I am getting close to finishing my PhD in philosophy of language at the Ruhr University Bochum. I am a trained linguist, have worked on conjunction and plurality, and am specializing in attitude semantics now.

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My PhD thesis, titled 'memory reports', is going to be a closely connected collection of two linguistic, two philosophical and two interdisciplinary papers. Together with my first supervisor and PI Kristina Liefke, I put forth a

unified compositional semantics for memory predicates attributing retained propositional knowledge -- also in the case of 'remembering how' (as opposed to 'remembering that'). In recent work, I modify this proposal in order to account for eventive readings of English 'remember' and German 'sich erinnern'. 

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To provide the empirical basis for this, I have designed a series of online behavioral studies that test for interactions between the grammatical structure (e.g. 'remember swimming' vs. 'remember that x swam') and the kind of experience or evidence the agent has wrt. the remembered fact or event.

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My project is a part (P10) of the inter-disciplinary FOR2812: Constructing scenarios of the past. All of my formal semantic work is linked to concepts discussed in the cognitive sciences and in the philosophy of memory, especially to constructive 'episodic memory' in opposition to fact storage on the one hand and constructive imagination on the other hand. This interdisciplinary aspect of my work requires a lot of conceptual clarification, which I enjoy. ​​​​​

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In the next few months, I plan to extend my semantics by typological work on eventive attitudes, especially their temporal mereology, and, hence, to reconnect my previous interests in plurality and attitudes.  

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I value political applications of my work and think a lot about grounding assumptions, methodology and epistemology.