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Fabian Dorsch Department of Philosophy http://perso.unifr.ch/fabian.dorschUniversity of Fribourg [email protected]

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Curriculum Vitae of Fabian Dorsch

1 Personal Details

Full Name: Stefan Fabian Helmut DorschDate of Birth: 03.04.1974Nationality: GermanLegal Status: Married to Evgenia GrekovaChildren: One son (Maxim, 6 years old)

2 Academic Career

2.1 Appointments

SNSF Associate Professor – University of Fribourg (non-permanent)2013 – 2017Visiting Scholar – University of California, Berkeley / Institut Jean Nicod, Paris / Uni-2009 – 2012

versity of Glasgow / University of WarwickResearch Fellow – University of Geneva2007 – 2009Assistant Professor – University of Fribourg (non-permanent)2005 – 2009Sessional Lecturer – University of Fribourg2004 – 2005Sessional Lecturer – University College London2000 – 2003

2.2 Qualifications

Habilitation in Philosophy, University of Fribourg04/2012PhD in Philosophy, University College London, University of London10/2005MPhil in Philosophy, University College London, University of London07/2000Magister (MA) in Philosophy, Comparative Literature& Physics, University of Tübingen09/1998Vordiplom (≈ BSc) in Physics, University of Tübingen05/1996

2.3 Areas of Research

Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Normativity, Epistemology, Hume

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CV of Fabian Dorsch Academic Career

2.4 Teaching Competence

Modern Philosophy (especially Hume and Kant), 18th-20th Century German Aestheticsand Philosophy of Culture, Ethics, Metaphysics, Logic, Wittgenstein

2.5 Elected Offices

Editor of the Category ‘Aesthetic Realism and Anti-Realism’ – PhilPaperssince 2015Member of the Conference Committee – British Society of Aesthetics2015Editor-in-Chief –Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, Czech Academysince 2012

of the Sciences (ESF ranking: INT2)Philosophy Programme Chair – European Society for Philosophy and Psychology2011 – 2014(Co-)Editor – Proceedings of the European Society for Aestheticssince 2009Founder & Secretary – European Society for Aesthetics2008 – 2013Assistant Editor – dialectica, Wiley-Blackwell (ESF ranking: INT1)2004 – 2008

2.6 Membership in Research Groups and Networks

– Templeton Foundation Project: Intentionality, Consciousness, and Naturalizationsince 2016(part of Tim Crane’s projectNewDirections in the Study ofMind, Institut Jean-Nicod,Paris, and Universities of Fribourg and Turin (www.newdirectionsproject.com/2015/09/10/naturalization/)

– Thought and Sense Research Group, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Universi-since 2015tay of Oslo (www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/research/projects/thought-and-sense/)

– European Network of Practical Reason and Normative Psychology, Centre for thesince 2015Study of Mind in Nature, Universitay of Oslo (www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/research/projects/enprnp/)

– Seneca Foundation Project: Aesthetic Value and its Relationship to other Values in Ap-since 2014preciative Practice, University of Murcia (www.um.es/aresmur/uncategorized/new-research-project/)

– European Normativity Network (www.normativity.net)since 2013– Bild/Picture: Anglo-German Picture Theory Research Group (http://bild.exre.org)since 2012– Nomos Network for Applied Philosophy (www.ub.es/grc_logos/nomos/)since 2009– ‘Experience & Reason’ Research Group at the University of Fribourg (www.exre.org)since 2008–AHRCProject: Method in Philosophical Aesthetics, Universities of Leeds&Nottingham2009 – 2012

(www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/aesthetics/)– eidos: Centre inMetaphysics of theUniversity of Geneva (www.philosophie.ch/eidos/)2007 – 2009

2.7 Language Skills

– German: native language– English: fluent (Europass: C2)– French: intermediate (Europass: B2)– Italian: good reading skills– Latin: good reading skills



CV of Fabian Dorsch Grants & Scholarships

3 Grants & Scholarships

3.1 Personal Awards

SNSF Professorship, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 1.250.830)2013 – 2017Project title: The Normative Mind. – University of Fribourg. – Only about 45 pro-fessorships are awarded each year across all disciplines. There is the possibility of anextension of the professorship until 2019.

