News

January 2024

Founding of a new book-series on “The roots and history of analytic philosophy” together with Mark Siebel and Kai Wehmeier with the publisher Academia/Nomos.

November 2023

A bilateral research project on “Positing or Predicating? Existence after Kant” together with Prof. Mark Textor (King’s College London) was approved by the DFG and AHRC.

January 2023

I became one of four main editors of Grazer Philosophische Studien beside Marian David, Martina Fürst and Guido Melchior.

March 2022

Extension of my Heisenberg-Professorship at the Ruhr University of Bochum, April 2022 – March 2024.

August 2021

Research project on “Quantification, existence-entailing predicates, and existential import” (with Jan Köpping, Graham Priest, Friederike Moltmann and Lee Walters) (Sachbeihilfen) [331.550 Euros] was approved by the DFG.

August 2021

Book-contract signed with the German publisher Nomos for the publication of a German introduction into metaphysics.

April 2021

Book-contract signed with the publisher Springer for a collection of papers with the title “Varieties of Being: Comparative Historical Essays from Parmenides to Quine” in the series “Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action“, series editor: Gyula Klima.

March 2021

Publication of “Gottlob Frege: Ausgewählte Schriften zur Philosophie der Logik und der Sprache” with UTB / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

November 2021

Publication of “Names and Context: A use-sensitive philosophical account” with Bloomsbury Academic.

August 2021

Research project on “Quantification, existence-entailing predicates, and existential import” (with Jan Köpping, Graham Priest, Friederike Moltmann and Lee Walters) (Sachbeihilfen) [331.550 Euros] was approved by the DFG.

August 2021

Book-contract signed with the German publisher Nomos for the publication of a German introduction into metaphysics for 2024.

April 2021

Book-contract signed with the publisher Springer for a collection of papers with the title “Varieties of Being: Comparative Historical Essays from Parmenides to Quine” in the series “Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action“, series editor: Gyula Klima.

March 2021

Publication of “Gottlob Frege: Ausgewählte Schriften zur Philosophie der Logik und der Sprache” with UTB / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

August 2020

Book-contract signed with the English publisher Bloomsbury Academic for the publication of my book “Names & Context” in the new series: Meaning, Mind & Metaphysics, edited by J. Brandl, C. Gauker, M. Kölbel, M. Textor.

September 2019

Book-symposium of Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 73, Issue 3, 2019, 411-434, on my book “Existenz und Anzahl”. It contains comments by Tobias Rosefeldt and Joachim Bromand, and my replies.

July 2019

Book-contract signed with the German publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / UTB for an edition of selected writings of Frege on the Philosophy of Logic and Language. It will substitute the two German Patzig-editions and also include relevant material from the Nachlass in one book. It will appear in March 2021.

March 2019

Appointment as Heisenberg-professor for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Logic at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Philosophy I.

February 2019

Book-contract signed with the German publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / UTB for an introduction into Frege’s Philosophy of Logic and Language. (publication planned for March 2023.)

November 2018

Offer of a 5-years W2-tenure-track Professorship after my Heisenberg-fellowship with an optional transformation into a permanent W3-Professorship by the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (rejected: January 2019).

July 2018

Offer of a permanent Open-field W2-/Heisenberg-Professorship by the Ruhr-University-Bochum and the DFG (accepted: March 2019).

May 2017

A Heisenberg-fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) was awarded to me (+ funding for research stays for 18 months in the USA, UK and Spain).