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I am a philosopher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Berne. My research and teaching is driven by a strong interest in methodology, especially in methods of concept formation, argumentation, justification and rational decision. Philosophical methods, as I understand them, can not only be applied to philosophical questions, but also be put to effective use in many other contexts as means for analysing and reconstructing concepts, claims, debates and decisions.

The specific projects I have been working on cover a broad range of topics addressing questions in epistemology, philosophy and history of logic, argumentation theory, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, symbol theory and metaethics. My research seeks explications and reflective equilibria, and also investigates these methods.

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Further associations:

• Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern
  
• Center for Ethics, University of Zurich
  
• krino – Philosophical Society Berne
  

I'm a member of Philosophers for Sustainability and of the working group Sustainability of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy and the German Society for Philosophy.
I petition university and research funding agencies to press for effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and I signed the commitments at Scientists4Future and Flying Less.