Sven Bernecker

Department of Philosophy
University of Munich
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany
Email: s.bernecker[at]uci.edu

Sven Bernecker is "lehrbeauftragter Professor" at the University of Munich and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Before coming to Irvine he was Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2003-2006). Before that he taught at Birkbeck College London (2003), and spent six years as Assistant Professor at the University of Munich (1997-2003). Furthermore, he was Visiting Professor both at the University of Minnesota (2002) and at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil (2000), and he was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (1997 and 1998).

Sven Bernecker has an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Munich (1990), a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University (1997), and got the Habilitation in philosophy from the University of Munich (2002).

His research areas are epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, Kant and German Idealism.

Publications:

  • Books
      • Memory: A Philosophical Study, Oxford University Press 2010
      • The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, with Duncan Pritchard, Routledge 2010
      • The Metaphysics of Memory, Springer 2008
      • Reading Epistemology, Blackwell 2006
      • Editor, Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, with Fred Dretske, Oxford University Press 2000

 

  • Selected Journal Articles
      • "Self-Knowledge and the Bounds of Authenticity", Erkenntnis 71 (2009), 107-21
      • "Agent Reliabilism and the Problem of Clairvoyance", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008), 164-72
      • "Remembering Without Knowing", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 137-56.
      • "Kant zur moralischen Selbsterkenntnis", Kant-Studien 97 (2006), 163-83
      • "Prospects for Epistemic Compatibilism", Philosophical Studies 130 (2006),  81-104
      • "Memory and Externalism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2004),  604-31
      • "Psychophysische Gesetze und Supervenienz", Philosophia Naturalis 40 (2003), 207-25
      • "Skeptizismus, Naturalismus und Quine", Philosophisches Jahrbuch 110 (2003), 46-58
      • "Russell on Mnemic Causation", Principia 5 (2001), 149-85
      • "Knowing the World by Knowing One's Mind", Synthese 123 (2000), 1-34
      • "Die Grenzen des Selbstwissens", Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 51 (1997), 216-30
      • "Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge", Noûs30 (1996), 262-75. (Reprinted in Bernecker/Dretske (eds.), Knowledge, OUP 2000, 499-511.)
      • "Davidson on First-person Authority and Externalism", Inquiry 39 (1996), pp. 121-39.

 

  • Selected Book Chapters
      • "Representationalism, First-Person Authority and Second-Order Knowledge",  forthcoming in A. Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press.
      • "Reinhold’s Road to Fichte: The Elementary-Philosophy of 1795/96", forthcoming in G. di Giovanni (ed.), Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment, Dordrecht: Springer.
      • "Weshalb Wissen keinen spezifischen Wert hat", in G. Schönrich (ed.), Wissen und Werte, Paderborn 2009: Mentis, 73-94.
      • "Die Kausaltheorie der Wahrnehmung und der direkte Realismus", in R. Schantz (ed.), Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung, Frankfurt/M. 2009: Ontos, 155-81.
      • "Wider den Empirismus bezüglich Farbbegriffen", in J. Steinbrenner & S. Glasauer (eds.), Farben: Betrachtungen aus Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft, Frankfurt/M. 2007: Suhrkamp, 248-73.
      • "Wissen zweiter Ordnung und Zombies", in A. Newen & G. Vosgerau (eds.), Den eigenen Geist kennen, Paderborn 2005: Mentis, 119-34.
      • "Rule-Following Made Easy", in W. Löffler & P. Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and Belief, Vienna 2004: Öbv-Hpt,  63-9.
      • "Believing That You Know And Knowing That You Believe", in R. Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, Berlin 2004: de Gruyter, 369-76.
      • "Impliziert Erinnerung Wissen?", in T. Grundmann (ed.), Erkenntnistheorie, Paderborn 2001: Mentis, pp. 145-64.
      • "Self-Knowledge and Closure", in P. Ludlow & N. Martin (eds.), Externalism and Self-Knowledge, Stanford 1998: CSLI Publications, 333-49.
      • "Radikale Interpretation und Skeptizismus", in W.R. Köhler (ed.), Davidsons Philosophie des Mentalen, Paderborn 1997: Schöningh, 53-65.
      • "The Logical Necessity of World-Pictures in Wittgenstein's On Certainty", in K.S. Johannessen & T. Nordenstam (eds.), Culture and Value, Kirchberg 1995: Austrian Wittgenstein Society, 3-8.

 

Last modification: December 2009