Manuel Fasko (er/ihm) (ORCID iD Link) hat von 2010–2016 Philosophie und Geschichte der Neuzeit an der Universität Zürich studiert. Nach dem Studium hat er sich erfolgreich für ein Doc.CH-Projekt des SNF beworben (Link). Von 2017–2020 hat er seine Dissertation (summa cum laude) zu George Berkeleys Auffassung des Naturgeschehens verfasst (Betreuende: Prof. Katia Saporiti & Prof. Dominik Perler). Eine überarbeitete Version der Dissertation – Die Sprache Gottess – ist 2020 in der Reihe Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy des Schwabe Verlags open access und als Buch erschienen (Link)

Seit August 2020 ist er als Assistent / Postdoc am Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. Markus Wild) mit einem Habilitationsprojekt zu Mary Shepherds Philosophie des Geistes. Neben seiner Arbeit zu Shepherd bemüht er sich intensiv um Erweiterung des philosophiehistorischen Kanons in Forschung und Lehre. Dort verfolgt er zudem seine Interessen in der Philosophie des Geistes, der Wahrnehmung sowie der Metaphysik.

Von Sommer 2018 bis 2019 war er als Visiting Scholar je ein halbes Jahr an der University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Prof. Margaret Atherton) und der Ohio State University (Prof. Downing). 2022-2023 war er zudem Visting Assistant Professor am College of Charleston und konnte mit Prof. Deborah Boyle an seinem Habilitationsprojekt zu Shepherd arbeiten.

Philosophie der Frühen Neuzeit (insbesondere britisch-irische Tradition), George Berkeley, Mary Shepherd, Kanonerweitertung

Diverse Philosophierende des 17.-20 Jh. (inkl. nicht kanonischen Figuren wie Conway, Cavendish oder Collins) wie Nietzsche oder Russell, Philosophie des Geistes (inkl. nicht-menschlicher Tiere) und der Wahrnehmung, Metaphysik.

FS 2024 (Basel)                 Proseminar Eine Person sein
                                          Seminar Monismus

HS 2023 (Basel)                 Proseminar Capitein und Equiano zur Sklaverei
                                          Seminar Das Leib-Seele-Problem

FS 2023 (Charleston)         Philosophy 301: Recovering Vanished Voices – 17^th-19^th century women philosophers

HS 2022 (Charleston)         Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy

FS 2022 (Basel)                  Vertretung von Prof. Markus Wild als Modulverantwortlicher für den Grundkurs in theoretischer Philosophie
                                           Promisenar David Hume, Gottund Religion

HS 2021 (Basel)                 Seminar John Lockes Essay
                                           Verantwortlicher Online-Tutorat des Grundkurses in theoretischer Philosophie (Modulverantwortlicher: Prof. M. Wild)

FS 2021 (Basel)                  Proseminar Mary ShepherdsEssays on the Perception of an External Universe
                                           Proseminar Die anthropologische Differenz – der Geist von Tier und Mensch im Verständnisder Frühen Neuzeit

HS 2020 (Basel)                 Proseminar George Berkeleys Drei Dialoge

Fasko, Manuel. “‘God said “Let us make man in our image after our likeness”’–Mary Shepherd, the imago-dei-thesis, and the human mind.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2022a): 1-22.

Fasko, Manuel. “Questioning Authoritiy: Anthony Collins’ Challenge to Orthodox Anglican Authority Figures & George Berkeley’s Response”. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2022b).

Fasko, Manuel. “Two hostile Bishops? A Reexamination of the Relationship between Peter Browne and George Berkeley” Intellectual History Review (2022c): 1–21.

Fasko, Manuel. “Mary Shepherd’s threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’ and its role in improving our educational practices” Journal for Scottish Philosophy 19.3 (2021a): 185–201.

Fasko, Manuel. “The Retrieval of the Letter ‘To the Author of the Minute Philosopher’ from September 9^th 1732”. Berkeley Studies 29 (2021b): 24–29.

Fasko, Manuel & West, Peter: “The Irish Context of Berkeley’s Resemblance Thesis”. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 88 (2020): 7–31.

