Sven received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1999. After a postdoc research fellowship at UNAM, he worked at the philosophy department at FU Berlin until 2005 and was awarded his senior doctorate (habilitation) in 2004. From 2005 until 2008 he received a DFG Heisenberg Research Fellowship. Sven joined ICREA in 2008. He is Associate Fellow at Arché, St Andrews, and was until its closure in 2015 Honorary Research Fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen. From 2010 until 2013 he coordinated the FP7 ITN PETAF (EC-GA 238128, €1465432) and from 2010 until 2015 served on the executive committee of the Consolider-Ingenio PERSP (CSD2009-00056, €2000000). Since 2014 he is coordinator of the research group LOGOS (2014-SGR-81) and PI of the project Fallibility, Rational Belief, and Knowledge (FFI2013-45968-P, €66550). From 2016 until 2019, Sven coordinates the ETN Diaphora (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415, €3670854).

Research interests

Sven's main research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in realism, objectivity, fallibility, the logic of justification, the limits of thought and knowledge (if any), and the philosophy of time. Sven has just completed a co-authored monograph on tensed theories of time under contract with Springer. He is currently working on a project on the logic of justification, based on his 2017 Mind paper 'The Structure of Justification'.