Dr. Stefan Roski

Since 2022, Executive Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Science at Münster University (50%, permanent)

Since 2015, Ressearch Associate at University of Hamburg (as of 09/2022 50%)

2021-2022, Deputy Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at Universität des Saarlandes (for this time on leave in Hamburg)

2014-2014, Postdoc Scholarship at the Center for a Sustainable University, Hamburg

2013-2014, Research Associate at University of Duisburg-Essen 

2013 (Jun-Sept), DAAD-Reintigration Scholarship at University of Hamburg

2012 (Jan-April), Visiting Student Researcher at UC Berkeley

2009-2013, PhD Student and Research Associate at VU University of Amsterdam as part of the ERC-Project "Tarski's Revolution: Semantics and Axiomatic from Bolzano to Tarski" let by Arianna Betti; PhD-Thesis on Bolzano's Theory of Grounding (completed October 2013, defended March 2014)

2003-2008, Studies in Philosophy and Communication Science at University of Duisburg Essen

• History and Philosophy of Logic
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Science

Monographs

• (2017) Bolzano’s Conception of Grounding. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann. 

Edited Volumes

• (2023) Special Issue of Philosophical Studies on Difference-Making and Explanatory Relevance (w/ Stephan Krämer and Singa Behrens)
•  (2022) Bolzano’s Philosophy of Grounding. Translations and Studies, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. (w/ Benjamin Schnieder

Articles

• (2021) "In Defence of Explanatory Realism", Synthese 199, pp. 14121–14141
• (2021) "Metaphysical Explanations and the Counterfactual Theory of Explanation", Philosophical Studies 178(6), pp. 1971-1991
• (2020) "Bolzano on Grounding", in M. Raven (ed.) Routledge Handbook for Metaphysical Grounding, Routledge, pp. 76–89
• (2019) "Fundamental Truths and the Principle of Sufficent Reason in Bolzano's Theory of Grounding", in Journal of the History of Philosophy 57(4): S. 675-706 (w/ Benjamin Schnieder)
• (2019) "Bolzano and Kim on Grounding and Unification", Synthese 196(7): pp. 2971–2999
• (2018) "Grounding and the Explanatory Role of Generalizations", Philosophical Studies 175(8): pp. 1985–2003
• (2017) “Difference-Making Grounds“, Philosophical Studies 174(5): 1191–1215. (w/ Stephan Krämer)
• (2016) “Simplicity and Economy in Bolzano’s Theory of Grounding“, Journal of the History of Philosophy 54(3), pp. 469-496 (w/ Antje Rumberg)
• (2016) "Gründe aller Arten. Der Anspruch auf Vereinheitlichung in Bolzanos Abfolgetheorie", in Michael Quante (ed.) Geschichte Gesellschaft Geltung, Hamburg: Meiner, pp. 891– 912 (with Benjamin Schnieder)
• (2015) “A Note on the Logic of Worldly Ground“, Thought 4(1), pp. 59-68. (w/ Stephan Krämer)
• (2014) “Bolzano on Necessary Existence“, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 96(3), pp. 320–359. (w/ Paul Rusnock)
• (2014) “The Transition from Formula-Centered to Concept-Centered Analysis. Bolzano’s Purely Analytic Proof as a Case Study”. Philosophia Scientiae, 18(1), pp. 113-129. (w/ Iris Loeb)
• (2013) A priori Knowledge in Bolzano. Conceptual Truths and Judgements, in M. van der Schaar (hg.): Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic (Series: Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science), Springer, pp. 101-130.