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Prof. Dr. phil. Nikola Kompa

Institut für Philosophie
Albrechtstraße 28a
49076 Osnabrück

Raum: 69/107
Tel.: +49 541 969-7109
E-Mail: nikola.kompa@uni-osnabrueck.de
Homepage:http://www.philosophie.uni-osnabrueck.de/

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Research Profile

Areas of Competence
Philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, history of philosophy (17./18. century)

Areas of Specialisation
philosophy of language: language & cognition; embodied accounts of language comprehension; language evolution; theories of meaning; context-sensitivity; metaphor; vagueness; relativism & disagreement; the semantics of evaluative terms
epistemology: epistemic contextualism; epistemic evaluation and the role of non-epistemic factors; social epistemology

Bücher im Mentis Verlag

Nikola Kompa, Christian Nimtz , Christian Suhm--The A Priori and its Role in Philosophy

Nikola Kompa - Wissen und Kontext

Lebenslauf

General:

I am currently holding a professorship of Theoretical Philosophy (W3; since 2011). I work on a variety of topics within the field of theoretical philosophy, with a clear focus on issues pertaining to epistemic evaluation on the one hand and language & cognition on the other.

Degrees:

Habilitation in philosophy, University of Muenster/Germany 2008.

Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Munich/Germany 1998 (PhD examination in philosophy/logic & philosophy of science/psychology)

M.A. in philosophy, University of Munich/Germany 1996 (philosophy/logic & philosophy of science/psychology).

Previous Positions:

2009-2011: Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy; University of Bern/Switzerland;

2002-2009: Assistant, University of Muenster/Germany;

1999-2002: Lecturer of philosophy; University of Munich/Germany.

Visiting Positions:

2002: Visiting scholar at New York University

1999/2000: Visiting scholar at New York University

Grants, fellowships and awards:

PI in a DFG/FWF project on Inner Speech (Osnabrück/Salzburg) (2023-2026)
PI in DFG-Research Training Group Situated Cognition (Bochum/Osnabruck) (2017-2026).
PI in Joint Israel-Lower-Saxony Research Grant (VW) Is Knowledge relative? PIs: Igal Kvart (Hebrew University); Nikola Kompa (2016-2020).
Prize for Excellence in Academic Research, awarded annually by the Society for the Advancement of the Wilhelms-University at Muenster/Germany (2009).
Spokesperson scientific network “A Priori Justification” (DFG) (2005-2007)
Research grant, German Research Foundation (DFG) (2000-2002). DFG-network “A Priori Justification” (2005-2007).
Postdoctoral grant, German Research Foundation (DFG) (1999-2000).
Doctoral scholarship, Free State of Bavaria (1996-1998).

Arbeitsschwerpunkte und Forschung

Projects

Situated Cognition

How can we think in a language?

Nikola Kompa's research focusses, on the one hand, on issues at the interface of social epistemology and philosophy of language, such as epistemic contextualism and types of disagreement, the epistemic role of metaphor, but also on bad language, especially on forms of epistemic and hermeneutic injustice and communicative disablement. A book on this latter topic, which she is writing together with two colleagues, is in preparation and under contract with C.H. Beck. Howevere, over the last couple of years, she became increasingly intriqued by the question of how intimately language and thought (or cognition) are intertwined. Recently, she has thus begun to develop a theoretical model of the co-evolution of language and cognition and to investigate how language and other cognitive functions relate to, and mutually scaffold, each other. She also examines embodied approaches to language comprehension, and what the cognitive benefits of language in general and of inner speech in particular might be. A book in which she tackles these questions (title: Language, Cognition, and the Way we Think) is forthcoming (Bloomsbury Academic). Occasionally, she assumes a historical perspective on how (inner and overt) speech augments other cognitive functions. Moreover, she is involved in two interdisciplinary research groups that also address these and related questions. She is PI (and co-speaker) in the DFG-funded RTG Situated Cognition (2017-2026), where she currently supervises a PhD project on inner speech and self-knowledge. Moreover, she is PI in a project on the question How can we think in a language? that is jointly funded by the DFG and the FWF, and which she will pursue together with Christopher Gauker (Salzburg) and Jutta Mueller (who is Mercator fellow in the project). Starting date of this project will be Oktober 1, 2023.

