Philipp Berghofer
I’m a philosopher working in epistemology, philosophy of physics, and phenomenology.
In epistemology, I’m mainly interested in the structure and nature of epistemic justification. I believe that experiences, understood in a broad sense, are a source of immediate justification as well as our ultimate justifiers such that every piece of knowledge can be traced back to epistemically foundational experiences. I argue that the justificatory force of experiences is determined by their phenomenology. In philosophy of physics, I mainly focus on experience-centered interpretations of quantum mechanics, the program of reconstructing quantum mechanics based on operationally meaningful principles, and the ontological status and methodological function of gauge symmetries. With regard to the latter, I’m working on gauge-invariant approaches to (particle) physics.
Philipp Berghofer 