Alexander Johnstone Kühnert

Since April 2026, I am a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Leipzig. I completed my PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2026. I work in the philosophy of language and mind, the history of early analytic philosophy (Frege and Wittgenstein), and the philosophy of logic. I have a strong interest in Kant's theoretical philosophy. 

Publications

Kripke on Indirect Senses, Journal of Philosophy 122 (7): 346-369. (2026).

Dissertation

In the first three chapters of my dissertation, I develop a novel account of Fregean thoughts and Fregean truth. My starting point is the fact that one cannot think a thought of the form X that p (such as A believes that p or it is true that p) without thinking the very thought p that it is about. I argue on this basis that the senses of predicates are functions, with a particular focus on the sense of the truth-predicate. In the fourth chapter, I do exegetical work. I attend to the significance of Frege's object/concept distinction for his conception of logic.