I’m a Privatdozent at the University of Bern and an Ambizione Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. I work on the epistemology and ethics of conceptualization and the genealogy of systematic thought. Before that, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford for three years. In 2022, I was awarded the Amerbach Prize of the University of Basel as well as the Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers of the Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy.
Most of my research to date has been in metaphilosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of min…
I’m a Privatdozent at the University of Bern and an Ambizione Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation. I work on the epistemology and ethics of conceptualization and the genealogy of systematic thought. Before that, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford for three years. In 2022, I was awarded the Amerbach Prize of the University of Basel as well as the Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers of the Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy.
Most of my research to date has been in metaphilosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, philosophy of biology (especially the theory of functions and evolutionary explanations), and the history of philosophy from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (especially Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Isaiah Berlin, and Bernard Williams). But I am a generalist at heart, and some of my work shades into ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law.
My most recent book, The Ethics of Conceptualization: A Needs-Based Approach, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press and expected to appear in 2024. My previous book, entitled The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering, was published open access by Oxford University Press in 2021.
