Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

since 2018: Associate Professor for Ancient Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University.

2019/20: Visiting Professor, Universität Bonn.

2014-2018: Assistant Professor for Ancient Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University.

2013: Temporary Professorship for History of Philosophy at Universität Hannover.

2010/11: Professor for theoretical philosophy at Humboldt Universität Berlin, replacing Prof. Dominik Perler.

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Education

2010: Habilitation at Universität Leipzig.
Title: "The Four Causes."

2004: PhD at Universität Leipzig (summa cum laude).
Title: "Conscientia bei Descartes" ("Conscientia In Descartes")

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Languages

German: native

English: fluent

Ancient Greek: reading

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Awards and Fellowships

2015: Best paper of the year, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

2005: Karl Alber prize for PhD thesis.

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Memberships

SAGP - Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (2016).

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Publications

Books

Aristotle's Four Causes. New York: Peter Lang 2019. link

Conscientia bei Descartes. Freiburg: Alber Verlag 2006.  link

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Journal Articles

"Avicenna’s Agent Intellect as a Completing Cause", History of Philosophy Quarterly, forthcoming.

"Qualification in Philosophy", Acta Analytica, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-023-00568-x.  link

"Aitiai as Middle Terms", Journal of Ancient Philosophy 16(2), 2022, 126-148.  link  pdf

"Avicenna on Human Self-Intellection", Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 32, 2022, 179-199.  link

"Quiddities and Repeatables", Synthese 200(3), 2022, 216.  pdf

"Meta Logou in Plato's Theaetetus", Apeiron 54(1), 2021, 109-128.  link

"Self-Knowledge, Estrangement, and Social Metabolism". Monthly Review 70(10), March 2019, 40-57.  link

"The Man Without Properties". Synthese 194(6), 2017, 1989–2006.  link

"Instance is the Converse of Aspect". Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93(1), 2015, 3-20. pdf

"'Insofar as' in Descartes' Definition of Thought". Studia Leibnitiana 43(2), 2011, 145-159. pdf

"Kants Modell kausaler Verhältnisse". Kant Studien 102(3), 2011, 367-384.  pdf

"The Four Causes". The Journal of Philosophy 106(3), 2009, 137-60. pdf

"Cartesian Conscientia". British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15(3), 2007, 455-484. pdf

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Book Contributions

"Denken als Probehandeln". In: Wolfram Gobsch & Jonas Held, eds., Orientierung durch Kritik. Festschrift für Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer. Hamburg: Meiner Verlag 2021, 127-143.

"Self-Knowledge by Participation". In: Gyula Klima & Alexander Hall, eds., Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy (Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, vol. 14). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

"Über die 'Ursachen' von Texten". In: Verena Klappstein & Thomas A. Heiß, eds., als bis wir sein Warum erfasst haben (Grundlagen der Rechtsphilosophie vol. IV). Franz Steiner Verlag 2017, 161-181. 

"Kategorien" / "Konkrete Einzeldinge". In: Markus Schrenk, ed., Handbuch Metaphysik, Metzler Verlag 2017, 86-89 / 128-134. 

"Aristoteles' Beschreibung der ethischen Tugenden". In: Jan Müller & Jens Kertscher, Lebensform und Praxisform. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag 2015, 173-189. draft pdf

"Descartes". In: Tina-Louise Eissa & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, eds., Geschichte der Bioethik. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag 2011, 137-148.  pdf

"Is Causation a Relation?" In: Keith Allen & Tom Stoneham, eds., Causation and Modern Philosophy. Routledge 2011, 188-200. pdf

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Dictionary Entries and Reviews

"Disposition". Hans Jörg Sandkühler et al., ed., Enzyklopädie Philosophie. Hamburg: Meiner Verlag 2010.  pdf

Christian Barth, "Intentionalität und Bewusstsein in der frühen Neuzeit". Philosophische Rundschau 68(1), 2021, p. 60-63.

Thomas Nail, "Marx in Motion". Monthly Review 72(11), April 2021, p. 26-31.

Damien Janos, "Avicenna on the Ontology of Pure Quiddity". Philosophical Quarterly, online 2020.

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