Prof. Dr. Uljana Feest

Phone

+49 511 762 14335

feestphilos.uni-hannover.de

Address

Lange Laube 6
30159 Hannover

Building

1926

Room

204

Office hours

Tue. 15:00 - 16:00 Appointment via Stud.IP

Phone

+49 511 762 14335

feestphilos.uni-hannover.de

Address

Lange Laube 6
30159 Hannover

Building

1926

Room

204

Office hours

Tue. 15:00 - 16:00 Appointment via Stud.IP

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Institute of Philosophy

Profile

Uljana Feest studied psychology, philosophy and history and philosophy of science (HPS) in Frankfurt, Bristol and Pittsburgh. After completing her psychology degree at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt (1994), she worked for a couple of years as a researcher in an interdisciplinary project at a Frankfurt-based research institute (Institut für Sozial-Oekologische Forschung), before taking up graduate work in philosophy of science. From 1997-2003 she was a graduate student at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, completing her dissertation, Operationism, Experimentation, and Concept Formation, in August 2003

From 2003-2006, Uljana Feest was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and then held a position as assistant professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin from 2006 to 2012. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Pittsburg, the University of Michigan and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin). Since March 2014, she is professor of philosophy at the Leibniz University of Hannover, where she holds the chair for Philosophy of Social Science and Social Philosophy.

Main Areas of Research and Teaching

General philosophy of science
Epistemology of experiment
Philosophy and history of psychology and the human sciences
History of analytical philosophy and of philosophy of science

Publications

Monographs

under review

Feest, U., Operationism and the Epistemology of Exploration in Experimental Psychology

Edited Volumes

2020	Damböck, Christian; Feest, Uljana Kusch, Martin (Eds.), 2020, “Descriptive Psychology and Völkerpsychologie—in the Contexts of Historicism, Relativism, and Naturalism.” Special Issue in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Vol. 19 (1)
2017	Adams, A.; Biener, Z.; Feest; U. & Sullivan, J. (Eds.), 2017, Oppure Si Mouve: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer.
2012	Feest, U. (Ed.), 2012, "Current Topics in the Philosophy of the Human Sciences," Inquiry, 55(1), special issue. Feest, U. & Steinle, F., (Eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin: DeGruyter.
2011	Feest, U. & Sturm, T. (Eds.), 2011, "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" Erkenntnis 75 (special edition).
2010	Feest, U., (Ed.), 2010, Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen. Dordrecht: Springer. 320

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

*Accepted*	Feest, U. 2024, “What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Philosophy of Science
2022	Feest, U. 2022, “Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts, and the Reactivity of the Psychological Subject Matter.” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00443-9
2021	Feest, U. 2021. “Gestalt Psychology, Frontloading Phenomenology, and Psychophysics.” Synthese 198, 2153–2173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02211-y
2020	Feest, U., 2020, “Construct Validity in Psychological Tests – The Case of Implicit Social Cognition” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10, 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-019-0270-8
2019	Feest, U., 2019a, “Why Replication is Overrated”. Philosophy of Science 86(5), 895-905.
2017	Feest, U., 2017, "Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences." Philosophy of Science 84, 1165-1176.
2016	Feest, U.,2016, "The Experimenters’ Regress Reconsidered: Tacit Knowledge, Skepticism, and the Dynamics of Knowledge Generation". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 58, 34-54.
2014	Feest, U., 2014, "Phenomenal Experiences, First-Person Methods, and the Artificiality of Experimental Data." Philosophy of Science 81, 927-939.
2012a	Feest, U., 2012a, "Introspection as a Method and Introspection as a Feature of Consciousness." Inquiry 55(1), 1-16.
2012b	Feest, U., 2012b, "Husserl’s Crisis as a Crisis of Psychology." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science 43(2): 493-503.
2011a	Feest, U., 2011a, "Remembering (Short-Term) Memory. Oscillations of an Epistemic Thing." Erkenntnis 75, 391–411.
2011b	Feest, U., 2011b, "What Exactly is Stabilized When Phenomena are Stabilized?" Synthese 182(1), 57-71.
2011c	Feest, U. & Sturm, T., 2011c, "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" In T. Sturm & U. Feest (eds.), Sonderheft von Erkenntnis, Historical Epistemology. Erkenntnis 75, 285–302.
2010	Feest, U., 2010, "Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology." Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 4(1), 173-190.
2007a	Feest, U. 2007a, "'Hypotheses, Everywhere Only Hypotheses!' On Some Contexts of Dilthey's Critique of Explanatory Psychology". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38(1), 43-62.
2007b	Feest, U., 2007b, "Science and Experience - Science of Experience: Gestalt Psychology and the Anti-Metaphysical Project of the Aufbau". Perspectives on Science 15(1), 38-62.
2005	Feest, U., 2005, "Operationism in Psychology - What the Debate is About, What the Debate Should Be About". Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, XLI(2), 131-150. [Portugese translation: "O Operacionismo na Psicologie: Sobre o que é o Debate, sobre o que Deveria Ser o Debate." In Saulo de Fraitas Araujo (ed.) (2012), História e Filosofia da Psichologia. Perspectivas Contemporâneas, Juiz de Fora: UFJF, 259-296]
2003	Feest, U., 2003, "Functional Analysis and the Autonomy of Psychology." Philosophy of Science, 70(5), December 2003, 937-948.

