Truth, Trust, and Demo­cracy | Katharina Felka (WWU Münster)

Katharina Felka is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Münster. Her research lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, metaphysics, metaethics, and social philosophy. She draws heavily on results and methods from linguistics to shed new light on core philosophical problems. In her PhD thesis, which received the Wolfgang-Stegmüller Prize in 2015, she explored the ontological commitments of our talk about numbers. Currently, her work focuses on hybrid evaluatives as well as foundational questions on the semantics/pragmatics interface. She is also particularly interested in the workings of that-clauses, concealed questions, and presuppositions and, particularly, the philosophical implications of their analyses.