Research at ISFI
Research in the Institute is mainly, though not exclusively, focussed on the four core areas on which the Master and PhD programme are also focussed, namely metaphysics, philosophy of physics, logic and philosophy of mind. As of 2024, the Institute hosts 8 active research projects (seven of which are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and one by a private foundation) with their collaborators, and around 40 guest professors in the BAF and MAP.
| Title | Principal Investigator | Collaborators | Period | Funding Body | |
| Intensionality in Metamathematics | Léon Probst | - | 09.2024-11.2026 | SNF Doc.ch | |
| Equivalence in Metaphysics | Damiano Costa, Claudio Calosi | Joshua Babic, Andrea Salvador, 1 post-doc | 05.2024-04.2027 | SNF | |
| Temporal Existence | Damiano Costa | Andrea Lupo, Lorenzo Lorenzetti, Byron Simmons | 07.2023-06.2028 | SNF Starting Grant | |
| Essentialism and Mentalism in Austrian Economics | Kevin Mulligan | Emma Tieffenbach | 11.2022-10.2025 | SNF | |
| Quantum Indeterminacy | Cristian Mariani | - | 10.2022-09.2026 | SNF Ambizione | |
| Value Exploration. The Disquieting Arithmetic of Being Human | Alain Pe Curto | - | 10.2022-09.2024 | SNF | |
| The Genealogy of Modes of Being | Kevin Mulligan | Paolo Natali | 04.2022-03.2025 | SNF | |
| Research Excellence in Philosophy | Damiano Costa | Kevin Mulligan, Carlo Lottieri, Marco Bassani | 01.2022-12.2025 | Private foundation | |
| La tradizione federale svizzera della mediazione | Myriam Di Marco | - | 09.2021-06.2024 | Private foundation | |
| Functions, Relations, and Types | Kevin Mulligan | Jan Plate | 06.2020-09.2022 | SNF | |
| Identity in Cognitive Science, Quantum Mechanics and Metaphysics | Kevin Mulligan | Robert Michels, Jonas Waechter | 08.2019-12.2021 | SNF | |
| Connectives, Predicates, and Priority | Kevin Mulligan | Jan Plate | 06.2017-10.2020 | SNF | |
| Quantities | Kevin Mulligan | Claudio Calosi, Damiano Costa | 08.2016-12.2019 | SNF |
The Institute fosters research also through the organization of regular research meetings, from small workshops to large conferences.