Fellowship forAdvancedResearchers, SwissNational ScienceFoundation (CHF 152.200)2009 – 2012Project title: Experiential Rationalism. – Universities of Berkeley, Glasgow andWar-wick, and Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris.

Scholarship for Doctoral Researchers, Rectorate, University of Fribourg (CHF 19.800)2003 – 2004Project title: Imagination and the Will. – University of Fribourg.

GraduateResearchScholarship, Graduate School, University CollegeLondon (GBP33.000)2000 – 2003Project title: Imagination and the Will. – University College London. – Only about15 scholarships were awarded in that year across all disciplines.

Fees Award, Arts &Humanities Research Board, United Kingdom (GBP 11.200)1998 – 2002Project title: The Nature of Aesthetic Experience. – University College London.

Student Award, German National Merit Foundation (8.800 Euro)1993 – 1998

3.2 Group Awards

Research Grant, Templeton Foundation2016 – 2018Project title: Intentionality, Consciousness, and Naturalization. – Universities ofFribourg, Turin, and Institut-Nicod, Paris. – Together with Uriah Kriegel, AlbertoVoltolini, Martine Nida-Rümelin and Gianfranco Soldati. – As part of Tim Crane’sproject New Directions in the Study of the Mind at the University of Cambridge.

ProDoc Research Module, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 278.000)2011 – 2014Project title: Experience of Space and Time. – University of Fribourg. – Togetherwith Jiri Benovsky and Gianfranco Soldati.

ProDoc Research Module, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 416.000)2008 – 2011Project title: Epistemic, Rational andSocialNorms. –Universities of Fribourg, Geneva,and Lausanne. – Together with JulienDeonna, JulienDutant, Pascal Engel, LaurenceKaufmann, and Gianfranco Soldati.

Research Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 463.000)2007 – 2009Project title: Properties and Relations. – University of Geneva. – Together withPhilippKeller, Vincent Lam, StephanLeuenberger, KevinMulligan, Gian-Andri Toen-dury, and Christian Wüthrich.

Research Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 152.000)2004 – 2006Project title: Experience, Imagination and Normativity. – University of Fribourg. –Together with Davor Bodrozic and Gianfranco Soldati.



CV of Fabian Dorsch Grants & Scholarships

3.3 Conference Grants

Annual Meeting of the Bild/Picture Research Group, University of Fribourg — Faculty of2016Letters (CHF 1500)

The New Evil Demon Problem, University of Fribourg & University of Geneva, together2013with Julien Dutant and Pascal Engel — Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale(CHF 9.000)

TheNormative Significance of PhenomenalConsciousness, University of Fribourg—Swiss2011National Science Foundation, Prodoc Programme (CHF 15.000)

Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination, University of Glasgow, together with2011Fiona Macpherson —Mind Association (GBP 3.000)

Annual Conferences of the European Society for Aesthetics, at various European univer-2010-14sities — British Society of Aesthetics (GBP 4.000)

Phenomenal Presence, University of Fribourg, together with Fiona Macpherson — Swiss2010National Science Foundation Prodoc & Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience,University of Glasgow (CHF 6.000)

The Epistemology of Value, University of Fribourg — Conférence Universitaire de Suisse2009Occidentale (CHF 14.000)

TheSelf, University of Fribourg—SwissNational ScienceFoundation, ProdocProgramme2009(CHF 10.000)

Imagination, Expression andDepiction, University of Fribourg— Swiss National Science2007Foundation (CHF 10.000)

8th SequiturMeeting: Epistemology, University of Bern, together with Gian-Andri Toen-2006dury — Beer-Brawand Foundation (CHF 8.000)



CV of Fabian Dorsch Administrative Experience & Services to the Profession

4 Administrative Experience& Services to the Profession

4.1 Work in University Committees

Professorial Representative in the Library Committee –Department of Philosophy, Uni-since 2015versity of Fribourg

