Felix Bräuer

Felix Bräuer serves as Assistant Professor at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy/Philosophy of Language (Chair I) within the Department of Philosophy at the School of Humanities, University of Mannheim since 2019. Previously, he held an Assistant Professor position at Saarland University from 2018 to 2019.

His academic qualifications include:

• PhD in Philosophy, Humboldt University (2018)
• Philosophy studies at University of Wuppertal
• Philosophy studies at UC Berkeley

Dr. Bräuer specializes in epistemology with concentrated expertise in social epistemology and testimony-based justification, examining how social norms function within knowledge transmission systems. His research extends to philosophy of language through analysis of assertion mechanisms and expressivist frameworks, while maintaining active scholarly engagement with Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics as reflected in his teaching portfolio. Methodologically, he bridges analytic philosophy with social practice theory to investigate epistemic dependence in communal contexts.

Publication trends from 2017-2022 reveal consistent exploration of testimony epistemology, with major contributions addressing reductionism debates, constitutive rules of assertion, and epistemic dependence frameworks. His work demonstrates increasing integration of social norm theory with linguistic philosophy, particularly evident in the 2022 Synthese article on expressivism transparency and the 2021 monograph analyzing testimonial dependence. Core thematic threads connect practical risk assessment in testimonial communities (2017) with contemporary analyses of engagement conditions in assertion (2021).