Sven Bernecker
Professor, Philosophy
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Co-Director, Minor in Medical Humanities
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
Habilitation, University of Munich, 2002
Habilitation, University of Munich, 2002
University of California, Irvine
77 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
77 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Kant and German Idealism
Websites
Appointments
Before coming to Irvine in 2006 I taught at the University of Manchester (2003-2006), Birkbeck College London (2003), and the University of Munich (1997-2003). I was holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Vienna (2011-13).
I have held visiting appointments at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2000), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2002), Humboldt University Berlin (2010), Ruhr University Bochum (2010), and University of Cologne (2012). Since 2022, I am a Senior Research Associate at the Department of African Centre for Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.
Teaching Award, UC Irvine, 2014
Board of Directors, American Philosophical Association, 2013-16, 2017-2020
I have held visiting appointments at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2000), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2002), Humboldt University Berlin (2010), Ruhr University Bochum (2010), and University of Cologne (2012). Since 2022, I am a Senior Research Associate at the Department of African Centre for Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.
Teaching Award, UC Irvine, 2014
Board of Directors, American Philosophical Association, 2013-16, 2017-2020
Publications
MONOGRAPHS
Memory: A Philosophical Study. Oxford University Press, 2010 hdk., 2012 pbk.
The Metaphysics of Memory. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008 hbk.
Reading Epistemology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006 hbk. & pbk.
CO-EDITED WORKS
Kant and Contemporary Epistemology. History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 25:1, 2022
The Epistemology of Fake News. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Medical Knowledge in a Social World. Synthese special issue Vol.196, 2019
Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. London: Routledge, 2017 hdk, 2019 pbk.
Routledge Companion to Epistemology. London: Routledge, 2011 hbk., 2013 pbk.
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 pbk.
EPISTEMOLOGY GENERAL
Knowledge, Falsehood, and Defeat. In R. Borges & I. Schnee (eds.), Illuminating Errors: New Essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge (139-157). London 2024: Routledge
Justified Evidence Resistance. Acta Analytica (2023). DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-023-00575-y
Evidence, Reasons, and Knowledge in the Reasons-First Program. With P. Silva. Philosophical Studies (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02044-z
Explanatory Salience Contextualism Revisited. Synthese (2023) 201:80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04067-9
Knowledge from Falsehood and Truth-Closeness. Philosophia 50 (2022), 1623-1638.
Against Global Method Safety. Synthese 197 (2020), 5101-5116
An Epistemic Defense of News Abstinence. In S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree & T. Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News (286-309), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Extended Minds in Vats. In S.C. Goldberg (ed.), The Brain in a Vat (54-72), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
On the Metaphysics of Knowledge. In M. Gabriel, W. Hogrebe, and A. Speer (eds.), The New Desire for Metaphysics (161-180), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015.
Die identifikationistische Lösung des Gettier Problems. In D. Koppelberg & S. Tolksdorf (eds.), Erkenntnistheorie - wie und wozu? (189-214), Münster: Mentis, 2015.
How to Understand the Extended Mind. Philosophical Issues 24 (2014), 1-23.
Der Wert des Wissens. In N. Kompa & S. Schmoranzer (eds.), Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie (109-119), Paderborn: Mentis, 2014.
Triangular Externalism. In E. Lepore & K. Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson (443-455), Oxford: Blackwell, 2013.
Warum das Gettier-Problem kein Scheinproblem ist. In G. Ernst & L. Marani (eds.), Das Gettierproblem: Eine Bilanz nach 50 Jahren (29-48), Paderborn: Mentis, 2013.
Sensitivity, Safety, and Closure. Acta Analytica 27 (2012), 367-381.
Keeping Track of the Gettier Problem. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2011), 127-152.
Die Kausaltheorie der Wahrnehmung und der direkte Realismus. In R. Schantz (ed.), Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung (155-181), Frankfurt/M. 2009: Ontos.
Weshalb Wissen keinen spezifischen Wert hat. In G. Schönrich (ed.), Wissen und Werte (73-94), Paderborn: Mentis, 2009.
Agent Reliabilism and the Problem of Clairvoyance. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008), 164-172.
Wider den Empirismus bezüglich Farbbegriffen. In J. Steinbrenner & S. Glasauer (eds.), Farben (248-273), Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2007.
Prospects for Epistemic Compatibilism. Philosophical Studies 130 (2006), 81-104.
