Curriculum Vitae

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Benjamin Schnieder
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. habil. Benjamin Schnieder
(April 2010)
I. General Information
Nationality:
Marital Status:
German
Unmarried
Date of Birth:
Email:
27.12.1974
[email protected]
II. Career
i. Current Employment
Director of the Emmy-Noether-Research Group Phlox at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
(Responsibility for the supervision of two Phd-students and two Postdocs.)
ii. Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language and Logic, Ontology, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Early History
of Analytic Philosophy (in particular Bernard Bolzano).
iii. Further Teaching Competence
Logic, Epistemology.
vi. Education
1994–2000
2000–2001
2001–2002
University of Hamburg (M.A. Student).
University of Oxford, Wadham College (Visiting Research Student).
University of Geneva (Doctoral Student).
v. Employments
2003–2007
Assistant Professor (‘wissenschaftlicher Assistent’) at the Department of
Philosophy, University of Hamburg.
vi. Degrees
2000
M.A. in Philosophy (in Hamburg; with distinction);
Thesis: Substanz und Adhärenz bei Bernard Bolzano.
Additional subjects: Mathematics; Psychology.
2002
PhD in Philosophy (in Geneva; summa cum laude);
Thesis: Substanzen und (ihre) Eigenschaften.
Supervisors: Prof. Kevin Mulligan, Prof. Wolfgang Künne.
2009
Habilitation in Philosophy (in Hamburg).
Written work: Erklärung, Sprache, Sein.
(collection of 12 published articles and a commentary).
Lecture:
Das „weil“ in Platons Euthyphron.
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II. Scholarships, Honours and Awards
1997
Fritz-Prosiegel Award (award for undergraduate students).
1999–2000
Member of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes).
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
PhD Scholarship (as a member of the IRIS-project in Geneva).
PhD thesis honoured with the Award for the Promotion of Analytic Ontology and
Metaphysics, awarded by the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).
PhD thesis honoured with the Award for the Promotion of Sciences and Culture,
awarded by the Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft.
Scholarship as a short-term lecturer (DAAD).
2000–2001
2001–2002
2003
2003
2010
III. Services to the Profession
i. Organized Conferences, Lecture Series, Workshops
a. Workshops
Semantics and Ontology I:
Barcelona (2006).
Semantcs and Ontology II:
Heidelberg (2007).
(Organization & fundraising —DAAD—, in cooperation with Prof. Andreas Kemmerling
and Prof. Manuel Pérez Otero.)
b. Workshops
Reference and Predication I: Hamburg (2006).
Reference and Predication II: Turku (2007).
(Organization & fundraising—DAAD—, in cooperation with Dr. Jussi Haukioja.)
c. Series of Lectures Language and World (Hamburg 2006/07).
(Organization; financed by the department of philosophy, Hamburg.)
d. Second Series of Lectures Language and World (Hamburg 2007/08).
(Organization; financed by the department of philosophy, Hamburg.)
e. Conference ‘Because’ (Geneva 2008).
Plenary lectures: Kit Fine, Carrie Jenkins, J.E. Lowe, Rodriguez Perreyra Gonzales, Göran
Sundholm, Zóltan Gendler Zsábo. (Organization together with Fabrice Correia.)
f. Workshop Current Issues in Language and Metaphysics (Berlin 2008).
(Speakers: Stephen Barker, Fabrice Correia, Katalin Farkas, Ofra Magidor, Sven
Rosenkranz, Dan López de Sa, Jason Stanley, Elia Zardini. Organization, fundraising.)
g. Conference Truth and Abstract Objects – Issues from Bolzano and Frege, Berlin 2009.
Speakers included: Hanjo Glock, Wolfgang Künne, Kevin Mulligan, Ian Rumfitt.
g. Workshop Phloxshop II—Modality (Berlin 2009). Plenary lectures: Dorothy Edgington,
Keith Hossack. Six submitted papers were selected for presentation.
h. Properties—From Nominalism to Quasi-Nominalism, Colloquium at GAP.7 (Bremen
2009) (together with Ralf Busse). Speakers: C. Dorr, T. Hofweber, J. Melia.
i. In preparation: Phloxshop III – Nothing But the Truth. International workshop, Berlin,
August 2010. Speakers include: Julian Dodd, Volker Halbach, Marian David.
j. In preparation: Because II. International conference, Berlin, August 2010. Invited speakers:
Kit Fine, Stephen Yablo, Paul Audi, Ross Cameron, Chris Daly, Carrie Jenkins.