Media Appearances

scobel - Was Stille auslöst - 3sat/zdf, 22.02.2024

Publikationen

books & special issues

Kompa, N. (under rev.). Language, Cognition and the Way We Think (under contract with Bloomsbury).
Kompa, N. / Kvart, I. / Robitzsch, A. (eds). (2021). The Epistemic Significance of Non-Epistemic Factors. Synthese Topical Collection.
Bayertz, K. / Kompa, N. / Strobach, N. (eds.) (2020) Das Projekt einer ‚Idéologie’. Destutt de Tracys Ideenlehre als Wissenschaftsprogramm der Spätaufklärung. Meiner, Hamburg.
Franke, M./ Kompa, N./ Liu, M./ Mueller, J./ Schwab, J. (eds.) (2020). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. ISSN: 2629-6055 (https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de) & (semanticsarchive.net)
Kompa, N. (eds.) (2015). Handbuch Sprachphilosophie. Metzler, Stuttgart/Weimar.
Kompa, N. / Schmoranzer S. (eds.) (2014). Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie. mentis, Münster.
Kompa, N. / Nimtz, C. / Suhm, C. (eds.) (2009). The A Priori and its Role in Philosophy. mentis, Paderborn.
Kompa, N. Metasemantik: Studien zur Theorie sprachlicher Bedeutung (Habilitationsschrift 2008).
Kompa, N. (2001). Wissen und Kontext. mentis, Paderborn.

papers, book chapters etc.

