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Research Topics

My past, present, and future research focus on debates in epistemology, general philosophy of science, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of logic. In epistemology, my research includes epistemic disagreement, epistemic pluralism, epistemic normativity, theories of justification, evidential support and higher-order evidence, as well as experts and expertise. In the philosophy of science, my work centres on the social aspects of science (e.g., trust in and within science, values in science), inquiry aims, the relationship between confirmation and rationality, and interpretations of probabilities. In metaphilosophy, I am mainly interested in methods of conceptual clarification and conceptual engineering, as well as the role of formal methods and idealisations in philosophy. In the philosophy of logic, I explore the normativity of logic and the role of logical principles in reasoning.

Furthermore, 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). I am also 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 within the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. During the winter term 2024/2025, I substitute for the Chair of Epistemology and Philosophy of Language at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. I enjoy collaborating with other researchers. In addition to being an external member of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy at 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 part of the DFG (German Research Foundation) network Thinking about Suspension and serve as an external member of the DFG Emmy-Noether research group From Perception to Belief and Back Again at Ruhr-University Bochum. Furthermore, I am 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 the Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professor at TU Dresden. I completed my doctoral studies in Philosophy at the University of Konstanz and obtained my MA in Philosophy from the University of Salzburg.

News

I’m giving a presentation at a workshop in Dubrovnik in September ’26.
I’m delivering a talk at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) in July ’26.
I’m invited to the workshop „Re-configuring „expertise“ in times of (digital) disruptions“ at the Institute of Geography of the University of Mainz in April ’26.
I am on parental leave during the summer term of ’25 and the winter term of ’25/’26.
My article „Learning from Others‘ Evidence: A Focus on Non-Epistemic Values“ is now published in Episteme and is open access.
Peter Brössel and I are contributing the entry „Experts“ to The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd edition, eds. Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup).
Peter Brössel and I are contributing the entry „Disagreement“ to The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd edition, eds. Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup).
Peter Brössel, Thomas Grundmann, and I are editing the anthology The Epistemology of Experts: New Essays with Routledge. Outstanding, leading experts are contributing chapters: Josephine Adekola, Peter Brössel, Michel Croce, Finnur Dellsén, Katherine Dormandy, Anna-Maria Asunta Eder, Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla, Will Fleisher, Lizzie Fricker, Daniel C. Friedman, Sandy Goldberg, Thomas Grundmann, Christoph Jäger, Arnon Keren, Øystein Linnebo, Elijah Millgram, Dunja Šešelja, Mona Simion, Alessandra Tanesini, Jamie C. Watson,  Åsa Wikforss, and Linda Zagzebski.
In the winter term ’24/’25, I substitute for the Chair of Epistemology and Philosophy of Language at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

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The picture depicts the main plaza of San Ignacio de Velasco in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. San Ignacio is a beautiful, tropical, and vibrant city located very close to the Brazilian border. Whenever I have the opportunity, I spend time in Santa Cruz, where I have a large, wonderful family, and where nature is both relaxing and impressively beautiful.