I’m an assistant professor (akademischer Rat) for philosophy at the University of Bielefeld, where I’m part of the research group in theoretical philosophy. Since October 2024, I’m also PI of the DFG-funded project The Philosophy of Linguistic Interventions (POLI). Before coming to Bielefeld, I was a doctoral student in the EXTRA group at Ruhr University Bochum, where I defended my Ph.D. thesis in June 2021. I got a BA and an MA in philosophy and history from Humboldt University Berlin, and an M.Litt in philosophy from St Andrews/Stirling.

I specialize primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology, metaphilosophy, and experimental philosophy.

A central focus of my current research is linguistic interventions—active attempts to change our linguistic practices—and their potential to shape patterns of thought and action. This is also the subject of a monograph I am currently writing.

More broadly, I am interested in the relation between language and thought, philosophical methodology, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of emerging digital technologies, including AI and virtual reality.

I am an associated member of the CRC Linguistic Creativity in Communication, a network member of Conceptual Engineering and Communicative Disruptions: between Semantics and Pragmatics (CECODISP), a member of the GAP and the Aristotelian Society.

I am a section editor of the journal Experimental Philosophy, and I edit the category ‘conceptual engineering‘ on philpapers.

I am on philpeople and on googlescholar. You find my University website here.

You find my CV here.

News

My paper “Reference, conflicting intentions, and the Madagascar problem,” co-authored with Andrea Raimondi, has just been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies.

I will be speaking at a workshop on conceptual ethics at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in late October and at a workshop on conceptual engineering at Hong Kong University in November.

Also in November, we will host a workshop on Open Texture, Semantic Underspecification and Strategic Speech in Bielefeld. More info follows.