About
I have recently been offered a job as Junior BOF (= Special Research Fund) Research Professor at KU Leuven which I will take up part-time in October 2012 and full-time in October 2013. Until then I will continue in my current position of postdoctoral research fellow at the same institution, which is kindly sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
I completed my undergraduate degree in philosophy at Free University Berlin and University of Leuven and my master’s degree, which was also in philosophy, at the Universities of St. Andrews and Stirling. In 2007 I obtained my Ph.D. for a thesis entitled A Minimalist Approach to Epistemology under the supervision of Duncan Pritchard from the University of Stirling. From 2008 until 2010 I held a postdoc position on the Formal Epistemology Project which was then hosted by KU Leuven.
My research focuses mainly on epistemology. I have worked on a wide range of issues in the field including the analysis of knowledge, epistemic value, closure principles, modal theories of knowledge, virtue epistemology, the semantics of knowledge attributions, the point and purpose of epistemic evaluation, rational disagreement, entitlement, scepticism, norms of assertion and informative speech acts, and Fitch’s paradox. While some of my research is thus concerned with core issues in traditional epistemology, crucial parts also touch on various distinct areas in philosophy such as value theory, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of language and logic and the philosophy of mind.
I have taught in a number of areas in philosophy including epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of mind, freedom of the will and moral philosophy. In the academic year 2008/2009 I gave an introductory lecture to the theory of knowledge, in 2009-2010 a lecture on metaethics and this academic year (2011-12) a lecture on contemporary Anglo-American philosophy to bachelor’s students of the international programme at University of Leuven.