About

I am an assitant professor at the department of philosophy at the University of Konstanz. Here is my contact information.

I am working at the intersection of philosophy of mind and epistemology. In particular, I am interested in the nature of mental states and attitudes in the vicinity of cognitive neutrality, e.g., ignorance, doxastic indecision, suspension of judgment and belief, agnosticism. In relation to this, I am exploring the question how mental states, attitudes, and activities relate to inquiry and deliberation. I hold a pluralist view on suspension, and I think that we should be clear about the nature of mental states and attitudes before we think of their normative profile. For example, some forms of cognitive neutrality are agential which has implications for their rationality.
Funded projects on neutrality: Interdisciplinary WIN-project with cognitive neuroscience, DFG-network, interdisciplinary BW-project on abstaining machine learning, BW-project on doxastic suspension.

I am also interested in the phenomena of deception (self or other) and disinformation. In particular, I study the notion of bullshitting which I analyse as giving fake answers to questions under discussion. I try to make my philosophical work on fake answers accessible for broader audiences (see my project on bullshit and fake answers).

In previous work, I was concerned with the debate on free will (or our lack thereof). In my PhD-thesis, I suggested a theory of freedom of action that is compatible with indeterminism as well as determinism. After that, I worked on applications of the compatibilist free will debate to the doxastic realm (doxastic freedom and doxastic compatibilism).