Sven Bernecker

Sven Bernecker (* 1967 ) is a German philosopher .

Bernecker studied philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a master's degree in 1990, studied at the University of California, Berkeley , and received his doctorate in 1997 from Stanford University . From 1996 to 2003 he was an assistant at the University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 2002. In 2002 he became a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London and from 2003 to 2006 he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester . In 2006 he became a professor at the University of California, Irvine (where he continues to teach). From 2011 to 2013 he held the chair for theoretical philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 2016 he received aHumboldt Professorship at the University of Cologne .

He deals with epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and German idealism (Kant). He is known for his preoccupation with the philosophy of memory.

He was a Heisenberg fellow and received a Humboldt Research Award in 2011 .

Fonts (selection)

• Memory: A Philosophical Study, Oxford University Press, 2010
• The Metaphysics of Memory, Dordrecht: Springer, 2008
• Reading Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
• Editor with Duncan Pritchard: The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge 2011
• Editor with Kourken Michaelian: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, Taylor and Francis 2017 (in it by Bernecker introduction with Michaelian and Memory and Truth)

Web links

• Homepage, University of Cologne
• Humboldt Professorship