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Dr. Anna-Maria Asunta Eder is a Research Fellow at the Chair of Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. For the winter term 2024/2025, she is substituting for the Chair of Epistemology and Philosophy of Language at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Previously, from April 2022 to March 2023, she served as the Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professor at TU Dresden. She maintains extensive collaborative relationships as an external member of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, board member of the Center for Language, Information, and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, member of the DFG network 'Thinking about Suspension,' and external member of the DFG Emmy-Noether research group 'From Perception to Belief and Back Again' at Ruhr-University Bochum.
Dr. Eder completed her doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz and earned her MA from the University of Salzburg, with additional academic experience at institutions including Leuven, Berkeley, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, and Boston. Her scholarly trajectory demonstrates deep engagement with both formal and social dimensions of philosophical inquiry.
Her research program spans multiple interconnected domains: In epistemology, she investigates epistemic disagreement, pluralism, normativity, justification theories, evidential support, and expertise. Her philosophy of science work examines trust dynamics in scientific communities, the influence of values on scientific reasoning, inquiry aims, and probability interpretations. In metaphilosophy, she explores conceptual clarification methods and the role of formal modeling in philosophical practice. Her philosophy of logic research addresses the normative status of logical principles in reasoning. She also maintains significant interests in social ontology, philosophy of mind (particularly doxastic states and bounded rationality), and conceptual engineering in philosophy of language.
Dr. Eder's recent publications reveal a cohesive research agenda focused on rational response to evidence in social contexts. Her work consistently bridges formal precision with real-world epistemic challenges, developing sophisticated models for understanding suspension of judgment, higher-order evidence, and the impact of non-epistemic values on evidential reasoning. This integrative approach has positioned her at the forefront of contemporary debates in social and formal epistemology.
- Eleonore-Trefftz Visiting Professor at TU Dresden (2022-2023)
- Member of DFG network 'Thinking about Suspension'
- External member of DFG Emmy-Noether research group 'From Perception to Belief and Back Again'
- Board member of Center for Language, Information, and Philosophy
Dr. Eder actively collaborates across international boundaries and regularly organizes academic workshops. Her current major projects include co-editing 'The Epistemology of Experts: New Essays' with Routledge, contributing to the 'Blackwell Companion to Epistemology,' and developing her higher-order credal account of suspension. She serves as a referee for leading philosophy journals including the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, and Synthese, demonstrating her standing within the philosophical community. Her ongoing research continues to advance our understanding of rational belief formation in increasingly complex epistemic environments.
