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Description: I'm an assistant professor (akademischer Rat) for theoretical philosophy at the University of Bielefeld. As of October 2024, I will be PI of the DFG-funded project The Philosophy of Linguistic Interventions (POLI). Before coming to Bielefeld, I was a doctoral student in the EXTRA group at Ruhr University Bochum, where I defended my Ph.D. thesis…
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I’m an assistant professor (akademischer Rat) for theoretical philosophy at the University of Bielefeld . Before that, I was a doctoral student in the EXTRA group at Ruhr University Bochum, where I defended my Ph.D. thesis in June 2021.
A lot of my research revolves around descriptive as well as normative aspects of language. Why do words have the meanings they do? Would it sometimes be better if they had different meanings? If so, what can we do to change their meanings? To answer these questions, I employ typical philosophical as well as experimental methods.
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