Christopher Badura

I like coffee. A lot. (Way too much)

Curriculum Vitae (Short)

• 2016-2021 Research Assistant/PhD student, RUB. Advisors: Heinrich Wansing, Francesco Berto. Dissertation
• 2018 Visiting PhD student, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom. Host: Franz Berto
• 2016 M. Sc. Logic, ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Advisor: Franz Berto. Thesis.
• 2013 B. A. Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Germany. Advisor: Benjamin Schnieder.
• 2010 Abitur Gymnasium Bondenwald, Hamburg, Germany.

Research Interests

• Philosophy of language: empty terms, negative existentials
• Metaphysics: ontology of fictional entities, truthmakers for negative existentials
• Philosophy of mind: mental representation, Imagination
• Philosophical logic: Modal logic, non-classical logics, higher-order modal logics
• Epistemology: belief revision, formal epistemology
• Phenomenology of perception, experience, and imagination

My Spare Time...

...is taken up by our two dogs Gwenny and Andra. That's why I like hiking. If the dogs give their consent, I play Magic: The Gathering, different kinds of board games, and pen and paper role playing games, especially the German RPG Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye), adventures set in the World of Darkness, or KULT. If I find the time, I lift heavy things and put them down again (weightlifting).

Teaching

I've taught the following courses for undergraduates (all in German):

• Exercise class to Introduction to Logic I
• Philosophy and Puzzles of Fiction
• Philosophy of Imagination
• Modal Predicate Logic (with Heinrich Wansing; and solo)
• Introduction to Analytic Philosophy (with Sara Ayhan)
• Conceptions of Truth
• Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality
• Finding and Evaluating Arguments
• Fictionalism in contemporary Philosophy

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

1. Badura, C. 2021. „How Imagination Can Justify“. In Badura, C. and Kind, A. (Hrsg.): Epistemic Uses of Imagination. London/New York: Routledge.
2. Badura, C. and Kind, Amy. 2021. „Introduction - The Epistemic Role of Imagination“. In Badura, C. and Kind, A. (Hrsg.): Epistemic Uses of Imagination. London/New York: Routledge.
3. Badura, C. 2020. „More Aboutness in Imagination“. Journal of Philosophical Logic.
4. Badura, C., Berto, F., and Jago, M. 2019. „Fiction and Fictional Objects“. In Berto, F., Jago, M. (Hrsg.): Impossible Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Badura, C. and Berto, F. 2019. „Truth in Fiction, Impossible Worlds, and Belief Revision“. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 97(1): 178-93.

Edited and Others

1. Badura, C. and Kind, A. (Hrsg.). 2021. Epistemic Uses of Imagination. London/New York: Routledge.
2. Badura, C. 2020. „ From doxastic obligations to obligations to imagine – An initial case study“. Blogeintrag bei Junkyard of the Mind.
3. Badura, C. 2019. „Logic(s) for Imagination“. Blogeintrag bei Junkyard of the Mind.