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Welcome to the website of
Daniel Cohnitz

I am a philosopher at Utrecht University. Officially I am Professor of Theoretical Philosophy. I work in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, language, mathematics, and logic, and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. I am also president of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP).

About this Website

This website is an addition to my PhilPapers website and my profile page at Utrecht University. At the PhilPapers site you will find links to my publications, and I try to make sure that this site is always up to date. Here, on the other hand, you find blog entries to work in progress (and other academic issues) as well as drafts of papers that are not yet published.

I believe that personal professional websites are becoming somewhat obsolete which is why I significantly reduced the amount of professional information that I’m posting here. Nowadays, universities use several databases to make study materials available to students, and my publications are already listed in two different databases (one for professional philosophers, one for bureaucrats).

Interview with De kennis van nu
18th April 2017 by in News

I gave an interview to De kennis van nu on the topic of my inauguration lecture. Full article is here: https://www.dekennisvannu.nl/site/artikel/Hoe-ontstaan-complottheorieen/9034 Enjoy.

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Final Version of “Critical Citizens or Paranoid Nutcases? On the Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories”
18th April 2017 by in Philosophy

Here is the final version of my inaugural lecture Critical Citizens or Paranoid Nutcases? On the Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories.  

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Curriculum Vitae

I studied philosophy, history, and German literature and language at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. After graduating with an M.A. degree in philosophy and medieval history, I worked at the Institute of Philosophy at Düsseldorf and at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2005 I defended my dissertation on Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie) at Düsseldorf. From 2006 to 2015 I was professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Since January 2016 I hold the chair for theoretical philosophy at Utrecht University.

Publications

Below you find a selection of my main publications. The most recent articles, my books and the collections that I (co-)edited. For a more complete list of publications, please see my PhilPapers site. If you are interested in a copy of a paper, please send me an email.

Recent Publications (Selection)

ARTICLES

BOOKS

  • (with Marcus Rossberg): Nelson Goodman, Routledge 2006.
  • Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie, Mentis 2006.
  • (with Manuel Bremer): Information and Information Flow: An Introduction, De Gruyter 2004.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

OTHER PUBLICATIONS