CV Guido Melchior Personal Dates Name: Place of birth: Citizenship: Guido Melchior, Mag. Dr. phil. Graz, Austria Austria Contact Information University of Graz Department of Philosophy Heinrichstraße 26/V 8010 Graz, Austria Phone: +43 316 380 2309 Email: guido.melchior@uni-graz.at Web: http://uni-graz.academia.edu/guidomelchior Research Areas AoS AoC Epistemology Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind Employment Since 2014: Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz 2013 2014: Erwin-Schrödinger research fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz and the Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt 2013: Lecturer at Rutgers University 2011 2013: Visiting scholar at Rutgers University 2010: Visiting lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Maribor Since 2010: Lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz 2006 2011: Supervisor and member of the Department for Cultural Mediation at the Graz Museum 2004 2006: Supervisor and member of the Department for Cultural Mediation at the Neue Galerie Graz Education 1997 2009: PhD with distinction at the University of Graz with a dissertation on problems of selfknowledge 1993 1997: Studies of philosophy and German language at the University of Graz M.A. with distinction at the University of Graz with a Master s thesis on the problem of logical omniscience in epistemic logic 1992 1993: Alternative service at the Red Cross 1984 1992: High school 1
Grants and Prizes 2016 2019: Project leader of a stand-alone project of the Austrian Science Fund (202256 ) 2011 2014: Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund for Rutgers University (87300 $ + 79880 ) 2010: MOEL-Fellowship of the Austrian Research Association for the University of Maribor (7600 ) 2004: Research Prize of the Bank Austria Creditanstalt 1999 2002: DOC-Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (50945 ) 2000: Scholarship of the Absolventen-Stipendien-Gesellschaft 1999: Achievement-Scholarship of the University of Graz Supporting-Scholarship of the University of Graz Supporting-Allowance for PhD-students of the Grazer Universitaetsbund 1998: Achievement-Scholarship of the University of Graz Preiss-Scholarship 1997: Appreciation-Prize of the Austrian Ministry for Sciences Achievement-Scholarship of the University of Graz Publications Edited volumes 2 The Philosophy of Keith Lehrer. Special Issue of Philosophical Studies 161(1), 2012. (with Martina Fürst) 1 Intentionality and Experience. Special Issue of Acta Analytica 26(1), 2011. (with Martina Fürst) Articles in peer-reviewed journals 10 Easy knowledge, closure failure or skepticism: a trilemma. Metaphilosophy 47(2), 2016, 214-232. 9 The heterogeneity problem for sensitivity accounts. Episteme 12(4), 2015, 479-496. 8 Is epistemological disjunctivism the holy grail? Grazer Philosophische Studien 90, 2014, 335-346. 7 A generality problem for bootstrapping and sensitivity. Croatian Journal of Philosophy 14(40), 2014, 31-47. 6 Skepticism: the hard problem for indirect sensitivity accounts. Erkenntnis 79(1), 2014, 45-54. 5 Skepticism: Lehrer versus Mooreanism. Philosophical Studies 161(1), 2012, 47-58. 4 Introduction. Philosophical Studies 161(1), 2012, 1-5. (with Martina Fürst) 3 Privileges of first-person-reference and of third-person-reference. Acta Analytica 26(1), 2011, 37-52. 2 Introduction. Acta Analytica 26(1), 2011, 1. (with Martina Fürst) 1 Knowledge-closure and inferential knowledge. Croatian Journal of Philosophy 10(30), 2010, 259-285. Articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings 8 Skeptical doubting and mindful self-reflection. Mind, Language and Action. Papers of the 36 th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Vol. 21. Ed. by D. Moyal-Sharrock, V. A. Munz and A. Coliva. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2013, 274-276. 2
