Prof. Dr. Thomas Kroedel
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Professor of Philosophy of Science
Theoretical Philosophy
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Research Interests
- Philosophy of Science
- Epistemology
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
Career and Education
| 2017‑present | Full Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Hamburg |
| 2016–2017 | Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Hamburg (Winter Term) |
| 2015–2016 | Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Tübingen |
| 2015 | Habilitation and Privatdozent in Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 2014–2015 | Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessor) of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Tübingen (Winter Term) |
| 2010–2017 | Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin (on leave Winter Term 2014/15, 2015/16, and Winter Term 2016/17) |
| 2008–2010 | Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) in Philosophy, University of Konstanz |
| 2007–2008 | Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy, Somerville College, Oxford |
| 2006–2007 | Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy, Merton College, Oxford |
| 2007 | D.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford |
| 2002 | B.Phil. in Philosophy, University of Oxford |
| 1997–2000 | Read Philosophy and Physics, University of Munich |
Publications
Monograph
Mental Causation: A Counterfactual Theory (Open Access), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2020).
Articles and Book Chapters
'Removing Realizers: Reply to Rellihan' (Open Access), forthcoming in Thought.
'Norms, Epistemic Norms, Context, and Counterfactuals' (Open Access), Synthese, 201, 172 (2023).
'A New Future Similarity Objection', Philosophical Studies, 175 (2018): 1477–1493.
'The Lottery, the Preface, and Conditions on Permissible Belief', Erkenntnis, 83 (2018): 741–751.
'Modal Knowledge, Evolution, and Counterfactuals', in R.W. Fischer and F. Leon (eds), Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Synthese Library), Dordrecht: Springer (2017).
'Grounding Mental Causation' (with M. Schulz), Synthese, 193 (2016): 1909–1923.
'A Simple Argument for Downward Causation', Synthese, 192 (2015): 841–858.
'Dualist Mental Causation and the Exclusion Problem', Noûs, 49 (2015): 357–375.
'Relativity, Quantum Entanglement, Counterfactuals, and Causation' (with L. Fenton-Glynn), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 66 (2015): 45–67.
'Counterfactual Dependence and Arrow' (with F. Huber), Noûs, 47 (2013): 453–466.
'Why Epistemic Permissions Don't Agglomerate – Another Reply to Littlejohn' (Open Access), Logos and Episteme, 4 (2013): 451–455.
'The Permissibility Solution to the Lottery Paradox – Reply to Littlejohn' (Open Access), Logos and Episteme, 4 (2013): 103–111.
'Counterfactuals and the Epistemology of Modality' (Open Access), Philosophers' Imprint, 12(12) (2012).
'Implicit Definition and the Application of Logic', Philosophical Studies, 158 (2012): 131–148.
'The Lottery Paradox, Epistemic Justification and Permissibility', Analysis, 72 (2012): 57–60.
'Mental Causation as Multiple Causation', Philosophical Studies, 139 (2008): 125–143.
Other Publications
'Mental Causation', in H. Pashler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications (2013).
Review of A. Casullo, A Priori Justification, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12 (2004): 225–228.