Articles in Edited Volumes

forthcoming	Feest, U. 2024, “Carnap and Psychology.” In Damböck, C. & Schiemer, G. (eds.), Handbuch Rudolf Carnap/Rudolf Carnap Handbook. Metzler Verlag
*forthcoming*	Feest, U. 2023, “(Folk-) Psychological Concepts and the Investigation of Psychological Kinds.” In Bloch, C. & Arabatzis, T. (eds), Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
*Accepted*	Feest, U.: "Quantifying Gestalt Qualities: Modernism and the Measurement of Experience". In M. Epple & F. Müller, (Eds.), Science as Cultural Practice. Vol. II: Modernism in the Sciences, ca 1900-1940. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
2022	Sturm, T. & Feest, U., 2022, “Implicit reasoning.” In Thompson, R. (ed). Routledge Handbook of Implicit Cognition. Routledge (Chapter 31, 377-388).
2022	Feest, U., 2022, “Progress in Psychology.” In Shan, Yafeng (ed.): New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. Routledge, 184-203.
2021	Feest, U., 2021, “Eigenpsychisches und Fremdpsychisches: Rudolf Carnaps Verhältnis zur Psychologie. In Christian Damböck and Gereon Wolters (eds.): Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918-1935/Der junge Carnap im historischen Kontext: 1918-1935. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis, Dordrecht: Springer. 169-184.
2017a	Feest, U., 2017a, "Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange". In Adams, A.; Biener, Z.; Feest; U. & Sullivan, J (Eds.), Oppure Si Mouve: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer, 113-125.
2017b	Feest, U., 2017b, "Philosophie der Psychologie." Beitrag zum Band Philosophie der Einzelwissenschaften (edited by Simon Lohse und Thomas Reydon, Hamburg: Meiner-Verlag), 475-509.
2016	Feest, U. & Steinle, F., 2016, "Experiment." In: Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, edited by Paul Humphreys), 275-295.
2014	Feest, U., 2014, "The Enduring Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology: Brentano and the Autonomy of Psychology." In: M. C. Galavotti & F. Stadler (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective 5. Springer, 693-709.
2012	Feest, U., 2012, "Exploratory Experiments, Concept Formation and Theory Construction in Psychology." In U. Feest & F. Steinle (Eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin: de Gruyter, 167-189.
	Feest, U. & Steinle, F., 2012, "Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice: Introduction." In U. Feest & F. Steinle (Eds.), Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1-23.
2010	Feest, U., 2010, "Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: Introduction". In U. Feest (Ed.): Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen. Dordrecht: Springer, 1-13.
2005	Feest, U., 2005, "Giving Up Instincts In Psychology - Or Not?" In B. Gómez- Zúñiga & A. Mülberger (Eds.): Recent Contributions to the History of the Human Sciences. München: Profil-Verlag, 242-259.
2002	Feest, U., 2002, "Die Konstruktion von Bewußtsein. Eine psychologiehistorische Fallstudie". In Claus Zittel (Ed.): Wissen und soziale Konstruktion. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 129-153.

Reviews

2018

Feest, U., 2018, "Deutscher Empirismus. Studien zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum 1830-1930, by Christian Damböck." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8, 480-485.

