Research Team

Current Members:

  • Miloud Belkoniene (PhD Student), since 2014
  • Fabian Dorsch (Professor), since 2013
  • Patrik Engisch (Postdoc), from 2017
  • Tom Kind (Professor), from 2017
  • Tilmann Köppe (Professor), from 2017
  • Julia Langkau (Postdoc), from 2017
  • Roberta Locatelli (Postdoc), from 2017

Former Members:

  • Davor Bodrozic (Postdoc), 2013 – 2017
  • Magnus Frei (PhD Student), 2013 – 2017

Miloud Belkoniene (PhD Student)

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Miloud has joined the group with an individual scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of their Doc.CH programme and is writing his doctoral thesis on the relationship between three different aspects of our epistemic lives, namely acceptance, explanation and pragmatic encroachment.


Davor Bodrozic (Postdoc)

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Davor recently finished his PhD at the University of Fribourg, with a doctoral thesis on fictional discourse and ascription of belief. Before that, he was a Teaching Assistant at the University of Fribourg. He completed his MA in philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests are in the philosophy of normativity, the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.


Fabian Dorsch (Professor)

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Fabian is currently Associate Research Professer at the University of Fribourg, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Berkeley, Glasgow and Warwick, as well as at the Institut Jean-Nicod at the Ecole Normale Superieur in Paris. Before that, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg, as a Research Fellow at the Universities of Fribourg and Geneva, and as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Fribourg and University College London. He received his MPhil (in 2000) and his PhD (in 2005) from University College London, and his Magister (in 1998) from the University of Tübingen. His main research interests are in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of normativity, and aesthetics.


Magnus Frei (PhD Student)

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Magnus works on a doctoral thesis on reasons for action and the explanation of actions. Before his move to the University of Fribourg, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Zürich. He pursued his MA studies in philosophy and German literature at the University of Basel and the Free University of Berlin. In addition to the philosophy of action, he is interested in meta-ethics and the philosophy of mind.