Member of the Teaching Committee – Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourgsince 2013Professorial Representative at the Faculty Meetings – Faculty of Humanities, Universitysince 2013

of FribourgProfessorial Representative at the Departmental Meetings – Department of Philosophy,since 2013

University of FribourgMember of the Appointments Committee – Chair for Ancient Philosophy, Department of2008 – 2009

Philosophy, University of FribourgNon-Professorial Representative at the Departmental Meetings –Department of Philos-2005 – 2008

ophy, University of Fribourg

4.2 Foundation and Direction of Research Institutions

Founder & Co-Coordinator – European Normativity Network (www.normativity.net)since 2013Research Coordinator – ‘Experience & Reason’ Research Group, University of Fribourgsince 2010(www.exre.org)

Founder & Secretary – European Society for Aesthetics (www.eurosa.org)2008 – 2013

4.3 Editorial Work

Editor-in-Chief – Estetika: the Central European Journal of Aesthetics, Czech Academysince 2012of the Sciences (ESF ranking: INT2)

Co-Editor – Proceedings of the European Society for Aestheticssince 2009Assistant Editor – dialectica, Wiley-Blackwell (ESF ranking: INT1)2004 – 2008

4.4 Refereeing for Research Councils and Academic Presses

– Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)– Flemish Research Foundation– Oxford University Press– Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden)

4.5 Refereeing for International Conferences

–ESPP, Annual Conferences of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Var-ious Universities, 2011-14

– ESA, Annual Conferences of the European Society for Aesthetics, Various Universities,2009-15

–SoPha 3, Tri-Annual International Congress of the Francophone Society of Analytic Phi-losophy, University of Montreal, 2015

– GAP 9, Ninth Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, University ofOsnabrück, 2015




– ECAP 8, Eighth European Conference of Analytic Philosophy, Universität Bukarest,2014

– Themes from Malcolm Budd, InterUniversity Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality,University of Murcia, 2013

– Fifth Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Universitay of Cartagena, 2011– Epistemic Agency Conference, Universitay of Geneva, 2008

4.6 Refereeing for Journals

– Abstracta– Acta Analytica– The Australasian Journal of Philosophy– The British Journal for the History of Philosophy– The British Journal of Aesthetics– dialectica– Disputatio– Erkenntnis– International Journal of Philosophical Studies– Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism– Mind– Noûs– Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences– Philosophica– Philosophical Explorations– Philosophical Papers– The Philosophical Quarterly– Res Philosophica– Review of Philosophy and Psychology– Synthese– Theoria– Topoi– Trópos

4.7 Conference Organisation

– Annual Meeting of the ‘Bild/Picture’ Research Group, University of Fribourg2016

– Conference on ‘Responsibility and Rational Control’, University of Fribourg, together2015with Davor Bodrozic

– ‘Meeting the Author’: Susanna Schellenberg, University of Fribourg

– Meeting the Author: Conor McHugh, University of Fribourg2014– Meeting the Author: Thomas Pink, University of Fribourg– AnnualMeeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, together with

Teresa McCormack, Gillian Ramchand, Ian Philipps and local organisers, Univer-sity of Messina




– Aesthetic Normativity, University of Fribourg– Meeting the Author: Anders Nes, University of Fribourg

– The New Evil Demon Problem, together with Julien Dutant, University of Fribourg &2013University of Geneva

– Annual Meeting of the European Normativity Network, University of Fribourg– Meeting the Author: David Owens, University of Fribourg– AnnualMeeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, together with

Teresa McCormack, Gillian Ramchand and local organisers, University of Granada– Fifth Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, together with Matilde

Carrasco and Jakub Stejskal, University of Prague

– AnnualMeeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, together with2012TeresaMcCormack, Peter Svevonius, Barry Smith and Ophelia Deroy, University ofLondon

– Fourth Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, together with VitorMoura and Jakub Stejskal, University of Braga & Guimaraes

–TheNormative Significance of PhenomenalConsciousness, togetherwithFionaMacpher-2011son and Gianfranco Soldati, University of Fribourg

