Inga Bones

Inga Bones is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), holding this position since August 2018 after previous lecturer appointments at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2017-2018) and Bielefeld University (2016-2017). She earned her PhD summa cum laude in February 2018 with a dissertation on the Sorites Paradox supervised by Professors Gerhard Ernst, Rosario LaSala, and Geert Keil.

Her academic background includes:

• PhD in Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (defended February 2018, summa cum laude)
• Master of Arts in Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Stuttgart (2008-2011, graduated with honors)
• Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2005-2008)
• Research stay at the University of Toronto (2014)

Dr. Bones' research centers on conceptual engineering applied to hate speech and slurs, examining the boundaries of free speech through metaphilosophical and linguistic frameworks. Her expertise spans vagueness, context-sensitivity, and the semantics-pragmatics divide in Philosophy of Language, alongside conceptual analysis in Metaphilosophy. She also maintains active teaching competence in Philosophy of Mind (mind-body problem), Epistemology (skepticism), and classical/non-classical Logic.

Her publication record demonstrates sustained engagement with philosophical paradoxes, particularly the Sorites Paradox. The 2019 co-authored chapter "Contextualism and the Sorites Paradox" analyzes semantic approaches to vagueness, while her forthcoming monograph "How to Swim in Sinking Sands" expands this inquiry into the logic of vague language. These works reveal her methodological focus on resolving foundational tensions between linguistic practice and theoretical frameworks.

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Dr. Bones actively contributes to public discourse as a member of the Forum für Streitkultur think tank, which promotes constructive debate culture beyond academic settings.