Prof. Dr. phil. Nikola Kompa

CV / Werdegang

General: 

I am currently holding a professorship of Theoretical Philosophy (W3; since 2011). I work on a variety of topics within the field of theoretical philosophy, with a clear focus on issues pertaining to political epistemology on the one hand and language & cognition on the other.

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

Language & cognition ◊ inner speech ◊ metaphor ◊ bad language ◊ language evolution ◊ social & political epistemology 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Language and mind in the 18^th century ◊ vagueness ◊ situated cognition

Degrees:

Habilitation in philosophy, University of Muenster/Germany 2008.

Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Munich/Germany 1998 (PhD examination in philosophy/logic & philosophy of science/psychology)

M.A. in philosophy, University of Munich/Germany 1996 (philosophy/logic & philosophy of science/psychology).

Previous Positions:

2009-2011: Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy; University of Bern/Switzerland;  

2002-2009: Assistant, University of Muenster/Germany;  

1999-2002: Lecturer of philosophy; University of Munich/Germany.

Visiting Positions:

2002: Visiting scholar at New York University

1999/2000: Visiting scholar at New York University

Grants, fellowships and awards:

• PI in a DFG/FWF project on Inner Speech (Osnabrück/Salzburg) (2023-2026)
• PI in DFG-Research Training Group Situated Cognition (Bochum/Osnabruck) (2017-2026).
• PI in Joint Israel-Lower-Saxony Research Grant (VW) Is Knowledge relative? PIs: Igal Kvart (Hebrew University); Nikola Kompa (2016-2020).  
• Prize for Excellence in Academic Research, awarded annually by the Society for the Advancement of the Wilhelms-University at Muenster/Germany (2009). 
• Spokesperson scientific network “A Priori Justification” (DFG) (2005-2007)
• Research grant, German Research Foundation (DFG) (2000-2002). DFG-network “A Priori Justification” (2005-2007).  
• Postdoctoral grant, German Research Foundation (DFG) (1999-2000).
• Doctoral scholarship, Free State of Bavaria (1996-1998).

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Reviewer (journals): Das Philosophische Jahrbuch, Dialectica, Episteme, Erkenntnis, Ergo, Frontiers of Psychology, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Mind & Language, Nous, Philosophical Psachology, Pacific Quarterly, Synthese, The Philosophical Studies, The American Philosophical Quarterly, Thought.

Reviewer (orgnisations): Austrian Scinece Fund (FWF), German Research Foundation (DFG), Fritz-Thyssen Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (AvH), Swiss National Foundation (SNF), Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes,.

Member of the Editorial Boards of Abstracta, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Thought, Philosophisches Jahrbuch.