Our research group strives to create a lively research environment for all those with projects in theoretical philosophy here at Bielefeld University, or with ties to it.
The group is organized around the chair of theoretical philosophy held by Christian Nimtz, but we invite everyone with projects in fields such as the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, epistemology, theory of action, metaphysics or meta-philosophy.
You find an overview of the people working here, the projects they pursue, the flagship projects we as a group try to push along as well below. If you are interested in theoretical philosophy, please do check out our 'research seminar theoretical philosophy'.
If you want to learn more, please contact us: Prof. Christian Nimtz
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Christian Nimtz, Professor Chair of Theoretical Philosophy e-mail website |
works on topics in the philosophy of language, (modal) epistemology, the philosophy of mind and meta-philosophy |
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Peter Schulte, Dr. Assistant Professor e-mail website |
works on topics in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and meta-ethics |  |
Fabian Hundertmark, M.A. doctoral student e-mail website |
works on topics in the philosophy of mind |
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Steve Kindley, M.A. doctoral student e-mail website |
works on topics in epistemology |
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Romy Jaster (HU Berlin), Dr. postdoc e-mail website |
works on topics in metaphysics, the philosophy of language and epistemology |
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Wolfgang Schwarz, Dr. DAAD-scholar, moved to Edinburgh in 01/2015 e-mail website |
works on topics in epistemology, the philosophy of language, metaphysics and logic. |
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Insa Lawler (Duisburg-Essen), M.A. doctoral student e-mail website |
works on topics in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science |
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Lars Dänzer, (Duisburg-Essen), Dr. postdoc e-mail website |
works on topics in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind |
Get-together on Christmas 2016:
Dinner at the end of the summer semester 2016:
The main forum of our research group is the “Research Seminar Theoretical Philosophy”, where we discuss papers contributed by participants or invited guests. See here for details and the current schedule.
Once a term we meet with people working in theoretical philosophy from Osnabrück (Prof. Kompa) and Münster (Prof. Strobach).
At least once a year, we have an international workshop related to one of our flagship projects.
We will be having a workshop on "Animal Signals - Function, Evolution and Meaning" in May 2017.
Here is a list of our past workshops:
- "Modal Knowledge" Bielefeld March 2017
- "Teleosemantic Perspectives on Perception", Bielefeld, October 2016
- Workshop with Kit Fine about Truthmaker Semantics, Bielefeld, June 2016
- "Natural Kind Terms - Reference, Rigidity, Essence", Bielefeld, September 2015
- "Bence Nanay's 'Between Perception and Action'", Bielefeld, April 2014.
- "Minds Without Magic?", Bielefeld, September 2013.
- "Categorization & Meaning", at the ZiF (Bielefeld), February 2013.
- "Teleosemantice Today", Erlangen, February 2012.
There are two flagship-projects related to our research group. The one is the project "Advancing Teleosemantics" funded by the German Research Council (DFG).
The other is a broader project on two-dimensional semantics and its implications for the semantics of natural languages, rigidity & essence, ethics and fiction.
Some Current and Recent Research Projects
| Agent’s Abilities and Freedom of the Will | PhD project Barbara Vetter (HU Berlin) / Christian Nimtz 2013 - |
Romy Jaster |
| Tugenderkenntnistheorie | PhD project Christian Nimtz / Gerhard Ernst (Erlangen) 2013 - |
Steve Kindley |
| Der Funktionsbegriff der Teleosemantik | PhD project Christian Nimtz / Peter Schulte 2013 - |
Fabian Hundertmark |
| Intentional Explanation and Teleosemantic Content | postdoc project ('Habilitation') 2010 - |
Peter Schulte |
| Wissen, was möglich ist | PhD project Christian Nimtz / Peter Schulte 2011 - 2013 |
Sebastian Müller |
| Sentence Understanding and the Rational-Intentional Explanation of Linguistic Communication |
PhD project Brendan Balcerak Jackson / Thomas Grundmann /Christian Nimtz 2010 - 2013 |
Lars Dänzer |
Recent MA- and BA-Theses (Only the Exceptional Ones)
| On the Pluralities of Worlds: Characterisation and Object Individuation in Extended Modal Meinongianism |
MA-thesis Christian Nimtz / Marcus Kracht 2015 |
Daniel Milne-Plückebaum |
| A Shotgun Wedding? – Non-Declaratives and Truth-Conditional Semantics | MA-thesis Christian Nimtz / Peter Schulte 2014 |
Insa Lawler |
| Kontrafaktische Kausalitätstheorien | BA-thesis Peter Schulte / Christian Nimtz 2014 |
Stefan Guhe |
Verantwortlich für die Pflege der Seite: Prof. Christian Nimtz.