Selected Talks

Since 2010

“Context-Sensitivity.” Keynote lecture for the biannual meeting of the European Society of Philosophy of Science (EPSA), Belgrade, September 20-23, 2023.

“What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Talk at replication conference at Bochum (organized by Suilin Lavelle) (June 2, 2023)

“Validity and Algorithmic Bias in Psychological Research.” Talk at final conference for BIAS-project, Leibniz Universität Hannover (April 27-29, 2023).

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile (March 30, 2023)

“What Kinds of Things are Psychological Kinds?” Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile (March 28, 2023)

"Coordination, Context-Sensitivity, and the Validity of Inferences in Psychology: Beyond Attributes and Instruments." Talk at workshop “Coordination and validity in measurement across science and medicine: historical and epistemological perspectives” (organized by Michele Luchetti). Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (March 23, 2023)

“The Validity of Machine Learning Models for the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at “Translating Validity Colloquium,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (February 9, 2023)

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at joint colloquium of the University of Vienna and the Central European University (January 23, 2023)

“Big Data and Machine Learning in the Measurement of Personality Traits.” Talk at the Department of Philosophy of Stockholm University (January 19, 2023).

“What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” Talk at the 28th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2022

“Personality Computing.” Talk at Workshop Big Data and Machine Learning. Tübingen, October 2022.

“Replication, Robustness Analysis, and Conceptual Development in Psychology.” At conference Concept Formation in the Life Sciences.” Workshop The Structure and Development of Concepts in the Life Sciences. February 7-9 2022, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld University

“Specialness and (Dis)Unity: The Case of Psychology.” Conference Are Social Sciences Special? Kings College Cambridge. June 28th and 29th 2022.

“Experimental Artifacts, Uncertainty, and the Investigative Process in Psychology.” Talk at conference Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation 6 (PSX6): Uncertainty in Experimental Contexts. St. Louis University, October 16, 2021 (Zoom)

“Replication, Robustness Analysis, and Conceptual Development in Psychology.” Talk at conference Philosophical Perspectives on the Replication Crisis. Edinburgh, May 20, 2021 (Zoom)

“Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena.” Ghent/Brussels Work-In-Progress-Colloquium, March 25, 2021 (Zoom)

“Data Quality, Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena.” Colloquium talk at the University of Warsaw. April 9, 2021 (Zoom)

“Experimental Artifacts, Experimental Design, and the Reactivity of the Psychological Subject Matter.” Talk at Max Planck Cognition Academy. Berlin, January 2021 (Zoom)

“Kognitive Ontologie”. Colloquium at the Gutenberg Universität Mainz, November 2020. (Zoom)

“Psychological Concepts, Cognitive Kinds and Investigative Practice.” Workshop Cognitive Ontology, March 27-28, 2019, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Zoom)

“Experimental Artifacts and the Reactivity of Psychological Phenomena”. Workshop: Reactivity in the Research Process. March 5-6, 2020. University of Bergen, Norway (organized by Julie Zahle)

"Operational Analysis and the Investigative Process in Twentieth-Century Experimental Psychology." Talk at workshop Continuity, Improvement, & Innovation in Experimental Methodology. IU Bloomington, October 30-31, 2019 (organized by Jutta Schickore).

"From Raw Data to Primary Data: Research Practices, Tacit Assumptions and Replicability." Talk at Workshop Replication of Crises: Psychology in Times of Epistemic Upheaval. Lübeck, September 19-20, 2019 (with Eva Barlösius and Torsten Wilholt).

"Kognitive Ontologie und wissenschaftliche Praxis." Colloquium talk at the University of Jena, July 9, 2019.

"Cognitive Ontology and Scientific Practice." Colloquium talk at the University of Bielefeld, July 2, 2019.

"Cognitive Ontology and Scientific Practice." Colloquium talk at the University of Magdeburg, May 8, 2019.

"Why Replication is Overrated." Talk at 26th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, WA, from 1-4 November 2018.

"Concepts and Objects of Research." Talk at the conference Concept Formation in the Natural and Social Sciences. University of Zürich, October 18-20, 2018. Organized by Catherine Herfeld and Sebastian Lutz.

"Gestalt Psychologie und „vorgeladene“ Phänomenologie." Colloquium talk at the University of Lübeck, May 2018.

