Dr. Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla
Geschäftsführer des Philosophischen Seminars
address
Albertus-Magnus-Platz 1
University of Cologne, Department of Philosophy, Main Building, Room 4.012
50931 Cologne
Sprechstunde
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Forschungsgebiete
- Spezialgebiete: Erkenntnistheorie, Wissenschaftstheorie
- Kompetenzgebiete: Logik, Definitions- und Argumentationstheorie sowie Geschichte der Analytischen Philosophie
Kurz-CV
seit 2021
Akademischer Rat (permanent): Universität zu Köln
2021-2025
Habilitationsprojekt in Philosophie, Universität zu Köln
Habilitation: 2025
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 (Auswahl)
- A Causal Theory of Suppositional Reasoning. In: Philosophical Studies 183.2 (2026), pp.743-756. doi: 10.1007/s11098-025-02472-z. (together with Alexander Gebharter, and Michał Sikorski).
- Reductionism, Supervenience, and Carnap’s Account of Empirical Confirmability. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 56.3 (2025), pp.345-371. doi: 10.1007/s10838-025-09728-6. (together with Maria Sekatskaya).
- Cultural Evolutionary Psychology as Generalization by Recursion. In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science 56.1 (2025), pp.3-22. doi: 10.1007/s10838-024-09682-9. (together with Karim Baraghith).
- Meta-Inductive Probability Aggregation. In: Theory and Decision 95.4 (2023), pp.663-689. 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 (Auswahl)
- 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 (Auswahl)
- “Abduction in Philosophy of Mind” (together with Maria Sekatskaya). In: Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects. Ed. by Andreas Hüttemann, and Gerhard Schurz. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2026, pp.128-148. doi: 10.4324/9781003514404-9.
- “Preemptionism and Its Reliabilistic Assumption: A Bayesian Model”. In: The Epistemology of Experts: New Essays. Ed. by Peter Brössel, Anna-Maria A. Eder, and Thomas Grundmann. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, pp.57-74. doi: 10.4324/9781003431459-6.
- “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).