Curriculum Vitae

Peter Brössel

Current Position

Since 08/2017	Junior-Professor of the Philosophy of Perception and Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Since 04/2017	Director of the Emmy Noether Research Group “From Perception to Belief and Back Again”, Department of Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Past Academic Positions

10/2012-03/2017	Assistant Professor (fixed term, 3+3 years), Department of Philosophy and Center for Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Evolution, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
11/2011-09/2012	Assistant Professor (fixed term, 3+3 years), Department of Philosophy, University of Mainz, Germany
01/2008-11/2011	Doctoral Research Fellow, Formal Epistemology Research Group, Zukunftskolleg and Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany
10/2002-07/2003	Teaching Assistant (Tutor), Institute of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria

Visiting Positions

02/2020-03/2020	Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy.
05/2016-03/2017	Visiting Researcher, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
07/2016-08/2016	Visiting Researcher, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.
04/2015-06/2015	Visiting Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Germany.
07/2014-09/2014	Visiting Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria.
09/2013-10/2013	Visiting Fellow, Tilburg Center for Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
05/2011-07/2011	Visiting Fellow, Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK
09/2009-08/2010	Visiting Researcher, Formal Epistemology Project, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium
09/2008-08/2009	Visiting Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Academic Education

05/2012	Completion of PhD-Studies in Philosophy (summa cum laude), University of Konstanz, Germany.
01/2008-05/2012	Doctoral Studies in Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany
09/2008-08/2009	Doctoral Studies in Philosophy (visiting), Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, USA
11/2007	Graduation in Philosophy, University of Salzburg, Austria, Master’s Thesis: “Zur Explikation von Kohärenz – Eine Untersuchung dreier Bayesianischer Kohärenzmaße”. (translated title: “On the Explication of Coherence – An Investigation of Three Bayesian Measures of Coherence”), University of Salzburg, Austria
10/2000-11/2007	Undergraduate studies in Philosophy (major) and Mathematics (minor) at the University of Erfurt and the University of Konstanz, Germany, and the University of Salzburg, Austria

Awards, Grants, and Scholarships

Since 04/2017	5-year Emmy Noether Grant for the research group From Perception to Belief and Back again, which is funded with more than 1,2 million EUR by the DFG.
02/2016	2-year DAAD Research Fellowship, Center for Philosophy of Science and Department for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
07/2013-12/2014	Member of the Global Young Faculty of the Mercator Foundation
04/2015-06/2015	Visiting Fellowship, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Germany
09/2013-10/2013	Visiting Fellowship, Tilburg Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
12/2012	Best Dissertation Award for the best PhD-thesis in Philosophy at the University of Konstanz
05/2011-07/2011	Visiting Fellowship, Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, UK
10/2009-09/2010	Doctoral Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
03/2010	Grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2010, with F. Huber and B. Hoffmann
10/2008-01/2009	German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for a stay at the University of California at Berkeley, CA
07/2008	Rudolf Carnap Essay Prize 2008 for “Theory Assessment and Coherence”, published in Abstracta 4, 2008
10/2004-09/2005	Erasmus scholarship for a stay at the University of Konstanz, Germany
Since 2007	Various travel grants for international workshops and conferences