7 Insensitive and unsafe knowledge. Epistemology: Context, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34 th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by C. Jäger and W. Löffler. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2011, 196-198. 6 A privileged access to other minds. Language and World. Papers of the 32 nd International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by V. A. Munz, K. Puhl and J. Wang. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2009, 274-276. 5 How to make the skeptical argument work (in a dissatisfactory way). Proceedings of the XIX Inter- University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa. Zaragoza 2009, 125-133. 4 One illusion of becoming rational: on the premises of successful argumentation. Analysen, Argumente, Ansätze. Beiträge zum 8. Internationalen Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Graz. Ed. by M. Fürst, W. Gombocz and C. Hiebaum. Frankfurt: Ontos 2008, 137-147. 3 Getting out from inside: why the closure principle cannot support external world scepticism. Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences. Papers of the 31 st International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by A. Hieke and H. Leitgeb. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2008, 218-220. 2 On the limits of intercultural argumentation. Cultures: Conflict-Analysis-Dialogue. Papers of the 29 th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by G. Gasser, C. Kanzian and E. Runggaldier. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2006, 195-197. 1 Der totale Skeptizismus: Eine konsequente Ausweitung des Außenweltskeptizismus. Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27 th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Ed. by J. C. Marek and M. E. Reicher. Kirchberg am Wechsel 2004, 231-234. Academic theses 2 Probleme der Selbsterkenntnis. (Problems of Self-Knowledge). Dissertation. Graz, 2009, 339 pp. 1 Das Problem der logischen Allwissenheit in der epistemischen Logik. (The Problem of Logical Omniscience in Epistemic Logic). Master s Thesis. Graz, 1997, 118 pp. Conference and Workshop Organization 2013 7 Co-founder of the lecturer series What s up with? at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz 6 Co-organizer of the workshop Theoretical Philosophy in Graz and Maribor, on December 6. 2013 at the Philosophy Department of the University of Maribor. 2012 5 Organizer of the workshop Perception and Knowledge from October 11. 12. 2012 at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz (with Martina Fürst) (Funding: 6680 ) Speakers: Marian David, Martina Fürst, Keith Lehrer and Karen Ivy, Brian McLaughlin, Guido Melchior, Nenad Miscevic, Susanna Schellenberg, Eva Schmidt, Maja Spener, Leopold Stubenberg 2011 4 Organizer of the workshop Self-Knowledge from December 8. 10. 2011 at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz (with Martina Fürst) (Funding: 6600 ) 3
Speakers: Fred Dretske (keynote), Peter Klein (keynote) and Johannes Brandl, Annalisa Coliva, Brie Gertler, Guido Melchior, Nenad Miscevic, Josef Perner, Maja Spener, Leopold Stubenberg 2010 3 Organizer of the workshop The Philosophy of Keith Lehrer. Knowledge, Art and Consciousness from October 21. 23. 2010 at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz (with Martina Fürst) (Funding: 7900 ) Speakers: Keith Lehrer (keynote) and Kristin Borgwald, Marian David, Pascal Engel, Martina Fürst, Anita Konzelmann, Adrienne Lehrer, Johann Marek, Guido Melchior, Nenad Miscevic, Christian Piller, Glenn J. Ross, Leopold Stubenberg, Alfred Schramm, Nicholas Smith and Hannah Tierney, Danilo Suster, Udo Thiel, Joseph Tolliver 2009 2 Organizer of the workshop Intentionality from November 20. 21. 2009 at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz (with Martina Fürst) (Funding: 5500 ) Speakers: Keith Lehrer (keynote) and Johannes Brandl, Martina Fürst, Dale Jacquette, Johann Marek, Guido Melchior, Nenad Miscevic, Danilo Suster 1 Co-founder of the annual workshop series Mind Knowledge! at the Philosophy Department of the University Graz (with Martina Fürst) Teaching University of Graz Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie (Introduction into Epistemology), Spring 2016 Zeitgenösssiche Debatten der Erkenntistheorie (Contemporary Debates in Epistemology), Fall 2015 Einführung in die Philosophie (Introduction into Philosophy), Spring 2015, Fall 2015 Philosophie des Geistes (Philosophy of Mind), Fall 2013 Wahrheitstheorien (Theories of Truth), Spring 2011 Skeptizismus (Skepticism), Fall 2010, Fall 2014 Grundbegriffe der Erkenntnistheorie (Introduction into Epistemology), Spring 2010, Fall 2014 Rutgers University Theory of Knowledge, Spring 2013 University of Maribor Skeptical Arguments, Spring 2010 Epistemology, Spring 2010 Presentations 2016 60 Knowing and Checking, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 04/2016. 2015 59 Knowing and Checking: Where Sensitivity really matters, OZSW Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12/2015. 58 Knowing and Checking, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 12/2015. 57 Armchair Luck Revisited, Thought Experiments between Nature and Society: Nenad s 65, Maribor, Slovenia, 11/2015. 4
