Kathrin Koslicki

Kathrin Koslicki (born 1967) is a German philosopher who is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her primary research areas are metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of language.

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.