Roman Heil

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

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E-Mail: r.heil@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Raum: 2.452
Telefon: 069 798-32769
Anschrift:  Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main

News

  • 17/5/23: I gave a talk entitled "A match made in (rational) heaven? How credences relate to probability beliefs" at University of Zurich
  • 10/5/23: I gave a talk entitled "The consequences of being justified in believing" at a workshop at Marburg University
  • 3/5/23: I gave a talk at the University of Saarbrücken entitled "How to act on what you know"
  • 1/5/23: My paper "Knowledge and Acceptance" has been accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Philosophy
  • 30/3/23: I gave a talk entitled "A match made in (rational) heaven? How credences relate to probability beliefs" at the EPIJUST Conference ("Epistemic Justification: Formal Epistemology meets Mainstream Epistemology") at the MCMP in Munich
  • 10/2/23: I gave a talk entitled "Wissen und Rationales Handeln" at the Ringvorlesung at Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 27/1/23: I organized the Frankfurt-Cologne Epistemology Meeting and gave a talk ("How to Act on What You Know")
  • 2/12/22: I gave a talk with the title "Testimonial Skepticism" (based on joint work mit M. Schulz) at the Epistemic Network Workshop at TU Dresden.
  • 25/11/22: My paper "Finding Excuses for J=K" has been accepted for publication in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

Areas of Specialization

  • Epistemology (knowledge-first program, norms of belief, justification-excuse distinction, relation between credences and belief)
  • Theory of practical rationality (norms for practical reasoning, decision theory)
  • Philosophy of language (semantics of knowledge ascriptions)

Publications

  • "Knowledge and Acceptance" (2023), in Asian Journal of Philosophy. [Link]
  • "Finding Excuses for J=K", (2022) in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. [Link]
  • "Knowledge and Decision" (2022) (with J. Koscholke, P. Rich, M. Schulz) , in Synthese [Link].
  • "Corona und testimoniale Skepsis" (2022) (with M. Schulz), in Wissensproduktion und Wissenstransfer in Zeiten der Pandemie, Hauswald, Rico and Schmechtig, Pedro (eds.), Verlag Karl Alber.

CV

since 04/2022-today

Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt (Chair: Prof. Alexandra Zinke)

11/2017-06/2022

Doctoral Studies at the University of Hamburg

Title: “Knowledge and Rational Action. Why what we know matters for the rationality of what we do”

Supervisors: Prof. Moritz Schulz, Prof. Thomas Krödel | Grade: Summa cum laude

10/2020-03/2022 Research Assistant in the DFG-Project “Knowledge and Decision" at the TU Dresden
11/2017-09/2020 Research Assistant in the DFG-Project “Knowledge and Decision" at the University of Hamburg
10/2017

M.A. in Philosophy, University of Konstanz

Title: “On the Kinematics of Epistemic Scorekeeping"

Supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Spohn

01/2016-05/2016

Visiting Scholar at Yale University

11/2014

B.A. in Philosophy (Major) and Sociology (Minor), University of Konstanz

Title: “Meaning Holism and Similarity"

Supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Spohn

 

Workshops

Frankfurt-Cologne Epistemology Workshop, January 27th, 2023.

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