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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of Philosophy

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Education

2002 University of Munich, Germany. Habilitation in Philosophy. 
1997 Stanford University. Ph.D. in Philosophy. 
1990 - 1991 University of California, Berkeley. Graduate student. 
1990 University of Munich, Germany. M.A. in Philosophy. 


Academic Career

2016 - Humboldt Chair in Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany.
  • Founding Director, Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition
  • Executive Committee, Center for Language, Information and Philosophy (CLIP) Mentor, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School  
2008 - 2021 Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine.
  • Co-Director, Medical Humanities Minor. 2016 - 2021 

2011 - 2013

  Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. 
2006 - 2008   Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine. 
2003 - 2006 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK. 
2002 - 2003     Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
1996 - 2003  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Munich, Germany. 


Fellowships, Awards and Grants

2023 - 2024  Media and Society in the Digital Age. Grimme Forschungskolleg.
2022 - 2026 Digital Kant Center North Rhine-Westphalia.’ Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. 
2022 - 2024 Moral Obligation, Epistemology and Public Health: The Case of Vaccine Hesitancy.’ AHRD-DFG funding.
2018 Innovative Learning Technology Initiative Grant, UC Irvine. 
2015 Humboldt Professorship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 
2014 Teaching Award, UC Irvine. 
2011 Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 
2010 - 2013 Chancellor's Fellowship, UC Irvine. 
2010 Research Visit Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). 
2004 - 2006 Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Council (DFG). 
2000 Research Professor, Brazilian Council of Technological and Scientific Developement (CNPq). 
1995 - 1996 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center. 


Professional Service

2022 - 2025 Senior Research Associate. Department of African Centre for Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
2020 - 2023  Program Committee. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
2020 -       Program Comitee. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
2018 -     Editorial Board. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy. 
2017 -  Advisory Board. Philosophy of Memory and Imagination Series. Oxford University Press. 
2016 - 2021 Board of Officers. American Philosophical Association.
2015 -   Review Editor. Frontiers in Psychology: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. 
2014 - Consulting Editor. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 
2013 -   Member of Board of Officers, American Philosophical Association.
2011 - 2014 Department Chair, UC Irvine.