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ii. Refereeing Work
Occasional Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der
Philosophie, Dialectica, Disputatio, Erkenntnis, Grazer philosophische Studien, Logique et
Analyse, Mind, Nôus, Philosophical Studies, Synthese.
IV. Publications
i. Monographs
M.1
Substanz und Adhärenz – Bolzanos Ontologie des Wirklichen (Beiträge zur BolzanoForschung Vol. 13), Sankt Augustin: Academia-Verlag, 2002.
Review in:
M.2
– Philosophiques 33 (2006), 306–9.
Substanzen und (ihre) Eigenschaften, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004.
Reviews in:
– Grazer Philosophische Studien 70 (2005), 215–23.
– Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 60 (2006), 153–57.
– Metaphysica 7 (2006), 183–86.
ii. Edited Volumes
E.1
E.2
E.3
Truth and Abstract Objects: Themes From Early Analytic Philosophy (in preparation).
Co-editor Moritz Schulz. Special issue of Grazer philosophische Studien (scheduled for
2010). Authors include: David Wiggins, Ian Rumfitt, Peter Simons, Kevin Mulligan,
Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, Mark Textor, Hanjo Glock, John Hyman, and others.
Grounding and Explanation (in preparation). Co-editor Fabrice Correia. Authors
include: Gideon Rosen, Kit Fine, J.E. Lowe, Kevin Mulligan, Kathrin Koslicki,
Jonathan Schaffer, Robert Williams, Michael Della Rocca, and others.
Dependence (in preparation). Co-editors Miguel Hoeltje & Alex Steinberg.
Commissioned volume in the series Basic Philosophical Concepts, München:
Philosophia Verlag. Authors include: Carrie Jenkins, Jonathan Lowe, Fabrice Correia,
Ross Cameron, and others.
iii. Articles in Refereed Journals
J.1
J.2
J.3
J.4
J.5
J.6
J.7
J.8
J.9
J.10
‘Bolzano sur la structure des propositions, les propriétés et les adhérences’,
Philosophiques 30 (2003), 83–103.
‘Compatibilism and the Notion of Rendering Something False’, Philosophical Studies
117 (2004), 409–28.
‘A Note on Particularized Qualities and Bearer-Uniqueness’, Ratio 17 (2004), 218–28.
‘The Ability to Render Something False’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104
(2004), 295–303.
‘How Not to Define Substance – A Comment upon Hoffman and Rosenkrantz’, Ratio
18 (2005), 107–17.
‘Property Designators, Predicates, and Rigidity’, Philosophical Studies 122 (2005),
227–41.
‘Mein Leben und ich’, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 59 (2005), 489–511.
‘By Leibniz’s Law’, Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006), 39–54.
‘Troubles with Truth-making: Necessitation and Projection’, Erkenntnis 64 (2006), 61–
74.
‘A Certain Kind of Trinity: Dependence, Substance, Explanation’, Philosophical
Studies 129 (2006), 393–419.
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J.11
J.12
J.13
J.14
J.15
J.16
J.17
J.18
J.19
J.20
J.21
J.22
J.23
J.24
J.25
J.26
J.27
J.28
‘Canonical Property Designators’, American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 119–
32.
‘Truth-making without Truth-makers’, Synthese 152 (2006), 21–47.
‘Attributing Properties’, American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 315–28.
‘The Importance of “Being Earnest”’, Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007), 40–55.
‘Mere Possibilities – Bolzano’s Account of Non-Existing Entities’, Journal of the
History of Philosophy 45 (2007), 525–50.
‘Bolzanos zwei Substanzbegriffe’, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 62 (2008),
97–107.
‘On What We Can Ensure’, Synthese 162 (2008), 101–15.
‘Truth-functionality’, Review of Symbolic Logic 1 (2008), 64–72.
‘Further Remarks on Property Designators and Rigidity’, Grazer philosophische Studien
76 (2008), 199–208.
‘“By” – A Simple Refutation of the Anscombe Thesis’, Linguistics and Philosophy 31
(2008), 649–69.
‘Bolzanos Erklärung des Zeitbegriffs’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 91
(2009), 42–69.
‘In Defence of Fictional Realism’ (co-authored by Tatjana von Solodkoff),
Philosophical Quarterly 59 (2009), 138–49.
‘Inexpressible Properties and Grelling’s Antinomy’, Philosophical Studies 148 (2010),
369–85.
‘Bad Examples?’, forthcoming in American Philosophical Quarterly.