56 Knowing and Checking: Where Sensitivity really matters, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Associate Conference, Warwick, UK, 07/2015. 55 Knowing and Checking: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, Bled Philosophical Conferences, 06/2015. 54 Patterns of Reasoning, Thought Experiments in Epistemology: Value, Virtue, Luck, Maribor, Slovenia, 04/2015. 2014 53 Knowing and Checking: Where Sensitivity really matters, Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Bucharest, Romania, 08/2014. 52 Knowing and Checking: Where Sensitivity matters (and where it does not), European Epistemology Network Meeting 2014, Madrid, Spain, 06/2014. 51 Knowing and Checking: Mooreanism Explained, Epistemology Workshop, University of Graz, Austria, 06/2014. 50 Knowledge and Representations: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, Brentano and Beyond: Phenomenology, Self-Consciousness and Thought, University of Salzburg, Austria, 06/2014. 49 Skeptical Doubting and Mindful Self-Reflection, Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, USA, 04/14. (Poster) 48 Knowing and Checking: Mooreanism Explained, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, 04/2014. 47 Knowing and Checking: Where Sensitivity matters (and where it does not), Work in Progress in Epistemology Workshop, Swarthmore College, USA, 03/2014. 2013 46 Knowing and Checking, Theoretical Philosophy in Graz and Maribor, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 12/2013. 45 Knowledge and Representations: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, OZSW Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 11/2013. 44 What s up with Skepticism?, University of Graz, Austria, 10/2013. 43 Skeptical Doubting and Mindful Self-Reflection, 36. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 08/2013. 42 Knowledge and Representations: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Associate Conference, Exeter, UK, 07/2013. 41 Knowledge and Representations: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, Work in Progress in Epistemology Workshop, Swarthmore College, USA, 04/2013. 2012 40 Baseless Knowledge, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 12/2012. 39 Knowledge and Representations: Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle, Ernest Sosa s Epistemology Workshop, Rutgers University, USA, 11/2012. 38 Skepticism: The Hard Problem for Indirect Sensitivity Accounts, Ernest Sosa s Epistemology Workshop, Rutgers University, USA, 11/2012. 37 Experiencing and Knowing from Two Perspectives, Perception and Knowledge, University of Graz, Austria, 10/2012. 36 Baseless Knowledge, European Epistemology Network Meeting 2012, Bologna and Modena, Italy, 06/2012. 35 Bootstrapping and Mooreanism: Sensitive and Insensitive, Work in Progress in Epistemology Workshop, Swarthmore College, USA, 04/2012. 34 Bootstrapping and Mooreanism: Sensitive and Insensitive at Ernest Sosa s Epistemology Workshop, Rutgers University, USA, 03/2012. 33 Baseless Knowledge, Ernest Sosa s Epistemology Workshop, Rutgers University, USA, 02/2012. 32 Don t Doubt your Sensitivity, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 01/2012. 5
