People / Researchers
Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg & Warwick)
Short CV
Since completing my MA at the University of Tübingen and my MPhil and PhD at University College London, I have been assistant professor at the University of Fribourg (since 2005; currently on leave), as well as research fellow at the Universities of Fribourg (2004-2006) and Geneva (2007-2009), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. My current stay as a Visiting Scholar at the philosophy department of the University of Warwick is part of a three-year research grant (2009-2012) intended to spend time at institutions in Berkeley, Paris, Glasgow and Warwick.
My research concentrates on issues in the philosophy of mind (perception, imagination, emotion, mental agency, rational motivation, phenomenal consciousness, mental norms), epistemology (our phenomenal awareness of normativity, the epistemology of values, self-knowledge, the epistemic role of imagining), aesthetics (pictorial experience, expressiveness, aesthetic norms, the ontology of artworks) and, more generally, the theory of value and normativity. I published a book on colours and colour experience, am currently finishing a monograph on imagining as a special form of mental agency and preparing another one on the rational dimension of phenomenal consciousness.
Since 2008, I am the secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics and the editor of their annual Proceedings. I am also the current Programme Chair of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Between 2004 and 2008, I was one of the four assistant editors (i.e., members of the Editorial Committee) of the academic philosophy journal dialectica (Wiley-Blackwell).
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Email: fabian.dorsch[at]uclmail.net