‘A Puzzle About “Because”’, accepted for publication in Logique et Analyse.
‘Scope and Rigidity’, accepted for publication in Philosophers’ Imprint.
‘Propositions United’, accepted for publication in Dialectica.
‘Expressivism Concerning Epistemic Modals’, accepted for publication in Philosophical Quarterly.
iv. Invited Book Chapters
C.1
C.2
C.3
‘Substanzen als ontologisch unabhängige Entitäten’, in: W. Löffler (ed.) (2002):
Substanz und Identität, Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 11–40.
‘“Nach Leibniz’ Gesetz ergibt sich” – Über einen verbreiteten Fehlschluß’, in: M. Siebel
& M. Textor (eds) (2004): Semantik und Ontologie, Frankfurt a.M.: Ontos-Verlag, 223–
48.
‘Once More: Bradleyan Regresses’, in: H. Hochberg & K. Mulligan (eds) (2004): On
Relations and Predicates, Frankfurt a.M.: Ontos-Verlag, 219–56.
Review in:
C.4
C.5
‘Substanz und Unabhängigkeit’, in: K. Trettin (ed.) (2005): Substanz. Neue
Überlegungen zu einer klassischen Kategorie des Seienden, Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio
Klostermann, 53–79.
‘Particularised attributes: an Austrian tale’, in: M. Textor (ed.) (2006): The Austrian
Contribution to Analytic Philosophy, London: Routledge, 130–58.
Review in:
C.6
C.7
– Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/) (October 2006).
– Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/) (September 2007).
‘Eigenschaften und ihre Namen’, in: A. Rami & H. Wansing (eds) (2007): Referenz und
Realität, Paderborn: mentis, 179–208.
‘What Might Be and What Might Have Been’, co-authored by M. Schulz & A.
Steinberg, forthcoming in: S.-J. Conrad & S. Imhof (eds): P.F. Strawson: Ding und
Begriff, Frankfurt a.M.: ontos Verlag.
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v. Articles in Conference Proceedings
P.1
‘Davidson über die Autorität der ersten Person’, in: U. Meixner & P. Simons (eds)
(1999): Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age (Papers of the 22nd International
Wittgenstein Symposium), Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 222–29.
‘Truth-makers: On the Sound Origins of a Confused Idea’, in: R. Bluhm & C. Nimtz
(eds) (2004): Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5, Paderborn: mentis,
512–25.
‘Compatibilism: Why You Cannot Render It False’, in: F. Mão de Ferro (ed.) (2005): A
Explicação da Interpretação Humana, Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 237–49.
‘Bolzano zur Zeit’, in: F. Stadler & M. Stöltzner (eds) (2005): Time and History
(Papers of the 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium), Kirchberg am Wechsel:
ALWS, 272–75.
‘Reduction, Sets, and Properties’, in: Alexander Hieke & Hannes Leitgeb (eds) (2008):
Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences (Papers of the 31st
International Wittgenstein Symposium), Kirchberg am Wechsel: ALWS, 307–9.
P.2
P.3
P.4
P.5
vi. Various Smaller Pieces
V.1
V.2
V.3
V.4
V.5
V.6
‘Existenzaussagen’, in: M. Textor (ed.) (2004): Neue Theorien der Referenz, Mentis
Verlag, 141–68. Translation of ch. 10 (‘Existential Statements’) of: Gareth Evans: The
Varieties of Reference, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1982).
‘Bemerkungen zu starren Bezeichnern’, in: M. Textor (ed.): Neue Theorien der
Referenz, Mentis Verlag (2004), 31–37. Translation of section IV of: Kaplan, David
(1989): Demonstratives, in: J. Almog, et. al. (1989): Themes from Kaplan, 481–563.
Book review of Fabrice Correia’s Existential Dependence and Cognate Notions,
Dialectica 61 (2007), 589–94.
‘Bolzano’s Mereology’, encyclopaedic entry, forthcoming in H. Burckhardt (ed.):
Handbook of Mereology.
‘Substanz und Akzidens’, encyclopaedic entry, forthcoming in S. Jordan & C. Nimtz
(eds): Lexikon Philosophie. Hundert Grundbegriffe. Reclam Verlag.
‘Omnipotence and Contradiction’, The Reasoner 3.2, 5–6.