Fasko, Manuel. “A Scotist Nonetheless? George Berkeley, Cajetan, and the Problem of Divine Attributes”. Ruch Filozoficzny74.4 (2018): 33–50.

Auf Einladung

04.2023                        Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy Yale, Shepherd’s Dispositional Notion of God, Mind, and Matter, Yale

04.2023                        Department Talk San Francisco State University, Mary Shepherd on Mind and Space, San Francisco

10.2022                        Tier-Geist und -Ethik in der frühen Neuzeit, Seminar zur Tierethik von Prof. Angela Martin (Basel), online

08.2022                        Vanishing Voice Speakers Series (opening speaker), Mary Shepherd on Mind and Self, Charleston

Auf Bewerbung

06.2023                        Annual Conference of the John Locke Society, Locke and Shepherd on Animal Minds, University of Illinois
                                     (Urbana-Champagne)

05.2023                        Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VIII, How Deep Is Cavendish’s Ecology?, mit Peter West (NCH),
                                     Universität Groningen

05.2023                        Scotish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Mary Shepherd on Mind and Space, mit Peter West (NCH),
                                     Universität St. Andrews

05.2023                        TEMPO 2023. Mary Shepherd on Mind and Space, mit Peter West (NCH), Washington University

04.2023                        APA Pacific, Book Symposium: Mary Shepherd: A Guide by Deborah Boyle mit Deborah Boyle (CofC), David Landy (SFS),
                                     Antonia LoLordo (Virginia), San Fran

03.2023                        Reappearing Ink Workshop. Mary Shepherd on Mind and Space, mit Peter West (NCH), Universität Groningen

05.2022                        NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy. Mary Shepherd’s Animalistic Notion of the Self, online
                                     (Absage wegen Krankheit)

05.2022                        TEMPO 2022. A Powerful Metaphysics? A Case for Mary Shepherd’s (Proto-) Dispositionalism, online

04.2022                        BSHP Annual Conference: Symposium on Women Philosophers, mit M. Folescu, S. Bender, J. Borcherding,
                                     Universität Edinburgh

12.2021                        New Voices Talk SeriesWomen in History on Education. Mary Shepherd’s ‘Threefold Variety of Intellect’, online

09.2021                        Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.‘The complicate being of self’ – Mary Shepherd’s notion of the self
                                     and problem of individuating minds, online

06.2021                        TEMPO 2021. Mary Shepherd on 'Animal Existence' and the Anthropological Difference, online

05.2021                        Early Career Researchers Paper Workshop. Mary Shepherd on 'Animal Existence' and the Anthropological Difference,
                                     online.

05.2021                        Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy VII. William King, Anthony Collins, and The Representation-Signification
                                     Distinction in Early Modern Thought mit Peter West (Durham),online

11.2019                         Bucharest Graduate Conference in Early Modern Philosophy 8^th Ed. How alike are Berkeley’s and Sergeant’s, notions of
                                     likeness?mit Peter West (Trinity C Dublin), Universität Bukarest

09.2019                        The Free Will Question at the Turn of the 18^th Century, De actio et voluntas – Berkeley’s notion of action and the problem
                                     of free-will. Université de Neuchâtel

04.2019                        Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, The Irish Context of Berkeley’s „Resemblance Thesis“ mit Peter West
                                    (Trinity C Dublin), Trinity C Dublin

04.2019                        IBS: Berkeley’s notion of (some) metaphors as analogies, University of York.

10.2018                       The Berkeley Workshop at UW-Milwaukee, Representation, Resemblance and the Scope of George Berkeley’s
                                    Likeness-Principle, University of Wisconsin

06.2018                        IBS: The Hostile Bishops? Reassessing the Relationship between the Bishops of Cloyne and Cork, Newport, RI.

11.2017                        Causa sive ratio: cause, reason and explanation in the evolution of early modern physics and metaphysics.
                                    Causes as signs and reasons as causes – George Berkeley’s distinction between physical and spiritual causes,
                                    Università degli Studi di Milano

10.2017                       IBS: Berkeley’s Cajetan or Alciphron IV § 21 revisited, Nikolaus-Kopernikus-Universität Toruń