– Joint Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Soci-ety for Philosophy and Psychology, together with Sarah Beck, Anna Papafragou,Georges Rey, Anina Roskies and Peter Svevonius, University of Quebec, Montreal

– Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imagination, together with Fiona Macpherson,University of Glasgow

– Third Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, together with JakubStejskal and John Zeimbekis, University of Grenoble

– Phenomenal Presence, together with Fiona Macpherson and Martine Nida-Rümelin,2010University of Fribourg

–SecondAnnualConference of theEuropeanSociety forAesthetics, togetherwithAlessan-dro Bertinetto & Cain Todd, University of Udine

– The Epistemology of Normativity, University of Fribourg2009– First Annual Conference of the European Society for Aesthetics, together with Cain

Todd, University of Fribourg– The Self, University of Fribourg

– Perception and Aesthetic Experience, University of Fribourg2008– Foundational Meeting of the European Society for Aesthetics, University of Fribourg

– Imagination, Expression, and Depiction, University of Fribourg2007

– 8th Sequitur Meeting: Epistemology, together with Gian-Andri Toendury, University2006of Bern




– The Normativity of Reasons, together with Davor Bodrozic, University of Fribourg

4.8 IT Responsibilities

Webmaster – European Normativity Network (www.normativity.net)2013 – 2016Webmaster–Bild/Picture: Anglo-AmericanPictureTheoryResearchGroup (http://bild.exre.org)since 2012Webmaster – ‘Experience & Reason’ Research Group (www.exre.org)since 2008Webmaster – European Society for Aesthetics & Proceedings of the European Society for2008 – 2015

Aesthetics (www.eurosa.org)



CV of Fabian Dorsch Presentations (Selection)

5 Presentations (Selection)

5.1 Invited

– Colloquium on my article ‘Non-Inferentialism about Judgements – The Aesthetic Case’2016(Philosophical Quarterly 2013), with Madeleine Ransom (British Columbia), APACentral Division Meeting, Chicago

– ‘The Value of Aesthetic Understanding’, Conference on The Role of Aesthetic Value inMoral and Cognitive Impacts of Art, Universities of Murcia and Valencia

– ‘The Difference between Seeing and Thinking’, Conference on Sense and Thought, Uni-versity of Oslo

– ‘Hume’s Metaphysical Fictions’, Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the International2015Hume Society, University of Stockholm

– ‘Pictorial Depth and the Role of Imagining in Pictorial Experience’, University of Turin– ‘Aesthetic Reasoning’, Conference onNegative Aesthetic Emotions, Universität Murcia– ‘Imagining and Knowing’, University of Bern– ‘The Phenomenal Presence of Reasons’, Conference on The Reflective Mind, University

of Oslo

– ‘The Phenomenal Presence of Perceptual Reasons’, Second Meeting of the European2014Normativity Network, University of Barcelona

– ‘Hallucinations and the Relationality of Experience’, Conference on Hallucinations,University of Porto

– ‘Aesthetic Rationalism and Aesthetic Normativity’, Conference on Aesthetic Normativ-ity, University of Uppsala

– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Conference onBeyondBrentano: Issues in Phenomenology andthe Philosophy of Mind, University of Salzburg

– ‘Seeing and Visualising’, First EXRE-EIDOS-LOGOS Graduate Conference in Philoso-phy, University of Fribourg

– ‘Die Vorstellungen sind frei – ein Überblick über die zeitgenössische Philosophie derVorstellungskraft’, University of Luzern

– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Conference on Self and Agency, University of Liège– ‘Depiction and Imagination’, Fourth Meeting of the Anglo-German Bild/Picture Re-

search Group, University of Düsseldorf– ‘Seeing and Visualising’, Higher School of Economics, Moscow [Unable to attend]– ‘Depiction and Imagination’, University of Leeds

– ‘Epistemic Reasons as Facts’, Conference on The Ontology of Evidence, University of2013Geneva

