PhDs

Ben Rodenhäuser is a PhD student supervised by Sonja Smets and Rineke Verbrugge. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Logic at the ILLC in Amsterdam (supervisors: Alexandru Baltag and Johan van Benthem). He is interested in modal logic (in particular dynamic and epistemic logic), logical semantics and pragmatics and multi-agent belief revision.

Sander Verhaegh studied Political Science in Nijmegen and Philosophy in Nijmegen, Groningen, and Sheffield. He received an NWO 'Duurzame Geesteswetenschappen' grant to conduct a PhD project. The topic of his project is the Benacerraf Dilemma, a problem concerned with the question of how one can combine a plausible epistemology with a consistent metaphysics in the philosophy of mathematics. He is especially interested in the way naturalistic philosophers deal with this dilemma. The project will be supervised by Jeanne Peijnenburg and Igor Douven.

Katrin Pfeifer is doing her second PhD under Igor Douven. She studied history, pedagogic, and English at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. Katrin Pfeifer is supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DOC-Grant) since 2009. Presently she is finishing her first PhD in history on the cultural history of severe storms at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. Areas of competence include the cultural history of natural disasters in general; perception, interpretation, management, and memory of natural disasters in Early Modern Times.

Karolina Krzyzanowska graduated in philosophy at the University of Warsaw in 2009. The title of her MA thesis was: "Belief reports in linguistic and cognitive perspective". Her interests are in formal epistemology and philosophy of language. She was an Erasmus exchange student at the University of Leuven (September 2008 - June 2009), and is now working on her PhD under Igor Douven.