Kathrin Koslicki

Kathrin Koslicki (born 1967) is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her primary research areas are metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of language. Since 2018 Koslicki is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

Kathrin Koslicki
Born	(1967-11-30) November 30, 1967 Munich, Germany
Academic background
Alma mater	Stony Brook University MIT
Thesis	Talk about Stuffs and Things: The Logic of Mass and Count Nouns (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Judith Jarvis Thomson
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Institutions	University of Colorado-Boulder Tufts University University of Florida University of New Orleans University of Alberta University of Neuchâtel

Biography

Koslicki was born and raised in Munich, Germany. She received her BA in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990 and her PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.

Koslicki joined the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2007. At the University of Colorado-Boulder, Koslicki sat as Chair of both the Graduate Admissions and Climate Committee, and received the Alvin Plantinga fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. Seven years later, she accepted an appointment as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epistemology and Metaphysics at the University of Alberta. Since 2019 Koslicki is Visiting Professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

Koslicki is best known for her defense of a neo-Aristotelian, structure-based theory of parts and wholes.

Bibliography

• Koslicki, Kathrin (2008). The structure of objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-153867-4. OCLC 227006033.
• Koslicki, Kathrin (2018). Form, matter, substance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-255708-7. OCLC 1049974758.