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
'How Not to Intervene on Mental Causes' (Open Access), Philosophical Studies, 181 (2024): 2479–2497.
'Valid and Invalid Causal Arguments for Physicalism' (Open Access), Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3, 65 (2024). (Part of an article symposium.)
'Norms, Epistemic Norms, Context, and Counterfactuals' (Open Access), Synthese, 201, 172 (2023).
'Removing Realizers: Reply to Rellihan' (Open Access), Thought, 11 (2022): 150–156.
'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.