Research Topics
My past, current, and future research focuses on debates in epistemology, general philosophy of science, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of logic. In epistemology, my research encompasses epistemic disagreement, epistemic pluralism, epistemic normativity, theories of justification, of evidential support and higher-order evidence, and experts and expertise. In the philosophy of science, my research centers on social aspects of science (e.g., trust in and within science, values in science), the aims of inquiry, the relationship between confirmation and rationality, and interpretations of probabilities. In metaphilosophy, I am mainly interested in methods of conceptual clarification and conceptual engineering, and on the role of formal methods and idealizations in philosophy. And in the philosophy of logic, I investigate the normativity of logic and the role of logical principles for reasoning.
Moreover, I have interests in metaphysics (e.g. social ontology), modern philosophy (e.g. history of epistemology, philosophy of science, and analytic philosophy), philosophy of mind (e.g. doxastic states/attitudes, bounded rationality) and language (e.g. conceptual clarification and engineering), and I can be passionate about discussing issues in (meta)ethics.
You can find some of my articles here, here, and there.
Positions and Education
I am a research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Chair of Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Logic of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. I enjoy collaborating with other researchers. So, in addition to being an external member of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona and a board member of the interdisciplinary Center for Language, Information, and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, I am also a member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) network Thinking about Suspension and an external member of the DFG Emmy-Noether research group From Perception to Belief and Back Again at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Besides, I am also a network member of the Center for Metaphilosophical Research.
Before my time in Cologne, I spent time at Universities in Salzburg, Leuven, Berkeley, Konstanz, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, and Boston. From April 2022 to March 2023 I was Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professor at the TU Dresden. I completed my doctoral studies (Philosophy) at the University of Konstanz and I received my MA (Philosophy) from the University of Salzburg.
News
| 04/2024 | Happy to have the opportunity to present my paper „Resisting the Evidence of Others“ at the Resilient Beliefs conference in Trento, Italy. | |||
| 03/2024 | There will be a wonderful workshop on suspension of judgement in Hegne, Germany: Thinking about Suspension III. I will present my co-authored article „A Higher-Order Credal Account of Suspension“ there. | |||
| 2024 | Peter Brössel and I are contributing two entries to the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd edition, ed. Kurt Sylvan): one on „Experts“ and another on „Disagreement“. | |||
| 2023 | Peter Brössel, Thomas Grundmann, and I are editing the anthology The Epistemology of Expert Judgments with Routledge. Outstanding, leading experts are contributing chapters to it. More information coming soon! |
Header Image
The picture shows the main plaza of San Ignacio de Velasco in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. San Ignacio is a beautiful, tropical, and vivid city, which is very close to the Brazilian border. Whenever I can, I spend time in Santa Cruz, where I have a huge, wonderful family, and where nature is relaxing and impressively beautiful.
Anna-Maria Asunta Eder 