Research
- Philosophy of Language: focus on pragmatist accounts of linguistic meaning in terms of language use (Wittgenstein, Brandom)
- Epistemology: focus on metaepistemological questions regarding epistemology’s aims and criteria of success
- Feminist philosophy: focus on feminist epistemology and philosophy of language in the analytic tradition
- Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir
- Critical thinking: argumentative and conceptual competences, methods in philosophy
Curriculum vitae
| 2021 | Interview in "Sternstunde Philosophie" (Swiss public broadcaster SRF), discussion of whether questions of social justice are usefully framed in terms of sensitivity (in German) |
| 2020 | Interview in "Sternstunde Philosophie" (Swiss public broadcaster SRF), discussion of some worrying stats concerning men and the role of masculine norms and identities (in German) |
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2018 |
Interview in "Sternstunde Philosophie" (Swiss public broadcaster SRF), discussion of the ethics and legality of prostitution (in German). |
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2011 |
Appointed as Privatdozent in philosophy, Venia Legendi for philosophy at the University of Zurich |
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2010 |
Habilitation with the thesis "Refurbishing the Epistemic Realm: A New Meta-Epistemology" |
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Since 2010 |
Teacher for philosophy, 2010–2016 at the Kantonsschule Heerbrugg, 2016– at the Kantonsschule Wil (SG) |
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2004 – 2010 |
Research assistant at the chair for theoretical philosophy (Prof. Dr. Peter Schulthess), University of Zurich |
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1999 – 2005 |
Phd at the University of Sheffield (UK) "Referring Performances - Towards an Account of Singular Term Use" supervised by Christopher Hookway und Jennifer Saul |
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2001 – 2002 |
Research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh (supervised by Robert Brandom) |
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1993 – 1999 |
Studies (lic. phil.) in philosophy, history and German literature with the thesis "Rorty und Davidson über Wahrheit", supervised by P. Schulthess |