CV – Philipp Berghofer

Affiliation: Department for Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz,

Heinrichstraße 26
8010 Graz, Austria

Email: philipp.berghofer(at)uni-graz.at

AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Physics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science

AOC: Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

Since October 2023 – Post-Doc researcher at the University of Graz. Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Project: “The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories” PI: Philipp Berghofer
Since October – September 2023 Post-Doc researcher at the University of Graz. Funding: Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Project: “Intentionality and Symbolic Construction: The Phenomenological Background of Hermann Weyl’s Philosophy of Physics.” PI: Harald Wiltsche
October 2018 – September 2019 Pre-Doc researcher at the University of Graz, Department of Philosophy (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
January 2016 – September 2018 Pre-Doc researcher at the University of Graz, Department of Philosophy (external funding: Austrian Academy of Sciences)

June 2019 PhD in Philosophy (with distinction)
Thesis: “On the Relevance of a Phenomenological Epistemology: Husserlian Approaches to Experiential Justification”
Advisor: Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl
March 2013 Master in Philosophy (with distinction)
Thesis: “Über den Versuch, Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft zu etablieren. Das cartesische Ideal und seine Wiederaufnahme durch Edmund Husserl im 20. Jahrhundert”
Advisor: Udo Thiel
January 2012 Bachelor in Physics
Thesis: “Ausgewählte zweidimensionale Ising-Modelle gelöst mithilfe von Grassmann-Variablen”
Advisor: Christof Gattringer
December 2010 Bachelor in Philosophy
Thesis: “Der Cartesische Zirkel”
Advisor: Harald Berger

January – April 2023 Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh (Spring Term 2023).
2021 Roland Atefie Award (for an outstanding doctoral thesis in the fields of philosophy, theology, or indology awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
January 2016 – December 2018 DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
May – August 2017 Scholarship for a guest stay at the University of Cologne granted by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (3 months)
April 2017 Erasmus+ Mobility for Teaching: Teaching stint at the University of Belgrade (5 days)
March 2017 Visiting Fellowship at the Spacetime after Quantum Gravity research group at the University of Geneva
August 2016 Full Scholarship European Forum Alpbach
April – September 2013 Erasmus scholarship at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Principal investigator of the four-year research project “The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories” (awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), funding: € 543.490,50 starting in June 2023).
Principal investigator of the one-year research project “Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenology: Specifying the Philosophical Foundations of QBism” (awarded by the Styrian Research Council, funding: € 97.287,00 starting in October 2022).

Since 2023 co-founder and co-organizer of the ongoing event series Gauge-Invariant Approaches to Physics
Since January 2021 Book Review Editor of Husserl Studies
Since 2021 co-founder and co-organizer of the ongoing event series Phenomenology Forum Graz
Since November 2020 President of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology
2016 – November 2020 Vice-General Secretary of the Austrian Society of Phenomenology
Since 2017 Member of the steering committee of Evidence and Imagination – Special Editions: International and Interdisciplinary event series for PhD students based at the University of Graz