Professor Stephan Leuenberger

  • Professor of Philosophy (Philosophy)

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

R404 Level 4, Philosophy, 69 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LP

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4993-2816

Research interests

I work on the intersection of metaphysics and philosophical logic. Currently, I am investigating to what extent we can make sense of the picture of reality as stratified into levels, and what sort of role principles like Ockham's razor play in metaphysical theory-choice.

I am also interested in metaphysical issues arising in the philosophy of law, and the question of whether and how legal reality at a given time can be shaped by things happening at another time.

Publications

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Number of items: 32.

2024

Rennick, S. and Leuenberger, S. (2024) Fixity and the future: a forward-looking account. Journal of Philosophy, (Accepted for Publication)

Rieger, A. and Leuenberger, S. (Eds.) (2024) Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir. Series: Synthese library, 484. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783031545566

Leuenberger, S. and Rieger, A. (2024) Introduction: Themes from Alan Weir. In: Rieger, A. and Leuenberger, S. (eds.) Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir. Series: Synthese library, 484. Springer: Cham, i-xiv. ISBN 9783031545566 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-54557-3)

2021

Leuenberger, S. and Smith, M. (2021) Epistemic logic without closure. Synthese, 198(5), pp. 4751-4774. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02368-6)

2020

Leuenberger, S. (2020) Structural problems for reductionism. Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 3571-3593. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01383-0)

Leuenberger, S. (2020) The fundamental: Ungrounded or all-grounding? Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 2647-2669. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01332-x) (PMID:32713965) (PMCID:PMC7370665)

Leuenberger, S. (2020) Emergence. In: Raven, M. J. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 312-323. ISBN 9780815366492 (doi: 10.4324/9781351258845-30)

2019

Leuenberger, S. (2019) Why it matters whether you are a contingentist. Analysis, 79(2), pp. 290-303. (doi: 10.1093/analys/anz005)

2018

Leuenberger, S. (2018) Global supervenience without reducibility. Journal of Philosophy, 115(8), pp. 389-422. (doi: 10.5840/jphil2018115824)

2017

Leuenberger, S. (2017) Wolff's close shave with fatalism. In: Sinclair, M. (ed.) The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy. Series: Mind association occasional series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 45-63. ISBN 9780198786436

Leuenberger, S. (2017) Lego and the building blocks of metaphysics. In: Irwin, W. and Cook, R. T. (eds.) Lego and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick by Brick. Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 197-205. ISBN 9781119193975 (doi: 10.1002/9781119194033.ch19)

Leuenberger, S. and Schafer, B. (2017) The Whole Truth About the Law : Reasoning About Exceptions in Legal AI. In: 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS 2017), Salzburg, Austria, 23-25 Feb 2017, pp. 131-138. ISBN 9783903035157

2015

Leuenberger, S. (2015) The contingency of contingency. Journal of Philosophy, 112(2), pp. 84-112.

2014

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Total logic. Review of Symbolic Logic, 7(3), pp. 529-547. (doi: 10.1017/S1755020314000124)

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Review of: Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder (eds), Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality. Dialectica, 68(1), pp. 147-151. (doi: 10.1111/1746-8361.12054)[Book Review]

Leuenberger, S. (2014) From grounding to supervenience? Erkenntnis, 79(1), pp. 227-240. (doi: 10.1007/s10670-013-9488-6)

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Grounding and necessity. Inquiry, 57(2), pp. 151-174. (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2013.855654)

2013

Leuenberger, S. (2013) De jure and de facto validity in the logic of time and modality. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2(3), pp. 196-205. (doi: 10.1002/tht3.76)

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

Leuenberger, S. (2013) Review of: Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World, by Gerald Vision. Mind, 122(486), pp. 593-596. (doi: 10.1093/mind/fzt085)[Book Review]

2012

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

2011

Leuenberger, S. (2011) Critical Notice: Michael Jubien, Possibility, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Analytic Philosophy, 52(1), pp. 61-74. (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. (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. (doi: 10.1215/00318108-2009-033)[Book Review]

2009

Keller, P. and Leuenberger, S. (Eds.) (2009) Special Issue: The Philosophy of Vectors [Guest Editor]. Dialectica. 63(4) [Edited Journal]

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

Leuenberger, S. (2009) What is global supervenience? Synthese, 170(1), pp. 115-129. (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, [Book Review]

2008

Leuenberger, S. (2008) Supervenience in metaphysics. Philosophy Compass, 3(4), pp. 749-762. (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.

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Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Edited Books | Edited Journals | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 32.