Rule-Following Made Easy. In W. Löffler & P. Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and Belief (63-69), Vienna: öbv-hpt, 2004.
Psychophysische Gesetze und Supervenienz. Philosophia Naturalis 40 (2003), 207-225.
Skeptizismus, Naturalismus und Quine. Philosophisches Jahrbuch 110 (2003), 46-58.
Radikale Interpretation und Skeptizismus. In W.R. Köhler (ed.), Davidsons Philosophie des Mentalen (53-65), Paderborn: Schöningh, 1997.
MEMORY
Dreaming, Imagining, and Remembering. Forthcoming in D. Gregory & K. Michaelian (eds.), Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues. Berlin: Springer.
An Explanationist Model of (False) Memory. In A. Sant’Anna, C. McCarroll, & K. Michaelian (eds.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory (109-126), London 2022: Routledge.
The Ethics of Remembering and Forgetting. Chinese Social Sciences Today Vol. 1996 (08/25/2020). http://www.cssn.cn/kxk/kxyrw/202008/t20200825_5173772.shtml
Introduction to Review Symposium on the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, Memory Studies 12 (2019): 746-750
Knowledge from Forgetting. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 98 (2019): 525-540. With T. Grundmann
On the Blameworthiness of Forgetting. In K. Michaelian, D. Debus & D. Perrin (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory (241-258), London: Routledge, 2018.
A Causal Theory of Mnemonic Confabulation. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 1207 (2017): 1-14.
Memory and Truth. In S. Bernecker & K. Michaelian (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (51-62), Routledge: London, 2017.
Visual Memory and the Bounds of Authenticity. In D. Moyal-Sharrock, V. Munz & A. Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language and Action (445-463), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015.
Memory in Analytic Philosophy. In D. Nikulin (ed.), Memory: A History (298-315), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Memory Knowledge. In S. Bernecker & D. Pritchard (eds.), Routledge Companion to Epistemology (326-334), London: Routledge, 2011.
Further Thoughts on Memory: Replies to Schechtman, Adams, and Goldberg. Philosophical Studies 153 (2011), 109-121.
Precis of Memory: A Philosophical Study. Philosophical Studies 153 (2011), 61-64.
Remembering without Knowing. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 137-156
Memory and Externalism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2004), 605-632.
Russell on Mnemic Causation. Principia 5 (2001), 149-185.
Impliziert Erinnerung Wissen?. In T. Grundmann (ed.), Erkenntnistheorie (145-164), Paderborn: Mentis, 2001.
KANT & GERMAN IDEALISM
A Kantian Perspective on Robot Ethics. In D. Schönecker & H. Kim (eds), Kant and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 147-168), Berlin 2022: de Gruyter. With L. Benossi
Der indexikalische Fehlschluss. in McTaggarts Beweis der Irrealität der Zeit. Forthcoming in Raum und Zeit, V. Waibel (Ed.), Hamburg: Meiner.
Reinholds linguistischer Schematismus. In V.L. Waibel, M. Ruffing & D. Wagner (eds.), Proceedings of the 12. International Kant Congress: Nature and Freedom, Vol. V (3369-3377), Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2018.
Kant on Spatial Orientation. European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2012), 519-533.
Reinholds Erkenntnistheorie des Dissens. In V. Stolz, M. Bondeli and M. Heinz (eds.), Wille, Willkür, Freiheit: Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts (453-469), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012.
Reinhold's Road to Fichte: The Elementary-Philosophy of 1795/96. In G. di Giovanni (ed.), Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment (221-240), Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten lesen. Information Philosophie 2009, vol. 2, 50-58.
Kant zur moralischen Selbsterkenntnis. Kant-Studien 97 (2006), 163-183.
Review of D. Freundlieb, Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy (Ashgate 2003), Philosophical Review 115 (2006), 115-117.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Representationalism, First-Person Authority and Second-Order Knowledge. In A. Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge (33-52), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Self-Knowledge and the Bounds of Authenticity. Erkenntnis 71 (2009), 107-21.
Wissen zweiter Ordnung und Zombies. In A. Newen & G. Vosgerau (eds.), Den eigenen Geist kennen (119-134), Paderborn: Mentis, 2005.
Believing that you Know and Knowing that you Believe. In R. Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge (369-376), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.
Knowing the World by Knowing One’s Mind. Synthese 123 (2000), 1-34.
