Positions and Education 

I hold an Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professorship at the TU Dresden and I am a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. Before coming to Dresden and Cologne, I spent time at Universities in Salzburg, Leuven, Berkeley, Konstanz, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, and Boston. I completed my doctoral studies (Philosophy) at the University of Konstanz and I received my MA (Philosophy) from the University of Salzburg.

Research Topics

My past, current, and future research focus 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 the relationship between logic and reasoning. In the philosophy of science, my research centers on the aims of inquiry, the relationship between confirmation and rationality, and the relationship between explanation and understanding. 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.

Besides epistemology, the philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy, I have interests in the history of analytic philosophy, decision theory, and metaethics.

You can find some of my papers here, here, and there.

News

		2022		I am back and giving talks! My next talks are in Dortmund, Luxembourg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Landau/Oestrich-Winkel.
		2022		I’ll contribute to the third edition of the Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (ed. K. Sylvan) with an entry on experts and a co-authored entry (with P. Brössel) on disagreement
		2022-2023		From April 2022 I’ll have an Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professorship at the Department of Philosophy of the TU Dresden for one year. During this time I am on leave from the University of Cologne.
		2021		I received Kopffrei Funding (University of Cologne) for a 50% relief from teaching in the winter term 2021/22.
		Since 2021		I am now a member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Network Thinking About Suspension, which is led by V. Wagner and A. Zinke
		New Paper in OUP Volume		„Epistemic Paradise Lost — Saving What We Can with Stable Support“ is going to be published in a super cool volume edited by N. Hughes on Epistemic Dilemmas (Oxford University Press).
		New Paper in Synthese		My paper „Explicating the Concept of Epistemic Rationality“ is published in Synthese.
		New Paper in Routledge Volume		My paper „Disagreement in a Group: Aggregation, Respect for Evidence, and Synergy“ is published in the volume The Epistemology of Group Disagreement, Routledge (edited by F. Broncano-Berrocal and A. Carter).
		New Paper in Synthese		My paper „No Commitment to the Truth“ is published in Synthese.
		New Paper in BJPS		My paper „Evidential Probabilities and Credences“ is published in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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.