I am a lecturer in philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
My main research interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of information and communication and metaphysics. I am currently working on theoretical, ethical and empirical aspects of insincere communication, on issues in metasemantics, semantics and pragmatics and on the philosophy of time and modality. I also have an interest in the history of analytic philosophy, and in particular in Frege's philosophy of language.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Previously, I completed the BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From October 2017 until March 2018, I was an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge and a By-Fellow at Churchill College, funded by a fellowship of the DAAD. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked as a senior lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Zurich.
In 2016, I initiated the research network The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which is funded by the DFG and of which I am a coordinator. I am also a member of the DFG-network Change and Change-Maker, which investigates issues in the philosophy of time and persistence.
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My main research interests are in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of information and communication and metaphysics. I am currently working on theoretical, ethical and empirical aspects of insincere communication, on issues in metasemantics, semantics and pragmatics and on the philosophy of time and modality. I also have an interest in the history of analytic philosophy, and in particular in Frege's philosophy of language.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Previously, I completed the BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From October 2017 until March 2018, I was an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge and a By-Fellow at Churchill College, funded by a fellowship of the DAAD. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked as a senior lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Zurich.
In 2016, I initiated the research network The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which is funded by the DFG and of which I am a coordinator. I am also a member of the DFG-network Change and Change-Maker, which investigates issues in the philosophy of time and persistence.
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- I'm greatly looking forward to spending three months at the University of Sydney as an Anderson Visiting Fellow in early 2021!
- "To lie or to mislead?" (co-authored with Felix Timmermann) is now forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
- "Can a question be a lie? An empirical investigation," a joint project with Alex Wiegmann, Neele Engelmann and Pascale Willemsen, has been accepted for publication by Ergo.
- My paper Lying with pictures has been included in the Oxford University Press Philosophy – Best of 2019 selection.
