I am Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Hamburg.
My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on insincere communication and misinformation, on the philosophy of fiction, on the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and pictorial communication and on issues in the philosophy of time.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Before joining the University of Hamburg, I spent ten years at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and two years at Freie Universität Berlin. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked at the University of Zurich. As a visiting fellow, I've enjoyed stints at the University of Cambridge (2017/18), the University of Sydney (2022), at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München (2022) and at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney, 2024).
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My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on insincere communication and misinformation, on the philosophy of fiction, on the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and pictorial communication and on issues in the philosophy of time.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Before joining the University of Hamburg, I spent ten years at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and two years at Freie Universität Berlin. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked at the University of Zurich. As a visiting fellow, I've enjoyed stints at the University of Cambridge (2017/18), the University of Sydney (2022), at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München (2022) and at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney, 2024).
Here are my profiles on PhilPeople and Google Scholar.
NEWS
- I've posted a draft of "The poet affirmeth", my first paper in the philosophy of fiction.
- I have recently returned from a stint as visiting fellow at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney) from January until April 2024.
- "AI Assertion" (co-authored with Patrick Butlin) is forthcoming in Ergo.
- "True lies and attempted lies" has been published by Inquiry.
- "Truth and Directness in Pictorial Assertion" (co-authored with Lukas Lewerentz) has been published by Linguistics and Philosophy.