– ‘Commentary on Amy Kind’s Imagining Under Constraints’, APA Pacific Meeting, SanFrancisco [Unable to attend]

– ‘Dreaming and Imagining’, Conference on Dreams, Sleep and the Mental Will, Univer-sity of Geneva




– ‘Normativität und Bewusstsein’, University of Luzern– ‘Erstpersonales Wissen und Repräsentationalismus’, Ludwig Maximilians University

Munich– ‘Wahrnehmungsbewusstsein’, Technical University Dortmund– ‘Normativität und Bewusstsein’, University of Jena– ‘Die Transparenz der Erfahrung’, University of Salzburg– ‘Presence in Absence – Bildwahrnehmung und Visuelle Vorstellung’, Academy of Visual

Arts Leipzig

– ‘Kinds of Acceptance’, Invited Symposium on Acceptances as Mental actions, Annual2012Meeting for the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Lon-don

– ‘The Truthfulness of Art’, Conference on Truthfulness and Value in Art, PolytechnicUniversity of Valencia

– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Research Colloquium, Goethe University of Frankfurt– ‘Seeing theDepicted’, SecondMeeting of theAnglo-GermanBild/PictureResearchGroup,

University of Jena– ‘Commentary onLucyO’Brien’sSelf-Knowledge asRooted inRational Agency’, Confer-

ence onEpistemic Agency, Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americana, Huatulco, Oaxaca,Mexico [Unable to attend]

– ‘The Diversity of Disjunctivism’, Conference on Perception, Catholic University of Leu-2011ven

– ‘The Rational Unity of Imagining’, Departmental Meeting, University of Warwick– ‘The Rational Unity of Imagining’, Autonomous University of Barcelona– ‘Kinds of Visual Experience’, Conference on Perceptual Memory and Perceptual Imag-

ination, Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, University of Glasgow– ‘The Phenomenal Presence of Reasons’, Conference on Perception, Action, and Time,

Autonomous University of Barcelona– ‘Non-Inferentialism about the Recognition of Higher-Level Properties’, Thumos Re-

search Group, University of Geneva– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Departmental Meeting, University of Glasgow– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Departmental Meeting, University of Stirling– ‘Reasons and Requirements’, Epistemology Research Group, University of Edinburgh– ‘The Non-Inferential Recognition of Aesthetic Properties’, Departmental Meeting, Uni-

versity of Murcia

– ‘Experiencing the Self’, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris2010– ‘Perceptual Experiences and the Argument from Hallucination’, Catholic University of

Leuven– ‘The Rational Unity of Imagining’, Conference on Imagination, University of Tübingen– ‘Reasons andRequirements’, Conference onEpistemicNorms fromaNaturalistic View-

point: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris– ‘Self-Awareness, Embodiment, and Our Experience of Rationality’, Centre for Integra-

tive Neuroscience, University of Tübingen




– ‘The Relevance of Empirical Findings for Aesthetic Evaluation’, Conference on Analysisand Explanation in Aesthetics, University of Nottingham

– ‘Bilder und Kopien’, Bauhaus University of Weimar

– ‘Seeing and Visualising’, Catholic University of Leuven2009– ‘Experiential Rationalism andOur Self-Knowledge ofMental Agency’, 4thNomosMeet-

ing on Self-Knowledge and Agency, Autonomous University of Madrid– ‘The Rational Unity of Imagining’, Third Meeting of the White Rose Aesthetics Forum,

University of Sheffield–‘Self-Knowledge and the Experience of Rational Unity’, University of Neuchatel

– ‘Self-Awareness of Mental Agency’, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris2008– ‘The Self-Presentational Error in Hallucinating‘, Conference onHallucination, Univer-

sities of Glasgow and Crete– ‘Commentary on Crispin Wright’s On the Characterisation of Borderline Cases’, Con-

ference on Vagueness, Ecole Doctorale Romande en Philosophie, Charmey– ‘Rationality and the Limits of Epistemic Agency’, Conference onEpistemic Agency, Uni-

versity of Geneva– ‘The Role of Emotions in Aesthetic Appreciation’, Universität Bern

