Research
Current Research Interests
Conceptions of Existence (systematic & historical)
Proper Names (Semantics & Pragmatics)
Demonstratives (Semantics & Pragmatics)
Conceptions of Negation (Logic & Semantics)
Fictional Names & Objects
The Roots and History of Analytic Philosophy (Kant, Herbart, E. Reinhold, Lotze, Sigwart, Frege, Schröder)
Research Areas
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Logic
Metaphysics
History of Analytic Philosophy
History of Logic
Research Projects
2024 - 2027 Predicating or Positing? Existence after Kant
DFG & AHRC (together with Prof. Mark Textor)
2022 - 2025 Quantification and Existence-Entailing Predicates
and Existential Import, DFG (Sachbeihilfe)
2017 - 2024 Hybrid High-Order Theories of Existence,
DFG, (Heisenberg-Professorship)
2010 - 2012 Existence and Neutral Free Logic
Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
(Fedor-Lynen-Fellowship)
Research Guests
Ed Zalta , May 2022
Ed Zalta, August 2023
Karen Green, September 2023
Fred Kroon, September 2023