"Thinking about Concepts in (Conceptual) Replication." Conference Reflections on replication: Psychology’s current crisis. February 15-16, 2018, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

"Der Stimulus Fehler und seine Relevanz für die Philosophie des Experiments." Conference Geschichte der Wissenschaftsphilosophie als Forschungsprogramm. Tübingen, December 1-3, 2017.

"Rudolf Carnaps Verhältnis zur Psychologie." Conference Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext. Konstanz, October 5-6, 2017.

"The Status of Phenomenology in Gestalt Psychology." Conference The World in Us. Gestalt Structure, Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition, Edinburgh, UK, July 7-9, 2017.

"The status of introspection in Dilthey's descriptive psychology." Konferenz Folk Psychology and Descriptive Psychology, April 26-28, 2017, Vienna.

"Construct Validity in Psychological Tests – The Case of Implicit Social Cognition." Workshop Cognitive Ontology, Washington University, St. Louis, Feb 1, 2017.

"Phenomena and Objects of Research in the Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences", 26th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, Atlanta, November 2016.

"Conceptual articulation and the experimental creation of phenomena: the role of scientific method(ology)." Invited talk at symposium about J. Rouse’s book: Articulating the World. Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image. Freie Universität Berlin, March 2016

"What are phenomena in the cognitive and behavioral sciences?" Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Düsseldorf, September 2015

"Phänomene in den Kognitions- und Verhaltenswissenschaften." Vortrag an der Universität Bielefeld, Juli 2015 "What are phenomena in the cognitive and behavioral sciences?" Lecture at the Universität Graz, Juni 2015

"Construct Validity in Psychological Tests – The Case of Implicit Social Cognition." Lecture at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), January 2015

"Darf Wissenschaft täuschen? Ethische Probleme in den Sozialwissenschaften." Lecture in the series Wissenschaft in der Verantwortung, Verantwortung in der Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Dezember 2014

"Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange." 25th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, Chicago, November 2014

"Physicalism, Introspection, and Psychophysics: The Carnap/Duncker Exchange." Conference History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Ghent (Belgium), July 2014

"Stimulus Error and the Red Herring of Introspection." Conference Integrated HPS 5, Vienna, June 2014.

"Test Validity and the Problematic Status of Implicit Social Cognition." Workshop: Experiment, Conceptual Change, and Scientific Realism, Athen (Griechenland), May 2014

"Experiments and the Method of Converging Operations." Conference: Causality and Experimentation in Science. Paris, 1-3 July 2013

"Introspection and the Artificiality of Experimental Data." 24th Biennial Conference of the Philosophy of Science Association, San Diego, November 2012

"The Enduring Relevance of 19th-Century Philosophy of Psychology." Conference: Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Bologna, 17.-21. October, 2012.

"First-Person Methods and the Design of Experiments." Conference Should a Science of Cognition use First-Person Methods? Workshop am Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, 15-16 June 2012.

"The Experimenters’ Regress Reconsidered: Tacit Knowledge, Operational Analysis, and the Scientific Process." University of Texas, El Paso, February 2, 2012.

"Experimentation and the Skeptical Challenge: The Role of Methodological Maxims." Conference Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, 15-17th October 2010.

"Revisiting the Brentano Puzzle. The Autonomy of Psychology and the Shifting Status of Conscious Experience". Konferenz der European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Utrecht, 23-27 August 2010.

Commentaries

Commentary on talks at the workshop at Workshop Replication of Crises: Psychology in Times of Epistemic Upheaval. Lübeck, September 19-20, 2019.

Commentary as part of a book session about Stephen Turner (2018) Cognitive Science and the Social. A Primer. At the Joint meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences/The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Hannover Germany, August 30-September 1, 2018.

Commentary on Markus Eronen: ‘Science without levels’. Workshop: Patterns in Science. Berlin Mind & Brain School, December 2015 (with Sheldon Chow).

Commentary on paper by Catherine Stinson at workshop Explaining Mental Phenomena. Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, July 24, 2012.

Commentary on session “Operationalism in the Life Sciences. Third Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice. Exeter, June 2011.

