Understanding and the Apriori - Emmy Noether Research Group
Our research group is sponsored by the DFG and hosted by the Philosophy Department at 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
- Joachim Horvath is a doctor!
- Joachim Horvath, a former PhD researcher in our project, has submitted and successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “In Defense of Conceptual Analysis”. Congratulations on a job very well done! We all want to wish him the best of luck at his new position in the philosophy department here in Cologne. Read more – ‘Joachim Horvath is a doctor!’.
- Workshop in Hamburg Next Week
- Most of the members of our group will be traveling to Hamburg next Friday (November 11), to participate in the two-day workshop “Knowledge in a World of Symbols”. The workshop is co-organized with the phlox research group and the Nominalizations group at the University of Hamburg. More information can be found here. Read more – ‘Workshop in Hamburg Next Week’.
- Speaker series in the works
- We’re currently in the process of organizing a speaker series for the upcoming academic year here in Cologne. We aim to have roughly one speaker per month, both from Germany and from abroad. We’ll post the schedule here as soon as it’s ready. Read more – ‘Speaker series in the works’.