Sven Rosenkranz - Biography#

Dr. Rosenkranz is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. After award of his PhD in philosophy from the University of St Andrews in 1999, he spent one year as postdoctoral research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, before taking up his post as Assistant Professor at FU Berlin in 2000. He completed his habilitation (senior doctorate) in 2005, and from 2005 until 2008, was Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He joined ICREA and the University of Barcelona in December 2008. Rosenkranz has been coordinator of the FP7 Marie Curie ITN on Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (FP7-238128), the first of its kind exclusively in analytic philosophy. He is currently coordinator of the Consolidated Research Group LOGOS at the University of Barcelona (2014-SGR-81 and 2017-SGR-63), PI of the I+D project on Fallibility, Rational Belief and Knowledge, financed by the Spanish MINECO (FFI2013-45968-P), and coordinator of the Horizon 2020 European Training Network Diaphora (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415) that focuses on the hardness of philosophical problems and the nature and extent of peer disagreement about their proffered solutions.

Rosenkranz specialises in the metaphysics of time and general epistemology and has published various articles and book chapters on issues in these areas with internationally renowned scientific journals and publishing houses.