Robin Timothée Bianchi

I am doctoral assistant of the Chair of Practical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel. My dissertation explores and defends a minimalist view of action as an abstract concept defined in terms of causation, changes, power and substance, rather than in terms of will, intentionality or goal-directedness. An action is simply the causing of a change by a substance. The projects aims to show the work this conception can do in the philosophy of action and other related fields. My work focuses on the connections between agency and causation, the metaphysics of conduct (action, omission, prevention, allowings), agent- and substance-causation, the metaphysics of processes and events, and the relationship between these topics and the nature of action.