“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” K. Gibran
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History and Philosophy of Biology
History and Philosophy of Neuroscience
Epistemology
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Existentialism
Philosophy of Mind
Feminist Philosophy
Environmental Philosophy
Vitae
Education
Bielefeld University
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2014
Dissertation: The Concept of Levels of Organization in Biology.
M.A. in Philosophy, 2010
Thesis: Explanatory Pluralism in the Philosophy of Neuroscience and Motion Adaptation Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis.
University of Cincinnati
B.A. in Philosophy, 2007
B.A. in German Studies, 2007
Academic Employment
Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor, W2), University of Wuppertal, 2024-Present
Principal Investigator, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Institute for Philosophy I, 2021-2024
Visiting Lecturer, University of Münster, 2020-2021
Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy, 2018-2021
Visiting Researcher, Saarland University, Department of Philosophy, 2019
Adjunct Instructor, Xavier University, Department of Philosophy, 2018-2019
Postdoc Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 2015-2017
Visiting Lecturer, University of Münster, 2014-2016
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Münster, 2015
Community Activities
Associate Editor
Journal Referee
Integrative and Comparative Biology, since 2021
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, since 2020
Biological Theory, since 2019
The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, since 2019
Perspectives on Science, since 2018
Biology and Philosophy, since 2016
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, since 2016
Synthese, since 2014
General Journal for the Philosophy of Science, since 2014
Erkenntnis, since 2013