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PATRIK ENGISCH

About

I am an academic philosopher. I work at the crossroads of three philosophical sub-disciplines: philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and aesthetics. I am interested in creativity, imagination, fiction, value theory, and the experience of, and many relations to, what we eat and drink. 

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva 
as part of the SNF Prima project "Creativity, Imagination, and Tradition" lead by Julia Langkau. Previously, I was an adjunct lecturer at University of Fribourg, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luzern, a FNS postdoctoral researcher researcher at the University of Fribourg, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

I am a co-founder and current director of the
Association for the Philosophical Study of Creativity (APSC) and a member of three research groups: 
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  • Thumos, a research group for emotions, norms and values based at the University of Geneva.
  • The Culinary Mind, a research center and network for the philosophy of food that I co-founded in 2017 and that is formally based at the University of Milan 
  • Experience and Reason, a research group in philosophy of mind and normativity, based at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Some recent research outputs:
  •  "Imagination, Creativity, and the Culinary Arts". Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau. ​
  • "Empathising Across Sensibilities" with Julia Lankgau. In: special issue of Philosophical Explorations.,  2024.
  • "The Heritage Value of Culinary Items. A Rather Skeptical Tale".  In Journal of Asthetics and Art Criticism, special issue on food and heritage value edited by A. Baldini, 2023. 
  • "Imagination, Fiction, and Narrative", In: Engisch and Langkau (eds.), 2023.
  • Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition. Engisch, P. and Langkau, J. (eds.), Routledge, 2023.

Projects I am currently working on:
  • A paper on the aesthetic character of memory (with André Sant'Anna) for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of  Philosophy of Memory. 
  • A book on “naturalness” as a metaphysical and normatively relevant kind in the philosohy of food, with natural wine as a special case study, tentatively titled The Naturefactual (under contract with Routledge). 
  • A series of papers on creativity, as part of Julia Langkau SNF Prima Project "Creativity, Imagination, and Tradition". 
  • A paper about olfactory experience centred around the idea that we standardly experience multimodal objects in a multimodal way. ​

When not doing philosophy, I like to cook, grow veggies, seat behind the drums in some loud sounding bands, give a hand to my friends of Nouvel Opera de Fribourg/Neue Oper Freiburg ​and, maybe most of all, spend time with my ten sheep and three cats.  
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