Professorship in Philosophy, in particular the history of philosophy from modernity to the present

Prof Stephenson teaches and researches on the history of philosophy from modernity to the present. His published work focuses on the philosophy of Kant and related topics in contemporary philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic. He is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Kant (with Anil Gomes), external examiner for the Oxford B.Phil., and Associate Editor at the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. He was previously Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, U.K, and he has held visiting positions at the Human Abilities KFG at FU and HU, Berlin, and the Research Center for Analytic German Idealism in Leipzig.

Prof Stephenson is currently writing a monograph in which he defends Kant's view of the connection between a priori knowledge and metaphysical necessity. He argues that Kripke and others misunderstand Kant, with the result that arguments for e.g. a posteriori necessity miss their mark - we must completely reassess the history of modal epistemology from Kant through German idealism to analytic philosophy.

Contact: Kristina Maschek

Office hours: Wednesdays 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 - 5:30 p.m.

Room: A221, main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie
und Religionswissenschaft
Professur für Philosophie insbesondere Geschichte der Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München