Invited Talks

06/2023	TBA, Thinking About Suspension Network Meeting, Frankfurt.
06/2023	TBA, Bled Philosophical Conference, Bled. (2023’s topic: “Applied Epistemology: Ignorance, Vice, and Bias”)
03/2023	TBA, CONCEPT Fest, Cologne.
09/2022	Wozu Idealisierungen in der Erkenntnistheorie? (translated title: What is the Point of Idealizations in Epistemology?), Workshop on Metaphilosophy, University of Koblenz and Landau, Landau, Germany.
07/2022	How to Find an Epistemic Compromise; Workshop in Theoretical Philosophy; TU Dresden, Germany.
06/2022	Trust and Collaboration; AI and Epistemology Workshop; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. (Cancelled due to health reasons.)
06/2022	How to Find an Epistemic Compromise; Rhine Ruhr Epistemology Meeting, TU Dortmund, Germany.
12/2021	Explicating the Concept of Epistemic rationality; Workshop on Conceptual Engineering in Epistemology, University of Cologne, Germany, online.
08/2021	Disagreement in a Group – Aggregation, Respect for Evidence, and Synergy; 15th Cologne Summer School in Philosophy – Experts, Authority, and the Limits of Epistemic Autonomy, University of Cologne, Germany, online.
07/2021	Den Begriff der Epistemischen Rationalität explizieren (translated: Explicating the Concept of Epistemic Rationality); Departmental Colloquium, University of Dresden, online.
05/2021	The Evidence of Others; London Group for Formal Philosophy, online.
06/2020	TBA; Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. [Postponed/Cancelled due to Covid-19 epidemic.]
06/2020	TBA; Department of Philosophy, Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. [Postponed/Cancelled due to Covid-19 epidemic.]
03/2020	Epistemic Paradise Lost – Saving What We Can with Stable Support; Workshop on Higher-Order Evidence, Southampton, UK. [Cancelled due to Covid-19 epidemic.]
01/2020	No Commitment to the Truth; Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
10/2019	Evidence of Evidence as Higher-Order Evidence; Research Seminar, Department of Philosophy (Theological Faculty), University of Innsbruck, Austria.
10/2019	Evidence of Evidence as Higher-Order Evidence; EPS (Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Seminar), Tilburg University, Netherlands.
07/2019	Evidence of Evidence as Higher-Order Evidence; Workshop on Epistemic Conflicts, University of Cologne, Germany (workshop organized by me).
05/2019	Evidence in a Faulty World; Network Workshop of the project Knowledge Beyond Natural Science, University of Stirling, UK.
05/2019	Evidence of Evidence as Higher-Order Evidence; Decision, Rationality and Interaction (DRI) Seminar, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), Paris, France.
05/2019	On Explicating Epistemic Rationality; Research Seminar of the Center for Language, Information and Philosophy (CLIPS), University of Cologne, Germany.
01/2019	Rationality and Epistemic Pluralism; Departmental Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
11/2018	No Commitment to the Truth; The Value of Truth Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
11/2018	Evidential Probabilities and Credences, Workshop on Knowledge, Belief, and Probability, University of Hamburg, Germany.
10/2018	Rationality and Epistemic Pluralism; Workshop on Disagreement within Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany.
06/2018	Evidential Probabilities and Credences; Workshop on Recent Debates in Formal Epistemology, CONCEPT, University of Cologne, Germany.
06/2018	Evidential Probabilities and Credences; International Pre-Read Workshop: Epistemology Seminar, University of Bochum, Germany.
04/2018	No Commitment to the Truth; Departmental Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Germany.
03/2018	Epistemology without Ideal Agents; Invited Symposium on Ideal and Non-Ideal Epistemology and Political Theory, APA Pacific Division, San Diego, CA.
11/2017	No Commitment to the Truth; Workshop on Knowing – Understanding – Explaining, University of Dresden, Germany.
09/2017	No Commitment to the Truth; Conference on Epistemic Rationality: Conceptions and Challenges, Barcelona, Spain.
06/2016	Gerechtfertigt, aber irgendwie auch nicht (translated title: Justified, but somehow not Justified); Workshop on Social Epistemology, University of Cologne, Germany.
06/2016	Consider the Purposes of the Theory of Justification When You Characterize Justification!; Workshop on Philosophical Methods, KWI Essen, Germany (workshop co-organized by me).
07/2015	No Commitment to the Truth; Workshop on Epistemic Consequentialism, University of Konstanz, Germany (workshop co-organised by me).
05/2015	Uneinigkeit (translated title: Disagreement); Workshop on Epistemic Relativism and Disagreement, University of Dresden, Germany.
12/2014	Evidential Support, Beliefs and Credences; Workshop on Statistical Evidence in Epistemology and the Law, University of Glasgow, UK.
11/2014	Meinungsverschiedenheit und (epistemische) Normativität (translated title: Disagreement and (Epistemic) Normativity); Workshop on Disagreement in Philosophy and the Law, HU Berlin, Germany.
09/2014	Rationality, Normativity, and Implication; Workshop on Norms of Reasoning, University of Bochum, Germany (workshop co-organised by me).
09/2014	Disagreement and Division of Labour; SOPhiA 2014 (Workshop on Social Epistemology), University of Salzburg, Austria.
07/2014	Rational Belief, Normativity, and Implication; MCMP, University of Munich, Germany.
06/2014	What about Closure?; University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
05/2014	Zum normativen Status von epistemisch rationalem Glauben (translated title: On the Normative Status of Epistemically Rational Belief); Workshop on New Perspectives of Epistemology II: Epistemic Standards, Aims, and Reasons; University of Dresden, Germany.
01/2014	How to Resolve Doxastic Disagreement (with P. Brössel); MCMP, University of Munich, Germany.
12/2011	“The General Argument against Internalism” meets “An Objective Justification of Bayesianism”; MCMP, University of Munich, Germany.
11/2011	Die Unterscheidung zwischen Bewertungen und Normen und ihre Bedeutung für die Erkenntnistheorie (translated title: The Distinction between Evaluations and Norms and Its Significance for Epistemology); Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria.
01/2010	Stable Belief and Knowledge (with P. Brössel); Konstanz-Leuven Series, KU Leuven, Belgium.
06/2008	Leere Logik. Eine Untersuchung zweier Systeme (translated title: Inclusive Logic. A Study of Two Systems); University of Konstanz, Germany.

