Dr. Jakob Koscholke

• (Formal) Epistemology

• Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and Confirmation

• Philosophy of Science

• Decision and Game Theory

• Visiting Scholar: Philosophy Department, Stanford University
• Postdoctoral Researcher: Funding program Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Excellence Strategy (Universität Hamburg)
• Postdoctoral Researcher: DFG Emmy-Noether-Group Knowledge and Decision (Universität Hamburg)
• Visiting Researcher: Center for Logic, Language and Cognition (University of Turin)
• Doctoral Researcher: DFG project Probabilistic Models of Coherence and Positive Relevance (University of Oldenburg)
• Dr. phil. (University of Oldenburg) - Thesis: Probabilistic Measures of Coherence and Support: Normative and Empirical Aspects (Supervisors: Mark Siebel and Igor Douven)
• M.A. Logics (University of Leipzig)
• B.A. Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition (University of Magdeburg)

2022

• Heil, R, Koscholke, J., Rich, P. and Schulz, M. (2022). Knowledge and decision. Synthese 200, 1-13.

2021

• Koscholke, J. (2021). Conjunction Closure without Factivity: Reassessing the Hybrid Paradox. Logos & Episteme 12, 365-370.
• Koscholke, J. (2021). A new argument for Goldman and Olsson's solution to the extra‐value‐of‐knowledge problem. Theoria, 1-14.

2020

• Koscholke, J. (2020). Justified group belief, group knowledge and being in a position to know. Episteme, 1-8.
• Heil, R., Koscholke, J., Rich, R. and Schulz, M. (forthcoming). Synthese Topical Collection: Knowledge and Decision.
• Schippers, M. and Koscholke, J. (2020). Kohärenz und Wahrscheinlichkeit. Berlin: DeGruyter.

2019

• Koscholke, J. (2019). Robbers, pickpockets and average mutual firmness. Analysis, 1–8. DOI: 10.1093/analys/anz019.
• Schippers, M. and Koscholke, J. (2019). A general framework for probabilistic measures of coherence. Studia Logica, 1–30. DOI: 10.1007/s11225-019-09848-3.

2018

• Koscholke, J., Schippers, M. and Stegmann, A. (2018). New hope for relative overlap measures of coherence. Mind, 1–24. DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzy037.
• Koscholke, J. (2018). On the Pareto condition on permissible belief. Erkenntnis, 1–6. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-018-0003-y.
• Koscholke, J. (2018). Wahrscheinlichkeit und Erkenntnis. In Grajner, M. and Melchior, G. (Eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie. Stuttgart: Metzler.

2017

• Koscholke, J. (2017). A weak symmetry condition for probabilistic measures of confirmation. Philosophical Studies, 175 (8):1927-1944.
• Koscholke, J. and Schippers, M. (2017). Coherence and common causes: against relevance-sensitive measures of coherence. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1–12. DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axx003.

2016

• Koscholke, J. (2016). Carnap’s relevance measure as a probabilistic measure of coherence. Erkenntnis, 82(2):339–350.

2015

• Koscholke, J. and Jekel, M. (2015). Probabilistic coherence measures: a psychological study of coherence assessment. Synthese, 194(4):1303–1322.
• Koscholke, J. and Schippers, M. (2015). Against relative overlap measures of coherence. Synthese, 193(9):2805–2814.
• Koscholke, J. (2015). Evaluating test cases for probabilistic measures of coherence. Erkenntnis, 81(1):155–181.