Gregor Damschen

My academic career started with the study of philosophy and classical philology at the University of Heidelberg (Magister Artium, highest honors (ausgezeichnet, 1.0), 1998), supported by a scholarship for intellectual excellence from Cusanuswerk, the episcopal academic scholarship foundation for outstanding Catholic students.

This was followed by a position as Assistant Professor (Akademischer Mitarbeiter) of Classics at the University of Heidelberg (1998–2000) and positions as grant-holder from the German Graduate Research Grants Program (2000–2002), as Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2003–2007), as Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame (2006) and as Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne (2007–2010) with a project on Theophrastus's ontology. My doctorate ("summa cum laude"; 1.0) was on ultimate epistemological foundations ("Epistemologische Letztbegründung"); the PhD thesis was awarded the dissertation prize (Luther-Urkunde) of the University of Halle-Wittenberg (2012).

I then worked as Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent) (2012–2015) and as Locum Professor of Philosophy (Lehrstuhlvertreter), and Acting Chair (2015–2016) at the University of Lucerne.

After my decade in Switzerland, I taught and researched as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Logic of the University of Bonn with Elke Brendel and at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne with Thomas Grundmann (2017–2018). Since 2018, I have been a research associate and lecturer for theoretical philosophy and logic at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg, working with Mark Siebel.

I joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz and Leon Horsten's working group in October 2023.

Research

My research areas are epistemology (especially anti-intellectualism), logic (especially epistemic and truthmaker paradoxes), philosophy of religion (ontological proofs), philosophy of love and ancient philosophy (especially Plato, Aristotle, Seneca). A few years ago, I also did a lot of research in medical ethics. At the moment, I'm working on two books and some papers (see below my works in progress).

Just published: Max Bauer/Gregor Damschen/Mark Siebel (eds.): Paradoxien – Grenzdenken und Denkgrenzen von A(llwissen) bis Z(eit), Brill/mentis 2024.