About me
I'm a professor for philosophy of religion at LMU Munich. I work in the tradition of analytic philosophy of religion (well, broadly understood). My main areas of research are philosophy of religion, Chinese and Buddhist philosophy.
My work focuses on topics like the noetic character of mystical and meditative experiences; the ineffability of religious experience; the meaning of religious language, especially of non-literal language, metaphor, and negative theology.
I also work on slightly less traditional topics like the integration of non-Western thought into current philosophical discourse; post-traditional and naturalistic concepts of religion; secular spirituality; and global philosophy of religion.
Morbidly, I'm also interested in all kinds of questions concerning the philosophy of death and immortality.
Books
Intro to the Buddha as a philosopher.
Edited volume on the philosophy of immortality.
An intro to
philosophy of religion.
Truth, meaning, and faith:
realism and religious language
Selected Papers
Mystical Ineffability: A nonconceptual theory. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 93 (2024)
Should you upload your mind? Think 22 (2023), 33-37.
Why you should be a religious skeptic. Philosophical Forum 54 (2023).
Nonpersonal Immortality. Religious Studies 59 (2023).
Mysticism without concepts. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 90 (2021), 233-246.
Languages of ineffability: the rediscovery of apophaticism in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. In: Hüsch, Sebastian et. al. (Hgg.): Negative knowledge, Tübingen: Narr Francke, 2020,191-206.
Ineffability: the very concept. Philosophia 48 (2020), 1825-1836.
Religiöse Sprache. in: Viertbauer, Klaus; Gasser, Georg (Hgg.): Handbuch analytische Religionsphilosophie. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2019, 208-220.
Realismus und unübersetzbare Sprachen. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 72 (2018), 382-409.
The Paradox of Ineffability. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 78 (2017), 1-12.
Why do we suffer? Buddhism and the Problem of Evil. Philosophy Compass 10 (2015), 345-353.
Metaphor and Theological Realism. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion (6) 2014, 79-92.
Teaching
Here's some of the topics I regularly teach on:
Introductions to philosophy of religion, classical Chinese philosophy, and Buddhist philosophy;
The philosophy of death and immortality;
Arguments for and against the existence of God, contemporary debates in philosophy of religion;
Persons and personal identity, the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, and analytic epistemology;
CV
I was born in Ahrweiler (Germany) in 1982.
I studied philosophy (of course), sinology, and classical philology at the University of Trier in Germany and at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao. Got my MAs in 2008 (philosophy) and 2010 (greek philology).
I've been a faculty member in the philosophy department at the university of Trier from 2008-2019, first as a PhD student, then as a postdoctoral researcher.
Since 2019, I've been a professor of philosophy of religion at LMU Munich.
Links
YouTube Channel
Academia.edu
Philpeople.org
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