A SYNERGIA research grant, a new important funding initiative of the Swiss National Foundation, has just been awarded to the project « Intentionality as a mark of the mental. Metaphysical Perspectives on Contemporary Philosophy of Mind », led by Prof. Kevin Mulligan, Prof. Gianfraco Soldati, Dr. Julien Deonna and Dr. Fabrice Teroni as project leaders. The principal investigator is Prof Fabrice Correira (UNIGE). The budget amounts to CHF 1 350 000 for a duration of three years and it will finance at least two doctoral students in the NCCR Affective Sciences.

The SYNERGIA researchers will work on reconciling the results and methods of modern metaphysics with the main topics of research in the contemporary philosophy of mind.

This project is closely linked to the large four-year European International Training Network project (Seventh Framework Programme) « Perspectival thoughts and facts ».