About

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I am a Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg University, Germany. My research focuses on systematic and some historical issues in epistemology, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. My work sometimes also involves interdisciplinary collaborations with cognitive scientists, psychologists, and cultural scientists.

 

Before coming to Heidelberg, I held positions in the philosophy departments at the University of Bonn, the University of Konstanz, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Cologne, and Freie Universität Berlin. I have also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Uppsala University, and NYU.

 

Besides philosophy, I am interested in art, music, and skateboarding. Between 2004 and 2009, I composed and performed music and recorded several albums with three different projects: Gaston, Taunus, and Semuin. You can listen to some tracks here, here, and here ... 

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News

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08/2026 — new paper accepted for publication:
“Putting Kantian Aesthetics to the Test: On the Difference Between Aesthetic Predicates and Predicates of Personal Taste” (co-authored with Pascale Willemsen),

forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint.

[A penultimate draft is available on ⁠PhilPapers]

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​02/2026 — new paper published:
“In Defence of Science: Two Ways to Rehabilitate Reichenbach’s Vindication of Induction”,

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 77(1): 1–21, 2026.

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​11/2025 — new book published:
Sprachphilosophie (with Wolfgang Schwarz), Paderborn: UTB/Brill Fink, 2025.