Dr. Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla
Geschäftsführer des Philosophischen Seminars
Adresse
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1
University of Cologne, Department of Philosophy, Main Building, Room 4.012
50931 Cologne
Sprechstunde
Meine Sprechstunde findet während der Vorlesungszeit mittwochs in der Zeit von 15:00 bis 16:00 Uhr statt. Bitte buchen Sie dafür einen Sprechstundentermin.
Forschungsgebiete
- Spezialgebiete: Erkenntnistheorie, Wissenschaftstheorie
- Kompetenzgebiete: Logik, Definitions- und Argumentationstheorie sowie Geschichte der Analytischen Philosophie
Kurz-CV
seit 2021
Akademischer Rat (permanent): Universität zu Köln
2018-2021
Postdoc: Universität Düsseldorf
2013-2018
PhD Programm: Philosophie, Universität Düsseldorf
Promotion: 2018 (s.c.l.)
2012
PhD Kandidat: Philosophie, Universität Innsbruck
2011
MA: Philosophie, Universität Salzburg
Positionen
- Geschäftsführer des Philosophischen Seminars
- Fachstudienberater
Lehre
Eine Übersicht meiner aktuellen Lehrveranstaltungen an der Universität zu Köln findet sich in KLIPS.
Aktuelle Publikationen
Zeitschriftenartikel
- Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation. In: Theory and Decision (2023). doi: 10.1007/s11238-023-09933-z. (together with Gerhard Schurz).
- Unification and Explanation from a Causal Perspective. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 99 (2023), pp.28-26. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.12.005. (together with Alexander Gebharter).
- The Many Faces of Generalizing the Theory of Evolution. In: American Philosophical Quarterly 58.1 (2021), pp.35-50. doi: 10.2307/48600684. (together with Karim Baraghith).
- Cultural Inheritance in Generalized Darwinism. In: Philosophy of Science 87.2 (2020), pp.237-261. doi: 10.1086/707564. (together with Karim Baraghith).
- An Optimality-Argument for Equal Weighting. In: Synthese 197.4 (2020), pp.1543-1563. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-02028-1.
- Confirmation Based on Analogical Inference. Bayes meets Jeffrey. In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50.2 (2020), pp.174-194. doi: 10.1017/can.2019.18. (together with Alexander Gebharter).
- Optimal Probability Aggregation Based on Generalized Brier Scoring. In: Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (2020). doi: 10.1007/s10472-019-09648-4. (together with Gerhard Schurz).
- Knowledge and Values: A re-entanglement in epistemic regimes. In: Science and Public Policy 47.1 (2020). doi: 10.1093/scipol/scz047.
- A Complementary Approach to Aristotle’s Account of Definition and Carnap’s Account of Explication. In: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 22.1 (2020), pp.19-40. doi: 10.30965/9783957437310_003.
- Overflow, Expertise, and the L’Aquila Case. In: Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9.3 (2020), pp.25-33.
- A Rational Reconstruction of the L’Aquila Case. How non-denial turns into acceptance. In: Social Epistemology 33.6 (2019), pp.503-513. doi: 10.1080/02691728.2019.1672825.
- Newtons Methodologie: Eine Kritik an Duhem, Feyerabend und Lakatos. In: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101.4 (2019), pp.584-615. doi: 10.1515/agph-2019-4004.
- Is Mereology Ontologically Innocent? Well, it Depends…. In: Philosophia 47.2 (2019), pp.395–424. doi: 10.1007/s11406-018-9985-6.
- Modeling Creative Abduction Bayesian Style. In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science 9.1 (2019), pp.1–15. doi: 10.1007/s13194-018-0234-4. (together with Alexander Gebharter)
Editionen
Inductive Metaphysics: Contemporary and Historical Issues. Special Issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien (98.1, 2021). Edited together with: Kristina Engelhard, Alexander Gebharter, and Ansgar Seide. With Contributions of: Amanda Bryant, Ralf Busse, Kristina Engelhard, Arnaud Pelletier, Gerhard Schurz, Ansgar Seide, Peter Simons, Matthew Tugby.
Cultural Evolution and Generalized Darwinism. Theory and Applications. Special Issue of The American Philosophical Quarterly (58.1, 2021). Edited together with: Karim Baraghith and Corina Strößner. With Contributions of: Daniel Dennett, Kate Distin, Simon Huttegger & Hannah Rubin & Kevin Zollman, Alex Mesoudi, Thomas Reydon, Alex Rosenberg, Gerhard Schurz.
Logical Perspectives on Science and Cognition. Special Issue of Synthese (197.4, 2020) Edited together with: Alexander Gebharter, Peter Brössel, and Markus Werning. With Contributions of: Elke Brendel, Gustavo Cevolani & Roberto Festa, Igor Douven, Jonathan Evans & Shira Elqayam, Ulrike Hahn & Jens Ulrik Hansen & Erik J. Olsson, Andreas Hüttemann, Theo Kuipers, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Nina Retzlaff, Gerhard Schurz, Wolfgang Spohn, Ioannis Votsis.
Sammelbandbeiträge
- “Meta-Abduction: Inference to the probabilistically best prediction”. In: Philosophy of Computing. Ed. by Björn Lundgren and Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernandez. Cham: Springer, 2022, pp.51-72. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75267-5_2.
- “Inductive Metaphysics”. In: Special Issue: Inductive Metaphysics. Contemporary and Historical Issues. Ed. by Kristina Engelhard and Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla and Alexander Gebharter and Ansgar Seide. Grazer Philosophische Studien 98.1, 2021, pp.1-26. doi: 10.1163/18756735-00000129. (together with Kristina Engelhard, Alexander Gebharter, and Ansgar Seide).
- “Newton’s Abductive Methodology”. In: Proceedings of the Second International Congress of the Russian Society of History and Philosophy of Science: “Science as a public good”. Ed. by The Russian Society of History and Philosophy of Science, RSHPS. Moscow: ROIFN Publishing House, 2020, pp.11-14.
- “Meta-Induction, Probability Aggregation, and Optimal Scoring”. In: KI 2020: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Volume 12325. Ed. by Ute Schmid and Franziska Klügl and Diedrich Wolter. Cham: Springer Nature, 2020, pp.355-357. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58285-2. (together with Gerhard Schurz).