Understanding and the Apriori - Emmy Noether Research Group
Our research group is sponsored by the DFG and hosted by the University of Cologne. The group is dedicated to the study of a priori knowledge. We are especially interested in the cognitive capacity of understanding and its role in a priori justification, the relationship between apriority and necessity, and the methodology of philosophy as a distinctive armchair discipline.
For more information about our project and its research goals see Project.
The group brings together Researchers working in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology. We have Cooperations with philosophers, psychologists, linguists and cognitive scientists in Europe, the US and Australia.
We have an ongoing series of workshops, the Emmy Noether Armchair Lab, which meets at least twice per year. We also organize regular conferences, and we run a weekly research seminar in Cologne. For more information see Project Events.
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Latest News
- Emmies at Large
- Some more members of our research group will be presenting work at various events during the upcoming summer conference season. Magdalena Balcerak Jackson will be presenting her paper, “Imagination and the Apriori/Aposteriori Distinction” at the conference on the apriori at the Northern Institute of Philosophy in Aberdeen on June 16-17. Daniele Sgaravatti will be presenting his paper, [...] Read more – ‘Emmies at Large’.
- Magdalena Balcerak Jackson in the press
- Two items: First, Magdalena’s paper, “Conceptual Analysis and Epistemic Progress,” has been accepted for publication in Synthese. Congratulations! (An abstract is available here.) Second, there is an interview and profile of Magdalena in the upcoming issue of the German magazine Philosophie; the issue focuses on the question of what is distinctive about contemporary German approaches to [...] Read more – ‘Magdalena Balcerak Jackson in the press’.
- Beate Sachsenweger in Essex
- Our doctoral researcher Beate Sachsenweger will be giving a talk at the 15th annual Essex Graduate Conference, on May 12. The talk is titled “The Role of Covert and Overt Attention for Cognitive Penetrability: The Cases of Inattentional Blindness and Attentional Misdirection”. Break a leg, Beate! Read more – ‘Beate Sachsenweger in Essex’.