Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Mind
• Ontology
• Epistemology

Areas of Specialization

• Scientific Realism
• Philosophy of Physics
• Analytic Philosophy of Mind
• Kantian Natural Philosophy
• Philosophy of Information

Current research projects

• Extended Mind and Mental Externalism
• Structural Realism
• Reduction and Explanation in the Cognitive Neurosciences
• Collaborative Commentary of Kant's Prolegomena (with Oliver Schliemann)
• Technical Agency and Minimal Theory of Mind (with Gerhard Bukow)
• LHC Physics and Higgs Ontology (DFG funded)

Conference/Workshop organization

• The Extended Mind Thesis in Theory and Applications, International Conference, ZiF Bielefeld, November 23-26, 2009.
  Co-organizers: Ipke Wachsmuth (Bielefeld) and Sven Walter (Osnabrück).
  Invited speakers: Kenneth Aizawa, Jon Bird, Andy Clark, Andreas Engel, Peter König, Thomas Metzinger, Robert Rupert, Gregor Schöner, Lawrence Shapiro, Mark Sprevak, Henrik Walter, Michael Wheeler.
  Conference Website and ZiF Website.
• Symposium: "Higgs, Goldstone and the LHC". EPSA 09, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 21-24 October 2009.
  Invited contributors: Richard Dawid (Vienna, Austria), Alexei Grinbaum (Paris, France), Holger Lyre (Bielefeld, Germany), Christopher Smeenk (London, ON), Michael Stöltzner (Columbia, SC).
  Conference Website, Symposium No. 15
• Was ist Wissenschaft? Darstellung und Bestandsaufnahme der Wissenschaftsphilosophie in Deutschland. Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn, 17.-19. März 2008.
  www.wissphil.uni-bonn.de