Katharina Kraus

Katharina received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (UK) and holds a Master degree in physics from the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Before she moved to the University of Notre Dame in January 2017, she taught at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

Her research interests are centered on the history of modern philosophy, especially Immanuel Kant, and on philosophy of mind and psychology. Her current research concerns Kant’s conception of empirical self-knowledge as well as the first-person perspective, including such issues as its special epistemic status, its relation to rationality, and its relevance for scientific psychology. Moreover, she is also interested in philosophy of science, epistemology, and moral psychology.
 

Representative Publications

• “The soul as the ‘guiding idea’ of psychology: Kant on scientific psychology, systematicity, and the idea of the soul” . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (forthcoming). 
• “Contemporary Kantian Philosophy of Science”. In: Sorin Baiasu, Mark Timmons (eds.), The Kantian Mind, London: Routledge (forthcoming October 2018). 
• “Innere Erfahrung und ‘ich’ als Objekt”. In: Violetta Waibel, Margit Ruffing (eds.), Akten des XII. Kant-Kongresses, Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming October 2018).
• “Quantifying inner experience? – Kant's mathematical principles in the context of empirical psychology” . European Journal of Philosophy. (2013) (DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12068)
• “Kants Zwei Standpunkte und die Möglichkeit der Naturerkenntnis” . In: Myriam Gerhard, Christine Zunke (eds.), Die Natur denken, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (2013), pp. 143-167.