V. Teaching
i. Undergraduate Level
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Seminar
Lecture & Tutorials
Seminar
Seminar
Lecture & Tutorials
Lecture & Tutorials
Seminar
Lecture & Tutorials
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
Introduction to Logic
On Conditionals
‘What’s in a name?’ – On Names and
Other Singular Terms
Introduction to Logic
Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
Introduction to Ontology
Introduction to Logic
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Hamburg 2003/04
Hamburg 2004
Hamburg 2004/05
Hamburg 2005
Hamburg 2005/06
Hamburg 2006
Hamburg 2006/07
Hamburg 2007
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i. Lecture & Tutorials
j. Lecture & Tutorials
k. Seminar
Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Berlin 2008
Introduction to Epistemology
Berlin 2008/09
Plato, Euthyphro
Berlin 2009
ii. Graduate Level
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Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
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Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
Seminar
The Compatibility of Freedom and Determinism
Hamburg 2003
Analytic Ontology: Properties
Hamburg 2003/04
Problems of Quantification
Hamburg 2004
On Logical Form (together with M. Hoeltje)
Hamburg 2004/05
Truth and Action
Hamburg 2005
Bolzano, Theory of Science (together with W. Künne)
Hamburg 2005/06
Philosophy of Action
Hamburg 2006
On Explanation
Hamburg 2006/07
Free Will: Advanced Introduction
Hamburg 2007
Modality
Berlin 2009
Dependence (with M. Hoeltje & A. Steinberg)
Berlin 2010
iii. Upcoming Courses (Announced)
a. Lecture & Seminar Grounding and Explanation
(as a Visiting Scholar, University of Buenos Aires 2010)
b. Lecture
Explanation (Historical and Systematic Issues)
(Humboldt-Universität, Winter 2010)
c. Graduate Seminar Schopenhauer, Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom
zureichenden Grunde
(Humboldt-Universität, Winter 2010)
VI. Lectures and Talks
i. Upcoming Talks
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b.
c.
d.
e.
‘Bolzano on Causation’, invited talk at the conference Philosophy and Mathematics on
the Work of Bernard Bolzano, Prague 2010.
‘On the Asymmetry of “Because”’, invited talk for the 2010 ANU Fundamentality
conference (Canberra, Australia).
‘Bergiffliche Erklärungen’, invited departmental talk in Bielefeld 2010.
‘On Knowing What We Say’, invited talk for the conference Saying What We Believe,
Berlin 2010.
TBA, invited talk in a series of lectures in Konstanz 2010.
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ii. Invited Talks at Conferences and Workshops
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‘Substance and Independence’, 2nd Barcelona-Hamburg Meeting (Barcelona, Spain
2000).
‘Aussagen, Besagen, Nachsagen: Bolzano über Propositionen, Eigenschaften und eine
non-standard Semantik’, Conference Bolzano Atelier (Geneva, Swiss 2001).
‘Talking About Properties’, Workshop Nominalizations and Abstract Objects, (Stirling,
UK 2003).
‘Truth-making without Truth-makers’, 5th Italo-German Colloquium in Analytic
Philosophy (Trieste, Italy 2003).
‘Mein Leben und ich – eine ontologische Menage à deux’, Conference Ontologie und
Institutionen (Dresden, Germany 2004).
‘Ontologische Abhängigkeit’, Workshop on Strawson’s Individuals (Bern, Swiss 2006).
‘On What We Can Ensure’, Bled Conference on Freedom and Determinism (Bled,
Slovenia 2006).
‘Substance and Dependence’, 29th International Wittgenstein Symposion (Kirchberg am
Wechsel, Austria 2006).
‘Understanding understanding’, Profile Intermedia 9 (Bremen, Germany 2006).
‘Properties and Paradox’, Speaker in a symposium on Object and Property, eidos
metaphysics conference (Geneva 2008).
‘Remarks on the Unity of the Proposition’, Workshop on Bradley’s regress (Geneva
2008).
‘A Logic of “Because”’, Conference on Dependence (Colorado, USA 2009).
‘A Logic of “Because”’, Workshop on Methodological Issues in Contemporary Analytic
Metaphysics (Ghent, Belgium 2009).
„Reasoning with ‘Because’“, Workshop Vagueness and Metaphysics (Barcelona, 2009).
„A logic for ‘Because’“, Workshop Methodology and Metaphysics (Köln, 2009).
‘Properties Without Paradox?’, Invited Speaker, Conference on properties (Buenos
Aires 2009).
‘Bolzanos Konzeption der Substanzen’, Conference Substance (Göttingen 2009).
