I just completed my PhD at the University of Warwick. Starting in April, I will be a research fellow at the TU Dortmund, working with Eva Schmidt. My research focuses on the relation between knowledge and belief. Here is my CV. You can also find me on PhilPeople. Scrolling down you can read more about my research and publications.

My doctoral studies at Warwick were funded by CADRE and I was supervised by Guy Longworth and Johannes Roessler. During my PhD, I spent time at Oxford, Toronto, and Cologne. Before my PhD, I completed an MPhil in Philosophy at Warwick for which I won the departmental prize for outstanding performance.

I spent the first part of my life in Vienna, Austria. In 2011, I came to the UK for my undergraduate degree in Politics and Philosophy. I now live in Kenilworth.

Email: s.b.wimmer(at)warwick.ac.uk

Research

My work focuses on the relation between knowledge and belief. I am currently exploring egalitarian views, on which knowledge and belief are independent states. My PhD dissertation argued that extant belief- and knowledge-first views of the relation between knowledge and belief enjoy no explanatory advantage over egalitarian ones. As part of this argument, I defended the claim that knowledge, unlike belief, is an attitude to a fact and explored the implications of this claim for theorizing about the relation between knowledge and belief.

I also work on further issues in epistemology, language, mind, and formal semantics which touch on the relation between knowledge and belief. Below you find a list of my publications. For some of my presentations, have a look at my CV.

Publications

Journal article
R&Rs and papers under review are not listed to ensure blind review.
2019. Knowledge-first believing the unknowable. Synthese.

Encyclopedia entry
under contract. Knowledge-first epistemology. Internet encyclopedia of philosophy (with Paul Silva).

Critical notice
2017. What is it to be aware of your awareness of red? A review essay of Michelle Montague's The Given. Philosophical Psychology (with Giulia Martina).

Book review
2016. Review of Clayton Bohnet’s ‘Logic and the limits of philosophy in Kant and Hegel’. Kant Studies Online (with Tristan Kreetz).
2013. Review of ‘The Non-Philosophy Project: Essays by François Laruelle’. Autumn 2013 issue of Dialectic, the journal of the University of York Philosophy Society (with Tristan Kreetz).