Sven received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1999. After a postdoc at UNAM, he worked at FU Berlin, receiving his senior doctorate (habilitation) in 2004. From 2005 until 2008 he was a DFG Heisenberg Fellow. Sven joined ICREA in 2008. He coordinated the ITNs PETAF (EC-GA-238128, 2010-13) and Diaphora (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415, 2016-19) and served on the EC of the Consolider-Ingenio PERSP (CSD2009-00056, 2010-15). He was PI of the I+D projects Fallibility, Rational Belief and Knowledge (2014-16) and Justification, its Structure and Grounds (2019-22) and is currently PI of Methods: Epistemology Beyond Belief (2022-25). Since 2014 he coordinates the consolidated research group LOGOS. In 2018 he was elected member of the Academia Europaea. He is one of the investigadores garantes of the María de Maeztu grant recently awarded to the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy.
Research interests
Sven's main research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in realism, objectivity, fallibility, the logic of justification, epistemic paradoxes, the limits of thought and knowledge (if any), and the philosophy of time and existence. Recently, Sven published a co-authored monograph on tensed theories of time with Springer. His latest book, Justification as Ignorance, concerns the nature and logic of epistemic justification and was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
Selected publications
- Correia F & Rosenkranz S, 2022, 'Presentism, Ockhamism and Truth-Grounding', in: Santelli A (ed.), Ockhamism and Philosophy of Time: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Future Contingents, Synthese Library Series Vol. 452, Cham/Switzerland: Springer Nature, 117-130.
- Rosenkranz S, 2022, 'Précis of Justification as Ignorance', Asian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, 28, pp. 1-6.
- Rosenkranz S, 2022, 'Replies to critics', Asian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, 29, pp. 1-37.
Selected research activities
Talks:
‘Do zetetic norms compete with evidential norms?’, conference presentation, 10th Congress of the Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy (SEFA), Santiago de Compostela, December 2022.
‘Methods: Epistemology Beyond Belief – The Case of Safety’, keynote address, 7th Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy Conference, Rio de Janeiro, October 2022.
‘Epistemology Beyond Belief’, invited talk, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, April 2022.
‘Epistemology Beyond Belief’, invited talk, Oxford Epistemology Group, University of Oxford, March 2022.
Research leadership:
Coordinator of LOGOS, the consolidated Research Group in Analytic Philosophy (2017-SGR-63).
PI of the project Justification, its Structure and Grounds (PGC2018-099889-B-I00, 2019-22).
PI of the project Methods: Epistemology Beyond Belief (PID2021-122566NB-I00, 2022-25).
Investigador garante of the María de Maeztu grant awarded to the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (CEX2021-001169-M) and co-author of the application.