Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Logic, Language and Mind, Inference, Intellectual Transformation, History of Analytic Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Heidegger,

The Riddle of Transformation

10|2021-23 — Postdoctoral Researcher, funded by the Minerva Foundation, Institute of Philosophy, University of Potsdam

2020-21 — Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of Jena, Professorship for Theoretical Philosophy and Logic

2017-20 — Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Humboldt Professorship for Theoretical Philosophy

2009-17 — Ph.D., The Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Dissertation: Rules of Inference — A Study in Early Analytic Philosophy

2006-08 — M.A., The Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude, Thesis: Heidegger and the Analogy of Being

2005-06 — Visiting Student at the Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg

2002-05 — B.A., Department of Sociology and Anthropology & The Honors Program in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude

Articles

“‘In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic’: Wittgenstein, Psychologism and the Question of the Normativity of Logic”, in: Disputatio 10 (18) (2021): One Hundred Years Thinking the Tractatus , forthcoming.

“Toward a Resolute Reading of Being and Time: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Dilemma between Inconsistency and Ineffability”, in: The Southern Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming. 

“Are Rules of Inference Superfluous? Wittgenstein vs. Frege and Russell”, in: Teorema XL: 2 (2021) pp. 45-61.

“The Tractatus and the Riddles of Philosophy”, in: Philosophical Investigations 44 (1) (2021), pp. 19-42.

“Heidegger on the Unity of Metaphysics and the Method of Being and Time”, in: The Review of Metaphysics 74:3 (2021), pp. 361-396.

Edited Books and Collections

Early Analytic Philosophy: Essays on its Origins and Transformations, edited by G. Nir und J. Conant, in preparation. 
 

Reviews

“Review of Andrea Iacona, Logical Form: Between Logic and Natural Language, Springer, 2018”, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 16.07.2018

"'In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic': Wittgenstein, the Normativity of Logic, and Anti-Psychologism", Colloquium, Université Paris Sorbonne 1, 10|2021

"'Logik und Ontologie bei Wittgenstein und Heidegger", XXV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, 09|2021

"Wittgenstein on Inference and the Normativity of Logic", Colloquium, University of Haifa, 04|2021

"Wittgenstein on Inference, Understanding and Omniscience", Collegium Philosophicum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 11|2020

"Ethical Truth, Ethical Nonsense and Ethical Transformation", Intercultural Understanding: Wittgensteinian Approaches at the Crossroads of Epistemology and  Ethics, University of Valencia, 01|2020

"The Riddles of Transformation and the Nature of Philosophical Truth", The Wittgenstein Workshop, New School for Social Research, New York, 10|2019

"The Tractatus and the Riddles of Philosophy", 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 08|2019

"Wittgenstein’s Third-Man", 1918-2018: Problems From Russell & Wittgenstein, University of Bordeaux, 12|2018

"Heidegger’s Double Method", 57th SPEP conference (Society for the Study of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), University of Pennsylvania, 10|2018

"Russell on Inference", GAP10: The 10th Annual Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Köln, 09|2018

"The Tractarian Account of Inference", 41st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 08|2018

"Ryle on Inference", Jena Summer Symposium in Philosophy: Mental Capacities, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07|2018

"The Tractarian Account of Inference", 2nd Tilburg History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Tilburg University, 07|2018

"Russell on Inference", APA Central, Group Session of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Chicago, 02|2018

"Wittgenstein on Logical Form", Philosophis­ches Kolloquium, Technische Universität Dresden, 01|2018

"The Tractarian Rejection of Rules", SSHAP 2017: The Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy 6th AnnualConference, Calgary, 05|2017

2021-23 — Research Grant, Minerva Stiftung 

2020 —  grant funding by DFG for the organization of the conference Inference/Schlussfolgern,Universität Leipzig (received February 2020; conference postponed to June 2022) 

2019 — Pre-Doc Mentorship Award 2020, Universität Leipzig

2015-16 — Doctoral Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago

2015-16 — Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago

2015 — Karen Dinal Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Chicago Writing Program

2015 — Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship Award, University of Chicago (declined in order to take up a dissertation completion fellowship)

2008 — Hebrew University Rector’s Prize for Outstanding M.A. students

2008 — Hebrew University Dean of Humanities Prize for Outstanding M.A. students

2008 — Hebrew University Philosophy Department, Harold Abeles prize for M.A. students

Inference/Schlussfolgern, Universität Leipzig, together with E. Marcus (Auburn University), funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 06|2022

Humboldt Conversations in Philosophy, Kolloquium Reihe, Universität Leipzig, 04-06|2021

Cavell’s Claim of Reason, Universität Leipzig, together with J. Sudau, 10|2019 

Wittgenstein’s Legacy, Universität Leipzig, 07|2019

Logic and Ethics: The Philosophy of Cora Diamond, Universität Leipzig, together with J. Conant, 10|2018 

2nd Graduate Student Conference of the Göttingen-Chicago-Leipzig Network, Universität Göttingen, together with H. Steinfath and J. Conant, 06|2018

Goethe and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, together with E. Friedlander and J. Conant, 12|2017

The Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, 2013-15

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