Before starting my PhD in Bochum in 2007, I studied philosophy, political science and psychology (and made a serious attempted to study media science, history, and art history) in Hamburg and Paris. Having spend a couple of months as a visting fellow at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science in 2009, I defended my doctoral thesis in November 2010 (supervisors: Albert Newen and Stephan Hartmann).
I am currently holding a position as a wissenschaftlicher Assistent (incl. teaching and research) at the Institute for Philosophy II in Bochum. I live with my family in Berlin. In February and March 2012, I visited the LOGOS group in Barcelona, a stay kindly funded by the Mercator Stiftung.
In May 2012, I was awarded a “Dilthey-Fellowship”, kindly funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. (Project title: A Study in Explanatory Power – STEP). The research group will explore the relation between propositional understanding and explanation.
For a slightly more detailed cv, please click here.
To find a detailed list of papers, editions, book projects, events, and talks, click here. Here is, however …
… a selection of recent and forthcoming editions …
Reduction in the Philosophy of Mind. Special issue of: Philosophia Naturalis, together with Albert Newen, 2010/2011.
This peer reviewed volume contains contributions by Christian Sachse, Michael Esfeld, Robert Van Gulick, Douglas Kutach, Markus Eronen, and the editors. Some of the papers were presented at a workshop in Bremen in 2009.
Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry, together with Albert Newen, CSLI Publishing, in press.
This volume (designed for undergraduate students) introduces the main aspects of the work of John Perry. At the same time, the papers written by Jérome Dokic, Kepa Korta, Isidora Stojanovic, Neil Van Leeuwen, Daniel Cohnitz and the editors give access to a number of themes that lie at the core of contemporary analytic philosophy.
… and a selection of recent and forthcoming papers …
forthcoming/solicited
- ‘Reduction (Scientific)’, in: Zalta, E.N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (solicited, with R.Van Gulick).
- ‘McDowells Frege (und Evans)’, in: Lauer, Barth (eds). Die Philosophie John McDowells. mentis (solicited)
- ‘Personal Identity’, in: Newen, van Riel (eds). Identity, Language, and Mind. An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry. Stanford/Paderborn: CSLI Publ./mentis.
- ‘Identity, Asymmetry, and the Relevance of Meanings for Models of Reduction’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (forthcoming).
2011
- ‘Cognitive Significance and Epistemic Intensions’, Logique et Analyse, 54/216, 2011.
- ‘Nagelian Reduction Beyond the Nagel-Model’, Philosophy of Science 78/3, 2011, pp. 353-375.
- ‘Identity-based reduction and Reductive Explanation’, Philosophia Naturalis, 47-48 (1-2), 2010-2011, pp. 183-219.
… and some information about upcoming events
Workshop on Explanatory Power
4./5.5. 2012, Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Confirmed Speakers:
- Jan Sprenger (Tilburg)
- Erik Weber (Ghent),
- Jaakko Kuorikoski (Helsinki)
- Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki)
- Robert Northcott (London)
Workshop “Neuro-Enhancement und Moral”
21.5.2012 IBZ, Ruhr Universität Bochum, kindly funded by the Mercator Stiftung, organized by a group of the Global Young Faculty.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Jan-Christoph Bublitz (Hamburg)
- Andreas Franke (Mainz)
- Ulrike Pompe (Stuttgart)
- Dimitrios Repantis (Berlin)
- Stephan Schleim (Groningen)
- Jan Slaby (Berlin)
