Lucas Baccarat

PhD student of Guillaume Fréchette

Lucas Baccarat is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva working on the project The Crisis of Philosophy in the 1930s. He holds BAs in Philosophy and Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo. Before joining the University of Geneva, he collaborated on the FWF projects Context III: “Practical” Philosophy in the US and Neurath’s Nachlass Edition, both hosted by the Institute Vienna Circle. His current research focuses on the reception of Empiriocriticism in Logical Empiricism and its role in the development of Physicalism.