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Kathrin Koslicki (born 1967) is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[citation needed] Her primary research areas are metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of language.[citation needed] Since 2018 Koslicki is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.
Kathrin Koslicki | |
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Born | Munich, Germany | November 30, 1967
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Stony Brook University MIT |
Thesis | Talk about Stuffs and Things: The Logic of Mass and Count Nouns (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Judith Jarvis Thomson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy |
Institutions | University of Colorado-Boulder Tufts University University of Florida University of New Orleans University of Alberta University of Neuchâtel |
Koslicki was born and raised in Munich, Germany.[1] She received her BA in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990 and her PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.[2]
Koslicki joined the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2007.[3] At the University of Colorado-Boulder, Koslicki sat as Chair of both the Graduate Admissions and Climate Committee, and received the Alvin Plantinga fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.[4] Seven years later, she accepted an appointment as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Metaphysics at the University of Alberta.[5] Since 2019 Koslicki is Visiting Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.[6]
Koslicki is best known for her defense of a neo-Aristotelian, structure-based theory of parts and wholes.[citation needed]
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