‘Expressivism Concerning Epistemic Modals’, International Workshop A Matter of
Attitude (Göttingen 2010).
iii. Invited Commentaries and Invited Departmental Talks
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i.
‘Laws and Law-statements – Comments on a Paper by Joan Pages’, 1st BarcelonaHamburg Meeting (Hamburg, Germany 1999).
‘Bolzano über die Beschaffenheiten’, part of a series of lectures on Bernard Bolzano,
Österreichisches Kulturforum Prag (Prague, Chech Republic 2003).
‘Mere Possibilities’, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Prague, Chech Republic 2003).
‘Comments on Mario de Caro on Free Will’, 6th Italo-German Colloquium in Analytic
Philosophy (Heidelberg, Germany 2004).
‘Eigenschaften und ihre Namen’, part of a series of lectures on Language and Reality
(Dresden, Germany 2005).
‘Tropes and Ontological Dependence’, IHPS, Paris (2006).
‘Grenzen des Ausdrucks? Eigenschaften, Prädikate, Grelling’, Ludwig-MaximiliamsUniversität München (2006).
‘Grenzen der Sprache?’, University of Konstanz (2007).
‘Existentielle Abhängigkeiten’, University of Düsseldorf (2007).
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‘Möglich ist das! Expressivismus bezüglich epistemischer Modalitäten’, University of
Hamburg (2008).
‘Barbiere, Wörter, Eigenschaften – Über Grellings Vermächtnis’, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin (2008).
‘Freiheit durch Introspektion?’, Universität Regensburg (2008).
‘Busses Eigenschaften’, comments on Ralf Busses Properties in Nature, workshop G27
(Heidelberg 2010).
iv. Further Talks (*: Submission was blind reviewed)
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* ‘Davidson über die Autorität der ersten Person’, 22nd International Wittgenstein
Symposion (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 1999).
* ‘Compatibilism: Why You Cannot Render it False’, Mind and Action III (Lisbon,
Portugal 2001).
* ‘A Note on Particular Qualities and Bearer-Uniqueness’, ECAP 4 (Lund, Sweden
2002).
* ‘Talking about Properties’, 3rd Barcelona Workshop on Reference (Spain 2003).
* ‘The Ability to Render Something False’, Aristotelian Society Meeting (Graduate
Session) (Belfast, Ireland 2003).
* ‘Truth-makers: On the Sound Origins of a Confused Idea’, GAP 5 (Bielefeld,
Germany 2003).
* ‘Bolzano zur Zeit’, 28th International Wittgenstein Symposion (Kirchberg am
Wechsel, Austria 2005).
* ‘By Leibniz’s Law’, ECAP 5 (Lisbon, Portugal 2005).
‘Designating and Expressing Properties’, Workshop Reference and Predication
(Hamburg, Germany 2006).
* ‘An Inexpressible Property’, GAP 6 (Berlin, Germany 2006).
‘General Terms and Rigidity’ (Comments on José Martinez & Genoveva Marti),
Workshop Semantics and Ontology (Barcelona, Spain 2006).
‘Kleines philosophisches Farbenrätsel’, Series of Lectures Language and World
(Hamburg 2006).
* ‘Stress With Meaning?’, 5th Barcelona Workshop on Reference (Spain 2007).
‘Peirce and the Causal Theory of Proper Names (Comments on Ahti-Veikko
Pietarinen)’, 2nd Finnish-German Workshop (Turku, Finland, 2007).
‘In Defence of Fictional Realism’, Spanish-German Workshop (Heidelberg 2007).
‘Drei Geister für Scrooge’, University of Hamburg (2007).
* ‘Reference and Antinomy’, IHSPT–Arché Workshop Abstract Objects (Paris 2008).
* ‘Truth-functionality’, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind
Association (Aberdeen 2008).
* ‘Inexpressibility and Paradox’, eidos metaphysics conference (Geneva 2008).
* ‘Reduction, Sets, and Properties’, 31st Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg 2008).
‘Properties and Russell’s Paradox’, Workshop Current Issues in the Philosophy of
Language and Metaphysics (Berlin 2008).
‘Das “weil” in Platons Euthyphron’, Habilitationsvortrag (Hamburg, 2009).
* ‘A Logic of “Because”’, SPE conference (London, 2009).
* ‘Properties and Paradox’ , GAP 7 (Bremen, 2009).
‘Zur Logik von Erklärungen’, Bochum 2009.
‘Begriffliche Erklärungen’, Jena 2010.
‘Begriffliche Erklärungen’, Tübingen 2010.
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