– ‘The Individuality of Novels and Sounds’, Conference on Issues in Metaphysics, Ecole2007Doctorale Romande en Philosophie, Ovronnaz

– ‘Dretske on Difference Blindness’, Barry Hall Memorial Meeting, University CollegeLondon

– ‘Commentary on Christopher Peacocke’s Mental Action and Self-Awareness’, Confer-ence on Knowledge and Action, University of Stirling

– ‘Imagining and Knowing’, University of Stirling

– ‘Experiencing Mental Actions’, Conference on The Phenomenology of Agency, Univer-2006sity of Fribourg

– ‘Emotions as Dispositions’, Research Colloquium of the Research GroupEmotions, Val-ues, andNorms of theNCCRCenter of Competence inAffective Sciences, Universityof Geneva

– ‘RichardMoranon Imagination andFictional Emotions’, 16thPhrónesis Inter-UniversityWorkshop on Philosophy andCognitive Science: on andwithRichardMoran, Uni-versity of Valencia

– ‘The Scope of Mental Agency’, Conference on Mental Action, Institute of Philosophy,2005School of Advanced Study, University of London

– ‘Imagination and the Will’, Research Colloquium, University of Fribourg2002– ‘Commentary on Kevin Mulligan’s Seeing Sadness’, Conference on Intuition and Epis-

temology, University of Fribourg

5.2 Peer-Reviewed

– ‘Imagination and Depiction’, Annual Conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics,2016University of Uppsala




– ‘The Phenomenal Presence of Reasons’, 9th Conference of the German Society for An-2015alytic Philosophy, University of Osnabrück

– ‘The Phenomenal Presence of Reasons’, Annual Meeting of the European NormativityNetwork, Humboldt- & Free University Berlin

– ‘Depiction and Imagination’, Annual Meeting of the ‘Bild/Picture’ Research Group,2014University Düsseldorf

– ‘Seeing the Depicted’, Annual Meeting of the ‘Bild/Picture’ Research Group, University2012Jena

– ‘The Relevance of Empirical Findings for Aesthetic Evaluation’, 8th Congress of the2011German Society for Aesthetics: Experimental Aesthetics, University of Düsseldorf

– ‘Transparency and Imagining Seeing’, Meeting of the German Society for Philosophy,University of Munich

– ‘Transparency and Imagining Seeing’, AnnualMeeting of the European Society for Phi-2010losophy and Psychology, Universities of Bochum and Essen

– ‘The Self-Presentational Error in Hallucinating’, Seventh International Conference of2009the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Bremen

– ‘The Self-Presentational Error in Hallucinating’, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Soci-2008ety and the Mind Association, University of Aberdeen

– ‘Novel Sounds: The Individuality of Repeatable Artworks’, eidos Metaphysics Confer-ence, University of Geneva

– ‘The Recognition of Aesthetic Qualities’, Alumni Research Students Conference, Uni-versity College London

– ‘Imagining and Knowing’, Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and2007Psychology, University of Geneva

– ‘Moral Motivation’, Conference on and with Samual Scheffler, Ethics Centre, University2006of Zurich

– ‘The Practical Rationality of Emotions’, Conference on Emotions and Rationality in2005Moral Philosophy, Universities of Neuchatel and Bern

– ‘The Impossibility of Deciding to Believe’, together with Davor Bodrozic, Joint Meeting2004of theEuropeanSociety for PhilosophyandPsychologyand the (American) Societyfor Philosophy and Psychology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

– ‘Imaginings and Imaginative Projects’, Annual Meeting of the European Society for2003Philosophy and Psychology, Fondazione Rosselli, Turin

– ‘The Unity of Imagining’, Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and2002Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, University of Lyon

– ‘Introspecting Visual Imagination’, Conference on Being in London: Anglophone and2001European Philosophy of Mind, Forum for European Philosophy, London



CV of Fabian Dorsch Teaching & Examination Record

6 Teaching & Examination Record

6.1 Research Supervision (University of Fribourg)

– Davor Bodrozic, Postdoctoral work, Normative Reasons (since 2013)

