I am a junior professor in philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.
My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on theoretical, ethical and empirical aspects of insincere communication and misinformation, on the metasemantics, 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 Freie Universität Berlin in 2023, I spent ten years as lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu 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. And in 2022, I visited the University of Sydney as an Anderson Visiting Fellow and the research group "Persuading under Uncertainty: Challenges and Norms of Science Communication" at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München.
I am part of two research networks funded by the DFG: The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which I initiated in 2016 and of which I am a coordinator, and Change and Change-Makers, which investigates issues in the philosophy of time and persistence.
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NEWS
My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on theoretical, ethical and empirical aspects of insincere communication and misinformation, on the metasemantics, 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 Freie Universität Berlin in 2023, I spent ten years as lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu 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. And in 2022, I visited the University of Sydney as an Anderson Visiting Fellow and the research group "Persuading under Uncertainty: Challenges and Norms of Science Communication" at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München.
I am part of two research networks funded by the DFG: The semantics and metasemantics of context-sensitive language, which I initiated in 2016 and of which I am a coordinator, and Change and Change-Makers, which investigates issues in the philosophy of time and persistence.
Here are my profiles on PhilPeople and Google Scholar.
NEWS
- From October 2024, I will be Professor of Philosophy of Language at Universität Hamburg. I'm delighted and can't wait to move into the philosophy tower!
- I'm greatly looking forward to a stint as visiting fellow at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney) from January until April 2024.
- In July 2023, I hosted the 2nd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Language Association at Freie Universität Berlin.
- "Truth and Directness in Pictorial Assertion" (co-authored with Lukas Lewerentz) has been published by Linguistics and Philosophy.
- Two new papers are online as preprints: AI Assertion (co-authored with Patrick Butlin) and An empirical perspective on pictorial lies (co-authored with Alex Wiegmann).