Self-Knowledge and Closure. In P. Ludlow & N. Martin (eds.), Externalism and Self-Knowledge (333-349), Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1998.
Die Grenzen des Selbstwissens. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 51 (1997), 216-230.
Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge. Noûs 30 (1996), 262-275.
Davidson on First-Person Authority and Externalism. Inquiry 39 (1996), 121-139.
Memory: A Philosophical Study. Oxford University Press, 2010 hdk., 2012 pbk.
The Metaphysics of Memory. Dordrecht: Springer, 2008 hbk.
Reading Epistemology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006 hbk. & pbk.
CO-EDITED WORKS
Kant and Contemporary Epistemology. History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 25:1, 2022
The Epistemology of Fake News. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Medical Knowledge in a Social World. Synthese special issue Vol.196, 2019
Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory. London: Routledge, 2017 hdk, 2019 pbk.
Routledge Companion to Epistemology. London: Routledge, 2011 hbk., 2013 pbk.
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 pbk.
EPISTEMOLOGY GENERAL
Knowledge, Falsehood, and Defeat. In R. Borges & I. Schnee (eds.), Illuminating Errors: New Essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge (139-157). London 2024: Routledge
Justified Evidence Resistance. Acta Analytica (2023). DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12136-023-00575-y
Evidence, Reasons, and Knowledge in the Reasons-First Program. With P. Silva. Philosophical Studies (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02044-z
Explanatory Salience Contextualism Revisited. Synthese (2023) 201:80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04067-9
Knowledge from Falsehood and Truth-Closeness. Philosophia 50 (2022), 1623-1638.
Against Global Method Safety. Synthese 197 (2020), 5101-5116
An Epistemic Defense of News Abstinence. In S. Bernecker, A. Flowerree & T. Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News (286-309), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Extended Minds in Vats. In S.C. Goldberg (ed.), The Brain in a Vat (54-72), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
On the Metaphysics of Knowledge. In M. Gabriel, W. Hogrebe, and A. Speer (eds.), The New Desire for Metaphysics (161-180), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015.
Die identifikationistische Lösung des Gettier Problems. In D. Koppelberg & S. Tolksdorf (eds.), Erkenntnistheorie - wie und wozu? (189-214), Münster: Mentis, 2015.
How to Understand the Extended Mind. Philosophical Issues 24 (2014), 1-23.
Der Wert des Wissens. In N. Kompa & S. Schmoranzer (eds.), Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie (109-119), Paderborn: Mentis, 2014.
Triangular Externalism. In E. Lepore & K. Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson (443-455), Oxford: Blackwell, 2013.
Warum das Gettier-Problem kein Scheinproblem ist. In G. Ernst & L. Marani (eds.), Das Gettierproblem: Eine Bilanz nach 50 Jahren (29-48), Paderborn: Mentis, 2013.
Sensitivity, Safety, and Closure. Acta Analytica 27 (2012), 367-381.
Keeping Track of the Gettier Problem. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (2011), 127-152.
Die Kausaltheorie der Wahrnehmung und der direkte Realismus. In R. Schantz (ed.), Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung (155-181), Frankfurt/M. 2009: Ontos.
Weshalb Wissen keinen spezifischen Wert hat. In G. Schönrich (ed.), Wissen und Werte (73-94), Paderborn: Mentis, 2009.
Agent Reliabilism and the Problem of Clairvoyance. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2008), 164-172.
Wider den Empirismus bezüglich Farbbegriffen. In J. Steinbrenner & S. Glasauer (eds.), Farben (248-273), Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2007.
Prospects for Epistemic Compatibilism. Philosophical Studies 130 (2006), 81-104.
Rule-Following Made Easy. In W. Löffler & P. Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and Belief (63-69), Vienna: öbv-hpt, 2004.
Psychophysische Gesetze und Supervenienz. Philosophia Naturalis 40 (2003), 207-225.
Skeptizismus, Naturalismus und Quine. Philosophisches Jahrbuch 110 (2003), 46-58.
Radikale Interpretation und Skeptizismus. In W.R. Köhler (ed.), Davidsons Philosophie des Mentalen (53-65), Paderborn: Schöningh, 1997.
MEMORY
Dreaming, Imagining, and Remembering. Forthcoming in D. Gregory & K. Michaelian (eds.), Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues. Berlin: Springer.
An Explanationist Model of (False) Memory. In A. Sant’Anna, C. McCarroll, & K. Michaelian (eds.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory (109-126), London 2022: Routledge.
