Sebastian Schmidt, Dr.
Contact: sebastian.schmidt@philos.uzh.ch
Research
Area of specialisation
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Epistemology
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(Meta)ethics
Area of competence
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Philosophy of Mind
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Metaphilosophy
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Moral Psychology
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Animal Minds and Animal Ethics
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Later Wittgenstein
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Ancient Philosophy
Curriculum vitae
09/2022-08/2023
SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow
Project: "Towards a Relationship-Based Epistemology" (Link)
University of Southern California (mentored by Ralph Wedgwood) and University of Glasgow (mentored by Mona Simion)
09/2021– present
Research Associate
African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), led by Veli Mitova, University of Johannesburg (Link)
Visits: 02-03/2022; prospective visit in 2023
12/2020 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher (Link)
University of Zurich
10/2015 – 11/2020
Ph.D. in Philosophy
FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dissertation: The Problem of Mental Responsibility (Link)
Funded by German Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)
04/2019 – 11/2020
Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent/Mitarbeiter)
University of Zurich, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2015 – 2019
Visiting Graduate Student
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), City University of New York (CUNY), University of Reading
04/2011 – 09/2015
M.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Philosophy and German Studies
FAU-Erlangen-Nuremberg
Selected publications
A) Monograph
Responsibility for Rationality. Foundations of an Ethics of Mind
New York: Routledge (forthcoming)
Under contract for Routledge Studies in Epistemology series.
B) Edited Volumes and Special Issues
Beyond Evidence in Epistemology.
forthcoming Special Issue of Philosophical Topics
with Anne Meylan, Melanie Sarzano, and Marie van Loon
Altruismus. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Berlin: J.B. Metzler (forthcoming)
with Dagmar Kiesel and Thomas Smettan
The Ethics of Belief and Beyond. Understanding Mental Normativity
New York: Routledge 2020 (Routledge Studies in Epistemology series)
with Gerhard Ernst
B) Journal Articles
On Believing Indirectly for Practical Reasons
Philosophical Studies 179 (2022), 1795-1819.
Blameworthiness for Non-Culpable Attitudes
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1-17. Online first.
Epistemic Blame and the Normativity of Evidence
Erkenntnis, 1-24. Online first.
Rationality and Responsibility
Australasian Philosophical Review 4 (2020), 379-385.
Why We Should Promote Irrationality
Grazer Philosophische Studien 94 (2017), 605-615.
Grazer Philosophische Studien 93 (2016), 571-582.
