Former Visiting Researchers

Katya Tentori graduated in Experimental Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy), received a PhD in Research Methods in Psychology from University of Genoa (Italy), was a Marie Curie fellow at UCL (UK), and is now a professor at University of Trento (Italy).

David Over is a professor of psychology at Durham University. He completed a PhD in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, where Dorothy Edgington was his supervisor, but he has worked for many years in the psychology of reasoning. His recent research (with his collaborators) aims to develop the new probabilistic paradigm in the psychology of reasoning and its support for a very close connection, in people’s judgments, between the probability of a natural language conditional and the conditional probability of the consequent given the antecedent.

Niki Pfeifer studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and at the York University (UK). He now works as a Senior Postdoc at the University of Salzburg. He is the leader of the project "Mental Probability Logic", which is financed by the Austrian Science Fund. Niki Pfeifer's research topics are located in the intersections of formal epistemology, probability logic, and the psychology of reasoning.

Peter Brössel is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Formal Epistemology Research Project led by F. Huber at the University of Konstanz, Germany since 2008. He joined the Formal Epistemology Project at the University of Leuven as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher in Fall 2009. Before that he was Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Peter studied philosophy (major) and mathematics (minor) at the Universities of Salzburg, Austria, and Konstanz, Germany.

Adam Rieger is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He studied Mathematics at Cambridge and Philosophy at the London School of Economics, University College London, and Oxford, where he completed a DPhil under the supervision of Angus Macintyre and Michael Dummett. His research interests have been mainly in the philosophy of mathematics and philosophical logic, and he has recently published papers on set theory, the semantic paradoxes, Frege, and conditionals. Adam visits us at the Project from March 1 through to the end of May, 2010.

Inge de Wilde studied French linguistics and literature at the University of Amsterdam. Later she specialized in Dutch social history of the 19th century. In 1998 she defended her thesis Nieuwe deelgenoten in de wetenschap. Vrouwelijke studenten en docenten aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1871-1919 (Assen 1998) (New participants in science. Female students and professors at the University of Groningen 1871-1919). Inge de Wilde wrote several books on academic life in Groningen and published letters from Aletta H.

Theo A.F. Kuipers (1947) studied mathematics and philosophy in Eindhoven and Amsterdam. He is (as of March 2010 emeritus) full professor of philosophy of science at the University of Groningen . A synthesis of his work on confirmation, empirical progress, and truth approximation, entitled From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism appeared in 2000 as Vol.287 in the Synthese Library of Kluwer AP.

Hans Rott has been a professor of philosophy at the University of Regensburg since 1999. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Amsterdam (1997-1999) and an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz (1990-1997). He obtained a Habilitation from the latter University (1997) and a PhD from the University of Munich (1991), the theses being about belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning, with connections to economics and the philosophy of science. His research includes topics in logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of language.

Pascal Engel is ordinary professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Geneva and department chair. He is director of the research group Episteme at the University of Geneva. He has taught in Grenoble, Caen, the Sorbonne, and held a number of visiting positions. He is a member of the Institut International de philosophie and the editor of Dialectica. He has written books in French and in English on Kripke, Davidson, Truth, the philosophy of mind, th philosophy of logic, epistemology and Ramsey.

Aviv Hoffmann got his PhD in philosophy at MIT under the supervision of Robert Stalnaker. He then spent three years in Scotland, participating in the AHRC project “The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality” in Arché, under the leadership of Bob Hale and the directorship of Crispin Wright. He is currently a Visiting Fellow of the Formal Epistemology Project at the University of Leuven under the directorship of Igor Douven. Aviv’s main research interests are in metaphysics.