Philosophy
Welcome to my website! I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. My main areas of research are epistemology and philosophical methodology, but I also have strong interests in the philosophies of mind and language, in meta-ethics, and in experimental philosophy. In epistemology, I am mainly interested in the theories of knowledge and justification, testimony, and the apriori. With respect to knowledge, I am inclined to invariantist theories that acknowledge the modal dimension of knowledge, like safety accounts. I am also interested in how cognitive psychology and other empirical disciplines may bear on more traditional epistemological issues. In the future, I would like to do more work on the theory of justification and on meta-epistemology, in particular on epistemic normativity. Philosophical methodology is the area of my dissertation project, where I try to defend conceptual analysis as a viable philosophical method against various objections, e.g. from naturalistic or semantic externalist considerations. In this connection, I also discuss experimental philosophy and its challenge to philosophical thought-experiments. I am also an editor of the following categories on the great philosophical online resource PhilPapers: To contact me, please try the following: Joachim Horvath |
