Dustin Gooßens

CV

• 2021 Research assistant/PhD candidate, RUB
• 2017–2021: Research assistant, Interdisciplinary research projects „Humane artifizielle Gameten. Erzeugung und genetische Veränderung von aus human pluripotenten Stammzellen differenzierten Gameten und ihre ethische und rechtliche Bewertung (HumArGam)“ und „Ethische und rechtliche Konzepte für die Anwendung neuer Techniken einer präzisen Genomeditierung bei hereditären Erkrankungen (REAliGN-HD)“ funded by BMBF
• 2021 M.A. Philosophy, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Abschlussarbeit: "Onto-Logical Pluralism: An Essay on the Metaphysical Foundation of Logical Pluralism")
• 2016 B.A. Philosophy / Political Science, Sociology

Research Interests

• Metaphysics (Ontology, Metaontology, (Post-)Modal Metaphysics)
• Philosophy of Logic (Logical Pluralism)
• Applied ethics (Gene editing, Artificial Gametes)

Teaching

• SoSe 2025: Alexius Meinong: An Introduction to His Work and Legacy
• WiSe 2024/2025: Klassiker der Sprachphilosophie
• WiSe 2024/2025: Wahrheitstheorien
• SoSe 2024: Übung zur Vorlesung "Grundzüge der Logik: Logik I"
• WiSe 2023/2024: Sinn und Unsinn
• WiSe 2023/2024: Abstrakte Gegenstände
• SoSe 2023: Grounding, Essence, Fundamentality: Einführung in die Grundbegriffe postmodaler Metaphysik
• WiSe 2022/2023: Existenz, Quantifikation und Modalität bei W.V.O. Quine
• WiSe 2022/2023: Bertrand Russell: Probleme der Philosophie
• SoSe 2022: Ontologie und Metaontologie
• WiSe 2021/2022: Tutorium zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Logik und Grundlagenforschung“ (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
• WiSe 2020/2021: Tutorium zur Vorlesung „Einführung in die Logik und Grundlagenforschung“ (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

Publications

Gooßens, D. Framework Conditions as Limits of Sense (forthcoming). Semiotic Studies.

Gooßens, D. Normativity Pluralism as Pluralism about Criteria of Logicality (forthcoming). Recent Advances in The Philosophy of Logic (Routledge, special collection). D.B. Garancini, T-T. Călinoiu (eds.)

Gooßens, D. Fundamentality, Existence, Totality: On Three Notions of Reality and the Landscape of Metaphysics. Facets of Reality. Contributions to the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium. A. Passinsky, J. De Rizzo, B. Schnieder (eds.). https://symposium.alws.at/api/content/df447032-2b86-43dc-a1e1-8bd29b672592.pdf

Gooßens, D. and Tedder, A. No Cause for Collapse. Asian Journal of Philosophy 2, 37 (2023). Special Issue: Themes from Beall, C. Caret, J.J. Joaquin, M. del Rosario Martinez-Ordaz (ed.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-023-00083-1

Gooßens, D. The use of human artificial gametes and the limits of reproductive freedom. Bioethics. 2021; 35: 72–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12787

Talks

• Non-Representational Hyperintensional Metaphysics, The 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP12), August 2026, Complutense University of Madrid, Edificio Multiusos
• Non-Representational Hyperintensional Metaphysics, Hyperintensionality and (Meta)-Metaphysics, May 2026, Uppsala University
• Normativity Pluralism as Pluralism about Criteria of Logicality, Nineteenth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, January 2026, St. John's College Cambridge
• Can Carnap's problem save quantifier variance?, Modalities and Quantification in Reasoning, September 2025, Central European University (CEU)
• Logic and Ethics as Transcendental: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Feminist Logic, August 2025, Workshop on Feminist Logic, Ruhr-Univesität Bochum (RUB)
• (Non-)Existence Entailments and Easy Ontology, April 2025, Language, Reality, Inquiry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics/Eötvös University Budapes
• Clarifying (Non-)Existence: A Three-layered Framework for Existence-Questions and Meta-Ontological Disputes, September 2024, XXVI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie (Universität Münster)
• Fundamentality, Existence, Totality: On Three Notions of Reality and the Landscape of Metaphysics, August 2024, 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg am Wechsel)
• Framework Conditions as Limits of Sense, July 2024, Wait, What!? A Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistkes (13th WFAP Graduate Conference)
• Hyperintensionality and Semantic Constraints, August 2023, The 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP11), Central European University (CEU)
• No cause for collapse. Logica 2023, June 2023, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Logical Pluralism and Realism about Logic. Perspectives on Logic and Philosophy, January 2023, Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)
• Can Relativism save Logical Pluralism from the Normativity Objection? Normativity of Logic 2022, October 2022, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP)
• Die Suche nach Wahrheit und die Wahrheit im Suchen, Realismus und Idealismus heute, May 2022, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Reproduktive Selbstbestimmung, (Re)Produktion und (Re)Kombination. Humane artifizielle Gameten und Genomeditierung in Ethik und Recht, October 2019, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar (PTHV)