophy
(since Oct. 2010)
Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
Substitute lecturer (since Sept.
2011)
Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
Research and teaching
assistant (funded by the SNF)
(Oct. 2010 – Sept. 2013)
Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
EDUCATION
Gymnase d’Yverdon (1997-2000)
Swiss Baccalauréat/Maturité
École de Traduction et
d’Interprétation, University of
Geneva (UNIGE) (2000-2005)
Licence/MA in Translation (Sept. 2005)
University of East Anglia, UK
(Winter 2001-2002)
Erasmus student (courses in general linguistics, semantics,
and economics)
Faculty of Economic and Social
Sciences, UNIGE
(2003-2005)
1st part of the programme in international relations
(history, political science, economics, law)
Graduate Institute of
International Studies (HEI),
Geneva (2005-2007)
2nd part of the programme in international relations
Licence/MA in International Relations (June 2007)
Faculty of Sciences, UNIGE
(2009-2014)
Several courses in mathematics (equiv. to 130 ECTS credits)
Faculté des Lettres, UNIGE
(since 2005)
BA in Philosophy and French Literature (June 2007)
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
de textes philosophiques”
(Readings in contemporary
philosophy, BA)
2011-12:
Part of “Séminaire de lecture
de textes philosophiques”
(Readings in contemporary
philosophy, BA)
Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
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)
2012-13 :
“TP lié au cours Introduction à la logique”
(Exercises in introductory logic, BA)
Various courses in translation (BA and MA)
2013-14 :
Various courses in translation (BA and MA)
2014-15 (autumn) :
Various courses in translation (BA and MA)
Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva
Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
Faculté de Traduction et d’Interprétation, University
of Geneva
TALKS
“La métaphysique de la
causalité”
Seminar “La philosophie de la nature”(Prof. Michael Esfeld),
Department of Philosophy, Geneva, May 2009
“Jaegwon Kim’s ‘Causation in a
Physical World’”
eidos seminar, Department of philosophy, Geneva, May 2010
Comment on Adrian Briciu’s
“Compositionality and Semantic
Theories”
Geneva-Barcelona Workshop, Barcelona, 11-12th May 2011
“For a Weaker Form of Compositionality in Natural Languages”
SOPHA Conference, ENS, Paris, 5-6th May 2012
“Kit Fine on Natural Necessity”
eidos seminar, Geneva, 23rd May 2012
“Necessity, Essence, and
Dispositions”
Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, Salzburg,
13th-15th September 2012
“Vérité nécessaire et vérité
contingente”
Workshop “La Vérité”, IHPST, Paris, 21st September 2012
“Modality, Essence and Dispositions”
FNS ProDoc Colloquium, Ovronnaz, 27th-30th January 2013
“Factual Modality: Ideas for
a General Essentialist Account”
eidos seminar, Geneva, 1st May 2013
“Essence, Relative Essence
and the Kinds of Modality”
Kit Fine Conference, Varese Borghi, 28th July–2nd August 2013
“Towards a Homogeneous
Account of Factual Necessity”
Tübingen Masterclass in Theoretical Philosophy, Tübingen,
16th-17th October 2013
“Toute nécessité carbure à
l’essence“
Phileas conference series, Geneva, 3rd April 2014
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, 12th-13th December 2011, Geneva
Organiser of the international conference Laws of Nature, Dispositions and Natural Modality, 9th-10th
September 2013, Geneva
REFERENCES
Prof Fabrice CORREIA, Institut de philosophie, Université de Neuchâtel; [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; [email protected] (MA thesis supervisor).