Peer-Reviewed Presentations

06/2019	Evidence of Evidence as Higher Order Evidence; Formal Epistemology Workshop/FEW2019, Turin, Italy.
09/2018	Ideal Agents, Impossible Evidence, and Evidence One Ought not to Have; 10th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP10), Cologne, Germany.
08/2017	Getting Rid of Ideal Agents; Ninth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP9), Munich, Germany.
07/2016	No Commitment to the Truth; Conference of the European Epistemology Network 2016, Paris, France.
09/2015	Getting Rid of Ideal Agents; International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP9), Osnabrück, Germany.
07/2015	In Defense of a Credence Interpretation of Probability; British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference (BSPS Conference), Manchester, UK.
07/2014	What about Closure?; Conference of the European Epistemology Network 2014, Madrid, Spain.
09/2013	How to Resolve Doxastic Disagreement; SOPhiA 2013, Salzburg, Austria.
08/2013	Scientific Knowledge as Stable True Belief; European Philosophy of Science Association 13 (EPSA13), Helsinki, Finland.
08/2011	Justifying Epistemic Evaluations and Epistemic Norms; 34th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2011, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.
06/2011	Epistemic Consequentialism. Against Intuitions in the Field; 9th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Vienna, Austria.

Responses

06/2018	Comments on Lasonen-Aarnio’s paper „Defeat as Evincibility“; Pre-Read Workshop Epistemology Seminar, Bochum, Germany.
03/2014	Comments on Kelp’s paper „Understanding, Knowledge and Ability“; Towards an Epistemology of Understanding: Rethinking Justification, Bern, Switzerland.
03/2011	Comments on Joyce’s paper “Ambiguity in Value and Imprecision in Belief“; Monthly Monday Meeting, Konstanz, Germany.
03/2010	Comments on Easwaran’s paper “Conglomerability Minimizes Expected Epistemic Inaccuracy“; Monthly Monday Meeting, Konstanz, Germany.
06/2009	Comments on Novack’s paper “A Defense of The Principle of Indifference“; Formal Epistemology Workshop 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.

