Institut für Philosophie
Fachbereich 08

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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

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

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

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

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

Title: “Meaning Holism and Similarity"

Supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Spohn