I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Graz. Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, and as part of Benjamin Schnieder's Nominalizations project at the University of Hamburg and Matti Eklund's Varieties of Normativity project at Uppsala University. I have also spent time at the University of Konstanz, the ILLC in Amsterdam, Humboldt University in Berlin, MIT in Cambridge (MA), and the Concept Lab at the University of Oslo.
My research lies at the intersection of philosophy of language, metaphysics, metaethics, and social philosophy. I draw heavily on results and methods from linguistics to shed new light on core philosophical problems. In my PhD thesis, which received the Wolfgang-Stegmüller Prize in 2015, I explored the ontological commitments of our talk about numbers.
Currently, my work focuses on normatively loaded expressions—such as pejoratives, thick terms, and dual-character concepts—as well as broader questions at the semantics/pragmatics interface. I am also particularly interested in the workings of that-clauses, concealed questions, and presuppositions.
If you would like to contact me, please write an email to katharina.felka[at]uni-graz[dot]at.
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