– Miloud Belkoniene, PhD dissertation, Acceptance, Explanation and Pragmatic En-croachment (together with Prof. Gianfranco Soldati) (since 2014)

– Magnus Frei, PhD dissertation, Acting for a Reason (since 2013)

– Jana Sedlakova, MA dissertation, The Justification of Perceptual Beliefs (2016)– Peter Hügli, MA dissertation, The Justification of Aesthetic Evaluations (2008/9)– Gabriela Wild, MA dissertation, Emotional Responses to Fictional Works (2006/7)

6.2 PhD & Habiliation Examinations (Various Universities)

– Jesko Reiling, Habilitation examination, TBA, German Literature, University of Fri-bourg, 2016

– Emmanuel Baierlé, PhD examination, The Phenomenology of Choice, University of Fri-bourg, 2016.

– Adrian Brauneis, PhD examination, Sozioanalyse als ‘epische Methode’, German Liter-ature, University of Fribourg, 2015

– Andrea Giananti, PhD examination, Openness to the World : an Enquiry into the In-tentionality of Perception, University of Fribourg, 2015.

– Coralie Dorsaz, PhD examination, The Epistemic Roles of Perception, University of Fri-bourg, 2015

– Regina-Nino Kurg, PhD examination, Edmund Husserl’s Theory of Image Conscious-ness, Aesthetic Consciousness, and Art, University of Fribourg, 2014

–Marta Jorba, PhD examination, Cognitive Phenomenology: a Non-Reductive Account,University of Barcelona, 2014 (as the examiner in reserve)

6.3 BA &MA Grading (Various Universities)

– Regular essay grading and oral examinations, University of Fribourg, 2004-09 & since2013

– Regular essay grading, University College London, 2000-03

6.4 Lecture Courses (University of Fribourg)

– Values and Society (since 2014)– Epistemology (2014)– Introduction to Modal and Non-Classical Logic (2008/9)

6.5 Lecture Courses (University College London)

– Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetic Value (2002/03)– Theories of Art from Plato to Adorno (including Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heideg-

ger; 2001/02)



CV of Fabian Dorsch Teaching & Examination Record

– Pictures and Pictorial Experience (2000/01)

6.6 Research Seminars (University of Fribourg)

– Weekly research seminar on the philosophy of normativity for postdocs, doctoral andadvanced MA students linked to the research project The Normative Mind (since2013)

– Fortnightly research colloquium in contemporary systematic philosophy for postdocsand doctoral students (together with Prof. Nida-Rümelin & Prof. Soldati – sine2013)

6.7 BA/MA Seminars (University of Fribourg)

– Philosophy of Culture (together with Prof. Swiderski; 2014/15)– German Aesthetic Theory – From Baumgarten to Adorno (together with Prof. Beise;

2014/15)– Joseph Raz’ From Normativity to Responsibility (2014)– Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (2013/4)– Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (2008/9)– Self-Knowledge (2007/8)– Theories of Perception (together with Prof. Soldati – 2006/7 & 2007)– Reasons, Values and Norms: an Introduction to Meta-Ethics (2006/7)– Imagination and Pictorial Experience (together with Prof. Marbach and Prof. Soldati –

2006)– Entitlement and Justification (together with Prof. Soldati – 2005/6 & 2006)– Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (2005/6)– The Ontology of Artworks (together with Prof. Swiderski – 2005/6)– Kant’s Critique of Judgement (2004/5)

6.8 Tutorials (University of Fribourg & Private Tutoring)

– Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (2008/9)– Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (2008)– Charakter and Virtue in Aristoteles, Kant and Foot (together with IsabelleWienand and

Euree Song – 2008)– Rawls’ Theory of Justice (2007/8)– Frege’s Essays on Thought and Language (2007)

6.9 Tutorials (University College London)

– Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics (2001/2 & 2002/3)– Descartes’Meditations on First Philosophy (2000/1 & 2001/2)– Philosopy of Mind (2001)



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