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 am also interested in topics in aesthetics, the history of analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science.
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.
I am part of two research networks funded by the DFG: the network The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which I initiated in 2016 and of which I am a coordinator, and the network Change and Change-Makers, 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 am also interested in topics in aesthetics, the history of analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science.
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.
I am part of two research networks funded by the DFG: the network The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which I initiated in 2016 and of which I am a coordinator, and the network Change and Change-Makers, which investigates issues in the philosophy of time and persistence.
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- My essay "Lob der Vermutung" won the third prize in the GAP essay-competition Nachdenken über Corona. It will be published in a collection of philosophical essays on the pandemic. The essay highlights the importance of weaker constative speech-acts, such as conjectures, in times of crisis, and it makes the case for further philosophical investigation of such speech-acts.
- "The Lying-Misleading Distinction: A Commitment-Based Approach" has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Philosophy.
- "Copredication, polysemy and context-sensitivity" is now forthcoming in a special issue of Inquiry on semantic variability.
- 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.
