Jun.-Prof. Moritz Schulz

Juniorprofessorship for Theoretical Philosophy
Logic, metaphysics, theory of action and free will
Address
Office
Office hours
Office hour: Thursday, 16 h, room 03017 (by appointment via e-mail)
Office hour for Erasmus: Thursday, 16 h, room 03017 (by appointment via e-mail)
Contact
Key aspects of activity
- Logic, metaphysics, action theory, free will
Online presence:
https://www.moritzschulz.com/
Curriculum Vitae
You will find a complete CV here (external link, effective 2017).
Since 2016 | Junior Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Hamburg |
2013-2016 | Assistant (Akademischer Rat a. Z.) at the University of Tübingen |
2011-2013 |
Post-doc in the PERSP research project and member of the Logos research group at the University of Barcelona |
2011 | Humboldt-University Berlin (doctoral student in philosophy). |
2007-2011 | Doctoral research fellow at the Humboldt Universtiy of Berlin and member of the Phlox research group |
2005-2007 | University of Oxford, New College (BPhil programme in philosophy) |
2001-2005 | University of Hamburg (diploma programme in mathematics) |
2000-2001 | Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg (undergraduate student in philosophy, politics and ger- man literature) |
Areas of Specialization
- Epistemology
- Action and Decision Theory
- Theories of Normativity (especially their application to problems of normativ uncertainty)
- Philosophy of Logic and Language
- Metaphysics
Publications
You will find abstracts and advance versions of my papers here (external link).
Monographs
- Counterfactuals and Probability. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edited Works
- Themes from Early Analytic Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Künne (mit B. Schnieder), Grazer Philosophische Studien. Amsterdam/New York: Radopi, 2011.
Articles in Anthologies
- „What Might Be and What Might Have Been“ (mit B. Schnieder und A. Steinberg). In: S.-J. Conrad and S. Imhof (Hg.), P. F. Strawson – Ding und Begriff / Object and Concept, Frankfurt: ontos, 2010.
Articles in Journals
- „Quinean Updates: In Defense of Two Dogmas“ (mit B. Pickel), The Journal of Philosophy (im Erscheinen).
- „Decisions and Higher–Order Knowledge“, Noûs (im Erscheinen).
- „Grounding Mental Causation“ (mit T. Krödel), Synthese 193 (2016), 1909-23.
- „Peer Disagreement: A Call for the Revision of Prior Probabilities“ (mit S. Rosenkranz), Dialectica 69 (2015), 551-86.
- „Counterfactuals and Arbitrariness“, Mind 123 (2014), 1021-55.
- „Modalised Conditionals: A Response to Willer“, Philosophical Studies 163 (2013), 673-82.
- „A Note on Comparative Probability“ (mit N. Haverkamp), Erkenntnis 76 (2012), 395-402.
- „Chance and Actuality“, Philosophical Quarterly 61 (2011), 105-29.
- „The Dynamics of Indexical Belief“, Erkenntnis 72 (2010), 337-51.
- „Wondering What Might Be“, Philosophical Studies 149 (2010), 367-86.
- „Epistemic Modals and Informational Consequence“, Synthese 174 (2010), 385-95.
- „A Note on Two Theorems by Adams and McGee“, The Review of Symbolic Logic 2 (2009), 509-16.
Projects
Knowledge and Decision (to the project-website)
The project Knowledge and Decision is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of the Emmy-Noether program. It is located at the interface of epistemology and decision theory. Its ultimate goal is to devise an integrated theory of theoretical and practical rationality, including the implications of normative uncertainty. Epistemologically, it takes up the recent trend to reassign the concept of knowledge a fundamental role. The decision-theoretic implications of this approach are still under-explored. On the other hand, there is currently a renewed interest in decision theory. This provides great research opportunities for exploiting the feedback loops running both ways between epistemology and decision theory. More specifically, the project is structured into seven subprojects concerned with: knowledge, uncertainty, belief, desire (preferences), representation, causation, and rationality.
For a detailed description of project see here (external link).
Teaching
University of Hamburg
SoSe 2018 | Hauptseminar „Transformative Erfahrungen“ |
WiSe 2017/18 | Hauptseminar „Knowledge and its Limits“ (mit J. Koscholke) |
WiSe 2017/18 | Vorlesung „Rationalität und Meinungsänderung“ |
WiSe 2017/18 | Ringvorlesung des Philosophischen Seminars „Gute Entscheidungen“ |
SoSe 2017 | Forschungskolloquium „Entscheidung, Wissen, Wissenschaft“ (mit T. Krödel) |
SoSe 2017 | Proseminar „Wahrscheinlichkeit, Bestätigung, Induktion“ |
WiSe 2016/17 | Vorlesung „Einführung in die Entscheidungstheorie“ |
WiSe 2016/17 | Interdisziplinäres Seminar „Uncertainties in society“ (PEP, mit A. Lange) |
SoSe 2016 | Forschungskolloquium „Sprache und Welt“ (mit B. Schnieder) |
SoSe 2016 | Hauptseminar „Die analytische Debatte zur Willensfreiheit“ |
SoSe 2016 | Proseminar „Descartes und der erkenntnistheoretische Skeptizismus“ |
University of Tübingen
WiSe 2015/16 | Proseminar „Descartes und der erkenntnistheoretische Skeptizismus“ |
WiSe 2015/16 | Proseminar „Die analytische Debatte zur Willensfreiheit“ |
SoSe 2015 | Hauptseminar „Semantik für Philosophen“ |
SoSe 2015 | Proseminar „Carnap versus Quine“ |
WiSe 2014/15 | Hauptseminar „Die Dynamik von Meinungssystemen“ |
WiSe 2014/15 | Proseminar „Saul Kripke“ |
SoSe 2014 | Hauptseminar „Entscheidungstheorie“ |
SoSe 2014 | Proseminar „Frege“ |
WiSe 2013/14 | Hauptseminar „Konditionale“ |
WiSe 2013/14 | Proseminar „Das Induktionsproblem und der Schluss auf die beste Erklärung“ |
Associates, PhD-Students, Research Assistants
Postdocs
PhD-Students
- Roman Heil
Reasearch Assistants
- Eirini Mandopoulou
- Singa Behrens