Matthias Unterhuber

Dr. Matthias Unterhuber is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and combines expertise in Philosophy (four-year combined bachelor/master’s) and Psychology (five-year combined bachelor/master’s).

• Education: PhD in Philosophy, four-year combined bachelor/master’s in Philosophy, five-year combined bachelor/master’s in Psychology

His research spans Logic, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Science, with a focus on conditional reasoning, ceteris paribus laws, and Bayesian pragmatics. He actively investigates pragmatic influences on sentence meaning using EEG studies and develops Bayesian models for linguistic interpretation in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Markus Werning.

His publications highlight interdisciplinary work bridging Philosophy and Neuroscience, particularly in conditional logic, connexive logic, and the intersection of pragmatic effects with empirical neuroscience methods like EEG. Key themes include probabilistic reasoning, formal semantics, and cognitive modeling.

Dr. Unterhuber contributes to the DFG-funded project The Interaction of Bayesian Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics under the XPrag framework, utilizing the university’s EEG lab to explore situated cognition and pragmatic prediction mechanisms.