He was Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, and co-director of the Emmy Noether research group “Understanding and the A Priori”, funded by the DFG and jointly hosted by the Zukunftskolleg and the Philosophy Department. His main areas of research are the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology, and he also has interests in the philosophy of mind, the history of analytic philosophy and logic. He has a strong background in linguistics, and much of his work is informed by research in generative syntax, semantics and pragmatics. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2006. Magdalena Balcerak Jackson