Conference, Workshop, and Summer School (Co-)Organization

06/2020	Pre-read Workshop Epistemology Seminar III., Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (Invited Speakers/Commentators: P. Brössel, M. Cocchiaro, K. Dorst, B. Fitelson, F. Malfatti, S. Milano, R. Pettigrew)
05/2020	Workshop First Rhine-Ruhr Epistemology Meeting, University of Cologne, Germany. (Invited Speakers: TBA)
07/2019	Workshop Epistemic Conflicts, University of Cologne, Germany. (Invited Speakers: C. Dutilh Novaes, AM. A. Eder,  T. Grundmann, N Hughes, J. Pryor, M. Simion.)
09/2018	Workshop on The Significance of Higher-Order Evidence, University of Cologne, Germany. (Invited Speakers: B. Fitelson, K. Dorst, M. Lasonen-Aarnio, T. Raleigh, and T. Williamson.)
09/2018	10th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP10), University of Cologne, Germany.
07/2017	Workshop on Experience and Updating, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (Invited Speakers: C. Campbell-Moore, D. Gallow, A. Mahtani, L. Moretti, J. Pryor, W.  Schwarz.)
06/2017	Workshop on Perception and Justified Belief, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (Invited Speakers: J. Briesen, K. Farkas, J. Pryor, S. Siegel.)
06/2016	Workshop on Philosophical Methods, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. (Invited Speakers: M. Balcerak Jackson, D. Cohnitz,  C. Dutilh Novaes, A.-M. A. Eder, T. Grundmann, H. Leitgeb, C. Nimtz, T. Williamson.)
07/2015	Workshop on Epistemic Consequentialism, University of Konstanz, Germany. (Invited Speakers: J. Briesen, J. Carr, A-M. A. Eder, C. Elgin, B. Fitelson, C. Littlejohn, J. Schechter, R. Wedgwood.)
09/2014	Workshop on Norms of Reasoning, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (Invited Speakers: P. Brössel, M. Colombo, I. Douven, A-M. A. Eder, C. Feldbacher, U. Hahn, M. Schulz, D. Šešelja, M. Smith, J. Sprenger, C. Strasser, N. Treanor.)

Refereeing for Journals

• Analysis
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
• dialectica
• Episteme
• Erkenntnis
• European Journal for Philosophy of Science
• The Journal of Philosophical Research
• Philosophical Quarterly
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
• Philosophy of Science
• Synthese

Member of the Program Committee/Referee for Workshops or Conferences

• EXTRA Workshop.3 – Conceptual Engineering and its Place in Philosophical Methodology (Günzburg, May 2020).
• Next Formal Epistemology Workshop/FEW20 (University of California, Irvine, May 2020).
• Workshop New Perspectives on the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception (Joint Turin-Bochum Workshop, University of Turin, December 2018).
• 13th Cologne Summer School in Philosophy (CSSiP) on New Trends in Applied Epistemology with Jennifer Lackey (University of Cologne, September 2018).
• 10th International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Logic Section (University of Cologne, September 2018).
• Workshop Recent Debates in Formal Epistemology (CONCEPT, Cologne, June 2018).
• Conference Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry (Ruhr-University Bochum, July 2017).

Academic Activities

2021/2022	Member of the Appointment Committee for a Professorship on Kant and German Idealism at the University of Cologne. [Dropped out earlier due to the Guest Professorship at the TU Dresden]
Since 2021	Liaison Lecturer (Vertrauensdozentin) at the University of Cologne on issues related to racial discrimination, autonomous BIPoC department of the University of Cologne.
2020	Member of the Appointment Committee for a Professorship in Didactics of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. (Dropped out earlier due to parental leave)