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I am a PhD student in philosophy and research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) of Thomas Grundmann at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne. In April 2009, I will join the Emmy Noether Research Group "Understanding and the A Priori" as a doctoral researcher. Also, I am an editor for the great new online resource PhilPapers, and these are the categories I edit:
My main areas of research are epistemology and philosophical methodology, but I have also strong interests in the philosophy of mind and language, in meta-ethics, and in experimental philosophy.
In epistemology, I am mainly interested in the theory of knowledge and justification, testimony, social epistemology and the apriori. Generally, I am inclined to externalist approaches and I favor theories of knowledge that explicitly acknowledge the modal dimension of knowledge, like safety accounts. I am also interested in how the many surprising results from cognitive psychology and other empirical disciplines may bear on more traditional epistemological issues. In the future, I would like to do more work on the still somewhat neglected area of meta-epistemology, in particular on the ontology of epistemology and on the nature of epistemic normativity.
Philosophical methodology is the area of my dissertation project, in which I try to defend conceptual analysis as a viable philosophical method against various objections, mainly from naturalistic philosophers. In this connection, I also think about experimental philosophy and its challenge to thought-experiments and other a priori methods, and about the prospects of naturalized epistemology.
Joachim Horvath, M.A.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Philosophisches Seminar
Universität zu Köln
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49-221-4706366
Email: joachim dot horvath at uni-koeln dot de