Articles

Rennick, S. and Leuenberger, S. (2024) Fixity and the future: a forward-looking account. Journal of Philosophy, (Accepted for Publication)

Leuenberger, S. and Smith, M. (2021) Epistemic logic without closure. Synthese, 198(5), pp. 4751-4774. (doi: 10.1007/s11229-019-02368-6)

Leuenberger, S. (2020) Structural problems for reductionism. Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 3571-3593. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01383-0)

Leuenberger, S. (2020) The fundamental: Ungrounded or all-grounding? Philosophical Studies, 177, pp. 2647-2669. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-019-01332-x) (PMID:32713965) (PMCID:PMC7370665)

Leuenberger, S. (2019) Why it matters whether you are a contingentist. Analysis, 79(2), pp. 290-303. (doi: 10.1093/analys/anz005)

Leuenberger, S. (2018) Global supervenience without reducibility. Journal of Philosophy, 115(8), pp. 389-422. (doi: 10.5840/jphil2018115824)

Leuenberger, S. (2015) The contingency of contingency. Journal of Philosophy, 112(2), pp. 84-112.

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Total logic. Review of Symbolic Logic, 7(3), pp. 529-547. (doi: 10.1017/S1755020314000124)

Leuenberger, S. (2014) From grounding to supervenience? Erkenntnis, 79(1), pp. 227-240. (doi: 10.1007/s10670-013-9488-6)

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Grounding and necessity. Inquiry, 57(2), pp. 151-174. (doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2013.855654)

Leuenberger, S. (2013) De jure and de facto validity in the logic of time and modality. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2(3), pp. 196-205. (doi: 10.1002/tht3.76)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Sections

Leuenberger, S. and Rieger, A. (2024) Introduction: Themes from Alan Weir. In: Rieger, A. and Leuenberger, S. (eds.) Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir. Series: Synthese library, 484. Springer: Cham, i-xiv. ISBN 9783031545566 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-54557-3)

Leuenberger, S. (2020) Emergence. In: Raven, M. J. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. Series: Routledge handbooks in philosophy. Routledge: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 312-323. ISBN 9780815366492 (doi: 10.4324/9781351258845-30)

Leuenberger, S. (2017) Wolff's close shave with fatalism. In: Sinclair, M. (ed.) The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy. Series: Mind association occasional series. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 45-63. ISBN 9780198786436

Leuenberger, S. (2017) Lego and the building blocks of metaphysics. In: Irwin, W. and Cook, R. T. (eds.) Lego and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick by Brick. Series: The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 197-205. ISBN 9781119193975 (doi: 10.1002/9781119194033.ch19)

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

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

Book Reviews

Leuenberger, S. (2014) Review of: Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder (eds), Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality. Dialectica, 68(1), pp. 147-151. (doi: 10.1111/1746-8361.12054)[Book Review]

Leuenberger, S. (2013) Review of: Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World, by Gerald Vision. Mind, 122(486), pp. 593-596. (doi: 10.1093/mind/fzt085)[Book Review]

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

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

Leuenberger, S. (2009) Review of Stephen Yablo, Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality (Philosophical Papers, Volume 1). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Rieger, A. and Leuenberger, S. (Eds.) (2024) Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir. Series: Synthese library, 484. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783031545566

Edited Journals

Keller, P. and Leuenberger, S. (Eds.) (2009) Special Issue: The Philosophy of Vectors [Guest Editor]. Dialectica. 63(4) [Edited Journal]

Conference Proceedings

Leuenberger, S. and Schafer, B. (2017) The Whole Truth About the Law : Reasoning About Exceptions in Legal AI. In: 20th International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS 2017), Salzburg, Austria, 23-25 Feb 2017, pp. 131-138. ISBN 9783903035157

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 00:35:25 2025 GMT.

Grants

  • "Being without Foundations", Swiss National Science Foundation (Glasgow PI; September 2019 - August 2023).
  • "Grounding in Law", Royal Society of Edinburgh (PI; April 2019 - March 2020).
  • "The Whole Truth", AHRC Early Career Research Project (PI; January 2016 - August 2017).
  • "Sense-Data", project funded by the John Templeton Foundation via the Cambridge New Directions in Mind Project (CI; July 2016 - 2017).
  • "Emergence", project funded by the John Templeton Foundation via the Durham Emergence Project (joint PI; 1 October 2014 - 30 September 2015).
  • “The Contingency of Contingency”, AHRC Early Career Fellowship (1 September 2012 – 31 May 2013)
  • “Grounds without Supplements”, Carnegie Research Grant (summer 2012)

Supervision

I am happy to supervise Masters and PhD students in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of law.

 

 

 

Teaching

Philosophy 2B: module "What exists?"

Junior Honours / MSc Conversion: Metaphysics

Senior Honours: Philosophy of Law

 

Additional information

Outwith Glasgow, I am 

  • a Visiting Professor at the MAP - the Research Master in Metaphysics and Mind at the USI, Lugano; and
  • affiliated member of eidos, the Centre for Metaphysics at the University of Geneva.

Dr Stephan Leuenberger