Philosophy of language (especially semantics), philosophical logic, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of artificial intelligence (especially knowledge representation and formal ontology)
Philosophy of reasons, morality and self-interest, normative ethics, feminist philosophy, LHBT+-issues, epistemic injustice, sosial construction, metaphysics of sex and gender, emotions, identity, meningfulness, military ethics and civil-military relations.
Philosophy of language and mind (especially mental content, communication, pragmatics); epistemology (especially testimony and disagreement)
My primary areas of interest are philosophy of language, argumentation and the philosophy of logic. I am also happy to supervise theses on some topics in philosophy of mind (concepts, rationality and psychological attitudes) and aesthetics (literature, movies and video games).
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of law, the history of philosophy (Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, the Enlightenment), phenomenology and continental philosophy.
Semantics, pragmatics, linguistic and cognitive development, lexical meaning, polysemy, figurative language, experimental pragmatics.
Ancient Philosophy, especially Empedocles, Plato. Aristotle, Atomists and Epicurus, Stoics. Metaphysics, Ethics, Moral Psychology.
Philosophy of science, esp. causal explanation, mechanisms, levels of investigation, and metaphors and models. Philosophy of biology/life sciences, esp. the gene concept, heritability, causation in biology, approaches in systems biology and molecular biology, and convergence. Philosophy of medicine, esp. nanomedicine. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
Philosophy of physics (esp. spacetime, quantum field theory, effective field theory, quantum gravity, cosmology); philosophy of science (esp. emergence, reduction, scientific methodology, theory-change, theoretical virtues, realism, analogy, simulation and experiment); metaphysics (esp. metaphysics of science, meta-metaphysics).
Political philosophy, ethics, environmental philosophy, history of philosophy (especially modern natural law and the Enlightenment)
Political philosophy, philosophy of law (especially Kant), history of philosophy (especially the Enlightenment), human rights, ethics, theory and methodology in the study of history of philosophy
Ancient philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle), ethics (especially Kantian ethics and virtue ethics), history of ethics (especially Antiquity and Kant), metaethics and moral psychology.
Continental philosophy (especially Heidegger and phenomenology), aesthetics, Kant and Post-Kantian philosophy, feminist philosophy and ethics.
Ancient philosophy, especially the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle
Philosophy of mind (esp. consciousness, perception, mental content), philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of biology (esp. evolutionary biology, biology and cognition, etc.), as well as parts of metaphysics (e.g. identity through time; realisation, constitute, reduction), and meta-ethics.
Philosophies of logic and mathematics, early analytic philosophy (esp. Frege), metaphysics (esp. modality and ontology), as well as parts of the philosophy of language (esp. questions about reference and truth) and of the philosophy of science (esp. questions of realism/anti-realism, spacetime, and quantum mechanics).
Ancient Philosophy, esp. Plato and Aristotle, Normative Ethics, esp. virtue ethics, Moral Psychology, esp. as such questions intersect with empirical psychology, and Philosophy and Literature.
Normative ethics and meta ethics, Philosophical aesthetics, History of philosophy (1600 - 1800)
Principal areas of research: philosophy of perception, the metaphysics of truth and the conceptual foundations of vision science. I also have a more than passing interest in Frege's philosophy of thought.
Metaethics, including normative reasons and rationality; analytic aesthetics and contemporary ethics (in this order of preference)
Pragmatism, philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology (human and animal), philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, philosophy of action, hermeneutics, existentialism, philosophy of literature
Moral, social and political philosophy; environmental philosophy, philosophy of nature; phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism; post-Hegelian German philosophy; Critical Theory; moral psychology, esp. emotions; philosophy and psychiatry; philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.
Medical ethics: abortion, euthanasia, concepts of harm and benefit in medicine, concepts of health/need/disease, any other applied aspect of medical ethics.
Bioethics: moral theory and expertise in bioethics; reproductive ethics, genetic engineering, arguments from nature in bioethics; animal ethics.
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