Visiting Scholars
Joel Anderson He specializes in moral psychology and social theory, focusing especially issues of autonomy, agency, and normativity. The working title of the book he is currently writing is Scaffolded Autonomy: The Construction, Impairment, and Enhancement of Human Agency.
Frederick Eberhardt Ph.D. in Logic, Computation, and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2007 with a thesis on "Causation & Intervention". He is now part of the Causal Learning Collaborative led by Alison Gopnik in the Psychology Department at UC Berkeley. His main interests are in causation and probability and their implications for human causal learning.
Dina Emundts Dina Emundts is wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Institut für Philosophie of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She is author of Kants Übergangskonzeption im Opus postumum (2004). She is currently working on a book on Hegel.
Robert Fogelin Professor of Philosophy and Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His many books include Walking the Tightrope of Reason, Pyrrhonian Reflections, Wittgenstein, and Hume's Skepticism.
Gordian Haas Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Graduated in 2003 with a thesis on belief revision. He is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His main areas of interest are in verificationism, belief revision, logic and epistemic justification.
Yooshin Kim B.S., Seoul National University,Korea. M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, Cornell University. Currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, graduate program of science and technology studies at Pusan National University, Busan Korea.
Wolfgang Mann Wolfgang Mann teaches in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. He is the author of The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context (Princeton, 2000). He is currently working on a book devoted to two Platonic dialogues, the Protagoras and the Euthydemus.
Naozumi Mitani Adjunct Lecturer of Philosophy, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Adjunct Lecturer of Philosophy, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Japan Adjunct Lecturer of Contemporary Social Studies, Kyoto Women's University, Japan
Sandro Reis Ph.D. in Philosophy, graduated at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a thesis on David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement. Sandro Reis taught Philosophy of Law at the National Law School at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2004-2005). He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Candido Mendes University since 2002. His main areas of interest lie in political theory, the nature of ethics, rationality, cooperation and contractualism.
Visiting Student Researchers
Mattia L. Gallotti PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Exeter. He has studied Economics at Bocconi University in Milan before receiving an MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics (2006). His main interests are in the cognitive foundations of social behaviour and the nature of collective intentionality. He is also interested in philosophical issues arising from policy and decision making in the public sector.
Florian Grosser Florian earned an M.A. degree in Political Science, Philosophy, and Contemporary History at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, in 2005. After a stay at Université Aix-Marseille III, he started working on his doctoral thesis at LMU’s Philosophy Department. His main areas of interest are 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Political Philosophy/Theory, and the History of Political Thought.
Kristen Irwin After earning her B.A. in history and philosophy from Hillsdale College in May 2001, Kristen began the Ph.D. program at UC San Diego. Her research interests are historical in nature, and include many different topics in epistemology and metaphysics from the modern period through the 20th century. She specializes in the 17th century and also has lesser interests in philosophy of religion, existentialism and phenomenology.