Jan Voosholz is a PhD candidate in philosophy and research associate at the Center for Science and Thought, Universitat Bonn. His research focuses on questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of science. In his PhD project, he strives to understand the consequences of Quentin Meillassoux's speculative realism and Markus Gabriel's new realism for the philosophy of science in general and the debate concerning realism and antirealism in particular. For research stays, he has spent time at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, and received a M.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in history from the Freie Universitat Berlin.
Markus Gabriel is professor for philosophy at the Univeristat Bonn,holding the chair for epistemology, modern and contemporary philosophy. Inontology, he has been one of the frontline proponents of new realism, with hisfields of sense ontology widely regarded as a key innovation in theoreticalphilosophy, worked extensively in epistemology and pioneered neo-existentialismin philosophy of mind. Apart from this, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, Germanidealism (most prominently Schelling), ancient philosophy, as well as philosophyof the 20th century can be counted amongst his areas of expertise. He wasprofessor at the New School for Social Research, New York, and visiting professorat various universities, for instance Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne,University of California Berkeley, Universidade Federal do Ceara Fortaleza, andmany others. He is head of the International Centre for Philosophy NRW and theCenter for Science and Thought at the Universitat Bonn.
