Christopher Gauker

Em.Prof.Dr. Christopher Gauker
Principal Investigator, project “How can we think in a language?”

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences
Franziskanergasse 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Since 2023, principal investigator of the FWF project, ‘ How can we think in a language?’ (I 6219) (with Nikola Kompa, University of Osnabrück).
2018–2023, principal investigator of the FWF project, ‘The puzzle of imagistic cognition’ (I 3517) (with Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp).
2014–2024: Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy
2012: Fulbright-University of Vienna, Visiting Professorship in Humanities and Social Science.
2000–2014: Professor, University of Cincinnati.
1999: Visiting Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
1993–2000: Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati.
1988–1993: Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati.
1987–1988: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming.
1986–1987: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cincinnati.
1985–1986: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University.
1979–1985: Teaching Assistant/Instructor, University of Pittsburgh
1979–1984: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh (Dissertation director: Wilfrid Sellars).
1974–1979: B.A., University of Chicago (Bachelor’s thesis director: Donald Davidson).
1977–1978: Exchange student at the University of Frankfurt.