Monographs

Frege's Puzzle: Why Propositions Aren't the Objects of Our Propositional Attitudes, Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Routledge (forthcoming).

The Social Meaning of Slurs and Slang Terms, Cambridge University Press (under contract).

Edited Volumes

The Darkside of Language: Linguistic Derogation and Its Prevention, Special Issue of Topoi.

Papers

Forthcoming

'Crane on Putnam on Intentionality', Australasian Philosophical Review (forthcoming)

2025

'Scorekeeping in a Therapeutic Language Game', Philosophy (2025) (Essay Prize of the Royal Institute of Philosophy) (open access)

2024

'False Friends in Political Dogwhistles', Inquiry (2024) (open access)

'Accommodating Hatred' in Harmful Speech and Contestation (ed. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt), Palgrave MacMillan (2024)

'The Relational Analysis of Belief Ascriptions and Schiffer's Puzzle', Erkenntnis (2024) (open access)

'Attitude Ascriptions: A New Old Problem for Russell's Theory of Descriptions', Synthese (2024) (open access)

2023

'Direct Reference and the Goldbach Puzzle', Theoria (2023) (open access)

'How to Do Things with Slurs – oder wie anhand von Sprache abgewertet wird' (with Alexander Hieke) in Theoretisches Philosophieren und Lebensweltorientierung -- ein Wegweiser für Hochschule und Schule (eds. Bussmann, B./Mayr, P.), Metzler Verlag (2023) (open access)

2022

'Slurs and Freedom of Speech', Journal of Applied Philosophy (2022) (open access)

'Oswald Revisited: The Effect of Focus and Context' (with Eugenia Kulakova), Synthese (2022) (open access)

'Wirken durch Anpassung: Eine sprachphilosophische Erklärung der Wirksamkeit systemischer Fragen', Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 76 (2): 288-296 (2022).

2021

'Slurs under Quotation' (with Alexander Hieke), Philosophical Studies (2021) (open access)

''Recanati on 'That'-clauses'', Res Philosophica 98 (4): 619-626 (2021).

'A Puzzle about Logical Analysis', Philosophia (2021) (open access)

2020

'The Multiple Relation Theory and Schiffer's Puzzle', Synthese (2020) (open access)

'Naive Russellians and Schiffer's Puzzle', Erkenntnis (2020) (open access)

2019

'Kripkes kausale Theorie der Bezugnahme', Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 73 (2): 209-221 (2019).

2016

'Brains in Vats and Semantic Externalism: New Hope for the Skeptic', European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 12 (2): 73-88 (2016).

• Article in the online edition of Philosophie Magazin entitled “Wie viel Redefreiheit ist zu viel – Eine sprachphilosophische Einordnung”
• Lecture on the philosophy of language of slurs as part of the Essener Wissenschaftssommers on June 18, 2025 in the Glass Pavilion of the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Contribution to the podcast 7 Days 1 Song by Christoph Borries (forthcoming)
• Article in Rheinische Post (March 26, 2025) with the title “Stell dir vor, es ist Vorlesung und keiner geht hin” (published online on April 1, 2025)
• Interview as part of the podcast Stimme wirkt, episode 430: Freie Rede verboten? Was darf heute noch gesagt werden?
• Participation in the competition for academics on the topic “Bildung in NRW – Notstand oder Hoffnungsträger”
• Lecture as part of the Sonntagsakademie of Radio Grüne Welle on the topic “Echt Geschlechtergerecht?! – Über Rollenbilder, Machtgefälle und Gestaltungsoptionen”
• Workshop and lecture as part of the Philosophietage of the Hochschule Brixen 2024 
• Interview as part of the NDR podcast Tee mit Warum, Episode 6: Wie sprichst du?
• Obituary of Saul Kripke, Philosophy Now 153

04/2023-02/2024

Certificate Self-management, leadership, and teaching skills, LMU Munich

04/2020-02/2024

University Teaching Certificate of Bavaria, LMU Munich

04/2010-11/2016

PhD in Philosophy (Dr. Phil.), University of Salzburg
Thesis: Frege's Puzzle or Why Propositions Aren't the Objects of Our Attitudes

10/2007-04/2010

Diploma Studies in Philosophy (Mag. Phil.), University of Salzburg
Thesis: Conditional Definitions and the Criterion of Conservativeness