"Commentary on paper by Corinne Bloch". Workshop Concepts, Induction, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Pittsburgh, 17-19 September 2010

Teaching

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Summer Semester 2023	Lecture class: Philosophy of Psychology
Winter Semester 2022/23	Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Science Core Course Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Language Seminar: Philosophisches Arbeiten
Summer Semester 2022	Seminar (MA): The Scientific Study and Measurement of Personality Seminar: Bildungsphilosophie Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie 2
Winter Semester 2021/22	Seminar (MA): Philosophy of Science Core Course Seminar: Philosophisches Arbeiten Institute-Colloquium
Summer Semester 2021	Lecture class: Philosophy of Psychology
Winter Semester 2020/21	Seminar: Implicit Bias and Philosophy
Summer Semester 2020	Seminar (MA): Generalizations under Uncertainty
Winter Semester 2019/20	Sabbatical
Summer Semester 2019	Lecture class: History of Philosophy II (Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie) Seminar (BA): Kant’s Prolegomena (Kants Prolegomena) Seminar (MA): Robustness Examined (in English)
Winter Semester 2018/19	Lecture class: Topics in Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind (in English) Seminar (MA): Taxonomy and Concept Formation in Psychology (in English) Seminar (BA): Wilhelm Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human sciences (Wilhelm Dilthey und die Grundlagen der Geisteswissenschaften)
Summer Semester 2018	Lecture class: History of Philosophy II (Vorlesung: Geschichte der Philosophie II) Reading course: History of Philosophy II (Lektüreseminar: Geschichte der Philosophie II) Seminar (MA): Animal Cognition (in English) Seminar (MA): Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (in English) Seminar (BA): Philosophy of Education (Bildungsphilosophie) Colloquium for Philosophy (with Mathias Frisch) (Kolloquium für Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion)
Winter Semester 2017/18	Lecture class (MA): Philosophy of Experiment (in English) Seminar (MA): Tacit Knowledge (in English) Seminar: Husserl‘s Crisis of the European Sciences (Husserls Krise der europäischen Wissenschaften) Seminar: Women in Philosophy (Frauen in der Philosophie) Colloquium for Philosophy (with Mathias Frisch) (Kolloquium für Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion)
Summer Semester 2017	Lecture class (MA): Philosophy of Psychology (in English) Seminar (MA): Special Topics in the Philosophy of Psychology (in English) Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II Lecture seminar: Geschichte der Philosophie II
Winter Semester 2016/17	Historische Texte zu Erklären und Verstehen
Summer Semester 2016	Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II Lecture seminar Geschichte der Philosophie Seminar (MA): Der Begriff der Beobachtung in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts Seminar (MA): Feministische Erkenntnistheorie (mit fachdidaktischen Anteilen)
Winter Semester 2015/16	Lecture class: Philosophie des Experiments Seminar (MA): Tierpsychologie Seminar (BA): Erkenntnistheorie in Schulbüchern Colloquium: Research Seminar of the Institute of Philosophy
Summer Semester 2015	Lecture Course: Geschichte der Philosophie II Seminar (MA): Introspektion, Subjektivität und phänomenales Bewusstsein Seminar (BA): Bildungsphilosophie Seminar (MA): Wissen, Können, Praxis II Colloquium: „Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion“
Winter Semester 2014/15	Lecture Course: Philosophie der Psychologie (Aufbauvorlesungen für den Masterstudiengang Wissenschaftsphilosophie) Seminar (BA): Frauen in der Philosophie Seminar (MA): Wissen, Können, Praxis I Colloquium: „Philosophie und Wissenschaftsreflexion“
Summer Semester 2014	Lecture class: Geschichte der Philosophie II Seminar (BA): Philosophie des Experiments Seminar (BA): Geschichte der Philosophie seit Kant Seminar (MA): Philosophie der Psychologie

