I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leipzig University. I work on practical knowledge — its nature and its acquisition — and on conceptual capacities in Kant and Hegel. My guiding question is how practical reason can be autonomous when its concepts are inherited: acquired with a language, through upbringing, within a tradition. My current book project, "The Source of Practical Concepts", takes up the circle of practical concepts: that they are acquired in the very activity they make possible. It develops an answer from Aristotle, in conversation with Hume, Kant, Hegel, Anscombe, and contemporary philosophy of action.
A second, connecte…
I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leipzig University. I work on practical knowledge — its nature and its acquisition — and on conceptual capacities in Kant and Hegel. My guiding question is how practical reason can be autonomous when its concepts are inherited: acquired with a language, through upbringing, within a tradition. My current book project, "The Source of Practical Concepts", takes up the circle of practical concepts: that they are acquired in the very activity they make possible. It develops an answer from Aristotle, in conversation with Hume, Kant, Hegel, Anscombe, and contemporary philosophy of action.
A second, connected strand of my work concerns what cognitive faculties are, and why they are constituted in their exercise rather than possessed as dispositions. A third, emerging project examines authority — how it differs from power, and how it is grounded in practical knowledge.
Before coming to Leipzig, I was a DFG Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and held a fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies "Human Abilities" in Berlin. I received my Ph.D. from the Universities of Freiburg and Strasbourg; my dissertation was published as "Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger" (De Gruyter, 2020).