Kompa, N. (2023). Inner Speech and 'Pure' Thought - Do we think in language? Review of Philosophy and Psychology (online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-023-00678-w. The paper can be also be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-023-00678-w
Kompa, N. / Mueller, J. L. (2022): Inner speech as a cognitive tool—or what is the point of talking to oneself? Philosophical Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2022.2112164
Kompa, N. (2021). Insight by Metaphor – on the Epistemic Role of Metaphor in Science. In: A. Heidenreich / K. Mecke (eds.) Physics & Literature: Theory - Popularization – Aestheticization. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 23-47. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110481112-002 (open access)
Kompa, N. (2021). What good is language? Vygotsky and the cognitive function of inner speech. To appear in: J. Brandl/B. Kobow/D. Messelken (eds.) Analytische Explikationen & Interventionen. Paderborn: Mentis/Brill, 37-49.
Kompa, N. (2021). Epistemic Evaluation and the Need for Impure Epistemic Standards. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02996-3. (open access)
Kompa, N. (2020). Die dunkle Seite der Sprache: Wie man Menschen verunglimpfen und abwerten kann. In: OsnabrückerJahrbuch Frieden und Wissenschaft >Emotion, Sprache, Politik<. Edited by the mayor of the city of Osnabrück und the president of Osnabrück Universitity. Göttingen: Vandenoeck & Ruprecht, 173-185.
Kompa, N. (2020). Sprache und Denken bei Condillac und Destutt de Tracy – eine kognitionswissenschaftliche Perspektive. In: K. Bayertz/N. Kompa/N. Strobach (eds.) Das Projekt einer ‚Idéologie’. Destutt de Tracys Ideenlehre als Wissenschaftsprogramm der Spätaufklärung. Hamburg: Meiner, 85-102.
Bayertz, K./Kompa, N./Strobach, N. (2020). Destutt de Tracy – eine Einleitung. In: K. Bayertz/N. Kompa/N. Strobach (Hgs.) Das Projekt einer ‚Idéologie’. Destutt de Tracys Ideenlehre als Wissenschaftsprogramm der Spätaufklärung. Hamburg: Meiner, 7-13.
Kompa, N./ Mueller, J. (2020). How Abstract (Non-embodied) Linguistic RepresentationsAugment Cognitive Control. Frontiers in Psychology 11:1597. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg. 2020.01597. (open access)
Bergs, A. / Kompa, N (2020). Creativity within and outside the linguistic system. Cognitive Semiotics. DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2020-2025 (published online 4 Jul 2020, ahead of print).
Kompa, N. (2019). Language and Embodiment – or the cognitive benefits of abstract representations. Mind & Language. DOI: 10/1111/mila.12266 (early view)
Kompa, N. (2019). On the Coevolution of Language and Cognition: Gricean Intentions meet Lewisean Conventions. In R. Loukanova (ed.), Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2018 (LACompLing2018) (pp.177-205). Cham CH: Springer Nature. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30077-7_8
Kompa, N. (2019). Language Evolution and Linguistic Norms. In N. Roughley & K. Bayertz (Eds.), The Normative Animal? On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms (pp. 245-264). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kompa, N. (2017). Meaning and Interpretation. In S.-J. Conrad/K. Petrus (eds.) Meaning, Context, and Methodology. De Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 75-90.
Kompa, N. (2017). The Myth of Embodied Metaphor. Croatian Journal of Philosophy Vol. XVII, No. 50, 89-104 (Conference Proceedings).
Kompa, N. (2016). The Role of Vagueness and Context-Sensitivity in Legal Interpretation. In: G. Keil/R. Poscher (eds.) Vagueness and Law. Philosophical and Legal Perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 205-227.
Bayertz, K. / Kompa, N. (2016). Mitgegangen, Mitgefangen! Grundzüge moralischen Argumentierens. In J. Ach /. K. Bayertz / M. Quante / L. Siep (eds.) Grundkurs Ethik (Band 1); revised edition. Mentis, Münster, 39-56.
Kompa, N. (2016). Faultless Disagreement, Context Sensitivity, and the Semantics of Evaluation. Grazer Philosophische Studien 93, 396-418.
Kompa, N. (2015). Metaphern. In: N. Kompa (ed.): Handbuch Sprachphilosophie. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 341-451.
Kompa, N. (2015). Vagheit. In: N. Kompa (ed.): Handbuch Sprachphilosophie. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 361-371.
Kompa, N (2015). Einleitung - Handbuch Sprachphilosophie. In: N. Kompa (ed.): Handbuch Sprachphilosophie. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1-4.
Kompa, N. (2015). Contextualism & Disagreement. Erkenntnis vol 80, issue 1, 137-152 (special Issue: The inner and outer boundaries of language). DOI: 10.1007/s10670-014-9663-4.
Kompa, N. (2014): Knowledge in Context. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia. Vol 5, No 1: pp. 58-71. DOI 10.4453/rifp.2014.0005; reprinted in Hans Jörg Sandkühler (ed.) (2014): Wissen – Wissenskulturen und die Kontextualität des Wissens. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang; pp. 181-198.