The Ethics of Remembering and Forgetting. Chinese Social Sciences Today Vol. 1996 (08/25/2020). http://www.cssn.cn/kxk/kxyrw/202008/t20200825_5173772.shtml
Introduction to Review Symposium on the Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory, Memory Studies 12 (2019): 746-750
Knowledge from Forgetting. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol. 98 (2019): 525-540. With T. Grundmann
On the Blameworthiness of Forgetting. In K. Michaelian, D. Debus & D. Perrin (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory (241-258), London: Routledge, 2018.
A Causal Theory of Mnemonic Confabulation. Frontiers in Psychology 8: 1207 (2017): 1-14.
Memory and Truth. In S. Bernecker & K. Michaelian (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (51-62), Routledge: London, 2017.
Visual Memory and the Bounds of Authenticity. In D. Moyal-Sharrock, V. Munz & A. Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language and Action (445-463), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015.
Memory in Analytic Philosophy. In D. Nikulin (ed.), Memory: A History (298-315), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Memory Knowledge. In S. Bernecker & D. Pritchard (eds.), Routledge Companion to Epistemology (326-334), London: Routledge, 2011.
Further Thoughts on Memory: Replies to Schechtman, Adams, and Goldberg. Philosophical Studies 153 (2011), 109-121.
Precis of Memory: A Philosophical Study. Philosophical Studies 153 (2011), 61-64.
Remembering without Knowing. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 137-156
Memory and Externalism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2004), 605-632.
Russell on Mnemic Causation. Principia 5 (2001), 149-185.
Impliziert Erinnerung Wissen?. In T. Grundmann (ed.), Erkenntnistheorie (145-164), Paderborn: Mentis, 2001.
KANT & GERMAN IDEALISM
A Kantian Perspective on Robot Ethics. In D. Schönecker & H. Kim (eds), Kant and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 147-168), Berlin 2022: de Gruyter. With L. Benossi
Der indexikalische Fehlschluss. in McTaggarts Beweis der Irrealität der Zeit. Forthcoming in Raum und Zeit, V. Waibel (Ed.), Hamburg: Meiner.
Reinholds linguistischer Schematismus. In V.L. Waibel, M. Ruffing & D. Wagner (eds.), Proceedings of the 12. International Kant Congress: Nature and Freedom, Vol. V (3369-3377), Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2018.
Kant on Spatial Orientation. European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2012), 519-533.
Reinholds Erkenntnistheorie des Dissens. In V. Stolz, M. Bondeli and M. Heinz (eds.), Wille, Willkür, Freiheit: Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts (453-469), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012.
Reinhold's Road to Fichte: The Elementary-Philosophy of 1795/96. In G. di Giovanni (ed.), Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment (221-240), Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.
Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten lesen. Information Philosophie 2009, vol. 2, 50-58.
Kant zur moralischen Selbsterkenntnis. Kant-Studien 97 (2006), 163-183.
Review of D. Freundlieb, Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy (Ashgate 2003), Philosophical Review 115 (2006), 115-117.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Representationalism, First-Person Authority and Second-Order Knowledge. In A. Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge (33-52), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Self-Knowledge and the Bounds of Authenticity. Erkenntnis 71 (2009), 107-21.
Wissen zweiter Ordnung und Zombies. In A. Newen & G. Vosgerau (eds.), Den eigenen Geist kennen (119-134), Paderborn: Mentis, 2005.
Believing that you Know and Knowing that you Believe. In R. Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge (369-376), Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.
Knowing the World by Knowing One’s Mind. Synthese 123 (2000), 1-34.
Self-Knowledge and Closure. In P. Ludlow & N. Martin (eds.), Externalism and Self-Knowledge (333-349), Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1998.
Die Grenzen des Selbstwissens. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 51 (1997), 216-230.
Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge. Noûs 30 (1996), 262-275.
Davidson on First-Person Authority and Externalism. Inquiry 39 (1996), 121-139.
Grants
German Research Council, 2022-2024
Innovative Learning Technology Initiative Grant, UCOP, 2018
Humboldt Professorship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2015
Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011
Chancellor's Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2010-2013
Research Visit Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2010
Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Council (DFG), 2004-2006
Research Professor, Brazilian Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), 2000
Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1995-1996
Other Experience
Founding Member, Center for Health Ethics
Research Centers
Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT)
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