Sven Bernecker is primarily interested in epistemology, philosophy of mind as well as Kant and German Idealism.

Before coming to Cologne in 2016 he taught at the Universities of California-Irvine, Manchester, Munich, Vienna, and Birkbeck College London. He has held visiting appointments at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Humboldt University Berlin, Ruhr University Bochum, and University of Cologne.

Sofie Møller's research focuses on Kant and German Idealism. She's currently investigating the notion of normativity and the relationship between epistemological, legal, and moral progress. Recent publications include the edited volume Kant on Freedom and Human Nature (Routledge, 2023) with Luigi Filieri and the monograph Kant’s Tribunal of Reason. Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason (CUP, 2020). Before joining CONCEPT, she was a research associate at the Research Centre “Normative Orders” at the Goethe University Frankfurt and held visiting positions at Brown University and the University of Passau. She completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence in 2017.

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Paul Silva's current research is primarily in epistemology (traditional, social and formal), but he is also interested in metaphysics and ethics. Before Paul joined CONCEPT he was a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. And before that he was a Lecturer in philosophy at Monash University. He completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2013. 

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Marvin is currently an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Cologne University. In 2023, he was awarded a three-year research grant by the German Research Council (DFG) for his project ‘Moral Epistemology and Alethic Pluralism: Towards a New Theory of Epistemic Justification for Moral Belief’.

Before coming to Cologne, he held a Wenner-Gren Research Fellowship at Uppsala University. He completed my PhD on the St Andrews/Stirling Philosophy Graduate Programme, where he was a member of the Arché Research Centre.

Micha Gläser is a Research Fellow within the DFG project “Normativity and Transformation in Immanuel Kant’s Legal Philosophy." He previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Fribourg and the University of Zürich. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he completed a dissertation on the subject of practical authority under the supervision of Christine Korsgaard, Thomas Scanlon, and Selim Berker. His research concerns the question how we relate to each other as moral persons. Within that question he is interested in topics within moral, political, and legal philosophy, both from a systematic and an historical perspective, the latter with a focus on Immanuel Kant’s practical philosophy, especially the Doctrine of Right.