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 an Assistant Professor in Logic and Other Areas of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Heidelberg University. I spent many years as a Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cologne. Before that, I held positions at universities in Salzburg, Leuven, Berkeley, Konstanz, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, and Boston. During the winter term 2024/2025, I served as a substitute for the Chair of Epistemology and Philosophy of Language at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. From April 2022 to March 2023, I was the Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department 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.
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.
News
| Big news: I am moving to Heidelberg. I am now an Assistant Professor in Logic and Other Areas of Theoretical Philosophy at Heidelberg University’s Department of Philosophy. |
| Peter Brössel’s and my article, „The Evidence-Linked Account of Cognitive Experts: From a Historical and Systematic Perspective“, will appear in Grazer Philosophische Studien. In it, we critically examine Thomas Grundmann’s characterisation of an expert in his recent, instructive and much-discussed book, Expert Authority and the Limits of Critical Thinking. |
| I am delighted to participate in the panel discussion on expertise at the next annual SW*IP Germany conference in Düsseldorf in November ’26. |
| I’m delivering a talk at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) in the winter term ’26/’27. |
| 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 edited 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. |
Header Image
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.