Guest Professor at the University of Michigan

Summer Semester 2013

Lecture Course: History of Psychology

Winter Semester 2012/13

Lecture Course: History of Psychology
Seminar: How Science Works

Technische Universität Berlin

Summer Semester 2012	Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschafts- und Bioethik Seminar (MA): Ausgewählte Themen der Philosophie der Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften Seminar (MA): Die Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Begriffe (gemeinsam mit Friedrich Steinle)
Winter Semester 2011/12	Seminar (MA): Philosophie der (Psychologie und) Neurowissenschaften
Summer Semester 2011	Seminar (MA): Wichtige Texte der (analytischen) Erkenntnistheorie Seminar (MA): BA: Hauptprobleme der Wissenschaftstheorie. Eine Einführung
Winter Semester 2010/11	Seminar (MA): Introspektion und die Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins: neuere Texte Seminar (MA)BA: Probleme des induktiven Argumentierens und der Wahrscheinlichkeit
Summer Semester 2010	Seminar (MA): Introspektion und die Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins: historische Debatten
Winter Semester 2008/09	Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschafts- und Bioethik (mit Tutorium) MA/HS: Ist der Schluss auf die beste Erklärung immer der beste Schluss?
Summer Semester 2008	Seminar (BA): Probleme des induktiven Argumentierens und der Wahrscheinlichkeit (mit Tutorium) Seminar (MA): Thomas Kuhn und die Historisierung des Wissens
Winter Semester 2007/08	Lecture Course: Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie (mit Tutorial) Seminar (MA): Ausgewählte Texte der Wissenschaftstheorie der Psychologie und Biologie
Summer Semester 2007	Seminar (BA): Die Philosophie des wissenschaftlichen Experiments Seminar (MA): Erfahrung, Empfindung, Wahrnehmung um 1900
Winter Semester 2006/7	Seminar (BA): Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie Seminar (MA): Hermann Lotze
Summer Semester 2006	Seminar (BA): Der Begriff der Beobachtung in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts

Further teaching

5.-16- Juli 2010	Lecturer at the Vienna International Summer University (VISU). Course topic: "The Science of the Conscious Mind"
WiSe 2005/06	Lectureship at the Freien Universität Berlin
1998-2005	Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh
1994-1997	Philosophy tutor at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Academic Service and Memberships

Since July 2018: Member of the Board of the Committee for Integrated HPS.

Since January 2016: Member of the Commitee for Integrated HPS (History and Philosophy of Science)

2023: Member of the Program Committee for the 2023 Meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)

2022/2023: Member of Program Committee for the 2022 Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)

Program committee chair for the 2018 meeting of The Evolution of Knowledge: &HPS7, Hannover, Germany.

Member of the Program Committee of the 2016 and 2018 meetings of the European Network of Philosophy of Science (ENPOSS).

2013-2022: Member of the Board of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (GWP).

2007-2012: Member of the Executive Board of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS).

2005-2012: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS).

On the program committee for the conference of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) in Halifax, Canada, June 2012.

On the program committee for the conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) in Belgrade, Serbia, July 2011 und Montreal, Canada, July 2012.

Member of the 2010/2011 Executive Board European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS).

On the program committee for the conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) in Athens, October 2011.

Member of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).

Member of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS).

Member of the Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (GAP).

Member of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (GeWiGe).

Gutachtertätigkeiten für verschiedene Zeitschriften und Stiftungen.

Organisation of Workshops and Conferences

Co-organization of the conference "Replication of Crises: Psychology in Times of Epistemic Upheaval.", Lübeck, September 19-20, 2019. Organizing Institutions: Leibniz Center for Science and Society (University of Hannover) & Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies, Department of Psychology (University of Lübeck).

Organization and host of the conference "2018 Joint meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences/The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable", Hannover Germany, August 30-September 1, 2018.

Co-organization and host of the Conference "The Evolution of Knowledge - &HPS7: Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, 7th conference", Hannover, Germany, June 5-7, 2018. (with Ohad Parnes vom MPI for the History of Science).

Organization of the 2015 Leibniz Lectures: Prof. Owen Flanagan (Duke): “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility,” June 2015.

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 2015 (with Holly Andersen, Brian Keeley & Peter Machamer).

"Current Topics in the Philosophy of the Human Science", June 18-19, 2010.

"Scientific Concepts", 22-23 May, 2009 (with Friedrich Steinle).

"What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?" (with Thomas Sturm), July 24-26, 2008.

"Generating Experimental Knowledge" (with Giora Hon, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Jutta Schickore & Friedrich Steinle). International conference at the Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, June 14-16, 2007.

"Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: An Interdisciplinary Workshop". Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. June 9-11, 2006.

"Generating Knowledge with the Microscope". Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (with Jutta Schickore). June 23-24, 2006.

Scholarships and Prizes

2011-2012	Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
2003	Recipient of the Early Career Award, from the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) und the Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS)
2003-2004	Postdoctoral scholarship for the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Prof. Rheinberger's department)
2002-2003	Andrew Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship (University of Pittsburgh)
1997-1998	DAAD scholarship for a visit at the Department for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

External websites and further documents

Academia.edu

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