Kompa, N. (2014). Verstand/Vernunft. In: N. Kompa/ S. Schmoranzer (eds.): Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie, mentis Verlag, Münster, 381-395.
Kompa, N. (2014). Kontextualismus. In: N. Kompa/ S. Schmoranzer (eds.): Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie, mentis Verlag, Münster, 285-295.
Kompa, N. / Schmoranzer, S. (2014): Themen der Erkenntnistheorie. In: Nikola Kompa & Sebastian Schmoranzer (eds.): Grundkurs Erkenntnistheorie, mentis Verlag, Münster, 7-14.
Kompa, N. / Eckardt, R. / Moll, H. / Grassmann, S. (2013). Sprache/–Sprachverstehen/sprachliche Bedeutung/Kontext. In: Achim Stefan /Sven Walter (eds.): Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Stuttgart/Weimar: J. B. Metzler: 432-444.
Kompa, N (2012). Nonindexical Contextualism – an Explication and Defence. In: Stefan Tolksdorf (ed.): Conceptions of knowledge. Berlin: deGruyter: 329-349.
Kompa, N (2011). Epistemic Contextualism and the Problem of (Lost) Disagreement. In Erkenntnistheorie: Kontexte, Werte, Dissens / Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement -- Beiträge des 34. Intern. Wittgenstein Symposiums, 7.-13 August 2011 / Papers of the 34th Intern. Wittgenstein Symposium, 7.-13 August 2011, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Reihe: Beiträge der Österr. Ludwig Wittgenst. Gesellschaft / Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Bd/Vol. XIX, hg. Christoph Jäger & Winfried Löffler, Kirchberg am Wechsel 2011, ISSN 1022-3398, S. 148-151.
Kompa, N (2011). Die anthropologische Funktion der Sprache. In: Jan Claas Freienstein, Jörg Hagemann & Sven Staffeldt (eds.): Äußern und Bedeuten – Festschrift für Eckard Rolf. Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen: 23-35.
Kompa, N. / Meggle, G. (2011). Philosophical Foundations: Pragmatics in Modern Philosophy of Language. In: Handbook of Pragmatics, Vol 1. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton; series editors: Wolfram Bublitz, Andreas H. Jucker and Klaus P. Schneider: 203-228.
Kompa, N (2010). Contextualism in the Philosophy of Language. In: Klaus Petrus (ed.): Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on H. P. Grice. Pelgrave Macmillan: 288-309.
Kompa, N (2009). Analytic Theories of the A Priori. In: N. Kompa/ C. Nimtz/ C. Suhm (eds.): The A Priori and its Role in Philosophy, mentis Verlag, Paderborn: 157-172.
Kompa, N. / Nimtz. C. / Suhm, C. (2009). Introduction. In: N. Kompa/C. Nimtz/C. Suhm (eds.) 2009.
Kompa, N. (2009). Sprache ohne Kontext – eine semantische Sackgasse?. In: Ulla Wessels, Christoph Lumer und Christoph Fehige (eds.): Handeln mit Bedeutung und Handeln mit Gewalt: Philosophische Aufsätze für Georg Meggle. mentis, Paderborn: 197-214.
Kompa, N. (2009). Sprechakt. In: Christin Nimtz/Stefan Jordan (eds.): Lexikon Philosophie: Hundert Grundbegriffe. Reclam, Stuttgart: 254-256.
Kompa, N. / Müllan. R. O. / Prien, B. / Schweikard, D. P. (2008). Successful Action and True Belief. In: B. Prien/D. P. Schweikard (eds.): Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, ontos verlag, Heusenstamm: 69-77.
Kompa, N (2008). Review of Stephen Schiffer’s The Things We Mean”. ProtoSociology, Vol. 25: 216-224.
Apel, J. / Kompa, N. / Schmoranzer, S. / Steinhaus, J. (2006). To be Prussian or Not to be Prussian. In: A. Berg-Hildebrand/C. Suhm (eds.): Bas C. van Fraassen. The Fortunes of Empiricism, ontos, Heusenstamm: 45-56.
Kompa, N. / Muders, S. / Schmoranzer, S. / Weidemann, C. (2005). Scepticism, Correspondence, and Truth. In A. Vieth (ed.): Richard Rorty. His Philosophy Under Discussion. ontos, Heusenstamm: 97-108.
Kompa, N (2005). The semantics of knowledge attributions. Acta Analytica, Vol. 20, Number 1, Issue 33: 16-28.
Kompa, N (2004). Welchen Unterschied fängt die Semantik/Pragmatik-Unterscheidung ein?. In: R. Bluhm/C. Nimtz (eds.): Ausgewählte Beiträge zu den Sektionen der GAP.5, Fünfter Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Bielefeld, 22.-26. September 2003 / Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5, Fifth International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, 22-26 September 2003, (CD-ROM) mentis Verlag, Paderborn: 296-308. Online verfügbar unter: http://www.gap5.de/proceedings/index.htm.
Kompa, N (2004). John L. Austin – Sprechakttheorie. In: A. Beckermann/D. Perler (eds.): Reclams Klassiker der Philosophie heute, Reclam, Stuttgart: 623-644.
Kompa, N (2004). Moral Particularism and Epistemic Contextualism: A Comment on Lance and Little. Erkenntnis 61: 457-467.
Kompa, N (2003). Specifying what is said. In: G. Meggle/C. Plunze (eds.), Saying, Meaning, Implicating, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig: 84-98.
Kompa, N (2003). David Lewis' funktionalistischer Materialismus: Ein Kommentar zu Heinz-Dieter Heckmanns 'Funktionalismus und Intentionalität. In: U. Haas-Spohn (ed.) Intentionalität zwischen Subjektivität und Weltbezug. mentis, Paderborn: 93-110.
Kompa, N (2002). The context sensitivity of knowledge ascriptions. Grazer Philosophische Studien (64): 1-18.