2011 31 Skepticism and Perspectives of Self-Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, University of Graz, Austria, 12/2011. 30 Skepticism and Insensitivity, Ernest Sosa s Epistemology Workshop, Rutgers University, 11/2011. 29 Insensitive and Unsafe Knowledge, 34. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 08/2011. 28 Skepticism as a Problem of Reevaluation, 9. Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Vienna, Austria, 06/2011. 27 Insensitive and Unsafe Knowledge, 2011 Rijeka Conference Contemporary Issues in Philosophy, Croatia, 05/2011. 26 Skepticism as a Problem of Reevaluation, European Epistemology Network Meeting 2011, Lund, Sweden, 03/2011. 2010 25 Perspectives of Self-Knowledge, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 11/2010. 24 Why not Anti-Scepticism?, The Philosophy of Keith Lehrer. Knowledge, Art and Consciousness, University of Graz, Austria, 10/2010. 23 A Privileged Access to Other Minds, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Associate Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 07/2010. 22 Knowledge-Closure and Inference, 2010 Rijeka Conference Contemporary Issues in Philosophy, Croatia, 05/2010. 21 Knowledge-Closure and Inference, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 05/2010. 2009 19 Self-Knowledge and Scepticism at the Workshop Intentionality, University of Graz, Austria, 11/2009. 18 Self-Knowledge and Scepticism, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 10/2009. 17 A Privileged Access to Other Minds, 32. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 08/2009. 16 Getting out from inside: Why the Closure Principle cannot Support External World Scepticism, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Associate Conference, Norwich, UK, 07/2009. 15 How to Make the Sceptical Argument Work (in a Dissatisfactory Way), XIX Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa in Zaragoza, Spain, 05/2009. 14 The Problems of Self-Reference from a Third-Person-Perspective, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 01/2009. 2008 13 External World Scepticism and the Closure Principle, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 11/2008. 12 External World Scepticism and the Closure Principle, SIFA 2008: Ontology, Mind and Language, Bergamo, Italy, 09/2008. 11 The Internalistic Premises of External World Scepticism, ECAP6: Sixth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, 08/2008. 10 Getting Out from Inside: Why the Closure Principle cannot Support External World Scepticism at the 31. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 08/2008. 9 The Limits of Cross-Cultural Argumentation at the congress Language, Culture and Mind III, Odense, Denmark, 07/2008. 2007 8 One Illusion of Enlightenment: On the Premises and Limits of Successful Argumentation, SEFA5: Fifth Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain, 09/2007. 7 One Illusion of Becoming Rational: On the Premises of Successful Argumentation, 8. Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Graz, Austria, 06/2007. 2006 6
6 On the Limits of Intercultural Argumentation, 29. International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 08/2006. 2005 5 Glauben, Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung: Ein Argument für einen totalen Skeptizismus, University of Salzburg, Austria, 11/2005. 4 Beliefs, Truth and Justification, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind, Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 05/2005. 3 Rechtfertigung und Rationalität, First Austrian Day of Philosophy in Salzburg, Austria, 03/2005. 2004 2 An Argument for Total Scepticism, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 12/2004. 1 Der totale Skeptizismus: Eine konsequente Ausweitung des Außenweltskeptizismus, 27. International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 8/2004. Professional Services Referee for Acta Analytica, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Philosophical Studies, Synthese Memberships The American Philosophical Association, The Aristotelian Society, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie, International Society for the Study of Skepticism References Prof. Peter Klein Rutgers University Gateway Building 106 Somerset St., New Brunswick NJ, 08901 Email: pdklein@rci.rutgers.edu Prof. Keith Lehrer The University of Arizona 1145 E South Campus Drive Social Sciences 213 Tucson AZ 85721-0027 Email: lehrer@email.arizona.edu Prof. Nenad Miščević University of Maribor Koroška cesta 160 2000 Maribor, Slovenia Email: vismiscevic@ceu.hu Prof. Ernest Sosa Rutgers University Gateway Building 106 Somerset St., New Brunswick NJ, 08901, USA Email: ernsosa@rci.rutgers.edu 7